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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/00-INDEX6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/devices.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt82
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt29
4 files changed, 78 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/00-INDEX b/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
index a4d682f54231..ad04cc8097ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ apm-acpi.txt
- basic info about the APM and ACPI support.
basic-pm-debugging.txt
- Debugging suspend and resume
+charger-manager.txt
+ - Battery charger management.
devices.txt
- How drivers interact with system-wide power management
drivers-testing.txt
@@ -22,6 +24,8 @@ pm_qos_interface.txt
- info on Linux PM Quality of Service interface
power_supply_class.txt
- Tells userspace about battery, UPS, AC or DC power supply properties
+runtime_pm.txt
+ - Power management framework for I/O devices.
s2ram.txt
- How to get suspend to ram working (and debug it when it isn't)
states.txt
@@ -38,7 +42,5 @@ tricks.txt
- How to trick software suspend (to disk) into working when it isn't
userland-swsusp.txt
- Experimental implementation of software suspend in userspace
-video_extension.txt
- - ACPI video extensions
video.txt
- Video issues during resume from suspend
diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
index a66c9821b5ce..47d46dff70f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ When resuming from freeze, standby or memory sleep, the phases are:
the resume methods. This generally involves undoing the actions of the
preceding suspend_late phase.
- 3 The resume methods should bring the the device back to its operating
+ 3 The resume methods should bring the device back to its operating
state, so that it can perform normal I/O. This generally involves
undoing the actions of the suspend phase.
diff --git a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt
index 483632087788..a5da5c7e7128 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt
@@ -88,17 +88,19 @@ node.
2. PM QoS per-device latency and flags framework
-For each device, there are two lists of PM QoS requests. One is maintained
-along with the aggregated target of latency value and the other is for PM QoS
-flags. Values are updated in response to changes of the request list.
+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.
-Target latency value is 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.
+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 value is implemented as an atomic variable so that
-reading the aggregated value does not require any locking mechanism.
+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:
@@ -132,19 +134,21 @@ The meaning of the return values is as follows:
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, value)
+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.
+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 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.
+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 latency constraints and remove sysfs attribute pm_qos_resume_latency_us
-from the device's power directory.
+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
@@ -163,7 +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.
@@ -171,14 +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.
diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
index b6ce00b2be9a..5f96daf8566a 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ defined in include/linux/pm.h:
equal to zero); the initial value of it is 1 (i.e. runtime PM is
initially disabled for all devices)
- unsigned int runtime_error;
+ int runtime_error;
- if set, there was a fatal error (one of the callbacks returned error code
as described in Section 2), so the helper funtions will not work until
this flag is cleared; this is the error code returned by the failing
@@ -401,11 +401,11 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h:
int pm_runtime_disable(struct device *dev);
- increment the device's 'power.disable_depth' field (if the value of that
field was previously zero, this prevents subsystem-level runtime PM
- callbacks from being run for the device), make sure that all of the pending
- runtime PM operations on the device are either completed or canceled;
- returns 1 if there was a resume request pending and it was necessary to
- execute the subsystem-level resume callback for the device to satisfy that
- request, otherwise 0 is returned
+ callbacks from being run for the device), make sure that all of the
+ pending runtime PM operations on the device are either completed or
+ canceled; returns 1 if there was a resume request pending and it was
+ necessary to execute the subsystem-level resume callback for the device
+ to satisfy that request, otherwise 0 is returned
int pm_runtime_barrier(struct device *dev);
- check if there's a resume request pending for the device and resume it
@@ -667,11 +667,11 @@ driver/base/power/generic_ops.c:
int pm_generic_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev);
- invoke the ->runtime_suspend() callback provided by the driver of this
- device and return its result, or return -EINVAL if not defined
+ device and return its result, or return 0 if not defined
int pm_generic_runtime_resume(struct device *dev);
- invoke the ->runtime_resume() callback provided by the driver of this
- device and return its result, or return -EINVAL if not defined
+ device and return its result, or return 0 if not defined
int pm_generic_suspend(struct device *dev);
- if the device has not been suspended at run time, invoke the ->suspend()
@@ -727,15 +727,12 @@ driver/base/power/generic_ops.c:
int pm_generic_restore_noirq(struct device *dev);
- invoke the ->restore_noirq() callback provided by the device's driver
-These functions can be assigned to the ->runtime_idle(), ->runtime_suspend(),
+These functions are the defaults used by the PM core, if a subsystem doesn't
+provide its own callbacks for ->runtime_idle(), ->runtime_suspend(),
->runtime_resume(), ->suspend(), ->suspend_noirq(), ->resume(),
->resume_noirq(), ->freeze(), ->freeze_noirq(), ->thaw(), ->thaw_noirq(),
-->poweroff(), ->poweroff_noirq(), ->restore(), ->restore_noirq() callback
-pointers in the subsystem-level dev_pm_ops structures.
-
-If a subsystem wishes to use all of them at the same time, it can simply assign
-the GENERIC_SUBSYS_PM_OPS macro, defined in include/linux/pm.h, to its
-dev_pm_ops structure pointer.
+->poweroff(), ->poweroff_noirq(), ->restore(), ->restore_noirq() in the
+subsystem-level dev_pm_ops structure.
Device drivers that wish to use the same function as a system suspend, freeze,
poweroff and runtime suspend callback, and similarly for system resume, thaw,
@@ -873,7 +870,7 @@ Here is a schematic pseudo-code example:
foo->is_suspended = 0;
pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(&foo->dev);
if (foo->num_pending_requests > 0)
- foo_process_requests(foo);
+ foo_process_next_request(foo);
unlock(&foo->private_lock);
return 0;
}