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Add a document describing high-level system-wide suspend code flows in Linux. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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.. include:: <isonum.txt>
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System Suspend Code Flows
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:Copyright: |copy| 2020 Intel Corporation
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:Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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At least one global system-wide transition needs to be carried out for the
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system to get from the working state into one of the supported
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:doc:`sleep states <sleep-states>`. Hibernation requires more than one
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transition to occur for this purpose, but the other sleep states, commonly
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referred to as *system-wide suspend* (or simply *system suspend*) states, need
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only one.
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For those sleep states, the transition from the working state of the system into
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the target sleep state is referred to as *system suspend* too (in the majority
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of cases, whether this means a transition or a sleep state of the system should
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be clear from the context) and the transition back from the sleep state into the
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working state is referred to as *system resume*.
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The kernel code flows associated with the suspend and resume transitions for
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different sleep states of the system are quite similar, but there are some
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significant differences between the :ref:`suspend-to-idle <s2idle>` code flows
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and the code flows related to the :ref:`suspend-to-RAM <s2ram>` and
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:ref:`standby <standby>` sleep states.
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The :ref:`suspend-to-RAM <s2ram>` and :ref:`standby <standby>` sleep states
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cannot be implemented without platform support and the difference between them
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boils down to the platform-specific actions carried out by the suspend and
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resume hooks that need to be provided by the platform driver to make them
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available. Apart from that, the suspend and resume code flows for these sleep
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states are mostly identical, so they both together will be referred to as
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*platform-dependent suspend* states in what follows.
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.. _s2idle_suspend:
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Suspend-to-idle Suspend Code Flow
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=================================
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The following steps are taken in order to transition the system from the working
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state to the :ref:`suspend-to-idle <s2idle>` sleep state:
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1. Invoking system-wide suspend notifiers.
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Kernel subsystems can register callbacks to be invoked when the suspend
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transition is about to occur and when the resume transition has finished.
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That allows them to prepare for the change of the system state and to clean
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up after getting back to the working state.
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2. Freezing tasks.
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Tasks are frozen primarily in order to avoid unchecked hardware accesses
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from user space through MMIO regions or I/O registers exposed directly to
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it and to prevent user space from entering the kernel while the next step
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of the transition is in progress (which might have been problematic for
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various reasons).
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All user space tasks are intercepted as though they were sent a signal and
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put into uninterruptible sleep until the end of the subsequent system resume
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transition.
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The kernel threads that choose to be frozen during system suspend for
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specific reasons are frozen subsequently, but they are not intercepted.
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Instead, they are expected to periodically check whether or not they need
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to be frozen and to put themselves into uninterruptible sleep if so. [Note,
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however, that kernel threads can use locking and other concurrency controls
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available in kernel space to synchronize themselves with system suspend and
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resume, which can be much more precise than the freezing, so the latter is
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not a recommended option for kernel threads.]
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3. Suspending devices and reconfiguring IRQs.
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Devices are suspended in four phases called *prepare*, *suspend*,
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*late suspend* and *noirq suspend* (see :ref:`driverapi_pm_devices` for more
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information on what exactly happens in each phase).
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Every device is visited in each phase, but typically it is not physically
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accessed in more than two of them.
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The runtime PM API is disabled for every device during the *late* suspend
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phase and high-level ("action") interrupt handlers are prevented from being
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invoked before the *noirq* suspend phase.
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Interrupts are still handled after that, but they are only acknowledged to
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interrupt controllers without performing any device-specific actions that
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would be triggered in the working state of the system (those actions are
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deferred till the subsequent system resume transition as described
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`below <s2idle_resume_>`_).
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IRQs associated with system wakeup devices are "armed" so that the resume
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transition of the system is started when one of them signals an event.
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4. Freezing the scheduler tick and suspending timekeeping.
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When all devices have been suspended, CPUs enter the idle loop and are put
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into the deepest available idle state. While doing that, each of them
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"freezes" its own scheduler tick so that the timer events associated with
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the tick do not occur until the CPU is woken up by another interrupt source.
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The last CPU to enter the idle state also stops the timekeeping which
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(among other things) prevents high resolution timers from triggering going
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forward until the first CPU that is woken up restarts the timekeeping.
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That allows the CPUs to stay in the deep idle state relatively long in one
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go.
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From this point on, the CPUs can only be woken up by non-timer hardware
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interrupts. If that happens, they go back to the idle state unless the
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interrupt that woke up one of them comes from an IRQ that has been armed for
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system wakeup, in which case the system resume transition is started.
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.. _s2idle_resume:
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Suspend-to-idle Resume Code Flow
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================================
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The following steps are taken in order to transition the system from the
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:ref:`suspend-to-idle <s2idle>` sleep state into the working state:
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1. Resuming timekeeping and unfreezing the scheduler tick.
