| ==================== |
| PCI Power Management |
| ==================== |
| |
| Copyright (c) 2010 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc. |
| |
| An overview of concepts and the Linux kernel's interfaces related to PCI power |
| management. Based on previous work by Patrick Mochel <mochel@transmeta.com> |
| (and others). |
| |
| This document only covers the aspects of power management specific to PCI |
| devices. For general description of the kernel's interfaces related to device |
| power management refer to Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst and |
| Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst. |
| |
| .. contents: |
| |
| 1. Hardware and Platform Support for PCI Power Management |
| 2. PCI Subsystem and Device Power Management |
| 3. PCI Device Drivers and Power Management |
| 4. Resources |
| |
| |
| 1. Hardware and Platform Support for PCI Power Management |
| ========================================================= |
| |
| 1.1. Native and Platform-Based Power Management |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| |
| In general, power management is a feature allowing one to save energy by putting |
| devices into states in which they draw less power (low-power states) at the |
| price of reduced functionality or performance. |
| |
| Usually, a device is put into a low-power state when it is underutilized or |
| completely inactive. However, when it is necessary to use the device once |
| again, it has to be put back into the "fully functional" state (full-power |
| state). This may happen when there are some data for the device to handle or |
| as a result of an external event requiring the device to be active, which may |
| be signaled by the device itself. |
| |
| PCI devices may be put into low-power states in two ways, by using the device |
| capabilities introduced by the PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, |
| or with the help of platform firmware, such as an ACPI BIOS. In the first |
| approach, that is referred to as the native PCI power management (native PCI PM) |
| in what follows, the device power state is changed as a result of writing a |
| specific value into one of its standard configuration registers. The second |
| approach requires the platform firmware to provide special methods that may be |
| used by the kernel to change the device's power state. |
| |
| Devices supporting the native PCI PM usually can generate wakeup signals called |
| Power Management Events (PMEs) to let the kernel know about external events |
| requiring the device to be active. After receiving a PME the kernel is supposed |
| to put the device that sent it into the full-power state. However, the PCI Bus |
| Power Management Interface Specification doesn't define any standard method of |
| delivering the PME from the device to the CPU and the operating system kernel. |
| It is assumed that the platform firmware will perform this task and therefore, |
| even though a PCI device is set up to generate PMEs, it also may be necessary to |
| prepare the platform firmware for notifying the CPU of the PMEs coming from the |
| device (e.g. by generating interrupts). |
| |
| In turn, if the methods provided by the platform firmware are used for changing |
| the power state of a device, usually the platform also provides a method for |
| preparing the device to generate wakeup signals. In that case, however, it |
| often also is necessary to prepare the device for generating PMEs using the |
| native PCI PM mechanism, because the method provided by the platform depends on |
| that. |
| |
| Thus in many situations both the native and the platform-based power management |
| mechanisms have to be used simultaneously to obtain the desired result. |
| |
| 1.2. Native PCI Power Management |
| -------------------------------- |
| |
| The PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification (PCI PM Spec) was |
| introduced between the PCI 2.1 and PCI 2.2 Specifications. It defined a |
| standard interface for performing various operations related to power |
| management. |
| |
| The implementation of the PCI PM Spec is optional for conventional PCI devices, |
| but it is mandatory for PCI Express devices. If a device supports the PCI PM |
| Spec, it has an 8 byte power management capability field in its PCI |
| configuration space. This field is used to describe and control the standard |
| features related to the native PCI power management. |
| |
| The PCI PM Spec defines 4 operating states for devices (D0-D3) and for buses |
| (B0-B3). The higher the number, the less power is drawn by the device or bus |
| in that state. However, the higher the number, the longer the latency for |
| the device or bus to return to the full-power state (D0 or B0, respectively). |
| |
| There are two variants of the D3 state defined by the specification. The first |
| one is D3hot, referred to as the software accessible D3, because devices can be |
| programmed to go into it. The second one, D3cold, is the state that PCI devices |
| are in when the supply voltage (Vcc) is removed from them. It is not possible |
| to program a PCI device to go into D3cold, although there may be a programmable |
| interface for putting the bus the device is on into a state in which Vcc is |
| removed from all devices on the bus. |
| |
| PCI bus power management, however, is not supported by the Linux kernel at the |
| time of this writing and therefore it is not covered by this document. |
| |
| Note that every PCI device can be in the full-power state (D0) or in D3cold, |
| regardless of whether or not it implements the PCI PM Spec. In addition to |
| that, if the PCI PM Spec is implemented by the device, it must support D3hot |
| as well as D0. The support for the D1 and D2 power states is optional. |
| |
| PCI devices supporting the PCI PM Spec can be programmed to go to any of the |
| supported low-power states (except for D3cold). While in D1-D3hot the |
| standard configuration registers of the device must be accessible to software |
| (i.e. the device is required to respond to PCI configuration accesses), although |
| its I/O and memory spaces are then disabled. This allows the device to be |
| programmatically put into D0. Thus the kernel can switch the device back and |
| forth between D0 and the supported low-power states (except for D3cold) and the |
| possible power state transitions the device can undergo are the following: |
| |
| +----------------------------+ |
| | Current State | New State | |
| +----------------------------+ |
