On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 02:41:19PM +0530, Rajneesh Bhardwaj wrote: > This patch adds the Power Management Controller driver as a PCI driver > for Intel Core SoC architecture. > > This driver can utilize debugging capabilities and supported features > as exposed by the Power Management Controller. > > Please refer to the below specification for more details on PMC features. > http://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/chipsets/100-series-chipset-datasheet-vol-2.html > > The current version of this driver exposes SLP_S0_RESIDENCY counter. > This counter can be used for detecting fragile SLP_S0 signal related > failures and take corrective actions when PCH SLP_S0 signal is not > asserted after kernel freeze as part of suspend to idle flow > (echo freeze > /sys/power/state). > > Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) asserts SLP_S0 signal when it > detects favorable conditions to enter its low power mode. As a > pre-requisite the SoC should be in deepest possible Package C-State > and devices should be in low power mode. For example, on Skylake SoC > the deepest Package C-State is Package C10 or PC10. Suspend to idle > flow generally leads to PC10 state but PC10 state may not be sufficient > for realizing the platform wide power potential which SLP_S0 signal > assertion can provide. > > SLP_S0 signal is often connected to the Embedded Controller (EC) and the > Power Management IC (PMIC) for other platform power management related > optimizations. > > In general, SLP_S0 assertion == PC10 + PCH low power mode + ModPhy Lanes > power gated + PLL Idle. > > As part of this driver, a mechanism to read the SLP_S0_RESIDENCY is exposed > as an API and also debugfs features are added to indicate SLP_S0 signal > assertion residency in microseconds. > > echo freeze > /sys/power/state > wake the system > cat /sys/kernel/debug/pmc_core/slp_s0_residency_usec > > Signed-off-by: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Vishwanath Somayaji <vishwanath.somayaji@xxxxxxxxx> Queued for 4.7. Thank you. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
