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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-04-05 09:23:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2017-04-11 16:39:20 -0400 |
| commit | 3db5f406e4440c486cec4772210b9802bf4546b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 73d4ecc15f4e76cac18dcea98c4b9e95c6c6de55 /Documentation/usb | |
| parent | 3b38e4f21868d83ed03d5d101c789c4df2b08e8b (diff) | |
usb/power-management.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book
This document describe some USB core functions. Add it to the
driver-api book.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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| 1 | Power Management for USB | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | Last-updated: February 2014 | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | Contents: | ||
| 9 | --------- | ||
| 10 | * What is Power Management? | ||
| 11 | * What is Remote Wakeup? | ||
| 12 | * When is a USB device idle? | ||
| 13 | * Forms of dynamic PM | ||
| 14 | * The user interface for dynamic PM | ||
| 15 | * Changing the default idle-delay time | ||
| 16 | * Warnings | ||
| 17 | * The driver interface for Power Management | ||
| 18 | * The driver interface for autosuspend and autoresume | ||
| 19 | * Other parts of the driver interface | ||
| 20 | * Mutual exclusion | ||
| 21 | * Interaction between dynamic PM and system PM | ||
| 22 | * xHCI hardware link PM | ||
| 23 | * USB Port Power Control | ||
| 24 | * User Interface for Port Power Control | ||
| 25 | * Suggested Userspace Port Power Policy | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | What is Power Management? | ||
| 29 | ------------------------- | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | Power Management (PM) is the practice of saving energy by suspending | ||
| 32 | parts of a computer system when they aren't being used. While a | ||
| 33 | component is "suspended" it is in a nonfunctional low-power state; it | ||
| 34 | might even be turned off completely. A suspended component can be | ||
| 35 | "resumed" (returned to a functional full-power state) when the kernel | ||
| 36 | needs to use it. (There also are forms of PM in which components are | ||
| 37 | placed in a less functional but still usable state instead of being | ||
| 38 | suspended; an example would be reducing the CPU's clock rate. This | ||
| 39 | document will not discuss those other forms.) | ||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | When the parts being suspended include the CPU and most of the rest of | ||
| 42 | the system, we speak of it as a "system suspend". When a particular | ||
| 43 | device is turned off while the system as a whole remains running, we | ||
| 44 | call it a "dynamic suspend" (also known as a "runtime suspend" or | ||
| 45 | "selective suspend"). This document concentrates mostly on how | ||
| 46 | dynamic PM is implemented in the USB subsystem, although system PM is | ||
| 47 | covered to some extent (see Documentation/power/*.txt for more | ||
| 48 | information about system PM). | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 | System PM support is present only if the kernel was built with CONFIG_SUSPEND | ||
| 51 | or CONFIG_HIBERNATION enabled. Dynamic PM support for USB is present whenever | ||
| 52 | the kernel was built with CONFIG_PM enabled. | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | [Historically, dynamic PM support for USB was present only if the | ||
| 55 | kernel had been built with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled (which depended on | ||
| 56 | CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME). Starting with the 3.10 kernel release, dynamic PM support | ||
| 57 | for USB was present whenever the kernel was built with CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME | ||
| 58 | enabled. The CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option had been eliminated.] | ||
| 59 | |||
| 60 | |||
| 61 | What is Remote Wakeup? | ||
| 62 | ---------------------- | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | When a device has been suspended, it generally doesn't resume until | ||
| 65 | the computer tells it to. Likewise, if the entire computer has been | ||
| 66 | suspended, it generally doesn't resume until the user tells it to, say | ||
| 67 | by pressing a power button or opening the cover. | ||
| 68 | |||
| 69 | However some devices have the capability of resuming by themselves, or | ||
| 70 | asking the kernel to resume them, or even telling the entire computer | ||
| 71 | to resume. This capability goes by several names such as "Wake On | ||
| 72 | LAN"; we will refer to it generically as "remote wakeup". When a | ||
| 73 | device is enabled for remote wakeup and it is suspended, it may resume | ||
| 74 | itself (or send a request to be resumed) in response to some external | ||
| 75 | event. Examples include a suspended keyboard resuming when a key is | ||
| 76 | pressed, or a suspended USB hub resuming when a device is plugged in. | ||
| 77 | |||
| 78 | |||
| 79 | When is a USB device idle? | ||
| 80 | -------------------------- | ||
| 81 | |||
| 82 | A device is idle whenever the kernel thinks it's not busy doing | ||
| 83 | anything important and thus is a candidate for being suspended. The | ||
| 84 | exact definition depends on the device's driver; drivers are allowed | ||
| 85 | to declare that a device isn't idle even when there's no actual | ||
| 86 | communication taking place. (For example, a hub isn't considered idle | ||
