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+Device Power Management
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+Copyright (c) 2010 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc.
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+Copyright (c) 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Most of the code in Linux is device drivers, so most of the Linux power
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-management code is also driver-specific. Most drivers will do very little;
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-others, especially for platforms with small batteries (like cell phones),
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-will do a lot.
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+management (PM) code is also driver-specific. Most drivers will do very
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+little; others, especially for platforms with small batteries (like cell
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+phones), will do a lot.
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This writeup gives an overview of how drivers interact with system-wide
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power management goals, emphasizing the models and interfaces that are
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@@ -15,9 +21,10 @@ Drivers will use one or both of these models to put devices into low-power
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states:
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System Sleep model:
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- Drivers can enter low power states as part of entering system-wide
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- low-power states like "suspend-to-ram", or (mostly for systems with
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- disks) "hibernate" (suspend-to-disk).
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+ Drivers can enter low-power states as part of entering system-wide
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+ low-power states like "suspend" (also known as "suspend-to-RAM"), or
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+ (mostly for systems with disks) "hibernation" (also known as
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+ "suspend-to-disk").
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This is something that device, bus, and class drivers collaborate on
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by implementing various role-specific suspend and resume methods to
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@@ -25,33 +32,41 @@ states:
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them without loss of data.
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Some drivers can manage hardware wakeup events, which make the system
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- leave that low-power state. This feature may be disabled using the
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- relevant /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup file; enabling it may cost some
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- power usage, but let the whole system enter low power states more often.
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+ leave the low-power state. This feature may be enabled or disabled
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+ using the relevant /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup file (for Ethernet
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+ drivers the ioctl interface used by ethtool may also be used for this
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+ purpose); enabling it may cost some power usage, but let the whole
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+ system enter low-power states more often.
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Runtime Power Management model:
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- Drivers may also enter low power states while the system is running,
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- independently of other power management activity. Upstream drivers
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- will normally not know (or care) if the device is in some low power
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- state when issuing requests; the driver will auto-resume anything
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- that's needed when it gets a request.
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- This doesn't have, or need much infrastructure; it's just something you
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- should do when writing your drivers. For example, clk_disable() unused
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- clocks as part of minimizing power drain for currently-unused hardware.
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- Of course, sometimes clusters of drivers will collaborate with each
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- other, which could involve task-specific power management.
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-
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-There's not a lot to be said about those low power states except that they
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-are very system-specific, and often device-specific. Also, that if enough
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-drivers put themselves into low power states (at "runtime"), the effect may be
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-the same as entering some system-wide low-power state (system sleep) ... and
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-that synergies exist, so that several drivers using runtime pm might put the
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-system into a state where even deeper power saving options are available.
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-
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-Most suspended devices will have quiesced all I/O: no more DMA or irqs, no
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-more data read or written, and requests from upstream drivers are no longer
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-accepted. A given bus or platform may have different requirements though.
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+ Devices may also be put into low-power states while the system is
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+ running, independently of other power management activity in principle.
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+ However, devices are not generally independent of each other (for
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+ example, a parent device cannot be suspended unless all of its child
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+ devices have been suspended). Moreover, depending on the bus type the
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+ device is on, it may be necessary to carry out some bus-specific
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+ operations on the device for this purpose. Devices put into low power
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+ states at run time may require special handling during system-wide power
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+ transitions (suspend or hibernation).
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+
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+ For these reasons not only the device driver itself, but also the
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+ appropriate subsystem (bus type, device type or device class) driver and
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+ the PM core are involved in runtime power management. As in the system
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+ sleep power management case, they need to collaborate by implementing
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+ various role-specific suspend and resume methods, so that the hardware
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+ is cleanly powered down and reactivated without data or service loss.
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+
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+There's not a lot to be said about those low-power states except that they are
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+very system-specific, and often device-specific. Also, that if enough devices
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+have been put into low-power states (at runtime), the effect may be very similar
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+to entering some system-wide low-power state (system sleep) ... and that
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+synergies exist, so that several drivers using runtime PM might put the system
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+into a state where even deeper power saving options are available.
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+
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+Most suspended devices will have quiesced all I/O: no more DMA or IRQs (except
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+for wakeup events), no more data read or written, and requests from upstream
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+drivers are no longer accepted. A given bus or platform may have different
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+requirements though.
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Examples of hardware wakeup events include an alarm from a real time clock,
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network wake-on-LAN packets, keyboard or mouse activity, and media insertion
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@@ -60,129 +75,152 @@ or removal (for PCMCIA, MMC/SD, USB, and so on).
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Interfaces for Entering System Sleep States
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===========================================
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-Most of the programming interfaces a device driver needs to know about
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-relate to that first model: entering a system-wide low power state,
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-rather than just minimizing power consumption by one device.
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-
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-Bus Driver Methods
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-The core methods to suspend and resume devices reside in struct bus_type.
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-These are mostly of interest to people writing infrastructure for busses
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-like PCI or USB, or because they define the primitives that device drivers
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-may need to apply in domain-specific ways to their devices:
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-
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-struct bus_type {
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- ...
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- int (*suspend)(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state);
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- int (*resume)(struct device *dev);
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+There are programming interfaces provided for subsystems (bus type, device type,
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+device class) and device drivers to allow them to participate in the power
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+management of devices they are concerned with. These interfaces cover both
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+system sleep and runtime power management.
