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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-03-07 14:54:28 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-03-07 14:54:28 -0800
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management fixes from Rafael J Wysocki: - Two fixes for the new intel_pstate driver from Dirk Brandewie. - Fix for incorrect usage of the .find_bridge() callback from struct acpi_bus_type in the USB core and subsequent removal of that callback from Rafael J Wysocki. - ACPI processor driver cleanups from Chen Gang and Syam Sidhardhan. - ACPI initialization and error messages fix from Joe Perches. - Operating Performance Points documentation improvement from Nishanth Menon. - Fixes for memory leaks and potential concurrency issues and sysfs attributes leaks during device removal in the core device PM QoS code from Rafael J Wysocki. - Calxeda Highbank cpufreq driver simplification from Emilio López. - cpufreq comment cleanup from Namhyung Kim. - Fix for a section mismatch in Calxeda Highbank interprocessor communication code from Mark Langsdorf (this is not a PM fix strictly speaking, but the code in question went in through the PM tree). * tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: cpufreq / intel_pstate: Do not load on VM that does not report max P state. cpufreq / intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_init() error path ACPI / glue: Drop .find_bridge() callback from struct acpi_bus_type ACPI / glue: Add .match() callback to struct acpi_bus_type ACPI / porocessor: Beautify code, pr->id is u32 which is never < 0 ACPI / processor: Remove redundant NULL check before kfree ACPI / Sleep: Avoid interleaved message on errors PM / QoS: Remove device PM QoS sysfs attributes at the right place PM / QoS: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks in device PM QoS cpufreq: highbank: do not initialize array with a loop PM / OPP: improve introductory documentation cpufreq: Fix a typo in comment mailbox, pl320-ipc: remove __init from probe function
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-*=============*
-* OPP Library *
-*=============*
+Operating Performance Points (OPP) Library
+==========================================
(C) 2009-2010 Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Texas Instruments Incorporated
@@ -16,15 +15,31 @@ Contents
1. Introduction
===============
+1.1 What is an Operating Performance Point (OPP)?
+
Complex SoCs of today consists of a multiple sub-modules working in conjunction.
In an operational system executing varied use cases, not all modules in the SoC
need to function at their highest performing frequency all the time. To
facilitate this, sub-modules in a SoC are grouped into domains, allowing some
-domains to run at lower voltage and frequency while other domains are loaded
-more. The set of discrete tuples consisting of frequency and voltage pairs that
+domains to run at lower voltage and frequency while other domains run at
+voltage/frequency pairs that are higher.
+
+The set of discrete tuples consisting of frequency and voltage pairs that
the device will support per domain are called Operating Performance Points or
OPPs.
+As an example:
+Let us consider an MPU device which supports the following:
+{300MHz at minimum voltage of 1V}, {800MHz at minimum voltage of 1.2V},
+{1GHz at minimum voltage of 1.3V}
+
+We can represent these as three OPPs as the following {Hz, uV} tuples:
+{300000000, 1000000}
+{800000000, 1200000}
+{1000000000, 1300000}
+
+1.2 Operating Performance Points Library
+
OPP library provides a set of helper functions to organize and query the OPP
information. The library is located in drivers/base/power/opp.c and the header
is located in include/linux/opp.h. OPP library can be enabled by enabling