Did some investigation, it looks there is no PM implementation in driver at all. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0-rc8/source/net/9p/trans_virtio.c static unsigned int features[] = { VIRTIO_9P_MOUNT_TAG, }; /* The standard "struct lguest_driver": */ static struct virtio_driver p9_virtio_drv = { .feature_table = features, .feature_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(features), .driver.name = KBUILD_MODNAME, .driver.owner = THIS_MODULE, .id_table = id_table, .probe = p9_virtio_probe, .remove = p9_virtio_remove, };