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+Device Power Management Operations
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+----------------------------------
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+Device power management operations, at the subsystem level as well as at the
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+device driver level, are implemented by defining and populating objects of type
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+struct dev_pm_ops:
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+
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+struct dev_pm_ops {
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+ int (*prepare)(struct device *dev);
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+ void (*complete)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*suspend)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*resume)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*freeze)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*thaw)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*poweroff)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*restore)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*suspend_noirq)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*resume_noirq)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*freeze_noirq)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*thaw_noirq)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*poweroff_noirq)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*restore_noirq)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*runtime_suspend)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*runtime_resume)(struct device *dev);
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+ int (*runtime_idle)(struct device *dev);
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};
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-Bus drivers implement those methods as appropriate for the hardware and
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-the drivers using it; PCI works differently from USB, and so on. Not many
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-people write bus drivers; most driver code is a "device driver" that
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-builds on top of bus-specific framework code.
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+This structure is defined in include/linux/pm.h and the methods included in it
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+are also described in that file. Their roles will be explained in what follows.
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+For now, it should be sufficient to remember that the last three methods are
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+specific to runtime power management while the remaining ones are used during
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+system-wide power transitions.
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-For more information on these driver calls, see the description later;
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-they are called in phases for every device, respecting the parent-child
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-sequencing in the driver model tree. Note that as this is being written,
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-only the suspend() and resume() are widely available; not many bus drivers
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-leverage all of those phases, or pass them down to lower driver levels.
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+There also is a deprecated "old" or "legacy" interface for power management
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+operations available at least for some subsystems. This approach does not use
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+struct dev_pm_ops objects and it is suitable only for implementing system sleep
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+power management methods. Therefore it is not described in this document, so
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+please refer directly to the source code for more information about it.
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-/sys/devices/.../power/wakeup files
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------------------------------------
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-All devices in the driver model have two flags to control handling of
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-wakeup events, which are hardware signals that can force the device and/or
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-system out of a low power state. These are initialized by bus or device
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-driver code using device_init_wakeup(dev,can_wakeup).
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+Subsystem-Level Methods
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+-----------------------
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+The core methods to suspend and resume devices reside in struct dev_pm_ops
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+pointed to by the pm member of struct bus_type, struct device_type and
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+struct class. They are mostly of interest to the people writing infrastructure
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+for buses, like PCI or USB, or device type and device class drivers.
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-The "can_wakeup" flag just records whether the device (and its driver) can
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-physically support wakeup events. When that flag is clear, the sysfs
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-"wakeup" file is empty, and device_may_wakeup() returns false.
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+Bus drivers implement these methods as appropriate for the hardware and the
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+drivers using it; PCI works differently from USB, and so on. Not many people
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+write subsystem-level drivers; most driver code is a "device driver" that builds
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+on top of bus-specific framework code.
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-For devices that can issue wakeup events, a separate flag controls whether
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-that device should try to use its wakeup mechanism. The initial value of
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-device_may_wakeup() will be true, so that the device's "wakeup" file holds
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-the value "enabled". Userspace can change that to "disabled" so that
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-device_may_wakeup() returns false; or change it back to "enabled" (so that
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-it returns true again).
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+For more information on these driver calls, see the description later;
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+they are called in phases for every device, respecting the parent-child
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+sequencing in the driver model tree.
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-EXAMPLE: PCI Device Driver Methods
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+/sys/devices/.../power/wakeup files
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-----------------------------------
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-PCI framework software calls these methods when the PCI device driver bound
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-to a device device has provided them:
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-struct pci_driver {
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- ...
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- int (*suspend)(struct pci_device *pdev, pm_message_t state);
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- int (*suspend_late)(struct pci_device *pdev, pm_message_t state);
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+All devices in the driver model have two flags to control handling of wakeup
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+events (hardware signals that can force the device and/or system out of a low
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+power state). These flags are initialized by bus or device driver code using
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+device_set_wakeup_capable() and device_set_wakeup_enable(), defined in
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+include/linux/pm_wakeup.h.
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- int (*resume_early)(struct pci_device *pdev);
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- int (*resume)(struct pci_device *pdev);
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-};
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-
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-Drivers will implement those methods, and call PCI-specific procedures
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-like pci_set_power_state(), pci_enable_wake(), pci_save_state(), and
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-pci_restore_state() to manage PCI-specific mechanisms. (PCI config space
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-could be saved during driver probe, if it weren't for the fact that some
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-systems rely on userspace tweaking using setpci.) Devices are suspended
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-before their bridges enter low power states, and likewise bridges resume
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-before their devices.
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-Upper Layers of Driver Stacks
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-Device drivers generally have at least two interfaces, and the methods
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-sketched above are the ones which apply to the lower level (nearer PCI, USB,
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-or other bus hardware). The network and block layers are examples of upper
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-level interfaces, as is a character device talking to userspace.
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-
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-Power management requests normally need to flow through those upper levels,
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-which often use domain-oriented requests like "blank that screen". In
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-some cases those upper levels will have power management intelligence that
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-relates to end-user activity, or other devices that work in cooperation.
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-
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-When those interfaces are structured using class interfaces, there is a
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-standard way to have the upper layer stop issuing requests to a given
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-class device (and restart later):
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-
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-struct class {
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- ...
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- int (*suspend)(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state);
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- int (*resume)(struct device *dev);
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-};
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-
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-Those calls are issued in specific phases of the process by which the
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-system enters a low power "suspend" state, or resumes from it.
