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authorNishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>2010-10-12 18:13:10 -0400
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-10-16 19:57:50 -0400
commite1f60b292ffd61151403327aa19ff7a1871820bd (patch)
tree63a01a1ab04e54b1ed859728b594e40123c80fc3
parentd33ac60beaf2c7dee5cd90aba7c1eb385dd70937 (diff)
PM: Introduce library for device-specific OPPs (v7)
SoCs have a standard set of tuples consisting of frequency and voltage pairs that the device will support per voltage domain. These are called Operating Performance Points or OPPs. The actual definitions of OPP varies over silicon versions. For a specific domain, we can have a set of {frequency, voltage} pairs. As the kernel boots and more information is available, a default set of these are activated based on the precise nature of device. Further on operation, based on conditions prevailing in the system (such as temperature), some OPP availability may be temporarily controlled by the SoC frameworks. To implement an OPP, some sort of power management support is necessary hence this library depends on CONFIG_PM. Contributions include: Sanjeev Premi for the initial concept: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50998/ Kevin Hilman for converting original design to device-based. Kevin Hilman and Paul Walmsey for cleaning up many of the function abstractions, improvements and data structure handling. Romit Dasgupta for using enums instead of opp pointers. Thara Gopinath, Eduardo Valentin and Vishwanath BS for fixes and cleanups. Linus Walleij for recommending this layer be made generic for usage in other architectures beyond OMAP and ARM. Mark Brown, Andrew Morton, Rafael J. Wysocki, Paul E. McKenney for valuable improvements. Discussions and comments from: http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=126033945313269&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=125482970102327&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=125809247500002&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=126025973426007&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=128152609200064&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=128468723000002&r=1&w=2 incorporated. v1: http://marc.info/?t=128468723000002&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/opp.txt375
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/power/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/power/opp.c628
-rw-r--r--include/linux/opp.h105
-rw-r--r--kernel/power/Kconfig14
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/00-INDEX b/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
index fb742c213c9e..45e9d4a91284 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/00-INDEX
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@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ interface.txt
14 - Power management user interface in /sys/power 14 - Power management user interface in /sys/power
15notifiers.txt 15notifiers.txt
16 - Registering suspend notifiers in device drivers 16 - Registering suspend notifiers in device drivers
17opp.txt
18 - Operating Performance Point library
17pci.txt 19pci.txt
18 - How the PCI Subsystem Does Power Management 20 - How the PCI Subsystem Does Power Management
19pm_qos_interface.txt 21pm_qos_interface.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/power/opp.txt b/Documentation/power/opp.txt
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1*=============*
2* OPP Library *
3*=============*
4
5(C) 2009-2010 Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Texas Instruments Incorporated
6
7Contents
8--------
91. Introduction
102. Initial OPP List Registration
113. OPP Search Functions
124. OPP Availability Control Functions
135. OPP Data Retrieval Functions
146. Cpufreq Table Generation
157. Data Structures
16
171. Introduction
18===============
19Complex SoCs of today consists of a multiple sub-modules working in conjunction.
20In an operational system executing varied use cases, not all modules in the SoC
21need to function at their highest performing frequency all the time. To
22facilitate this, sub-modules in a SoC are grouped into domains, allowing some
23domains to run at lower voltage and frequency while other domains are loaded
24more. The set of discrete tuples consisting of frequency and voltage pairs that
25the device will support per domain are called Operating Performance Points or
26OPPs.
27
28OPP library provides a set of helper functions to organize and query the OPP
29information. The library is located in drivers/base/power/opp.c and the header
30is located in include/linux/opp.h. OPP library can be enabled by enabling
31CONFIG_PM_OPP from power management menuconfig menu. OPP library depends on
32CONFIG_PM as certain SoCs such as Texas Instrument's OMAP framework allows to
33optionally boot at a certain OPP without needing cpufreq.
34
35Typical usage of the OPP library is as follows:
36(users) -> registers a set of default OPPs -> (library)
37SoC framework -> modifies on required cases certain OPPs -> OPP layer
38 -> queries to search/retrieve information ->
39
40OPP layer expects each domain to be represented by a unique device pointer. SoC
41framework registers a set of initial OPPs per device with the OPP layer. This
42list is expected to be an optimally small number typically around 5 per device.
43This initial list contains a set of OPPs that the framework expects to be safely
44enabled by default in the system.
45
46Note on OPP Availability:
47------------------------
48As the system proceeds to operate, SoC framework may choose to make certain
49OPPs available or not available on each device based on various external
50factors. Example usage: Thermal management or other exceptional situations where
51SoC framework might choose to disable a higher frequency OPP to safely continue
52operations until that OPP could be re-enabled if possible.
53
54OPP library facilitates this concept in it's implementation. The following
55operational functions operate only on available opps:
56opp_find_freq_{ceil, floor}, opp_get_voltage, opp_get_freq, opp_get_opp_count
57and opp_init_cpufreq_table
58
59opp_find_freq_exact is meant to be used to find the opp pointer which can then
60be used for opp_enable/disable functions to make an opp available as required.
