Sometimes "suspend-to-ram" refers to this. This is what happens if:
/sys/power/mem_sleep
is set to deep
; andmem
is written to /sys/power/state
.Suspend-to-ram in general requires platform support. One notable behavior is that the non-booting processor or taken offline.
[ 147.319976] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[ 147.355021] Filesystems sync: 0.035 seconds
[ 147.359142] Freezing user space processes
[ 147.361191] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.002 seconds)
[ 147.361196] OOM killer disabled.
[ 147.361197] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[ 147.362351] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 147.362392] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 147.476298] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 147.502014] ata1.00: Entering standby power mode
[ 147.716431] PM: suspend of devices complete after 353.883 msecs
[ 147.716448] PM: start suspend of devices complete after 354.152 msecs
[ 147.728258] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 11.811 msecs
[ 147.728574] ACPI: EC: interrupt blocked
[ 147.812310] PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 84.008 msecs
[ 147.812314] ACPI: PM: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[ 147.920421] ACPI: EC: event blocked
[ 147.920422] ACPI: EC: EC stopped
[ 147.920423] ACPI: PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[ 147.920443] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 147.921744] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[ 147.923644] smpboot: CPU 2 is now offline
[ 147.925155] smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline
[ 147.925397] Checking wakeup interrupts
[ 147.925400] Calling kvm_suspend+0x0/0x40 [kvm]
[ 147.925458] Calling mce_syscore_suspend+0x0/0x20
[ 147.925461] Calling ledtrig_cpu_syscore_suspend+0x0/0x20
[ 147.925465] Calling timekeeping_suspend+0x0/0x310
[ 147.925502] Calling irq_gc_suspend+0x0/0x80
[ 147.925504] Calling save_ioapic_entries+0x0/0x170
[ 147.925625] Calling i8259A_suspend+0x0/0x40
[ 147.925629] Calling fw_suspend+0x0/0x20
[ 147.925631] Calling acpi_save_bm_rld+0x0/0x30
[ 147.925636] Calling intel_epb_save+0x0/0x40
[ 147.925639] Calling lapic_suspend+0x0/0x30
The resume process pretty much unwind what suspension has done.
[ 147.926320] ACPI: PM: Low-level resume complete
[ 147.926352] ACPI: EC: EC started
[ 147.926353] ACPI: PM: Restoring platform NVS memory
[ 147.926359] Calling init_counter_refs+0x0/0x60
[ 147.926367] Calling lapic_resume+0x0/0x30
[ 147.926390] Calling intel_epb_restore+0x0/0xb0
[ 147.926395] Calling acpi_restore_bm_rld+0x0/0x70
[ 147.926401] Calling irqrouter_resume+0x0/0x60
[ 147.926407] Calling i8259A_resume+0x0/0x40
[ 147.926544] Calling i8237A_resume+0x0/0xc0
[ 147.926622] Calling ioapic_resume+0x0/0x150
[ 147.926677] Calling irq_gc_resume+0x0/0x80
[ 147.926682] Calling irq_pm_syscore_resume+0x0/0x20
[ 147.926750] Calling timekeeping_resume+0x0/0x1b0
[ 147.926790] Timekeeping suspended for 3.123 seconds
[ 147.926807] Calling ledtrig_cpu_syscore_resume+0x0/0x20
[ 147.926815] Calling mce_syscore_resume+0x0/0x30
[ 147.926833] Calling microcode_bsp_resume+0x0/0x50
[ 147.926839] Calling kvm_resume+0x0/0x70 [kvm]
[ 147.926999] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 147.927041] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x2
[ 147.966947] CPU1 is up
[ 147.967290] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 2 APIC 0x1
[ 147.968447] CPU2 is up
[ 147.968467] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3
[ 148.001286] CPU3 is up
[ 148.004216] ACPI: PM: Waking up from system sleep state S3
[ 148.006020] ACPI: EC: interrupt unblocked
[ 149.117600] PM: noirq resume of devices complete after 1112.019 msecs
[ 149.117911] PM: early resume of devices complete after 0.250 msecs
[ 149.117985] ACPI: EC: event unblocked
[ 149.253240] PM: resume of devices complete after 135.351 msecs
[ 149.254129] OOM killer enabled.
[ 149.254136] Restarting tasks ... done.
[ 149.262149] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[ 149.364034] PM: suspend exit
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