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-
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-Calling Drivers to Enter System Sleep States
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-============================================
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-When the system enters a low power state, each device's driver is asked
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-to suspend the device by putting it into state compatible with the target
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+The "can_wakeup" flag just records whether the device (and its driver) can
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+physically support wakeup events. The device_set_wakeup_capable() routine
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+affects this flag. The "should_wakeup" flag controls whether the device should
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+try to use its wakeup mechanism. device_set_wakeup_enable() affects this flag;
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+for the most part drivers should not change its value. The initial value of
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+should_wakeup is supposed to be false for the majority of devices; the major
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+exceptions are power buttons, keyboards, and Ethernet adapters whose WoL
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+(wake-on-LAN) feature has been set up with ethtool.
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+
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+Whether or not a device is capable of issuing wakeup events is a hardware
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+matter, and the kernel is responsible for keeping track of it. By contrast,
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+whether or not a wakeup-capable device should issue wakeup events is a policy
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+decision, and it is managed by user space through a sysfs attribute: the
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+power/wakeup file. User space can write the strings "enabled" or "disabled" to
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+set or clear the should_wakeup flag, respectively. Reads from the file will
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+return the corresponding string if can_wakeup is true, but if can_wakeup is
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+false then reads will return an empty string, to indicate that the device
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+doesn't support wakeup events. (But even though the file appears empty, writes
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+will still affect the should_wakeup flag.)
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+
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+The device_may_wakeup() routine returns true only if both flags are set.
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+Drivers should check this routine when putting devices in a low-power state
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+during a system sleep transition, to see whether or not to enable the devices'
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+wakeup mechanisms. However for runtime power management, wakeup events should
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+be enabled whenever the device and driver both support them, regardless of the
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+should_wakeup flag.
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+
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+
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+/sys/devices/.../power/control files
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+------------------------------------
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+Each device in the driver model has a flag to control whether it is subject to
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+runtime power management. This flag, called runtime_auto, is initialized by the
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+bus type (or generally subsystem) code using pm_runtime_allow() or
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+pm_runtime_forbid(); the default is to allow runtime power management.
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+
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+The setting can be adjusted by user space by writing either "on" or "auto" to
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+the device's power/control sysfs file. Writing "auto" calls pm_runtime_allow(),
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+setting the flag and allowing the device to be runtime power-managed by its
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+driver. Writing "on" calls pm_runtime_forbid(), clearing the flag, returning
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+the device to full power if it was in a low-power state, and preventing the
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+device from being runtime power-managed. User space can check the current value
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+of the runtime_auto flag by reading the file.
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+
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+The device's runtime_auto flag has no effect on the handling of system-wide
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+power transitions. In particular, the device can (and in the majority of cases
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+should and will) be put into a low-power state during a system-wide transition
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+to a sleep state even though its runtime_auto flag is clear.
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+
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+For more information about the runtime power management framework, refer to
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+Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt.
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+
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+
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+Calling Drivers to Enter and Leave System Sleep States
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+======================================================
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+When the system goes into a sleep state, each device's driver is asked to
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+suspend the device by putting it into a state compatible with the target
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system state. That's usually some version of "off", but the details are
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system-specific. Also, wakeup-enabled devices will usually stay partly
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functional in order to wake the system.
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-When the system leaves that low power state, the device's driver is asked
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-to resume it. The suspend and resume operations always go together, and
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-both are multi-phase operations.
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+When the system leaves that low-power state, the device's driver is asked to
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+resume it by returning it to full power. The suspend and resume operations
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+always go together, and both are multi-phase operations.
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-For simple drivers, suspend might quiesce the device using the class code
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-and then turn its hardware as "off" as possible with late_suspend. The
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+For simple drivers, suspend might quiesce the device using class code
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+and then turn its hardware as "off" as possible during suspend_noirq. The
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matching resume calls would then completely reinitialize the hardware
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before reactivating its class I/O queues.
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-More power-aware drivers drivers will use more than one device low power
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-state, either at runtime or during system sleep states, and might trigger
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-system wakeup events.
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+More power-aware drivers might prepare the devices for triggering system wakeup
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+events.
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Call Sequence Guarantees
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-To ensure that bridges and similar links needed to talk to a device are
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+To ensure that bridges and similar links needing to talk to a device are
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available when the device is suspended or resumed, the device tree is
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walked in a bottom-up order to suspend devices. A top-down order is
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used to resume those devices.
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@@ -194,67 +232,310 @@ its parent; and can't be removed or suspended after that parent.
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The policy is that the device tree should match hardware bus topology.
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(Or at least the control bus, for devices which use multiple busses.)
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In particular, this means that a device registration may fail if the parent of
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-the device is suspending (ie. has been chosen by the PM core as the next
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+the device is suspending (i.e. has been chosen by the PM core as the next
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device to suspend) or has already suspended, as well as after all of the other
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devices have been suspended. Device drivers must be prepared to cope with such
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situations.
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-Suspending Devices
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-------------------
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-Suspending a given device is done in several phases. Suspending the
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-system always includes every phase, executing calls for every device
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-before the next phase begins. Not all busses or classes support all
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-these callbacks; and not all drivers use all the callbacks.
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+System Power Management Phases
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+------------------------------
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+Suspending or resuming the system is done in several phases. Different phases
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+are used for standby or memory sleep states ("suspend-to-RAM") and the
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+hibernation state ("suspend-to-disk"). Each phase involves executing callbacks
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+for every device before the next phase begins. Not all busses or classes
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+support all these callbacks and not all drivers use all the callbacks. The
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+various phases always run after tasks have been frozen and before they are
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+unfrozen. Furthermore, the *_noirq phases run at a time when IRQ handlers have
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+been disabled (except for those marked with the IRQ_WAKEUP flag).