61
62WARNING: Users of OPP library should refresh their availability count using
63get_opp_count if opp_enable/disable functions are invoked for a device, the
64exact mechanism to trigger these or the notification mechanism to other
65dependent subsystems such as cpufreq are left to the discretion of the SoC
66specific framework which uses the OPP library. Similar care needs to be taken
67care to refresh the cpufreq table in cases of these operations.
68
69WARNING on OPP List locking mechanism:
70-------------------------------------------------
71OPP library uses RCU for exclusivity. RCU allows the query functions to operate
72in multiple contexts and this synchronization mechanism is optimal for a read
73intensive operations on data structure as the OPP library caters to.
74
75To ensure that the data retrieved are sane, the users such as SoC framework
76should ensure that the section of code operating on OPP queries are locked
77using RCU read locks. The opp_find_freq_{exact,ceil,floor},
78opp_get_{voltage, freq, opp_count} fall into this category.
79
80opp_{add,enable,disable} are updaters which use mutex and implement it's own
81RCU locking mechanisms. opp_init_cpufreq_table acts as an updater and uses
82mutex to implment RCU updater strategy. These functions should *NOT* be called
83under RCU locks and other contexts that prevent blocking functions in RCU or
84mutex operations from working.
85
862. Initial OPP List Registration
87================================
88The SoC implementation calls opp_add function iteratively to add OPPs per
89device. It is expected that the SoC framework will register the OPP entries
90optimally- typical numbers range to be less than 5. The list generated by
91registering the OPPs is maintained by OPP library throughout the device
92operation. The SoC framework can subsequently control the availability of the
93OPPs dynamically using the opp_enable / disable functions.
94
95opp_add - Add a new OPP for a specific domain represented by the device pointer.
96 The OPP is defined using the frequency and voltage. Once added, the OPP
97 is assumed to be available and control of it's availability can be done
98 with the opp_enable/disable functions. OPP library internally stores
99 and manages this information in the opp struct. This function may be
100 used by SoC framework to define a optimal list as per the demands of
101 SoC usage environment.
102
103 WARNING: Do not use this function in interrupt context.
104
105 Example:
106 soc_pm_init()
107 {
108 /* Do things */
109 r = opp_add(mpu_dev, 1000000, 900000);
110 if (!r) {
111 pr_err("%s: unable to register mpu opp(%d)\n", r);
112 goto no_cpufreq;
113 }
114 /* Do cpufreq things */
115 no_cpufreq:
116 /* Do remaining things */
117 }
118
1193. OPP Search Functions
120=======================
121High level framework such as cpufreq operates on frequencies. To map the
122frequency back to the corresponding OPP, OPP library provides handy functions
123to search the OPP list that OPP library internally manages. These search
124functions return the matching pointer representing the opp if a match is
125found, else returns error. These errors are expected to be handled by standard
126error checks such as IS_ERR() and appropriate actions taken by the caller.
127
128opp_find_freq_exact - Search for an OPP based on an *exact* frequency and
129 availability. This function is especially useful to enable an OPP which
130 is not available by default.
131 Example: In a case when SoC framework detects a situation where a
132 higher frequency could be made available, it can use this function to
133 find the OPP prior to call the opp_enable to actually make it available.
134 rcu_read_lock();
135 opp = opp_find_freq_exact(dev, 1000000000, false);
136 rcu_read_unlock();
137 /* dont operate on the pointer.. just do a sanity check.. */
138 if (IS_ERR(opp)) {
139 pr_err("frequency not disabled!\n");
140 /* trigger appropriate actions.. */
141 } else {
142 opp_enable(dev,1000000000);
143 }
144
145 NOTE: This is the only search function that operates on OPPs which are
146 not available.
147
148opp_find_freq_floor - Search for an available OPP which is *at most* the
149 provided frequency. This function is useful while searching for a lesser
150 match OR operating on OPP information in the order of decreasing
151 frequency.
152 Example: To find the highest opp for a device:
153 freq = ULONG_MAX;
154 rcu_read_lock();
155 opp_find_freq_floor(dev, &freq);
156 rcu_read_unlock();
157
158opp_find_freq_ceil - Search for an available OPP which is *at least* the
159 provided frequency. This function is useful while searching for a
160 higher match OR operating on OPP information in the order of increasing
161 frequency.
162 Example 1: To find the lowest opp for a device:
163 freq = 0;
164 rcu_read_lock();
165 opp_find_freq_ceil(dev, &freq);
166 rcu_read_unlock();
167 Example 2: A simplified implementation of a SoC cpufreq_driver->target:
168 soc_cpufreq_target(..)
169 {
170 /* Do stuff like policy checks etc. */
171 /* Find the best frequency match for the req */
172 rcu_read_lock();
173 opp = opp_find_freq_ceil(dev, &freq);
174 rcu_read_unlock();
175 if (!IS_ERR(opp))