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2 Subsystem Trace Points: power
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5 The power tracing system captures events related to power transitions
6 within the kernel. Broadly speaking there are three major subheadings:
8 - Power state switch which reports events related to suspend (S-states),
9 cpuidle (C-states) and cpufreq (P-states)
10 - System clock related changes
11 - Power domains related changes and transitions
13 This document describes what each of the tracepoints is and why they
16 Cf. include/trace/events/power.h for the events definitions.
18 1. Power state switch events
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24 A 'cpu' event class gathers the CPU-related events: cpuidle and
28 cpu_idle "state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
29 cpu_frequency "state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
30 cpu_frequency_limits "min=%lu max=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
32 A suspend event is used to indicate the system going in and out of the
36 machine_suspend "state=%lu"
39 Note: the value of '-1' or '4294967295' for state means an exit from the current state,
40 i.e. trace_cpu_idle(4, smp_processor_id()) means that the system
41 enters the idle state 4, while trace_cpu_idle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, smp_processor_id())
42 means that the system exits the previous idle state.
44 The event which has 'state=4294967295' in the trace is very important to the user
45 space tools which are using it to detect the end of the current state, and so to
46 correctly draw the states diagrams and to calculate accurate statistics etc.
50 The clock events are used for clock enable/disable and for
54 clock_enable "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
55 clock_disable "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
56 clock_set_rate "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
58 The first parameter gives the clock name (e.g. "gpio1_iclk").
59 The second parameter is '1' for enable, '0' for disable, the target
60 clock rate for set_rate.
62 3. Power domains events
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64 The power domain events are used for power domains transitions
67 power_domain_target "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
69 The first parameter gives the power domain name (e.g. "mpu_pwrdm").
70 The second parameter is the power domain target state.
74 The PM QoS events are used for QoS add/update/remove request and for
78 pm_qos_update_target "action=%s prev_value=%d curr_value=%d"
79 pm_qos_update_flags "action=%s prev_value=0x%x curr_value=0x%x"
81 The first parameter gives the QoS action name (e.g. "ADD_REQ").
82 The second parameter is the previous QoS value.
83 The third parameter is the current QoS value to update.
85 There are also events used for device PM QoS add/update/remove request.
88 dev_pm_qos_add_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d"
89 dev_pm_qos_update_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d"
90 dev_pm_qos_remove_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d"
92 The first parameter gives the device name which tries to add/update/remove
94 The second parameter gives the request type (e.g. "DEV_PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY").
95 The third parameter is value to be added/updated/removed.
97 And, there are events used for CPU latency QoS add/update/remove request.
100 pm_qos_add_request "value=%d"
101 pm_qos_update_request "value=%d"
102 pm_qos_remove_request "value=%d"
104 The parameter is the value to be added/updated/removed.