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-The phases are seen by driver notifications issued in this order:
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+Most phases use bus, type, and class callbacks (that is, methods defined in
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+dev->bus->pm, dev->type->pm, and dev->class->pm). The prepare and complete
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+phases are exceptions; they use only bus callbacks. When multiple callbacks
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+are used in a phase, they are invoked in the order: <class, type, bus> during
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+power-down transitions and in the opposite order during power-up transitions.
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+For example, during the suspend phase the PM core invokes
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- 1 class.suspend(dev, message) is called after tasks are frozen, for
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- devices associated with a class that has such a method. This
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- method may sleep.
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+ dev->class->pm.suspend(dev);
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+ dev->type->pm.suspend(dev);
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+ dev->bus->pm.suspend(dev);
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- Since I/O activity usually comes from such higher layers, this is
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- a good place to quiesce all drivers of a given type (and keep such
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- code out of those drivers).
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+before moving on to the next device, whereas during the resume phase the core
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+invokes
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- 2 bus.suspend(dev, message) is called next. This method may sleep,
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- and is often morphed into a device driver call with bus-specific
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- parameters and/or rules.
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+ dev->bus->pm.resume(dev);
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+ dev->type->pm.resume(dev);
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+ dev->class->pm.resume(dev);
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- This call should handle parts of device suspend logic that require
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- sleeping. It probably does work to quiesce the device which hasn't
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- been abstracted into class.suspend().
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+These callbacks may in turn invoke device- or driver-specific methods stored in
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+dev->driver->pm, but they don't have to.
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-The pm_message_t parameter is currently used to refine those semantics
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-(described later).
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-At the end of those phases, drivers should normally have stopped all I/O
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-transactions (DMA, IRQs), saved enough state that they can re-initialize
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-or restore previous state (as needed by the hardware), and placed the
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-device into a low-power state. On many platforms they will also use
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-clk_disable() to gate off one or more clock sources; sometimes they will
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-also switch off power supplies, or reduce voltages. Drivers which have
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-runtime PM support may already have performed some or all of the steps
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-needed to prepare for the upcoming system sleep state.
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+Entering System Suspend
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+-----------------------
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+When the system goes into the standby or memory sleep state, the phases are:
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+
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+ prepare, suspend, suspend_noirq.
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+
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+ 1. The prepare phase is meant to prevent races by preventing new devices
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+ from being registered; the PM core would never know that all the
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+ children of a device had been suspended if new children could be
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+ registered at will. (By contrast, devices may be unregistered at any
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+ time.) Unlike the other suspend-related phases, during the prepare
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+ phase the device tree is traversed top-down.
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+
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+ The prepare phase uses only a bus callback. After the callback method
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+ returns, no new children may be registered below the device. The method
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+ may also prepare the device or driver in some way for the upcoming
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+ system power transition, but it should not put the device into a
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+ low-power state.
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+
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+ 2. The suspend methods should quiesce the device to stop it from performing
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+ I/O. They also may save the device registers and put it into the
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+ appropriate low-power state, depending on the bus type the device is on,
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+ and they may enable wakeup events.
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+
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+ 3. The suspend_noirq phase occurs after IRQ handlers have been disabled,
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+ which means that the driver's interrupt handler will not be called while
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+ the callback method is running. The methods should save the values of
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+ the device's registers that weren't saved previously and finally put the
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+ device into the appropriate low-power state.
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+
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+ The majority of subsystems and device drivers need not implement this
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+ callback. However, bus types allowing devices to share interrupt
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+ vectors, like PCI, generally need it; otherwise a driver might encounter
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+ an error during the suspend phase by fielding a shared interrupt
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+ generated by some other device after its own device had been set to low
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+ power.
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+
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+At the end of these phases, drivers should have stopped all I/O transactions
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+(DMA, IRQs), saved enough state that they can re-initialize or restore previous
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+state (as needed by the hardware), and placed the device into a low-power state.
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+On many platforms they will gate off one or more clock sources; sometimes they
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+will also switch off power supplies or reduce voltages. (Drivers supporting
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+runtime PM may already have performed some or all of these steps.)
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+
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+If device_may_wakeup(dev) returns true, the device should be prepared for
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+generating hardware wakeup signals to trigger a system wakeup event when the
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+system is in the sleep state. For example, enable_irq_wake() might identify
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+GPIO signals hooked up to a switch or other external hardware, and
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+pci_enable_wake() does something similar for the PCI PME signal.
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+
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+If any of these callbacks returns an error, the system won't enter the desired
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+low-power state. Instead the PM core will unwind its actions by resuming all
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+the devices that were suspended.
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+
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+
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+Leaving System Suspend
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+----------------------
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+When resuming from standby or memory sleep, the phases are:
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+
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+ resume_noirq, resume, complete.
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+
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+ 1. The resume_noirq callback methods should perform any actions needed
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+ before the driver's interrupt handlers are invoked. This generally
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+ means undoing the actions of the suspend_noirq phase. If the bus type
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+ permits devices to share interrupt vectors, like PCI, the method should
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+ bring the device and its driver into a state in which the driver can
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+ recognize if the device is the source of incoming interrupts, if any,
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+ and handle them correctly.
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+
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+ For example, the PCI bus type's ->pm.resume_noirq() puts the device into
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+ the full-power state (D0 in the PCI terminology) and restores the
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+ standard configuration registers of the device. Then it calls the
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+ device driver's ->pm.resume_noirq() method to perform device-specific
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+ actions.
