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diff --git a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..19c5f7b1a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +PM Quality Of Service Interface. + +This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering +performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on +one of the parameters. + +Two different PM QoS frameworks are available: +1. PM QoS classes for cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput, +memory_bandwidth. +2. the per-device PM QoS framework provides the API to manage the per-device latency +constraints and PM QoS flags. + +Each parameters have defined units: + * latency: usec + * timeout: usec + * throughput: kbs (kilo bit / sec) + * memory bandwidth: mbs (mega bit / sec) + + +1. PM QoS framework + +The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented +parameter. The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init() +and pm_qos_params.h. This is done because having the available parameters +being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to +abuse. + +For each parameter 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. + + +From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple: + +void pm_qos_add_request(handle, param_class, target_value): +Will insert an element into the list for that identified PM QoS class 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. +Clients of pm_qos need to save the returned handle for future use in other +pm_qos API functions. + +void pm_qos_update_request(handle, new_target_value): +Will update the list element pointed to by the handle with the new target value +and recompute the new aggregated target, calling the notification tree if the +target is changed. + +void pm_qos_remove_request(handle): +Will remove the element. After removal it will update the aggregate target and +call the notification tree if the target was changed as a result of removing +the request. + +int pm_qos_request(param_class): +Returns the aggregated value for a given PM QoS class. + +int pm_qos_request_active(handle): +Returns if the request is still active, i.e. it has not been removed from a +PM QoS class constraints list. + +int pm_qos_add_notifier(param_class, notifier): +Adds a notification callback function to the PM QoS class. The callback is +called when the aggregated value for the PM QoS class is changed. + +int pm_qos_remove_notifier(int param_class, notifier): +Removes the notification callback function for the PM QoS class. + + +From user mode: +Only processes can register a pm_qos request. To provide for automatic +cleanup of a process, the interface requires the process to register its +parameter requests in the following way: + +To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the process +must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput] + +As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered +request on the parameter. + +To change the requested target value the process needs to write an s32 value to +the open device node. Alternatively the user mode program could write a hex +string for the value using 10 char long format e.g. "0x12345678". This +translates to a pm_qos_update_request call. + +To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device +node. + + +2. PM QoS per-device latency and flags framework + +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. One device PM QoS flag is defined currently: PM_QOS_FLAG_NO_POWER_OFF. + +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, 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. +Clients of dev_pm_qos need to save the handle for future use in other +dev_pm_qos API functions. + +int dev_pm_qos_update_request(handle, new_value): +Will update the list element pointed to by the handle with the new target value +and recompute the new aggregated target, calling the notification trees if the +target is changed. + +int dev_pm_qos_remove_request(handle): +Will remove the element. After removal it will update the aggregate target and +call the notification trees if the target was changed as a result of removing +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 attribute +pm_qos_no_power_off under the device's power directory allowing user space to +change the value of the PM_QOS_FLAG_NO_POWER_OFF flag. + +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 attribute pm_qos_no_power_off from the device's power +directory. + +Notification mechanisms: +The per-device PM QoS framework has a per-device 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 (for resume latency device PM QoS only). + +int dev_pm_qos_remove_notifier(device, notifier): +Removes the notification callback function for the device. + + +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. |