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diff --git a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt index 17e130a8034..a5da5c7e712 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ one of the parameters. Two different PM QoS frameworks are available: 1. PM QoS classes for cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput. 2. the per-device PM QoS framework provides the API to manage the per-device latency -constraints. +constraints and PM QoS flags. Each parameters have defined units: * latency: usec @@ -86,20 +86,26 @@ To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device node. -2. PM QoS per-device latency framework +2. PM QoS per-device latency and flags framework -For each device a list of performance requests is maintained along with -an aggregated target value. The aggregated target value is updated with -changes to the request list or elements of the list. Typically the -aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the request values held -in the parameter list elements. -Note: the aggregated target value is implemented as an atomic variable so that -reading the aggregated value does not require any locking mechanism. +For each device, there are three lists of PM QoS requests. Two of them are +maintained along with the aggregated targets of resume latency and active +state latency tolerance (in microseconds) and the third one is for PM QoS flags. +Values are updated in response to changes of the request list. + +The target values of resume latency and active state latency tolerance are +simply the minimum of the request values held in the parameter list elements. +The PM QoS flags aggregate value is a gather (bitwise OR) of all list elements' +values. Two device PM QoS flags are defined currently: PM_QOS_FLAG_NO_POWER_OFF +and PM_QOS_FLAG_REMOTE_WAKEUP. + +Note: The aggregated target values are implemented in such a way that reading +the aggregated value does not require any locking mechanism. From kernel mode the use of this interface is the following: -int dev_pm_qos_add_request(device, handle, value): +int dev_pm_qos_add_request(device, handle, type, value): Will insert an element into the list for that identified device with the target value. Upon change to this list the new target is recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value is now different. @@ -119,6 +125,40 @@ the request. s32 dev_pm_qos_read_value(device): Returns the aggregated value for a given device's constraints list. +enum pm_qos_flags_status dev_pm_qos_flags(device, mask) +Check PM QoS flags of the given device against the given mask of flags. +The meaning of the return values is as follows: + PM_QOS_FLAGS_ALL: All flags from the mask are set + PM_QOS_FLAGS_SOME: Some flags from the mask are set + PM_QOS_FLAGS_NONE: No flags from the mask are set + PM_QOS_FLAGS_UNDEFINED: The device's PM QoS structure has not been + initialized or the list of requests is empty. + +int dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request(dev, handle, type, value) +Add a PM QoS request for the first direct ancestor of the given device whose +power.ignore_children flag is unset (for DEV_PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY requests) +or whose power.set_latency_tolerance callback pointer is not NULL (for +DEV_PM_QOS_LATENCY_TOLERANCE requests). + +int dev_pm_qos_expose_latency_limit(device, value) +Add a request to the device's PM QoS list of resume latency constraints and +create a sysfs attribute pm_qos_resume_latency_us under the device's power +directory allowing user space to manipulate that request. + +void dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_limit(device) +Drop the request added by dev_pm_qos_expose_latency_limit() from the device's +PM QoS list of resume latency constraints and remove sysfs attribute +pm_qos_resume_latency_us from the device's power directory. + +int dev_pm_qos_expose_flags(device, value) +Add a request to the device's PM QoS list of flags and create sysfs attributes +pm_qos_no_power_off and pm_qos_remote_wakeup under the device's power directory +allowing user space to change these flags' value. + +void dev_pm_qos_hide_flags(device) +Drop the request added by dev_pm_qos_expose_flags() from the device's PM QoS list +of flags and remove sysfs attributes pm_qos_no_power_off and pm_qos_remote_wakeup +under the device's power directory. Notification mechanisms: The per-device PM QoS framework has 2 different and distinct notification trees: @@ -127,7 +167,7 @@ a per-device notification tree and a global notification tree. int dev_pm_qos_add_notifier(device, notifier): Adds a notification callback function for the device. The callback is called when the aggregated value of the device constraints list -is changed. +is changed (for resume latency device PM QoS only). int dev_pm_qos_remove_notifier(device, notifier): Removes the notification callback function for the device. @@ -135,14 +175,48 @@ Removes the notification callback function for the device. int dev_pm_qos_add_global_notifier(notifier): Adds a notification callback function in the global notification tree of the framework. -The callback is called when the aggregated value for any device is changed. +The callback is called when the aggregated value for any device is changed +(for resume latency device PM QoS only). int dev_pm_qos_remove_global_notifier(notifier): Removes the notification callback function from the global notification tree of the framework. -From user mode: -No API for user space access to the per-device latency constraints is provided -yet - still under discussion. - +Active state latency tolerance + +This device PM QoS type is used to support systems in which hardware may switch +to energy-saving operation modes on the fly. In those systems, if the operation +mode chosen by the hardware attempts to save energy in an overly aggressive way, +it may cause excess latencies to be visible to software, causing it to miss +certain protocol requirements or target frame or sample rates etc. + +If there is a latency tolerance control mechanism for a given device available +to software, the .set_latency_tolerance callback in that device's dev_pm_info +structure should be populated. The routine pointed to by it is should implement +whatever is necessary to transfer the effective requirement value to the +hardware. + +Whenever the effective latency tolerance changes for the device, its +.set_latency_tolerance() callback will be executed and the effective value will +be passed to it. If that value is negative, which means that the list of +latency tolerance requirements for the device is empty, the callback is expected +to switch the underlying hardware latency tolerance control mechanism to an +autonomous mode if available. If that value is PM_QOS_LATENCY_ANY, in turn, and +the hardware supports a special "no requirement" setting, the callback is +expected to use it. That allows software to prevent the hardware from +automatically updating the device's latency tolerance in response to its power +state changes (e.g. during transitions from D3cold to D0), which generally may +be done in the autonomous latency tolerance control mode. + +If .set_latency_tolerance() is present for the device, sysfs attribute +pm_qos_latency_tolerance_us will be present in the devivce's power directory. +Then, user space can use that attribute to specify its latency tolerance +requirement for the device, if any. Writing "any" to it means "no requirement, +but do not let the hardware control latency tolerance" and writing "auto" to it +allows the hardware to be switched to the autonomous mode if there are no other +requirements from the kernel side in the device's list. + +Kernel code can use the functions described above along with the +DEV_PM_QOS_LATENCY_TOLERANCE device PM QoS type to add, remove and update +latency tolerance requirements for devices. |