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+
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+ 2. The resume methods should bring the the device back to its operating
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+ state, so that it can perform normal I/O. This generally involves
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+ undoing the actions of the suspend phase.
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+
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+ 3. The complete phase uses only a bus callback. The method should undo the
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+ actions of the prepare phase. Note, however, that new children may be
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+ registered below the device as soon as the resume callbacks occur; it's
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+ not necessary to wait until the complete phase.
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+
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+At the end of these phases, drivers should be as functional as they were before
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+suspending: I/O can be performed using DMA and IRQs, and the relevant clocks are
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+gated on. Even if the device was in a low-power state before the system sleep
|
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+because of runtime power management, afterwards it should be back in its
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+full-power state. There are multiple reasons why it's best to do this; they are
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+discussed in more detail in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt.
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-When any driver sees that its device_can_wakeup(dev), it should make sure
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-to use the relevant hardware signals to trigger a system wakeup event.
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-For example, enable_irq_wake() might identify GPIO signals hooked up to
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-a switch or other external hardware, and pci_enable_wake() does something
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|
-similar for PCI's PME# signal.
|
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|
+However, the details here may again be platform-specific. For example,
|
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|
+some systems support multiple "run" states, and the mode in effect at
|
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|
+the end of resume might not be the one which preceded suspension.
|
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|
+That means availability of certain clocks or power supplies changed,
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|
+which could easily affect how a driver works.
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+
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+Drivers need to be able to handle hardware which has been reset since the
|
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|
+suspend methods were called, for example by complete reinitialization.
|
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|
+This may be the hardest part, and the one most protected by NDA'd documents
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|
+and chip errata. It's simplest if the hardware state hasn't changed since
|
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+the suspend was carried out, but that can't be guaranteed (in fact, it ususally
|
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|
+is not the case).
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+
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+Drivers must also be prepared to notice that the device has been removed
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|
+while the system was powered down, whenever that's physically possible.
|
|
|
+PCMCIA, MMC, USB, Firewire, SCSI, and even IDE are common examples of busses
|
|
|
+where common Linux platforms will see such removal. Details of how drivers
|
|
|
+will notice and handle such removals are currently bus-specific, and often
|
|
|
+involve a separate thread.
|
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+
|
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|
+These callbacks may return an error value, but the PM core will ignore such
|
|
|
+errors since there's nothing it can do about them other than printing them in
|
|
|
+the system log.
|
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+
|
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+
|
|
|
+Entering Hibernation
|
|
|
+--------------------
|
|
|
+Hibernating the system is more complicated than putting it into the standby or
|
|
|
+memory sleep state, because it involves creating and saving a system image.
|
|
|
+Therefore there are more phases for hibernation, with a different set of
|
|
|
+callbacks. These phases always run after tasks have been frozen and memory has
|
|
|
+been freed.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+The general procedure for hibernation is to quiesce all devices (freeze), create
|
|
|
+an image of the system memory while everything is stable, reactivate all
|
|
|
+devices (thaw), write the image to permanent storage, and finally shut down the
|
|
|
+system (poweroff). The phases used to accomplish this are:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ prepare, freeze, freeze_noirq, thaw_noirq, thaw, complete,
|
|
|
+ prepare, poweroff, poweroff_noirq
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 1. The prepare phase is discussed in the "Entering System Suspend" section
|
|
|
+ above.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 2. The freeze methods should quiesce the device so that it doesn't generate
|
|
|
+ IRQs or DMA, and they may need to save the values of device registers.
|
|
|
+ However the device does not have to be put in a low-power state, and to
|
|
|
+ save time it's best not to do so. Also, the device should not be
|
|
|
+ prepared to generate wakeup events.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 3. The freeze_noirq phase is analogous to the suspend_noirq phase discussed
|
|
|
+ above, except again that the device should not be put in a low-power
|
|
|
+ state and should not be allowed to generate wakeup events.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+At this point the system image is created. All devices should be inactive and
|
|
|
+the contents of memory should remain undisturbed while this happens, so that the
|
|
|
+image forms an atomic snapshot of the system state.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 4. The thaw_noirq phase is analogous to the resume_noirq phase discussed
|
|
|
+ above. The main difference is that its methods can assume the device is
|
|
|
+ in the same state as at the end of the freeze_noirq phase.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 5. The thaw phase is analogous to the resume phase discussed above. Its
|
|
|
+ methods should bring the device back to an operating state, so that it
|
|
|
+ can be used for saving the image if necessary.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 6. The complete phase is discussed in the "Leaving System Suspend" section
|
|
|
+ above.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+At this point the system image is saved, and the devices then need to be
|
|
|
+prepared for the upcoming system shutdown. This is much like suspending them
|
|
|
+before putting the system into the standby or memory sleep state, and the phases
|
|
|
+are similar.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 7. The prepare phase is discussed above.
|
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|
+
|
|
|
+ 8. The poweroff phase is analogous to the suspend phase.
|
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|
+
|
|
|
+ 9. The poweroff_noirq phase is analogous to the suspend_noirq phase.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+The poweroff and poweroff_noirq callbacks should do essentially the same things
|
|
|
+as the suspend and suspend_noirq callbacks. The only notable difference is that
|
|
|
+they need not store the device register values, because the registers should
|
|
|
+already have been stored during the freeze or freeze_noirq phases.
