History log of /drivers/devfreq/governor.h
Revision Date Author Comments
3aa173b8db200bb96354481acc0a5b9e123119fe 29-Oct-2012 Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> PM / devfreq: provide hooks for governors to be registered

Add devfreq_add_governor and devfreq_remove_governor which
can be invoked by governors to register with devfreq.

This sets up the stage to dynamically switch governors and
allow governors to be dynamically loaded as well.

Cc: Rajagopal Venkat <rajagopal.venkat@linaro.org>
Cc: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
206c30cfeb7c05dfb9fdfd81b1deb933627e43c1 26-Oct-2012 Rajagopal Venkat <rajagopal.venkat@linaro.org> PM / devfreq: Add suspend and resume apis

Add devfreq suspend/resume apis for devfreq users. This patch
supports suspend and resume of devfreq load monitoring, required
for devices which can idle.

Signed-off-by: Rajagopal Venkat <rajagopal.venkat@linaro.org>
Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
7e6fdd4bad033fa2d73716377b184fa975b0d985 26-Oct-2012 Rajagopal Venkat <rajagopal.venkat@linaro.org> PM / devfreq: Core updates to support devices which can idle

Prepare devfreq core framework to support devices which
can idle. When device idleness is detected perhaps through
runtime-pm, need some mechanism to suspend devfreq load
monitoring and resume back when device is online. Present
code continues monitoring unless device is removed from
devfreq core.

This patch introduces following design changes,

- use per device work instead of global work to monitor device
load. This enables suspend/resume of device devfreq and
reduces monitoring code complexity.
- decouple delayed work based load monitoring logic from core
by introducing helpers functions to be used by governors. This
provides flexibility for governors either to use delayed work
based monitoring functions or to implement their own mechanism.
- devfreq core interacts with governors via events to perform
specific actions. These events include start/stop devfreq.
This sets ground for adding suspend/resume events.

The devfreq apis are not modified and are kept intact.

Signed-off-by: Rajagopal Venkat <rajagopal.venkat@linaro.org>
Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
a3c98b8b2ede1f4230f49f9af7135cd902e71e83 02-Oct-2011 MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> PM: Introduce devfreq: generic DVFS framework with device-specific OPPs

With OPPs, a device may have multiple operable frequency and voltage
sets. However, there can be multiple possible operable sets and a system
will need to choose one from them. In order to reduce the power
consumption (by reducing frequency and voltage) without affecting the
performance too much, a Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
scheme may be used.

This patch introduces the DVFS capability to non-CPU devices with OPPs.
DVFS is a techique whereby the frequency and supplied voltage of a
device is adjusted on-the-fly. DVFS usually sets the frequency as low
as possible with given conditions (such as QoS assurance) and adjusts
voltage according to the chosen frequency in order to reduce power
consumption and heat dissipation.

The generic DVFS for devices, devfreq, may appear quite similar with
/drivers/cpufreq. However, cpufreq does not allow to have multiple
devices registered and is not suitable to have multiple heterogenous
devices with different (but simple) governors.

Normally, DVFS mechanism controls frequency based on the demand for
the device, and then, chooses voltage based on the chosen frequency.
devfreq also controls the frequency based on the governor's frequency
recommendation and let OPP pick up the pair of frequency and voltage
based on the recommended frequency. Then, the chosen OPP is passed to
device driver's "target" callback.

When PM QoS is going to be used with the devfreq device, the device
driver should enable OPPs that are appropriate with the current PM QoS
requests. In order to do so, the device driver may call opp_enable and
opp_disable at the notifier callback of PM QoS so that PM QoS's
update_target() call enables the appropriate OPPs. Note that at least
one of OPPs should be enabled at any time; be careful when there is a
transition.

Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>