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…it/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These add ACPI support to the intel_idle driver along with an admin guide document for it, add support for CPR (Core Power Reduction) to the AVS (Adaptive Voltage Scaling) subsystem, add new hardware support in a few places, add some new sysfs attributes, debugfs files and tracepoints, fix bugs and clean up a bunch of things all over. Specifics: - Update the ACPI processor driver in order to export acpi_processor_evaluate_cst() to the code outside of it, add ACPI support to the intel_idle driver based on that and clean up that driver somewhat (Rafael Wysocki). - Add an admin guide document for the intel_idle driver (Rafael Wysocki). - Clean up cpuidle core and drivers, enable compilation testing for some of them (Benjamin Gaignard, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Rafael Wysocki, Yangtao Li). - Fix reference counting of OPP (operating performance points) table structures (Viresh Kumar). - Add support for CPR (Core Power Reduction) to the AVS (Adaptive Voltage Scaling) subsystem (Niklas Cassel, Colin Ian King, YueHaibing). - Add support for TigerLake Mobile and JasperLake to the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Zhang Rui). - Update cpufreq drivers: - Add i.MX8MP support to imx-cpufreq-dt (Anson Huang). - Fix usage of a macro in loongson2_cpufreq (Alexandre Oliva). - Fix cpufreq policy reference counting issues in s3c and brcmstb-avs (chenqiwu). - Fix ACPI table reference counting issue and HiSilicon quirk handling in the CPPC driver (Hanjun Guo). - Clean up spelling mistake in intel_pstate (Harry Pan). - Convert the kirkwood and tegra186 drivers to using devm_platform_ioremap_resource() (Yangtao Li). - Update devfreq core: - Add 'name' sysfs attribute for devfreq devices (Chanwoo Choi). - Clean up the handing of transition statistics and allow them to be reset by writing 0 to the 'trans_stat' devfreq device attribute in sysfs (Kamil Konieczny). - Add 'devfreq_summary' to debugfs (Chanwoo Choi). - Clean up kerneldoc comments and Kconfig indentation (Krzysztof Kozlowski, Randy Dunlap). - Update devfreq drivers: - Add dynamic scaling for the imx8m DDR controller and clean up imx8m-ddrc (Leonard Crestez, YueHaibing). - Fix DT node reference counting and nitialization error code path in rk3399_dmc and add COMPILE_TEST and HAVE_ARM_SMCCC dependency for it (Chanwoo Choi, Yangtao Li). - Fix DT node reference counting in rockchip-dfi and make it use devm_platform_ioremap_resource() (Yangtao Li). - Fix excessive stack usage in exynos-ppmu (Arnd Bergmann). - Fix initialization error code paths in exynos-bus (Yangtao Li). - Clean up exynos-bus and exynos somewhat (Artur Świgoń, Krzysztof Kozlowski). - Add tracepoints for tracking usage_count updates unrelated to status changes in PM-runtime (Michał Mirosław). - Add sysfs attribute to control the "sync on suspend" behavior during system-wide suspend (Jonas Meurer). - Switch system-wide suspend tests over to 64-bit time (Alexandre Belloni). - Make wakeup sources statistics in debugfs cover deleted ones which used to be the case some time ago (zhuguangqing). - Clean up computations carried out during hibernation, update messages related to hibernation and fix a spelling mistake in one of them (Wen Yang, Luigi Semenzato, Colin Ian King). - Add mailmap entry for maintainer e-mail address that has not been functional for several years (Rafael Wysocki)" * tag 'pm-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (83 commits) cpufreq: loongson2_cpufreq: adjust cpufreq uses of LOONGSON_CHIPCFG intel_idle: Clean up irtl_2_usec() intel_idle: Move 3 functions closer to their callers intel_idle: Annotate initialization code and data structures intel_idle: Move and clean up intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit() intel_idle: Rearrange intel_idle_cpuidle_driver_init() intel_idle: Clean up NULL pointer check in intel_idle_init() intel_idle: Fold intel_idle_probe() into intel_idle_init() intel_idle: Eliminate __setup_broadcast_timer() cpuidle: fix cpuidle_find_deepest_state() kerneldoc warnings cpuidle: sysfs: fix warnings when compiling with W=1 cpuidle: coupled: fix warnings when compiling with W=1 cpufreq: brcmstb-avs: fix imbalance of cpufreq policy refcount PM: suspend: Add sysfs attribute to control the "sync on suspend" behavior PM / devfreq: Add debugfs support with devfreq_summary file Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add intel_idle document cpuidle: arm: Enable compile testing for some of drivers PM-runtime: add tracepoints for usage_count changes cpufreq: intel_pstate: fix spelling mistake: "Whethet" -> "Whether" PM: hibernate: fix spelling mistake "shapshot" -> "snapshot" ...
