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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"
31 A suspend event is used to indicate the system going in and out of the
35 machine_suspend "state=%lu"
38 Note: the value of '-1' or '4294967295' for state means an exit from the current state,
39 i.e. trace_cpu_idle(4, smp_processor_id()) means that the system
40 enters the idle state 4, while trace_cpu_idle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, smp_processor_id())
41 means that the system exits the previous idle state.
43 The event which has 'state=4294967295' in the trace is very important to the user
44 space tools which are using it to detect the end of the current state, and so to
45 correctly draw the states diagrams and to calculate accurate statistics etc.
49 The clock events are used for clock enable/disable and for
53 clock_enable "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
54 clock_disable "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
55 clock_set_rate "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
57 The first parameter gives the clock name (e.g. "gpio1_iclk").
58 The second parameter is '1' for enable, '0' for disable, the target
59 clock rate for set_rate.
61 3. Power domains events
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63 The power domain events are used for power domains transitions
66 power_domain_target "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
68 The first parameter gives the power domain name (e.g. "mpu_pwrdm").
69 The second parameter is the power domain target state.
73 The PM QoS events are used for QoS add/update/remove request and for
77 pm_qos_add_request "pm_qos_class=%s value=%d"
78 pm_qos_update_request "pm_qos_class=%s value=%d"
79 pm_qos_remove_request "pm_qos_class=%s value=%d"
80 pm_qos_update_request_timeout "pm_qos_class=%s value=%d, timeout_us=%ld"
82 The first parameter gives the QoS class name (e.g. "CPU_DMA_LATENCY").
83 The second parameter is value to be added/updated/removed.
84 The third parameter is timeout value in usec.
87 pm_qos_update_target "action=%s prev_value=%d curr_value=%d"
88 pm_qos_update_flags "action=%s prev_value=0x%x curr_value=0x%x"
90 The first parameter gives the QoS action name (e.g. "ADD_REQ").
91 The second parameter is the previous QoS value.
92 The third parameter is the current QoS value to update.
94 And, there are also events used for device PM QoS add/update/remove request.
97 dev_pm_qos_add_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d"
98 dev_pm_qos_update_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d"
99 dev_pm_qos_remove_request "device=%s type=%s new_value=%d"
101 The first parameter gives the device name which tries to add/update/remove
103 The second parameter gives the request type (e.g. "DEV_PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY").
104 The third parameter is value to be added/updated/removed.