| 87 | unless all the devices plugged into that hub are already suspended.) | ||
| 88 | In addition, a device isn't considered idle so long as a program keeps | ||
| 89 | its usbfs file open, whether or not any I/O is going on. | ||
| 90 | |||
| 91 | If a USB device has no driver, its usbfs file isn't open, and it isn't | ||
| 92 | being accessed through sysfs, then it definitely is idle. | ||
| 93 | |||
| 94 | |||
| 95 | Forms of dynamic PM | ||
| 96 | ------------------- | ||
| 97 | |||
| 98 | Dynamic suspends occur when the kernel decides to suspend an idle | ||
| 99 | device. This is called "autosuspend" for short. In general, a device | ||
| 100 | won't be autosuspended unless it has been idle for some minimum period | ||
| 101 | of time, the so-called idle-delay time. | ||
| 102 | |||
| 103 | Of course, nothing the kernel does on its own initiative should | ||
| 104 | prevent the computer or its devices from working properly. If a | ||
| 105 | device has been autosuspended and a program tries to use it, the | ||
| 106 | kernel will automatically resume the device (autoresume). For the | ||
| 107 | same reason, an autosuspended device will usually have remote wakeup | ||
| 108 | enabled, if the device supports remote wakeup. | ||
| 109 | |||
| 110 | It is worth mentioning that many USB drivers don't support | ||
| 111 | autosuspend. In fact, at the time of this writing (Linux 2.6.23) the | ||
| 112 | only drivers which do support it are the hub driver, kaweth, asix, | ||
| 113 | usblp, usblcd, and usb-skeleton (which doesn't count). If a | ||
| 114 | non-supporting driver is bound to a device, the device won't be | ||
| 115 | autosuspended. In effect, the kernel pretends the device is never | ||
| 116 | idle. | ||
| 117 | |||
| 118 | We can categorize power management events in two broad classes: | ||
| 119 | external and internal. External events are those triggered by some | ||
| 120 | agent outside the USB stack: system suspend/resume (triggered by | ||
| 121 | userspace), manual dynamic resume (also triggered by userspace), and | ||
| 122 | remote wakeup (triggered by the device). Internal events are those | ||
| 123 | triggered within the USB stack: autosuspend and autoresume. Note that | ||
| 124 | all dynamic suspend events are internal; external agents are not | ||
| 125 | allowed to issue dynamic suspends. | ||
| 126 | |||
| 127 | |||
| 128 | The user interface for dynamic PM | ||
| 129 | --------------------------------- | ||
| 130 | |||
| 131 | The user interface for controlling dynamic PM is located in the power/ | ||
| 132 | subdirectory of each USB device's sysfs directory, that is, in | ||
| 133 | /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/ where "..." is the device's ID. The | ||
| 134 | relevant attribute files are: wakeup, control, and | ||
| 135 | autosuspend_delay_ms. (There may also be a file named "level"; this | ||
| 136 | file was deprecated as of the 2.6.35 kernel and replaced by the | ||
| 137 | "control" file. In 2.6.38 the "autosuspend" file will be deprecated | ||
| 138 | and replaced by the "autosuspend_delay_ms" file. The only difference | ||
| 139 | is that the newer file expresses the delay in milliseconds whereas the | ||
| 140 | older file uses seconds. Confusingly, both files are present in 2.6.37 | ||
| 141 | but only "autosuspend" works.) | ||
| 142 | |||
| 143 | power/wakeup | ||
| 144 | |||
| 145 | This file is empty if the device does not support | ||
| 146 | remote wakeup. Otherwise the file contains either the | ||
| 147 | word "enabled" or the word "disabled", and you can | ||
| 148 | write those words to the file. The setting determines | ||
| 149 | whether or not remote wakeup will be enabled when the | ||
| 150 | device is next suspended. (If the setting is changed | ||
| 151 | while the device is suspended, the change won't take | ||
| 152 | effect until the following suspend.) | ||
| 153 | |||
| 154 | power/control | ||
| 155 | |||
| 156 | This file contains one of two words: "on" or "auto". | ||
| 157 | You can write those words to the file to change the | ||
| 158 | device's setting. | ||
| 159 | |||
| 160 | "on" means that the device should be resumed and | ||
| 161 | autosuspend is not allowed. (Of course, system | ||
| 162 | suspends are still allowed.) | ||
| 163 | |||
| 164 | "auto" is the normal state in which the kernel is | ||
| 165 | allowed to autosuspend and autoresume the device. | ||
| 166 | |||
| 167 | (In kernels up to 2.6.32, you could also specify | ||
| 168 | "suspend", meaning that the device should remain | ||
| 169 | suspended and autoresume was not allowed. This | ||
| 170 | setting is no longer supported.) | ||
| 171 | |||
| 172 | power/autosuspend_delay_ms | ||
| 173 | |||
| 174 | This file contains an integer value, which is the | ||
| 175 | number of milliseconds the device should remain idle | ||
| 176 | before the kernel will autosuspend it (the idle-delay | ||
| 177 | time). The default is 2000. 0 means to autosuspend | ||
| 178 | as soon as the device becomes idle, and negative | ||
| 179 | values mean never to autosuspend. You can write a | ||
| 180 | number to the file to change the autosuspend | ||
| 181 | idle-delay time. | ||
| 182 | |||
| 183 | Writing "-1" to power/autosuspend_delay_ms and writing "on" to | ||
| 184 | power/control do essentially the same thing -- they both prevent the | ||
| 185 | device from being autosuspended. Yes, this is a redundancy in the | ||
| 186 | API. | ||
| 187 | |||
| 188 | (In 2.6.21 writing "0" to power/autosuspend would prevent the device | ||
| 189 | from being autosuspended; the behavior was changed in 2.6.22. The | ||