|
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+
|
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+
|
|
|
+Leaving Hibernation
|
|
|
+-------------------
|
|
|
+Resuming from hibernation is, again, more complicated than resuming from a sleep
|
|
|
+state in which the contents of main memory are preserved, because it requires
|
|
|
+a system image to be loaded into memory and the pre-hibernation memory contents
|
|
|
+to be restored before control can be passed back to the image kernel.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Although in principle, the image might be loaded into memory and the
|
|
|
+pre-hibernation memory contents restored by the boot loader, in practice this
|
|
|
+can't be done because boot loaders aren't smart enough and there is no
|
|
|
+established protocol for passing the necessary information. So instead, the
|
|
|
+boot loader loads a fresh instance of the kernel, called the boot kernel, into
|
|
|
+memory and passes control to it in the usual way. Then the boot kernel reads
|
|
|
+the system image, restores the pre-hibernation memory contents, and passes
|
|
|
+control to the image kernel. Thus two different kernels are involved in
|
|
|
+resuming from hibernation. In fact, the boot kernel may be completely different
|
|
|
+from the image kernel: a different configuration and even a different version.
|
|
|
+This has important consequences for device drivers and their subsystems.
|
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|
+
|
|
|
+To be able to load the system image into memory, the boot kernel needs to
|
|
|
+include at least a subset of device drivers allowing it to access the storage
|
|
|
+medium containing the image, although it doesn't need to include all of the
|
|
|
+drivers present in the image kernel. After the image has been loaded, the
|
|
|
+devices managed by the boot kernel need to be prepared for passing control back
|
|
|
+to the image kernel. This is very similar to the initial steps involved in
|
|
|
+creating a system image, and it is accomplished in the same way, using prepare,
|
|
|
+freeze, and freeze_noirq phases. However the devices affected by these phases
|
|
|
+are only those having drivers in the boot kernel; other devices will still be in
|
|
|
+whatever state the boot loader left them.
|
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|
+
|
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|
+Should the restoration of the pre-hibernation memory contents fail, the boot
|
|
|
+kernel would go through the "thawing" procedure described above, using the
|
|
|
+thaw_noirq, thaw, and complete phases, and then continue running normally. This
|
|
|
+happens only rarely. Most often the pre-hibernation memory contents are
|
|
|
+restored successfully and control is passed to the image kernel, which then
|
|
|
+becomes responsible for bringing the system back to the working state.
|
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|
+
|
|
|
+To achieve this, the image kernel must restore the devices' pre-hibernation
|
|
|
+functionality. The operation is much like waking up from the memory sleep
|
|
|
+state, although it involves different phases:
|
|
|
+
|
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|
+ restore_noirq, restore, complete
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 1. The restore_noirq phase is analogous to the resume_noirq phase.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 2. The restore phase is analogous to the resume phase.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ 3. The complete phase is discussed above.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+The main difference from resume[_noirq] is that restore[_noirq] must assume the
|
|
|
+device has been accessed and reconfigured by the boot loader or the boot kernel.
|
|
|
+Consequently the state of the device may be different from the state remembered
|
|
|
+from the freeze and freeze_noirq phases. The device may even need to be reset
|
|
|
+and completely re-initialized. In many cases this difference doesn't matter, so
|
|
|
+the resume[_noirq] and restore[_norq] method pointers can be set to the same
|
|
|
+routines. Nevertheless, different callback pointers are used in case there is a
|
|
|
+situation where it actually matters.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-If a driver (or bus, or class) fails it suspend method, the system won't
|
|
|
-enter the desired low power state; it will resume all the devices it's
|
|
|
-suspended so far.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-Note that drivers may need to perform different actions based on the target
|
|
|
-system lowpower/sleep state. At this writing, there are only platform
|
|
|
-specific APIs through which drivers could determine those target states.
|
|
|
+System Devices
|
|
|
+--------------
|
|
|
+System devices (sysdevs) follow a slightly different API, which can be found in
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ include/linux/sysdev.h
|
|
|
+ drivers/base/sys.c
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+System devices will be suspended with interrupts disabled, and after all other
|
|
|
+devices have been suspended. On resume, they will be resumed before any other
|
|
|
+devices, and also with interrupts disabled. These things occur in special
|
|
|
+"sysdev_driver" phases, which affect only system devices.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Thus, after the suspend_noirq (or freeze_noirq or poweroff_noirq) phase, when
|
|
|
+the non-boot CPUs are all offline and IRQs are disabled on the remaining online
|
|
|
+CPU, then a sysdev_driver.suspend phase is carried out, and the system enters a
|
|
|
+sleep state (or a system image is created). During resume (or after the image
|
|
|
+has been created or loaded) a sysdev_driver.resume phase is carried out, IRQs
|
|
|
+are enabled on the only online CPU, the non-boot CPUs are enabled, and the
|
|
|
+resume_noirq (or thaw_noirq or restore_noirq) phase begins.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Code to actually enter and exit the system-wide low power state sometimes
|
|
|
+involves hardware details that are only known to the boot firmware, and
|
|
|
+may leave a CPU running software (from SRAM or flash memory) that monitors
|
|
|
+the system and manages its wakeup sequence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Device Low Power (suspend) States
|
|
|
---------------------------------
|
|
|
-Device low-power states aren't very standard. One device might only handle
|
|
|
+Device low-power states aren't standard. One device might only handle
|
|
|
"on" and "off, while another might support a dozen different versions of
|
|
|
"on" (how many engines are active?), plus a state that gets back to "on"
|
|
|
faster than from a full "off".
|
|
@@ -265,7 +546,7 @@ PCI device may not perform DMA or issue IRQs, and any wakeup events it
|
|
|
issues would be issued through the PME# bus signal. Plus, there are
|
|
|
several PCI-standard device states, some of which are optional.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-In contrast, integrated system-on-chip processors often use irqs as the
|
|
|
+In contrast, integrated system-on-chip processors often use IRQs as the
|
|
|
wakeup event sources (so drivers would call enable_irq_wake) and might
|
|
|
be able to treat DMA completion as a wakeup event (sometimes DMA can stay
|
|
|
active too, it'd only be the CPU and some peripherals that sleep).
|
|
@@ -284,120 +565,17 @@ ways; the aforementioned LCD might be active in one product's "standby",
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but a different product using the same SOC might work differently.