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.. include:: <isonum.txt> | ||
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``intel_idle`` CPU Idle Time Management Driver | ||
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:Copyright: |copy| 2020 Intel Corporation | ||
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:Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | ||
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General Information | ||
=================== | ||
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``intel_idle`` is a part of the | ||
:doc:`CPU idle time management subsystem <cpuidle>` in the Linux kernel | ||
(``CPUIdle``). It is the default CPU idle time management driver for the | ||
Nehalem and later generations of Intel processors, but the level of support for | ||
a particular processor model in it depends on whether or not it recognizes that | ||
processor model and may also depend on information coming from the platform | ||
firmware. [To understand ``intel_idle`` it is necessary to know how ``CPUIdle`` | ||
works in general, so this is the time to get familiar with :doc:`cpuidle` if you | ||
have not done that yet.] | ||
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``intel_idle`` uses the ``MWAIT`` instruction to inform the processor that the | ||
logical CPU executing it is idle and so it may be possible to put some of the | ||
processor's functional blocks into low-power states. That instruction takes two | ||
arguments (passed in the ``EAX`` and ``ECX`` registers of the target CPU), the | ||
first of which, referred to as a *hint*, can be used by the processor to | ||
determine what can be done (for details refer to Intel Software Developer’s | ||
Manual [1]_). Accordingly, ``intel_idle`` refuses to work with processors in | ||
which the support for the ``MWAIT`` instruction has been disabled (for example, | ||
via the platform firmware configuration menu) or which do not support that | ||
instruction at all. | ||
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``intel_idle`` is not modular, so it cannot be unloaded, which means that the | ||
only way to pass early-configuration-time parameters to it is via the kernel | ||
command line. | ||
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.. _intel-idle-enumeration-of-states: | ||
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Enumeration of Idle States | ||
========================== | ||
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Each ``MWAIT`` hint value is interpreted by the processor as a license to | ||
reconfigure itself in a certain way in order to save energy. The processor | ||
configurations (with reduced power draw) resulting from that are referred to | ||
as C-states (in the ACPI terminology) or idle states. The list of meaningful | ||
``MWAIT`` hint values and idle states (i.e. low-power configurations of the | ||
processor) corresponding to them depends on the processor model and it may also | ||
depend on the configuration of the platform. | ||
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In order to create a list of available idle states required by the ``CPUIdle`` | ||
subsystem (see :ref:`idle-states-representation` in :doc:`cpuidle`), | ||
``intel_idle`` can use two sources of information: static tables of idle states | ||
for different processor models included in the driver itself and the ACPI tables | ||
of the system. The former are always used if the processor model at hand is | ||
recognized by ``intel_idle`` and the latter are used if that is required for | ||
the given processor model (which is the case for all server processor models | ||
recognized by ``intel_idle``) or if the processor model is not recognized. | ||
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If the ACPI tables are going to be used for building the list of available idle | ||
states, ``intel_idle`` first looks for a ``_CST`` object under one of the ACPI | ||
objects corresponding to the CPUs in the system (refer to the ACPI specification | ||
[2]_ for the description of ``_CST`` and its output package). Because the | ||
``CPUIdle`` subsystem expects that the list of idle states supplied by the | ||
driver will be suitable for all of the CPUs handled by it and ``intel_idle`` is | ||
registered as the ``CPUIdle`` driver for all of the CPUs in the system, the | ||
driver looks for the first ``_CST`` object returning at least one valid idle | ||
state description and such that all of the idle states included in its return | ||
package are of the FFH (Functional Fixed Hardware) type, which means that the | ||
``MWAIT`` instruction is expected to be used to tell the processor that it can | ||
enter one of them. The return package of that ``_CST`` is then assumed to be | ||
applicable to all of the other CPUs in the system and the idle state | ||
descriptions extracted from it are stored in a preliminary list of idle states | ||
coming from the ACPI tables. [This step is skipped if ``intel_idle`` is | ||
configured to ignore the ACPI tables; see `below <intel-idle-parameters_>`_.] | ||
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Next, the first (index 0) entry in the list of available idle states is | ||
initialized to represent a "polling idle state" (a pseudo-idle state in which | ||
the target CPU continuously fetches and executes instructions), and the | ||
subsequent (real) idle state entries are populated as follows. | ||
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If the processor model at hand is recognized by ``intel_idle``, there is a | ||
