Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > SPM is a hardware block that controls the peripheral logic surrounding > the application cores (cpu/l$). When the core executes WFI instruction, > the SPM takes over the putting the core in low power state as > configured. The wake up for the SPM is an interrupt at the GIC, which > then completes the rest of low power mode sequence and brings the core > out of low power mode. > > The SPM has a set of control registers that configure the SPMs > individually based on the type of the core and the runtime conditions. > SPM is a finite state machine block to which a sequence is provided and > it interprets the bytes and executes them in sequence. Each low power > mode that the core can enter into is provided to the SPM as a sequence. > > Configure the SPM to set the core (cpu or L2) into its low power mode, > the index of the first command in the sequence is set in the SPM_CTL > register. When the core executes ARM wfi instruction, it triggers the > SPM state machine to start executing from that index. The SPM state > machine waits until the interrupt occurs and starts executing the rest > of the sequence until it hits the end of the sequence. The end of the > sequence jumps the core out of its low power mode. > > Add support for an idle driver to set up the SPM to place the core in > Standby or Standalone power collapse mode when the core is idle. > > Based on work by: Mahesh Sivasubramanian <msivasub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Ai Li <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Praveen Chidambaram <pchidamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Original tree available at - > git://codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10.git > > Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@xxxxxxxxxx> [...] > diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..e5d3ebd > --- /dev/null > +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c > @@ -0,0 +1,328 @@ > +/* Copyright (c) 2011-2014, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved. nit: one more multi-line coding style missed (no need to repost just for this, feel free to just updated it locally) After that, feel free to add: Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