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-Meaning of pm_message_t.event
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------------------------------
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-Parameters to suspend calls include the device affected and a message of
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-type pm_message_t, which has one field: the event. If driver does not
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-recognize the event code, suspend calls may abort the request and return
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-a negative errno. However, most drivers will be fine if they implement
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-PM_EVENT_SUSPEND semantics for all messages.
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+Power Management Notifiers
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+--------------------------
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+There are some operations that cannot be carried out by the power management
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+callbacks discussed above, because the callbacks occur too late or too early.
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+To handle these cases, subsystems and device drivers may register power
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+management notifiers that are called before tasks are frozen and after they have
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+been thawed. Generally speaking, the PM notifiers are suitable for performing
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+actions that either require user space to be available, or at least won't
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+interfere with user space.
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-The event codes are used to refine the goal of suspending the device, and
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-mostly matter when creating or resuming system memory image snapshots, as
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-used with suspend-to-disk:
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-
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- PM_EVENT_SUSPEND -- quiesce the driver and put hardware into a low-power
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- state. When used with system sleep states like "suspend-to-RAM" or
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- "standby", the upcoming resume() call will often be able to rely on
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- state kept in hardware, or issue system wakeup events.
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-
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- PM_EVENT_HIBERNATE -- Put hardware into a low-power state and enable wakeup
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- events as appropriate. It is only used with hibernation
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- (suspend-to-disk) and few devices are able to wake up the system from
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- this state; most are completely powered off.
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-
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- PM_EVENT_FREEZE -- quiesce the driver, but don't necessarily change into
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- any low power mode. A system snapshot is about to be taken, often
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- followed by a call to the driver's resume() method. Neither wakeup
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- events nor DMA are allowed.
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-
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- PM_EVENT_PRETHAW -- quiesce the driver, knowing that the upcoming resume()
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- will restore a suspend-to-disk snapshot from a different kernel image.
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- Drivers that are smart enough to look at their hardware state during
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- resume() processing need that state to be correct ... a PRETHAW could
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- be used to invalidate that state (by resetting the device), like a
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- shutdown() invocation would before a kexec() or system halt. Other
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- drivers might handle this the same way as PM_EVENT_FREEZE. Neither
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- wakeup events nor DMA are allowed.
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-
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-To enter "standby" (ACPI S1) or "Suspend to RAM" (STR, ACPI S3) states, or
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-the similarly named APM states, only PM_EVENT_SUSPEND is used; the other event
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-codes are used for hibernation ("Suspend to Disk", STD, ACPI S4).
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-
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-There's also PM_EVENT_ON, a value which never appears as a suspend event
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-but is sometimes used to record the "not suspended" device state.
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-
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-
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-Resuming Devices
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-----------------
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-Resuming is done in multiple phases, much like suspending, with all
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-devices processing each phase's calls before the next phase begins.
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-
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-The phases are seen by driver notifications issued in this order:
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-
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- 1 bus.resume(dev) reverses the effects of bus.suspend(). This may
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- be morphed into a device driver call with bus-specific parameters;
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- implementations may sleep.
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-
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- 2 class.resume(dev) is called for devices associated with a class
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- that has such a method. Implementations may sleep.
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-
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- This reverses the effects of class.suspend(), and would usually
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- reactivate the device's I/O queue.
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-
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-At the end of those phases, drivers should normally be as functional as
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-they were before suspending: I/O can be performed using DMA and IRQs, and
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-the relevant clocks are gated on. The device need not be "fully on"; it
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-might be in a runtime lowpower/suspend state that acts as if it were.
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-
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-However, the details here may again be platform-specific. For example,
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-some systems support multiple "run" states, and the mode in effect at
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-the end of resume() might not be the one which preceded suspension.
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-That means availability of certain clocks or power supplies changed,
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-which could easily affect how a driver works.
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-
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-
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-Drivers need to be able to handle hardware which has been reset since the
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-suspend methods were called, for example by complete reinitialization.
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-This may be the hardest part, and the one most protected by NDA'd documents
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-and chip errata. It's simplest if the hardware state hasn't changed since
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-the suspend() was called, but that can't always be guaranteed.
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-
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-Drivers must also be prepared to notice that the device has been removed
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-while the system was powered off, whenever that's physically possible.
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-PCMCIA, MMC, USB, Firewire, SCSI, and even IDE are common examples of busses
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-where common Linux platforms will see such removal. Details of how drivers
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-will notice and handle such removals are currently bus-specific, and often
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-involve a separate thread.
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-
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-
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-Note that the bus-specific runtime PM wakeup mechanism can exist, and might
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-be defined to share some of the same driver code as for system wakeup. For
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-example, a bus-specific device driver's resume() method might be used there,
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-so it wouldn't only be called from bus.resume() during system-wide wakeup.
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-See bus-specific information about how runtime wakeup events are handled.
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-
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-
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-System Devices
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---------------
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-System devices follow a slightly different API, which can be found in
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-
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- include/linux/sysdev.h
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- drivers/base/sys.c
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-
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-System devices will only be suspended with interrupts disabled, and after
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-all other devices have been suspended. On resume, they will be resumed
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-before any other devices, and also with interrupts disabled.
