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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>
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24 lines
691 B
C
/*
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* governor.h - internal header for devfreq governors.
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2011 Samsung Electronics
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* MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation.
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*
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* This header is for devfreq governors in drivers/devfreq/
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*/
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#ifndef _GOVERNOR_H
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#define _GOVERNOR_H
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#include <linux/devfreq.h>
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#define to_devfreq(DEV) container_of((DEV), struct devfreq, dev)
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/* Caution: devfreq->lock must be locked before calling update_devfreq */
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extern int update_devfreq(struct devfreq *devfreq);
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#endif /* _GOVERNOR_H */
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