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2020-12-22Documentation/powercap/dtpm: Add documentation for dtpmDaniel Lezcano
The dynamic thermal and power management is a technique to dynamically adjust the power consumption of different devices in order to ensure a global thermal constraint. An userspace daemon is usually monitoring the temperature and the power to take immediate action on the device. The DTPM framework provides an unified API to userspace to act on the power. Document this framework. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-07-27powercap: Add Power Limit4 supportSumeet Pawnikar
Modern Intel Mobile platforms support power limit4 (PL4), which is the SoC package level maximum power limit (in Watts). It can be used to preemptively limits potential SoC power to prevent power spikes from tripping the power adapter and battery over-current protection. This patch enables this feature by exposing package level peak power capping control to userspace via RAPL sysfs interface. With this, application like DTPF can modify PL4 power limit, the similar way of other package power limit (PL1). As this feature is not tested on previous generations, here it is enabled only for the platform that has been verified to work, for safety concerns. Signed-off-by: Sumeet Pawnikar <sumeet.r.pawnikar@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-06-14docs: power: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to build with Sphinx. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs; - fix tables markups; - add some lists markups; - mark literal blocks; - adjust title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
2013-10-17PowerCap: DocumentationSrinivas Pandruvada
Added power cap framework documentation. This explains the use of power capping framework, sysfs and programming interface. There are two documents: - Documentation/power/powercap/powercap.txt : Explains use case and APIs. - Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-powercap: Explains ABIs. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>