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When one of the CPUs is woken up (by a non-timer hardware interrupt), it
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leaves the idle state entered in the last step of the preceding suspend
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transition, restarts the timekeeping (unless it has been restarted already
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by another CPU that woke up earlier) and the scheduler tick on that CPU is
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unfrozen.
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If the interrupt that has woken up the CPU was armed for system wakeup,
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the system resume transition begins.
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2. Resuming devices and restoring the working-state configuration of IRQs.
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Devices are resumed in four phases called *noirq resume*, *early resume*,
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*resume* and *complete* (see :ref:`driverapi_pm_devices` for more
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information on what exactly happens in each phase).
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Every device is visited in each phase, but typically it is not physically
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accessed in more than two of them.
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The working-state configuration of IRQs is restored after the *noirq* resume
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phase and the runtime PM API is re-enabled for every device whose driver
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supports it during the *early* resume phase.
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3. Thawing tasks.
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Tasks frozen in step 2 of the preceding `suspend <s2idle_suspend_>`_
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transition are "thawed", which means that they are woken up from the
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uninterruptible sleep that they went into at that time and user space tasks
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are allowed to exit the kernel.
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4. Invoking system-wide resume notifiers.
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This is analogous to step 1 of the `suspend <s2idle_suspend_>`_ transition
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and the same set of callbacks is invoked at this point, but a different
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"notification type" parameter value is passed to them.
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Platform-dependent Suspend Code Flow
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====================================
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The following steps are taken in order to transition the system from the working
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state to platform-dependent suspend state:
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1. Invoking system-wide suspend notifiers.
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This step is the same as step 1 of the suspend-to-idle suspend transition
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described `above <s2idle_suspend_>`_.
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2. Freezing tasks.
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This step is the same as step 2 of the suspend-to-idle suspend transition
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described `above <s2idle_suspend_>`_.
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3. Suspending devices and reconfiguring IRQs.
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This step is analogous to step 3 of the suspend-to-idle suspend transition
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described `above <s2idle_suspend_>`_, but the arming of IRQs for system
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wakeup generally does not have any effect on the platform.
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There are platforms that can go into a very deep low-power state internally
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when all CPUs in them are in sufficiently deep idle states and all I/O
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devices have been put into low-power states. On those platforms,
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suspend-to-idle can reduce system power very effectively.
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On the other platforms, however, low-level components (like interrupt
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controllers) need to be turned off in a platform-specific way (implemented
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in the hooks provided by the platform driver) to achieve comparable power
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reduction.
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That usually prevents in-band hardware interrupts from waking up the system,
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which must be done in a special platform-dependent way. Then, the
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configuration of system wakeup sources usually starts when system wakeup
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devices are suspended and is finalized by the platform suspend hooks later
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on.
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4. Disabling non-boot CPUs.
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On some platforms the suspend hooks mentioned above must run in a one-CPU
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configuration of the system (in particular, the hardware cannot be accessed
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by any code running in parallel with the platform suspend hooks that may,
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and often do, trap into the platform firmware in order to finalize the
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suspend transition).
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For this reason, the CPU offline/online (CPU hotplug) framework is used
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to take all of the CPUs in the system, except for one (the boot CPU),
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offline (typically, the CPUs that have been taken offline go into deep idle
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states).
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This means that all tasks are migrated away from those CPUs and all IRQs are
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rerouted to the only CPU that remains online.
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5. Suspending core system components.
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This prepares the core system components for (possibly) losing power going
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forward and suspends the timekeeping.
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6. Platform-specific power removal.
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This is expected to remove power from all of the system components except
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for the memory controller and RAM (in order to preserve the contents of the
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latter) and some devices designated for system wakeup.
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In many cases control is passed to the platform firmware which is expected
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to finalize the suspend transition as needed.
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Platform-dependent Resume Code Flow
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===================================
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The following steps are taken in order to transition the system from a
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platform-dependent suspend state into the working state:
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1. Platform-specific system wakeup.
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The platform is woken up by a signal from one of the designated system
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wakeup devices (which need not be an in-band hardware interrupt) and
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control is passed back to the kernel (the working configuration of the
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platform may need to be restored by the platform firmware before the
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kernel gets control again).
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2. Resuming core system components.
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The suspend-time configuration of the core system components is restored and
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the timekeeping is resumed.
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3. Re-enabling non-boot CPUs.
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The CPUs disabled in step 4 of the preceding suspend transition are taken
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back online and their suspend-time configuration is restored.
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4. Resuming devices and restoring the working-state configuration of IRQs.
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This step is the same as step 2 of the suspend-to-idle suspend transition
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described `above <s2idle_resume_>`_.
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5. Thawing tasks.
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This step is the same as step 3 of the suspend-to-idle suspend transition
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described `above <s2idle_resume_>`_.
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6. Invoking system-wide resume notifiers.
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This step is the same as step 4 of the suspend-to-idle suspend transition
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described `above <s2idle_resume_>`_.
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