(static) table of idle state descriptions for it in the driver. In that case, | ||
the "internal" table is the primary source of information on idle states and the | ||
information from it is copied to the final list of available idle states. If | ||
using the ACPI tables for the enumeration of idle states is not required | ||
(depending on the processor model), all of the listed idle state are enabled by | ||
default (so all of them will be taken into consideration by ``CPUIdle`` | ||
governors during CPU idle state selection). Otherwise, some of the listed idle | ||
states may not be enabled by default if there are no matching entries in the | ||
preliminary list of idle states coming from the ACPI tables. In that case user | ||
space still can enable them later (on a per-CPU basis) with the help of | ||
the ``disable`` idle state attribute in ``sysfs`` (see | ||
:ref:`idle-states-representation` in :doc:`cpuidle`). This basically means that | ||
the idle states "known" to the driver may not be enabled by default if they have | ||
not been exposed by the platform firmware (through the ACPI tables). | ||
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If the given processor model is not recognized by ``intel_idle``, but it | ||
supports ``MWAIT``, the preliminary list of idle states coming from the ACPI | ||
tables is used for building the final list that will be supplied to the | ||
``CPUIdle`` core during driver registration. For each idle state in that list, | ||
the description, ``MWAIT`` hint and exit latency are copied to the corresponding | ||
entry in the final list of idle states. The name of the idle state represented | ||
by it (to be returned by the ``name`` idle state attribute in ``sysfs``) is | ||
"CX_ACPI", where X is the index of that idle state in the final list (note that | ||
the minimum value of X is 1, because 0 is reserved for the "polling" state), and | ||
its target residency is based on the exit latency value. Specifically, for | ||
C1-type idle states the exit latency value is also used as the target residency | ||
(for compatibility with the majority of the "internal" tables of idle states for | ||
various processor models recognized by ``intel_idle``) and for the other idle | ||
state types (C2 and C3) the target residency value is 3 times the exit latency | ||
(again, that is because it reflects the target residency to exit latency ratio | ||
in the majority of cases for the processor models recognized by ``intel_idle``). | ||
All of the idle states in the final list are enabled by default in this case. | ||
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.. _intel-idle-initialization: | ||
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Initialization | ||
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The initialization of ``intel_idle`` starts with checking if the kernel command | ||
line options forbid the use of the ``MWAIT`` instruction. If that is the case, | ||
an error code is returned right away. | ||
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The next step is to check whether or not the processor model is known to the | ||
driver, which determines the idle states enumeration method (see | ||
`above <intel-idle-enumeration-of-states_>`_), and whether or not the processor | ||
supports ``MWAIT`` (the initialization fails if that is not the case). Then, | ||
the ``MWAIT`` support in the processor is enumerated through ``CPUID`` and the | ||
driver initialization fails if the level of support is not as expected (for | ||
example, if the total number of ``MWAIT`` substates returned is 0). | ||
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Next, if the driver is not configured to ignore the ACPI tables (see | ||
`below <intel-idle-parameters_>`_), the idle states information provided by the | ||
platform firmware is extracted from them. | ||
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Then, ``CPUIdle`` device objects are allocated for all CPUs and the list of | ||
available idle states is created as explained | ||
`above <intel-idle-enumeration-of-states_>`_. | ||
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Finally, ``intel_idle`` is registered with the help of cpuidle_register_driver() | ||
as the ``CPUIdle`` driver for all CPUs in the system and a CPU online callback | ||
for configuring individual CPUs is registered via cpuhp_setup_state(), which | ||
(among other things) causes the callback routine to be invoked for all of the | ||
CPUs present in the system at that time (each CPU executes its own instance of | ||
the callback routine). That routine registers a ``CPUIdle`` device for the CPU | ||
running it (which enables the ``CPUIdle`` subsystem to operate that CPU) and | ||
optionally performs some CPU-specific initialization actions that may be | ||
required for the given processor model. | ||
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.. _intel-idle-parameters: | ||
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Kernel Command Line Options and Module Parameters | ||
================================================= | ||
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The *x86* architecture support code recognizes three kernel command line | ||
options related to CPU idle time management: ``idle=poll``, ``idle=halt``, | ||
and ``idle=nomwait``. If any of them is present in the kernel command line, the | ||
``MWAIT`` instruction is not allowed to be used, so the initialization of | ||
``intel_idle`` will fail. | ||
