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- Subsystem Trace Points: power
- The power tracing system captures events related to power transitions
- within the kernel. Broadly speaking there are three major subheadings:
- o Power state switch which reports events related to suspend (S-states),
- cpuidle (C-states) and cpufreq (P-states)
- o System clock related changes
- o Power domains related changes and transitions
- This document describes what each of the tracepoints is and why they
- might be useful.
- Cf. include/trace/events/power.h for the events definitions.
- 1. Power state switch events
- ============================
- 1.1 Trace API
- -----------------
- A 'cpu' event class gathers the CPU-related events: cpuidle and
- cpufreq.
- cpu_idle "state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
- cpu_frequency "state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
- A suspend event is used to indicate the system going in and out of the
- suspend mode:
- machine_suspend "state=%lu"
- Note: the value of '-1' or '4294967295' for state means an exit from the current state,
- i.e. trace_cpu_idle(4, smp_processor_id()) means that the system
- enters the idle state 4, while trace_cpu_idle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, smp_processor_id())
- means that the system exits the previous idle state.
- The event which has 'state=4294967295' in the trace is very important to the user
- space tools which are using it to detect the end of the current state, and so to
- correctly draw the states diagrams and to calculate accurate statistics etc.
- 2. Clocks events
- ================
- The clock events are used for clock enable/disable and for
- clock rate change.
- clock_enable "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
- clock_disable "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
- clock_set_rate "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
- The first parameter gives the clock name (e.g. "gpio1_iclk").
- The second parameter is '1' for enable, '0' for disable, the target
- clock rate for set_rate.
- 3. Power domains events
- =======================
- The power domain events are used for power domains transitions
- power_domain_target "%s state=%lu cpu_id=%lu"
- The first parameter gives the power domain name (e.g. "mpu_pwrdm").
- The second parameter is the power domain target state.
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