From 5742bd859524793b857110a13db349d95070d2dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:37:09 +0000 Subject: powerpc: Add support for new hcall H_BEST_ENERGY Create sysfs interface to export data from H_BEST_ENERGY hcall that can be used by administrative tools on supported pseries platforms for energy management optimizations. sys/device/system/cpu/pseries_(de)activate_hint_list and sys/device/system/cpu/cpuN/pseries_(de)activate_hint will provide hints for activation and deactivation of cpus respectively. These hints are abstract number given by the hypervisor based on the extended knowledge the hypervisor has regarding the system topology and resource mappings. The activate and the deactivate sysfs entry is for the two distinct operations that we could do for energy savings. When we have more capacity than required, we could deactivate few core to save energy. The choice of the core to deactivate will be based on /sys/devices/system/cpu/deactivate_hint_list. The comma separated list of cpus (cores) will be the preferred choice. If we have to activate some of the deactivated cores, then /sys/devices/system/cpu/activate_hint_list will be used. The per-cpu file /sys/device/system/cpu/cpuN/pseries_(de)activate_hint further provide more fine grain information by exporting the value of the hint itself. Added new driver module arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c under new config option CONFIG_PSERIES_ENERGY Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig index 3139814f643..5d1b743dbe7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig @@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ config PSERIES_MSI depends on PCI_MSI && EEH default y +config PSERIES_ENERGY + tristate "pSeries energy management capabilities driver" + depends on PPC_PSERIES + default y + help + Provides interface to platform energy management capabilities + on supported PSERIES platforms. + Provides: /sys/devices/system/cpu/pseries_(de)activation_hint_list + and /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/pseries_(de)activation_hint + config SCANLOG tristate "Scanlog dump interface" depends on RTAS_PROC && PPC_PSERIES -- cgit v1.2.2