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Apart from that there are two module parameters recognized by ``intel_idle`` | ||
itself that can be set via the kernel command line (they cannot be updated via | ||
sysfs, so that is the only way to change their values). | ||
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The ``max_cstate`` parameter value is the maximum idle state index in the list | ||
of idle states supplied to the ``CPUIdle`` core during the registration of the | ||
driver. It is also the maximum number of regular (non-polling) idle states that | ||
can be used by ``intel_idle``, so the enumeration of idle states is terminated | ||
after finding that number of usable idle states (the other idle states that | ||
potentially might have been used if ``max_cstate`` had been greater are not | ||
taken into consideration at all). Setting ``max_cstate`` can prevent | ||
``intel_idle`` from exposing idle states that are regarded as "too deep" for | ||
some reason to the ``CPUIdle`` core, but it does so by making them effectively | ||
invisible until the system is shut down and started again which may not always | ||
be desirable. In practice, it is only really necessary to do that if the idle | ||
states in question cannot be enabled during system startup, because in the | ||
working state of the system the CPU power management quality of service (PM | ||
QoS) feature can be used to prevent ``CPUIdle`` from touching those idle states | ||
even if they have been enumerated (see :ref:`cpu-pm-qos` in :doc:`cpuidle`). | ||
Setting ``max_cstate`` to 0 causes the ``intel_idle`` initialization to fail. | ||
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The ``noacpi`` module parameter (which is recognized by ``intel_idle`` if the | ||
kernel has been configured with ACPI support), can be set to make the driver | ||
ignore the system's ACPI tables entirely (it is unset by default). | ||
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.. _intel-idle-core-and-package-idle-states: | ||
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Core and Package Levels of Idle States | ||
====================================== | ||
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Typically, in a processor supporting the ``MWAIT`` instruction there are (at | ||
least) two levels of idle states (or C-states). One level, referred to as | ||
"core C-states", covers individual cores in the processor, whereas the other | ||
level, referred to as "package C-states", covers the entire processor package | ||
and it may also involve other components of the system (GPUs, memory | ||
controllers, I/O hubs etc.). | ||
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Some of the ``MWAIT`` hint values allow the processor to use core C-states only | ||
(most importantly, that is the case for the ``MWAIT`` hint value corresponding | ||
to the ``C1`` idle state), but the majority of them give it a license to put | ||
the target core (i.e. the core containing the logical CPU executing ``MWAIT`` | ||
with the given hint value) into a specific core C-state and then (if possible) | ||
to enter a specific package C-state at the deeper level. For example, the | ||
``MWAIT`` hint value representing the ``C3`` idle state allows the processor to | ||
put the target core into the low-power state referred to as "core ``C3``" (or | ||
``CC3``), which happens if all of the logical CPUs (SMT siblings) in that core | ||
have executed ``MWAIT`` with the ``C3`` hint value (or with a hint value | ||
representing a deeper idle state), and in addition to that (in the majority of | ||
cases) it gives the processor a license to put the entire package (possibly | ||
including some non-CPU components such as a GPU or a memory controller) into the | ||
low-power state referred to as "package ``C3``" (or ``PC3``), which happens if | ||
all of the cores have gone into the ``CC3`` state and (possibly) some additional | ||
conditions are satisfied (for instance, if the GPU is covered by ``PC3``, it may | ||
be required to be in a certain GPU-specific low-power state for ``PC3`` to be | ||
reachable). | ||
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As a rule, there is no simple way to make the processor use core C-states only | ||
if the conditions for entering the corresponding package C-states are met, so | ||
the logical CPU executing ``MWAIT`` with a hint value that is not core-level | ||
only (like for ``C1``) must always assume that this may cause the processor to | ||
enter a package C-state. [That is why the exit latency and target residency | ||
values corresponding to the majority of ``MWAIT`` hint values in the "internal" | ||
tables of idle states in ``intel_idle`` reflect the properties of package | ||
C-states.] If using package C-states is not desirable at all, either | ||
:ref:`PM QoS <cpu-pm-qos>` or the ``max_cstate`` module parameter of | ||
``intel_idle`` described `above <intel-idle-parameters_>`_ must be used to | ||
restrict the range of permissible idle states to the ones with core-level only | ||
``MWAIT`` hint values (like ``C1``). | ||
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References | ||
========== | ||
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.. [1] *Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2B*, | ||
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-vol-2b-manual.html | ||
.. [2] *Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification*, | ||
https://uefi.org/specifications |
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