| 190 | power/autosuspend attribute did not exist prior to 2.6.21, and the | ||
| 191 | power/level attribute did not exist prior to 2.6.22. power/control | ||
| 192 | was added in 2.6.34, and power/autosuspend_delay_ms was added in | ||
| 193 | 2.6.37 but did not become functional until 2.6.38.) | ||
| 194 | |||
| 195 | |||
| 196 | Changing the default idle-delay time | ||
| 197 | ------------------------------------ | ||
| 198 | |||
| 199 | The default autosuspend idle-delay time (in seconds) is controlled by | ||
| 200 | a module parameter in usbcore. You can specify the value when usbcore | ||
| 201 | is loaded. For example, to set it to 5 seconds instead of 2 you would | ||
| 202 | do: | ||
| 203 | |||
| 204 | modprobe usbcore autosuspend=5 | ||
| 205 | |||
| 206 | Equivalently, you could add to a configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d | ||
| 207 | a line saying: | ||
| 208 | |||
| 209 | options usbcore autosuspend=5 | ||
| 210 | |||
| 211 | Some distributions load the usbcore module very early during the boot | ||
| 212 | process, by means of a program or script running from an initramfs | ||
| 213 | image. To alter the parameter value you would have to rebuild that | ||
| 214 | image. | ||
| 215 | |||
| 216 | If usbcore is compiled into the kernel rather than built as a loadable | ||
| 217 | module, you can add | ||
| 218 | |||
| 219 | usbcore.autosuspend=5 | ||
| 220 | |||
| 221 | to the kernel's boot command line. | ||
| 222 | |||
| 223 | Finally, the parameter value can be changed while the system is | ||
| 224 | running. If you do: | ||
| 225 | |||
| 226 | echo 5 >/sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend | ||
| 227 | |||
| 228 | then each new USB device will have its autosuspend idle-delay | ||
| 229 | initialized to 5. (The idle-delay values for already existing devices | ||
| 230 | will not be affected.) | ||
| 231 | |||
| 232 | Setting the initial default idle-delay to -1 will prevent any | ||
| 233 | autosuspend of any USB device. This has the benefit of allowing you | ||
| 234 | then to enable autosuspend for selected devices. | ||
| 235 | |||
| 236 | |||
| 237 | Warnings | ||
| 238 | -------- | ||
| 239 | |||
| 240 | The USB specification states that all USB devices must support power | ||
| 241 | management. Nevertheless, the sad fact is that many devices do not | ||
| 242 | support it very well. You can suspend them all right, but when you | ||
| 243 | try to resume them they disconnect themselves from the USB bus or | ||
| 244 | they stop working entirely. This seems to be especially prevalent | ||
| 245 | among printers and scanners, but plenty of other types of device have | ||
| 246 | the same deficiency. | ||
| 247 | |||
| 248 | For this reason, by default the kernel disables autosuspend (the | ||
| 249 | power/control attribute is initialized to "on") for all devices other | ||
| 250 | than hubs. Hubs, at least, appear to be reasonably well-behaved in | ||
| 251 | this regard. | ||
| 252 | |||
| 253 | (In 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 this wasn't the case. Autosuspend was enabled | ||
| 254 | by default for almost all USB devices. A number of people experienced | ||
| 255 | problems as a result.) | ||
| 256 | |||
| 257 | This means that non-hub devices won't be autosuspended unless the user | ||
| 258 | or a program explicitly enables it. As of this writing there aren't | ||
| 259 | any widespread programs which will do this; we hope that in the near | ||
| 260 | future device managers such as HAL will take on this added | ||
| 261 | responsibility. In the meantime you can always carry out the | ||
| 262 | necessary operations by hand or add them to a udev script. You can | ||
| 263 | also change the idle-delay time; 2 seconds is not the best choice for | ||
| 264 | every device. | ||
| 265 | |||
| 266 | If a driver knows that its device has proper suspend/resume support, | ||
| 267 | it can enable autosuspend all by itself. For example, the video | ||
| 268 | driver for a laptop's webcam might do this (in recent kernels they | ||
| 269 | do), since these devices are rarely used and so should normally be | ||
| 270 | autosuspended. | ||
| 271 | |||
| 272 | Sometimes it turns out that even when a device does work okay with | ||
| 273 | autosuspend there are still problems. For example, the usbhid driver, | ||
| 274 | which manages keyboards and mice, has autosuspend support. Tests with | ||
| 275 | a number of keyboards show that typing on a suspended keyboard, while | ||
| 276 | causing the keyboard to do a remote wakeup all right, will nonetheless | ||
| 277 | frequently result in lost keystrokes. Tests with mice show that some | ||
| 278 | of them will issue a remote-wakeup request in response to button | ||
| 279 | presses but not to motion, and some in response to neither. | ||
| 280 | |||
| 281 | The kernel will not prevent you from enabling autosuspend on devices | ||
| 282 | that can't handle it. It is even possible in theory to damage a | ||
| 283 | device by suspending it at the wrong time. (Highly unlikely, but | ||
| 284 | possible.) Take care. | ||
| 285 | |||
| 286 | |||
| 287 | The driver interface for Power Management | ||
| 288 | ----------------------------------------- | ||
| 289 | |||
| 290 | The requirements for a USB driver to support external power management | ||
| 291 | are pretty modest; the driver need only define | ||
| 292 | |||
| 293 | .suspend | ||
| 294 | .resume | ||
| 295 | .reset_resume | ||
| 296 | |||
| 297 | methods in its usb_driver structure, and the reset_resume method is | ||
