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+====================
+Energy Model of CPUs
+====================
+
+1. Overview
+-----------
+
+The Energy Model (EM) framework serves as an interface between drivers knowing
+the power consumed by CPUs at various performance levels, and the kernel
+subsystems willing to use that information to make energy-aware decisions.
+
+The source of the information about the power consumed by CPUs can vary greatly
+from one platform to another. These power costs can be estimated using
+devicetree data in some cases. In others, the firmware will know better.
+Alternatively, userspace might be best positioned. And so on. In order to avoid
+each and every client subsystem to re-implement support for each and every
+possible source of information on its own, the EM framework intervenes as an
+abstraction layer which standardizes the format of power cost tables in the
+kernel, hence enabling to avoid redundant work.
+
+The figure below depicts an example of drivers (Arm-specific here, but the
+approach is applicable to any architecture) providing power costs to the EM
+framework, and interested clients reading the data from it::
+
+       +---------------+  +-----------------+  +---------------+
+       | Thermal (IPA) |  | Scheduler (EAS) |  |     Other     |
+       +---------------+  +-----------------+  +---------------+
+               |                   | em_pd_energy()    |
+               |                   | em_cpu_get()      |
+               +---------+         |         +---------+
+                         |         |         |
+                         v         v         v
+                        +---------------------+
+                        |    Energy Model     |
+                        |     Framework       |
+                        +---------------------+
+                           ^       ^       ^
+                           |       |       | em_register_perf_domain()
+                +----------+       |       +---------+
+                |                  |                 |
+        +---------------+  +---------------+  +--------------+
+        |  cpufreq-dt   |  |   arm_scmi    |  |    Other     |
+        +---------------+  +---------------+  +--------------+
+                ^                  ^                 ^
+                |                  |                 |
+        +--------------+   +---------------+  +--------------+
+        | Device Tree  |   |   Firmware    |  |      ?       |
+        +--------------+   +---------------+  +--------------+
+
+The EM framework manages power cost tables per 'performance domain' in the
+system. A performance domain is a group of CPUs whose performance is scaled
+together. Performance domains generally have a 1-to-1 mapping with CPUFreq
+policies. All CPUs in a performance domain are required to have the same
+micro-architecture. CPUs in different performance domains can have different
+micro-architectures.
+
+
+2. Core APIs
+------------
+
+2.1 Config options
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL must be enabled to use the EM framework.
+
+
+2.2 Registration of performance domains
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Drivers are expected to register performance domains into the EM framework by
+calling the following API::
+
+  int em_register_perf_domain(cpumask_t *span, unsigned int nr_states,
+			      struct em_data_callback *cb);
+
+Drivers must specify the CPUs of the performance domains using the cpumask
+argument, and provide a callback function returning <frequency, power> tuples
+for each capacity state. The callback function provided by the driver is free
+to fetch data from any relevant location (DT, firmware, ...), and by any mean
+deemed necessary. See Section 3. for an example of driver implementing this
+callback, and kernel/power/energy_model.c for further documentation on this
+API.
+
+
+2.3 Accessing performance domains
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Subsystems interested in the energy model of a CPU can retrieve it using the
+em_cpu_get() API. The energy model tables are allocated once upon creation of
+the performance domains, and kept in memory untouched.
+
+The energy consumed by a performance domain can be estimated using the
+em_pd_energy() API. The estimation is performed assuming that the schedutil
+CPUfreq governor is in use.
+
+More details about the above APIs can be found in include/linux/energy_model.h.
+
+
+3. Example driver
+-----------------
+
+This section provides a simple example of a CPUFreq driver registering a
+performance domain in the Energy Model framework using the (fake) 'foo'
+protocol. The driver implements an est_power() function to be provided to the
+EM framework::
+
+  -> drivers/cpufreq/foo_cpufreq.c
+
+  01	static int est_power(unsigned long *mW, unsigned long *KHz, int cpu)
+  02	{
+  03		long freq, power;
+  04
+  05		/* Use the 'foo' protocol to ceil the frequency */
+  06		freq = foo_get_freq_ceil(cpu, *KHz);
+  07		if (freq < 0);
+  08			return freq;
+  09
+  10		/* Estimate the power cost for the CPU at the relevant freq. */
+  11		power = foo_estimate_power(cpu, freq);
+  12		if (power < 0);
+  13			return power;
+  14
+  15		/* Return the values to the EM framework */
+  16		*mW = power;
+  17		*KHz = freq;
+  18
+  19		return 0;
+  20	}
+  21
+  22	static int foo_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
+  23	{
+  24		struct em_data_callback em_cb = EM_DATA_CB(est_power);
+  25		int nr_opp, ret;
+  26
+  27		/* Do the actual CPUFreq init work ... */
+  28		ret = do_foo_cpufreq_init(policy);
+  29		if (ret)
+  30			return ret;
+  31
+  32		/* Find the number of OPPs for this policy */
+  33		nr_opp = foo_get_nr_opp(policy);
+  34
+  35		/* And register the new performance domain */
+  36		em_register_perf_domain(policy->cpus, nr_opp, &em_cb);
+  37
+  38	        return 0;
+  39	}