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-
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-That is, IRQs are disabled, the suspend_late() phase begins, then the
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-sysdev_driver.suspend() phase, and the system enters a sleep state. Then
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-the sysdev_driver.resume() phase begins, followed by the resume_early()
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-phase, after which IRQs are enabled.
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-
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-Code to actually enter and exit the system-wide low power state sometimes
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-involves hardware details that are only known to the boot firmware, and
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-may leave a CPU running software (from SRAM or flash memory) that monitors
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-the system and manages its wakeup sequence.
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+For details refer to Documentation/power/notifiers.txt.
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Runtime Power Management
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@@ -407,82 +585,23 @@ running. This feature is useful for devices that are not being used, and
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can offer significant power savings on a running system. These devices
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often support a range of runtime power states, which might use names such
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as "off", "sleep", "idle", "active", and so on. Those states will in some
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-cases (like PCI) be partially constrained by a bus the device uses, and will
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+cases (like PCI) be partially constrained by the bus the device uses, and will
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usually include hardware states that are also used in system sleep states.
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-However, note that if a driver puts a device into a runtime low power state
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-and the system then goes into a system-wide sleep state, it normally ought
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-to resume into that runtime low power state rather than "full on". Such
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-distinctions would be part of the driver-internal state machine for that
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-hardware; the whole point of runtime power management is to be sure that
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-drivers are decoupled in that way from the state machine governing phases
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-of the system-wide power/sleep state transitions.
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-
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-
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-Power Saving Techniques
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------------------------
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-Normally runtime power management is handled by the drivers without specific
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-userspace or kernel intervention, by device-aware use of techniques like:
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-
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- Using information provided by other system layers
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- - stay deeply "off" except between open() and close()
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- - if transceiver/PHY indicates "nobody connected", stay "off"
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- - application protocols may include power commands or hints
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-
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- Using fewer CPU cycles
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- - using DMA instead of PIO
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- - removing timers, or making them lower frequency
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- - shortening "hot" code paths
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- - eliminating cache misses
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- - (sometimes) offloading work to device firmware
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-
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- Reducing other resource costs
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- - gating off unused clocks in software (or hardware)
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- - switching off unused power supplies
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- - eliminating (or delaying/merging) IRQs
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- - tuning DMA to use word and/or burst modes
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-
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- Using device-specific low power states
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- - using lower voltages
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- - avoiding needless DMA transfers
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-
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-Read your hardware documentation carefully to see the opportunities that
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-may be available. If you can, measure the actual power usage and check
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-it against the budget established for your project.
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-
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-
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-Examples: USB hosts, system timer, system CPU
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-----------------------------------------------
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-USB host controllers make interesting, if complex, examples. In many cases
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-these have no work to do: no USB devices are connected, or all of them are
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-in the USB "suspend" state. Linux host controller drivers can then disable
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-periodic DMA transfers that would otherwise be a constant power drain on the
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-memory subsystem, and enter a suspend state. In power-aware controllers,
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-entering that suspend state may disable the clock used with USB signaling,
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-saving a certain amount of power.
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-
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-The controller will be woken from that state (with an IRQ) by changes to the
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-signal state on the data lines of a given port, for example by an existing
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-peripheral requesting "remote wakeup" or by plugging a new peripheral. The
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-same wakeup mechanism usually works from "standby" sleep states, and on some
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-systems also from "suspend to RAM" (or even "suspend to disk") states.
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-(Except that ACPI may be involved instead of normal IRQs, on some hardware.)
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-
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-System devices like timers and CPUs may have special roles in the platform
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-power management scheme. For example, system timers using a "dynamic tick"
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-approach don't just save CPU cycles (by eliminating needless timer IRQs),
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-but they may also open the door to using lower power CPU "idle" states that
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-cost more than a jiffie to enter and exit. On x86 systems these are states
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-like "C3"; note that periodic DMA transfers from a USB host controller will
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-also prevent entry to a C3 state, much like a periodic timer IRQ.
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-
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-That kind of runtime mechanism interaction is common. "System On Chip" (SOC)
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-processors often have low power idle modes that can't be entered unless
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-certain medium-speed clocks (often 12 or 48 MHz) are gated off. When the
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-drivers gate those clocks effectively, then the system idle task may be able
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-to use the lower power idle modes and thereby increase battery life.
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-
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-If the CPU can have a "cpufreq" driver, there also may be opportunities
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-to shift to lower voltage settings and reduce the power cost of executing
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-a given number of instructions. (Without voltage adjustment, it's rare
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-for cpufreq to save much power; the cost-per-instruction must go down.)
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+A system-wide power transition can be started while some devices are in low
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+power states due to runtime power management. The system sleep PM callbacks
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+should recognize such situations and react to them appropriately, but the
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+necessary actions are subsystem-specific.
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+
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+In some cases the decision may be made at the subsystem level while in other
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+cases the device driver may be left to decide. In some cases it may be
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+desirable to leave a suspended device in that state during a system-wide power
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+transition, but in other cases the device must be put back into the full-power
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+state temporarily, for example so that its system wakeup capability can be
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+disabled. This all depends on the hardware and the design of the subsystem and
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+device driver in question.
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+
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+During system-wide resume from a sleep state it's best to put devices into the
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+full-power state, as explained in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt. Refer to
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+that document for more information regarding this particular issue as well as
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+for information on the device runtime power management framework in general.
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