| 298 | optional. The methods' jobs are quite simple: | ||
| 299 | |||
| 300 | The suspend method is called to warn the driver that the | ||
| 301 | device is going to be suspended. If the driver returns a | ||
| 302 | negative error code, the suspend will be aborted. Normally | ||
| 303 | the driver will return 0, in which case it must cancel all | ||
| 304 | outstanding URBs (usb_kill_urb()) and not submit any more. | ||
| 305 | |||
| 306 | The resume method is called to tell the driver that the | ||
| 307 | device has been resumed and the driver can return to normal | ||
| 308 | operation. URBs may once more be submitted. | ||
| 309 | |||
| 310 | The reset_resume method is called to tell the driver that | ||
| 311 | the device has been resumed and it also has been reset. | ||
| 312 | The driver should redo any necessary device initialization, | ||
| 313 | since the device has probably lost most or all of its state | ||
| 314 | (although the interfaces will be in the same altsettings as | ||
| 315 | before the suspend). | ||
| 316 | |||
| 317 | If the device is disconnected or powered down while it is suspended, | ||
| 318 | the disconnect method will be called instead of the resume or | ||
| 319 | reset_resume method. This is also quite likely to happen when | ||
| 320 | waking up from hibernation, as many systems do not maintain suspend | ||
| 321 | current to the USB host controllers during hibernation. (It's | ||
| 322 | possible to work around the hibernation-forces-disconnect problem by | ||
| 323 | using the USB Persist facility.) | ||
| 324 | |||
| 325 | The reset_resume method is used by the USB Persist facility (see | ||
| 326 | Documentation/usb/persist.txt) and it can also be used under certain | ||
| 327 | circumstances when CONFIG_USB_PERSIST is not enabled. Currently, if a | ||
| 328 | device is reset during a resume and the driver does not have a | ||
| 329 | reset_resume method, the driver won't receive any notification about | ||
| 330 | the resume. Later kernels will call the driver's disconnect method; | ||
| 331 | 2.6.23 doesn't do this. | ||
| 332 | |||
| 333 | USB drivers are bound to interfaces, so their suspend and resume | ||
| 334 | methods get called when the interfaces are suspended or resumed. In | ||
| 335 | principle one might want to suspend some interfaces on a device (i.e., | ||
| 336 | force the drivers for those interface to stop all activity) without | ||
| 337 | suspending the other interfaces. The USB core doesn't allow this; all | ||
| 338 | interfaces are suspended when the device itself is suspended and all | ||
| 339 | interfaces are resumed when the device is resumed. It isn't possible | ||
| 340 | to suspend or resume some but not all of a device's interfaces. The | ||
| 341 | closest you can come is to unbind the interfaces' drivers. | ||
| 342 | |||
| 343 | |||
| 344 | The driver interface for autosuspend and autoresume | ||
| 345 | --------------------------------------------------- | ||
| 346 | |||
| 347 | To support autosuspend and autoresume, a driver should implement all | ||
| 348 | three of the methods listed above. In addition, a driver indicates | ||
| 349 | that it supports autosuspend by setting the .supports_autosuspend flag | ||
| 350 | in its usb_driver structure. It is then responsible for informing the | ||
| 351 | USB core whenever one of its interfaces becomes busy or idle. The | ||
| 352 | driver does so by calling these six functions: | ||
| 353 | |||
| 354 | int usb_autopm_get_interface(struct usb_interface *intf); | ||
| 355 | void usb_autopm_put_interface(struct usb_interface *intf); | ||
| 356 | int usb_autopm_get_interface_async(struct usb_interface *intf); | ||
| 357 | void usb_autopm_put_interface_async(struct usb_interface *intf); | ||
| 358 | void usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(struct usb_interface *intf); | ||
| 359 | void usb_autopm_put_interface_no_suspend(struct usb_interface *intf); | ||
| 360 | |||
| 361 | The functions work by maintaining a usage counter in the | ||
| 362 | usb_interface's embedded device structure. When the counter is > 0 | ||
| 363 | then the interface is deemed to be busy, and the kernel will not | ||
| 364 | autosuspend the interface's device. When the usage counter is = 0 | ||
| 365 | then the interface is considered to be idle, and the kernel may | ||
| 366 | autosuspend the device. | ||
| 367 | |||
| 368 | Drivers need not be concerned about balancing changes to the usage | ||
| 369 | counter; the USB core will undo any remaining "get"s when a driver | ||
| 370 | is unbound from its interface. As a corollary, drivers must not call | ||
| 371 | any of the usb_autopm_* functions after their disconnect() routine has | ||
| 372 | returned. | ||
| 373 | |||
| 374 | Drivers using the async routines are responsible for their own | ||
| 375 | synchronization and mutual exclusion. | ||
| 376 | |||
| 377 | usb_autopm_get_interface() increments the usage counter and | ||
| 378 | does an autoresume if the device is suspended. If the | ||
| 379 | autoresume fails, the counter is decremented back. | ||
| 380 | |||
| 381 | usb_autopm_put_interface() decrements the usage counter and | ||
| 382 | attempts an autosuspend if the new value is = 0. | ||
| 383 | |||
| 384 | usb_autopm_get_interface_async() and | ||
| 385 | usb_autopm_put_interface_async() do almost the same things as | ||
| 386 | their non-async counterparts. The big difference is that they | ||
| 387 | use a workqueue to do the resume or suspend part of their | ||
| 388 | jobs. As a result they can be called in an atomic context, | ||
| 389 | such as an URB's completion handler, but when they return the | ||
| 390 | device will generally not yet be in the desired state. | ||
| 391 | |||
| 392 | usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume() and | ||
| 393 | usb_autopm_put_interface_no_suspend() merely increment or | ||
| 394 | decrement the usage counter; they do not attempt to carry out | ||
| 395 | an autoresume or an autosuspend. Hence they can be called in | ||
| 396 | an atomic context. | ||
| 397 | |||
| 398 | The simplest usage pattern is that a driver calls | ||
| 399 | usb_autopm_get_interface() in its open routine and | ||
| 400 | usb_autopm_put_interface() in its close or release routine. But other | ||
| 401 | patterns are possible. | ||
| 402 | |||
| 403 | The autosuspend attempts mentioned above will often fail for one | ||
| 404 | reason or another. For example, the power/control attribute might be | ||
| 405 | set to "on", or another interface in the same device might not be | ||
| 406 | idle. This is perfectly normal. If the reason for failure was that | ||
| 407 | the device hasn't been idle for long enough, a timer is scheduled to | ||
| 408 | carry out the operation automatically when the autosuspend idle-delay | ||
| 409 | has expired. | ||
| 410 | |||
| 411 | Autoresume attempts also can fail, although failure would mean that | ||
| 412 | the device is no longer present or operating properly. Unlike | ||
| 413 | autosuspend, there's no idle-delay for an autoresume. | ||
| 414 | |||
| 415 | |||
| 416 | Other parts of the driver interface | ||
| 417 | ----------------------------------- | ||
| 418 | |||
| 419 | Drivers can enable autosuspend for their devices by calling | ||
| 420 | |||
| 421 | usb_enable_autosuspend(struct usb_device *udev); | ||
| 422 | |||
| 423 | in their probe() routine, if they know that the device is capable of | ||
| 424 | suspending and resuming correctly. This is exactly equivalent to | ||
| 425 | writing "auto" to the device's power/control attribute. Likewise, | ||
| 426 | drivers can disable autosuspend by calling | ||
| 427 | |||
| 428 | usb_disable_autosuspend(struct usb_device *udev); | ||
| 429 | |||
| 430 | This is exactly the same as writing "on" to the power/control attribute. | ||
| 431 | |||
| 432 | Sometimes a driver needs to make sure that remote wakeup is enabled | ||
| 433 | during autosuspend. For example, there's not much point | ||
| 434 | autosuspending a keyboard if the user can't cause the keyboard to do a | ||
| 435 | remote wakeup by typing on it. If the driver sets | ||
| 436 | intf->needs_remote_wakeup to 1, the kernel won't autosuspend the | ||
| 437 | device if remote wakeup isn't available. (If the device is already | ||
| 438 | autosuspended, though, setting this flag won't cause the kernel to | ||
| 439 | autoresume it. Normally a driver would set this flag in its probe | ||
| 440 | method, at which time the device is guaranteed not to be | ||
| 441 | autosuspended.) | ||
| 442 | |||
| 443 | If a driver does its I/O asynchronously in interrupt context, it | ||
| 444 | should call usb_autopm_get_interface_async() before starting output and | ||
| 445 | usb_autopm_put_interface_async() when the output queue drains. When | ||
| 446 | it receives an input event, it should call | ||
| 447 | |||
| 448 | usb_mark_last_busy(struct usb_device *udev); | ||
| 449 | |||
| 450 | in the event handler. This tells the PM core that the device was just | ||
| 451 | busy and therefore the next autosuspend idle-delay expiration should | ||
| 452 | be pushed back. Many of the usb_autopm_* routines also make this call, | ||
| 453 | so drivers need to worry only when interrupt-driven input arrives. | ||
| 454 | |||
| 455 | Asynchronous operation is always subject to races. For example, a | ||
| 456 | driver may call the usb_autopm_get_interface_async() routine at a time | ||
| 457 | when the core has just finished deciding the device has been idle for | ||
| 458 | long enough but not yet gotten around to calling the driver's suspend | ||
| 459 | method. The suspend method must be responsible for synchronizing with | ||
| 460 | the I/O request routine and the URB completion handler; it should | ||
| 461 | cause autosuspends to fail with -EBUSY if the driver needs to use the | ||
| 462 | device. | ||
| 463 | |||
| 464 | External suspend calls should never be allowed to fail in this way, | ||
| 465 | only autosuspend calls. The driver can tell them apart by applying | ||
| 466 | the PMSG_IS_AUTO() macro to the message argument to the suspend | ||
| 467 | method; it will return True for internal PM events (autosuspend) and | ||
| 468 | False for external PM events. | ||
| 469 | |||
| 470 | |||
| 471 | Mutual exclusion | ||
| 472 | ---------------- | ||
| 473 | |||
| 474 | For external events -- but not necessarily for autosuspend or | ||
| 475 | autoresume -- the device semaphore (udev->dev.sem) will be held when a | ||
| 476 | suspend or resume method is called. This implies that external | ||
| 477 | suspend/resume events are mutually exclusive with calls to probe, | ||
| 478 | disconnect, pre_reset, and post_reset; the USB core guarantees that | ||
| 479 | this is true of autosuspend/autoresume events as well. | ||
| 480 | |||
| 481 | If a driver wants to block all suspend/resume calls during some | ||
| 482 | critical section, the best way is to lock the device and call | ||
| 483 | usb_autopm_get_interface() (and do the reverse at the end of the | ||
| 484 | critical section). Holding the device semaphore will block all | ||
| 485 | external PM calls, and the usb_autopm_get_interface() will prevent any | ||
| 486 | internal PM calls, even if it fails. (Exercise: Why?) | ||
| 487 | |||
| 488 | |||
| 489 | Interaction between dynamic PM and system PM | ||
| 490 | -------------------------------------------- | ||
| 491 | |||
| 492 | Dynamic power management and system power management can interact in | ||
| 493 | a couple of ways. | ||
| 494 | |||
| 495 | Firstly, a device may already be autosuspended when a system suspend | ||
| 496 | occurs. Since system suspends are supposed to be as transparent as | ||
| 497 | possible, the device should remain suspended following the system | ||
| 498 | resume. But this theory may not work out well in practice; over time | ||
| 499 | the kernel's behavior in this regard has changed. As of 2.6.37 the | ||
| 500 | policy is to resume all devices during a system resume and let them | ||
| 501 | handle their own runtime suspends afterward. | ||
| 502 | |||
| 503 | Secondly, a dynamic power-management event may occur as a system | ||
| 504 | suspend is underway. The window for this is short, since system | ||
| 505 | suspends don't take long (a few seconds usually), but it can happen. | ||
| 506 | For example, a suspended device may send a remote-wakeup signal while | ||
| 507 | the system is suspending. The remote wakeup may succeed, which would | ||
| 508 | cause the system suspend to abort. If the remote wakeup doesn't | ||
| 509 | succeed, it may still remain active and thus cause the system to | ||
| 510 | resume as soon as the system suspend is complete. Or the remote | ||
| 511 | wakeup may fail and get lost. Which outcome occurs depends on timing | ||
| 512 | and on the hardware and firmware design. | ||
| 513 | |||
| 514 | |||
| 515 | xHCI hardware link PM | ||
| 516 | --------------------- | ||
| 517 | |||
| 518 | xHCI host controller provides hardware link power management to usb2.0 | ||
| 519 | (xHCI 1.0 feature) and usb3.0 devices which support link PM. By | ||
| 520 | enabling hardware LPM, the host can automatically put the device into | ||
| 521 | lower power state(L1 for usb2.0 devices, or U1/U2 for usb3.0 devices), | ||
| 522 | which state device can enter and resume very quickly. | ||
| 523 | |||
| 524 | The user interface for controlling hardware LPM is located in the | ||
| 525 | power/ subdirectory of each USB device's sysfs directory, that is, in | ||
| 526 | /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/ where "..." is the device's ID. The | ||
| 527 | relevant attribute files are usb2_hardware_lpm and usb3_hardware_lpm. | ||
| 528 | |||
| 529 | power/usb2_hardware_lpm | ||
| 530 | |||
| 531 | When a USB2 device which support LPM is plugged to a | ||
| 532 | xHCI host root hub which support software LPM, the | ||
| 533 | host will run a software LPM test for it; if the device | ||
| 534 | enters L1 state and resume successfully and the host | ||
| 535 | supports USB2 hardware LPM, this file will show up and | ||
| 536 | driver will enable hardware LPM for the device. You | ||
| 537 | can write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to the file to enable/disable | ||
| 538 | USB2 hardware LPM manually. This is for test purpose mainly. | ||
| 539 | |||
| 540 | power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u1 | ||
| 541 | power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u2 | ||
| 542 | |||
| 543 | When a USB 3.0 lpm-capable device is plugged in to a | ||
| 544 | xHCI host which supports link PM, it will check if U1 | ||
| 545 | and U2 exit latencies have been set in the BOS | ||
| 546 | descriptor; if the check is passed and the host | ||
| 547 | supports USB3 hardware LPM, USB3 hardware LPM will be | ||
| 548 | enabled for the device and these files will be created. | ||
| 549 | The files hold a string value (enable or disable) | ||
| 550 | indicating whether or not USB3 hardware LPM U1 or U2 | ||
| 551 | is enabled for the device. | ||
| 552 | |||
| 553 | USB Port Power Control | ||
| 554 | ---------------------- | ||
| 555 | |||
| 556 | In addition to suspending endpoint devices and enabling hardware | ||
| 557 | controlled link power management, the USB subsystem also has the | ||
| 558 | capability to disable power to ports under some conditions. Power is | ||
| 559 | controlled through Set/ClearPortFeature(PORT_POWER) requests to a hub. | ||
| 560 | In the case of a root or platform-internal hub the host controller | ||
| 561 | driver translates PORT_POWER requests into platform firmware (ACPI) | ||
| 562 | method calls to set the port power state. For more background see the | ||
| 563 | Linux Plumbers Conference 2012 slides [1] and video [2]: | ||
| 564 | |||
| 565 | Upon receiving a ClearPortFeature(PORT_POWER) request a USB port is | ||
| 566 | logically off, and may trigger the actual loss of VBUS to the port [3]. | ||
| 567 | VBUS may be maintained in the case where a hub gangs multiple ports into | ||
| 568 | a shared power well causing power to remain until all ports in the gang | ||
| 569 | are turned off. VBUS may also be maintained by hub ports configured for | ||
| 570 | a charging application. In any event a logically off port will lose | ||
| 571 | connection with its device, not respond to hotplug events, and not | ||
| 572 | respond to remote wakeup events*. | ||
| 573 | |||
| 574 | WARNING: turning off a port may result in the inability to hot add a device. | ||
| 575 | Please see "User Interface for Port Power Control" for details. | ||
| 576 | |||
| 577 | As far as the effect on the device itself it is similar to what a device | ||
| 578 | goes through during system suspend, i.e. the power session is lost. Any | ||
| 579 | USB device or driver that misbehaves with system suspend will be | ||
| 580 | similarly affected by a port power cycle event. For this reason the | ||
| 581 | implementation shares the same device recovery path (and honors the same | ||
| 582 | quirks) as the system resume path for the hub. | ||
| 583 | |||
| 584 | [1]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/96820575/sarah-sharp-lpt-port-power-off2-mini.pdf | ||
| 585 | [2]: http://linuxplumbers.ubicast.tv/videos/usb-port-power-off-kerneluserspace-api/ | ||
| 586 | [3]: USB 3.1 Section 10.12 | ||
| 587 | * wakeup note: if a device is configured to send wakeup events the port | ||
| 588 | power control implementation will block poweroff attempts on that | ||
| 589 | port. | ||
| 590 | |||
| 591 | |||
| 592 | User Interface for Port Power Control | ||
| 593 | ------------------------------------- | ||
| 594 | |||
| 595 | The port power control mechanism uses the PM runtime system. Poweroff is | ||
| 596 | requested by clearing the power/pm_qos_no_power_off flag of the port device | ||
| 597 | (defaults to 1). If the port is disconnected it will immediately receive a | ||
| 598 | ClearPortFeature(PORT_POWER) request. Otherwise, it will honor the pm runtime | ||
| 599 | rules and require the attached child device and all descendants to be suspended. | ||
| 600 | This mechanism is dependent on the hub advertising port power switching in its | ||
| 601 | hub descriptor (wHubCharacteristics logical power switching mode field). | ||
| 602 | |||
| 603 | Note, some interface devices/drivers do not support autosuspend. Userspace may | ||
| 604 | need to unbind the interface drivers before the usb_device will suspend. An | ||
| 605 | unbound interface device is suspended by default. When unbinding, be careful | ||
| 606 | to unbind interface drivers, not the driver of the parent usb device. Also, | ||
| 607 | leave hub interface drivers bound. If the driver for the usb device (not | ||
| 608 | interface) is unbound the kernel is no longer able to resume the device. If a | ||
| 609 | hub interface driver is unbound, control of its child ports is lost and all | ||
| 610 | attached child-devices will disconnect. A good rule of thumb is that if the | ||
| 611 | 'driver/module' link for a device points to /sys/module/usbcore then unbinding | ||
| 612 | it will interfere with port power control. | ||
| 613 | |||
| 614 | Example of the relevant files for port power control. Note, in this example | ||
| 615 | these files are relative to a usb hub device (prefix). | ||
| 616 | |||
| 617 | prefix=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-1 | ||
| 618 | |||
| 619 | attached child device + | ||
| 620 | hub port device + | | ||
| 621 | hub interface device + | | | ||
| 622 | v v v | ||
| 623 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/device | ||
| 624 | |||
| 625 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/power/pm_qos_no_power_off | ||
| 626 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/device/power/control | ||
| 627 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/device/3-1.1:<intf0>/driver/unbind | ||
| 628 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/device/3-1.1:<intf1>/driver/unbind | ||
| 629 | ... | ||
| 630 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/device/3-1.1:<intfN>/driver/unbind | ||
| 631 | |||
| 632 | In addition to these files some ports may have a 'peer' link to a port on | ||
| 633 | another hub. The expectation is that all superspeed ports have a | ||
| 634 | hi-speed peer. | ||
| 635 | |||
| 636 | $prefix/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1/peer -> ../../../../usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/2-1-port1 | ||
| 637 | ../../../../usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/2-1-port1/peer -> ../../../../usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/3-1-port1 | ||
| 638 | |||
| 639 | Distinct from 'companion ports', or 'ehci/xhci shared switchover ports' | ||
| 640 | peer ports are simply the hi-speed and superspeed interface pins that | ||
| 641 | are combined into a single usb3 connector. Peer ports share the same | ||
| 642 | ancestor XHCI device. | ||
| 643 | |||
| 644 | While a superspeed port is powered off a device may downgrade its | ||
| 645 | connection and attempt to connect to the hi-speed pins. The | ||
| 646 | implementation takes steps to prevent this: | ||
| 647 | |||
| 648 | 1/ Port suspend is sequenced to guarantee that hi-speed ports are powered-off | ||
| 649 | before their superspeed peer is permitted to power-off. The implication is | ||
| 650 | that the setting pm_qos_no_power_off to zero on a superspeed port may not cause | ||
| 651 | the port to power-off until its highspeed peer has gone to its runtime suspend | ||
| 652 | state. Userspace must take care to order the suspensions if it wants to | ||
| 653 | guarantee that a superspeed port will power-off. | ||
| 654 | |||
| 655 | 2/ Port resume is sequenced to force a superspeed port to power-on prior to its | ||
| 656 | highspeed peer. | ||
| 657 | |||
| 658 | 3/ Port resume always triggers an attached child device to resume. After a | ||
| 659 | power session is lost the device may have been removed, or need reset. | ||
| 660 | Resuming the child device when the parent port regains power resolves those | ||
| 661 | states and clamps the maximum port power cycle frequency at the rate the child | ||
| 662 | device can suspend (autosuspend-delay) and resume (reset-resume latency). | ||
| 663 | |||
| 664 | Sysfs files relevant for port power control: | ||
| 665 | <hubdev-portX>/power/pm_qos_no_power_off: | ||
| 666 | This writable flag controls the state of an idle port. | ||
| 667 | Once all children and descendants have suspended the | ||
| 668 | port may suspend/poweroff provided that | ||
| 669 | pm_qos_no_power_off is '0'. If pm_qos_no_power_off is | ||
| 670 | '1' the port will remain active/powered regardless of | ||
| 671 | the stats of descendants. Defaults to 1. | ||
| 672 | |||
| 673 | <hubdev-portX>/power/runtime_status: | ||
| 674 | This file reflects whether the port is 'active' (power is on) | ||
| 675 | or 'suspended' (logically off). There is no indication to | ||
| 676 | userspace whether VBUS is still supplied. | ||
| 677 | |||
| 678 | <hubdev-portX>/connect_type: | ||
| 679 | An advisory read-only flag to userspace indicating the | ||
| 680 | location and connection type of the port. It returns | ||
| 681 | one of four values 'hotplug', 'hardwired', 'not used', | ||
| 682 | and 'unknown'. All values, besides unknown, are set by | ||
| 683 | platform firmware. | ||
| 684 | |||
| 685 | "hotplug" indicates an externally connectable/visible | ||
| 686 | port on the platform. Typically userspace would choose | ||
| 687 | to keep such a port powered to handle new device | ||
| 688 | connection events. | ||
| 689 | |||
| 690 | "hardwired" refers to a port that is not visible but | ||
| 691 | connectable. Examples are internal ports for USB | ||
| 692 | bluetooth that can be disconnected via an external | ||
| 693 | switch or a port with a hardwired USB camera. It is | ||
| 694 | expected to be safe to allow these ports to suspend | ||
| 695 | provided pm_qos_no_power_off is coordinated with any | ||
| 696 | switch that gates connections. Userspace must arrange | ||
| 697 | for the device to be connected prior to the port | ||
| 698 | powering off, or to activate the port prior to enabling | ||
| 699 | connection via a switch. | ||
| 700 | |||
| 701 | "not used" refers to an internal port that is expected | ||
| 702 | to never have a device connected to it. These may be | ||
| 703 | empty internal ports, or ports that are not physically | ||
| 704 | exposed on a platform. Considered safe to be | ||
| 705 | powered-off at all times. | ||
| 706 | |||
| 707 | "unknown" means platform firmware does not provide | ||
| 708 | information for this port. Most commonly refers to | ||
| 709 | external hub ports which should be considered 'hotplug' | ||
| 710 | for policy decisions. | ||
| 711 | |||
| 712 | NOTE1: since we are relying on the BIOS to get this ACPI | ||
| 713 | information correct, the USB port descriptions may be | ||
| 714 | missing or wrong. | ||
| 715 | |||
| 716 | NOTE2: Take care in clearing pm_qos_no_power_off. Once | ||
| 717 | power is off this port will | ||
| 718 | not respond to new connect events. | ||
| 719 | |||
| 720 | Once a child device is attached additional constraints are | ||
| 721 | applied before the port is allowed to poweroff. | ||
| 722 | |||
| 723 | <child>/power/control: | ||
| 724 | Must be 'auto', and the port will not | ||
| 725 | power down until <child>/power/runtime_status | ||
| 726 | reflects the 'suspended' state. Default | ||
| 727 | value is controlled by child device driver. | ||
| 728 | |||
| 729 | <child>/power/persist: | ||
| 730 | This defaults to '1' for most devices and indicates if | ||
| 731 | kernel can persist the device's configuration across a | ||
| 732 | power session loss (suspend / port-power event). When | ||
| 733 | this value is '0' (quirky devices), port poweroff is | ||
| 734 | disabled. | ||
| 735 | |||
| 736 | <child>/driver/unbind: | ||
| 737 | Wakeup capable devices will block port poweroff. At | ||
| 738 | this time the only mechanism to clear the usb-internal | ||
| 739 | wakeup-capability for an interface device is to unbind | ||
| 740 | its driver. | ||
| 741 | |||
| 742 | Summary of poweroff pre-requisite settings relative to a port device: | ||
| 743 | |||
| 744 | echo 0 > power/pm_qos_no_power_off | ||
| 745 | echo 0 > peer/power/pm_qos_no_power_off # if it exists | ||
| 746 | echo auto > power/control # this is the default value | ||
| 747 | echo auto > <child>/power/control | ||
| 748 | echo 1 > <child>/power/persist # this is the default value | ||
| 749 | |||
| 750 | Suggested Userspace Port Power Policy | ||
| 751 | ------------------------------------- | ||
| 752 | |||
| 753 | As noted above userspace needs to be careful and deliberate about what | ||
| 754 | ports are enabled for poweroff. | ||
| 755 | |||
| 756 | The default configuration is that all ports start with | ||
| 757 | power/pm_qos_no_power_off set to '1' causing ports to always remain | ||
| 758 | active. | ||
| 759 | |||
| 760 | Given confidence in the platform firmware's description of the ports | ||
| 761 | (ACPI _PLD record for a port populates 'connect_type') userspace can | ||
| 762 | clear pm_qos_no_power_off for all 'not used' ports. The same can be | ||
| 763 | done for 'hardwired' ports provided poweroff is coordinated with any | ||
| 764 | connection switch for the port. | ||
| 765 | |||
| 766 | A more aggressive userspace policy is to enable USB port power off for | ||
| 767 | all ports (set <hubdev-portX>/power/pm_qos_no_power_off to '0') when | ||
| 768 | some external factor indicates the user has stopped interacting with the | ||
| 769 | system. For example, a distro may want to enable power off all USB | ||
| 770 | ports when the screen blanks, and re-power them when the screen becomes | ||
| 771 | active. Smart phones and tablets may want to power off USB ports when | ||
| 772 | the user pushes the power button. | ||