| | D0 | D1, D2, D3 | |
| +----------------------------+ |
| | D1 | D2, D3 | |
| +----------------------------+ |
| | D2 | D3 | |
| +----------------------------+ |
| | D1, D2, D3 | D0 | |
| +----------------------------+ |
| |
| The transition from D3cold to D0 occurs when the supply voltage is provided to |
| the device (i.e. power is restored). In that case the device returns to D0 with |
| a full power-on reset sequence and the power-on defaults are restored to the |
| device by hardware just as at initial power up. |
| |
| PCI devices supporting the PCI PM Spec can be programmed to generate PMEs |
| while in a low-power state (D1-D3), but they are not required to be capable |
| of generating PMEs from all supported low-power states. In particular, the |
| capability of generating PMEs from D3cold is optional and depends on the |
| presence of additional voltage (3.3Vaux) allowing the device to remain |
| sufficiently active to generate a wakeup signal. |
| |
| 1.3. ACPI Device Power Management |
| --------------------------------- |
| |
| The platform firmware support for the power management of PCI devices is |
| system-specific. However, if the system in question is compliant with the |
| Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification, like the |
| majority of x86-based systems, it is supposed to implement device power |
| management interfaces defined by the ACPI standard. |
| |
| For this purpose the ACPI BIOS provides special functions called "control |
| methods" that may be executed by the kernel to perform specific tasks, such as |
| putting a device into a low-power state. These control methods are encoded |
| using special byte-code language called the ACPI Machine Language (AML) and |
| stored in the machine's BIOS. The kernel loads them from the BIOS and executes |
| them as needed using an AML interpreter that translates the AML byte code into |
| computations and memory or I/O space accesses. This way, in theory, a BIOS |
| writer can provide the kernel with a means to perform actions depending |
| on the system design in a system-specific fashion. |
| |
| ACPI control methods may be divided into global control methods, that are not |
| associated with any particular devices, and device control methods, that have |
| to be defined separately for each device supposed to be handled with the help of |
| the platform. This means, in particular, that ACPI device control methods can |
| only be used to handle devices that the BIOS writer knew about in advance. The |
| ACPI methods used for device power management fall into that category. |
| |
| The ACPI specification assumes that devices can be in one of four power states |
| labeled as D0, D1, D2, and D3 that roughly correspond to the native PCI PM |
| D0-D3 states (although the difference between D3hot and D3cold is not taken |
| into account by ACPI). Moreover, for each power state of a device there is a |
| set of power resources that have to be enabled for the device to be put into |
| that state. These power resources are controlled (i.e. enabled or disabled) |
| with the help of their own control methods, _ON and _OFF, that have to be |
| defined individually for each of them. |
| |
| To put a device into the ACPI power state Dx (where x is a number between 0 and |
| 3 inclusive) the kernel is supposed to (1) enable the power resources required |
| by the device in this state using their _ON control methods and (2) execute the |
| _PSx control method defined for the device. In addition to that, if the device |
| is going to be put into a low-power state (D1-D3) and is supposed to generate |
| wakeup signals from that state, the _DSW (or _PSW, replaced with _DSW by ACPI |
| 3.0) control method defined for it has to be executed before _PSx. Power |
| resources that are not required by the device in the target power state and are |
| not required any more by any other device should be disabled (by executing their |
| _OFF control methods). If the current power state of the device is D3, it can |
| only be put into D0 this way. |
| |
| However, quite often the power states of devices are changed during a |
| system-wide transition into a sleep state or back into the working state. ACPI |
| defines four system sleep states, S1, S2, S3, and S4, and denotes the system |
| working state as S0. In general, the target system sleep (or working) state |
| determines the highest power (lowest number) state the device can be put |
| into and the kernel is supposed to obtain this information by executing the |
| device's _SxD control method (where x is a number between 0 and 4 inclusive). |
| If the device is required to wake up the system from the target sleep state, the |
| lowest power (highest number) state it can be put into is also determined by the |
| target state of the system. The kernel is then supposed to use the device's |
| _SxW control method to obtain the number of that state. It also is supposed to |
| use the device's _PRW control method to learn which power resources need to be |
| enabled for the device to be able to generate wakeup signals. |
| |
| 1.4. Wakeup Signaling |
| --------------------- |
| |
| Wakeup signals generated by PCI devices, either as native PCI PMEs, or as |
| a result of the execution of the _DSW (or _PSW) ACPI control method before |
| putting the device into a low-power state, have to be caught and handled as |
| appropriate. If they are sent while the system is in the working state |
| (ACPI S0), they should be translated into interrupts so that the kernel can |
| put the devices generating them into the full-power state and take care of the |
| events that triggered them. In turn, if they are sent while the system is |
| sleeping, they should cause the system's core logic to trigger wakeup. |
| |
| On ACPI-based systems wakeup signals sent by conventional PCI devices are |
| converted into ACPI General-Purpose Events (GPEs) which are hardware signals |
| from the system core logic generated in response to various events that need to |
| be acted upon. Every GPE is associated with one or more sources of potentially |
| interesting events. In particular, a GPE may be associated with a PCI device |
| capable of signaling wakeup. The information on the connections between GPEs |
| and event sources is recorded in the system's ACPI BIOS from where it can be |
| read by the kernel. |
| |
| If a PCI device known to the system's ACPI BIOS signals wakeup, the GPE |
| associated with it (if there is one) is triggered. The GPEs associated with PCI |
| bridges may also be triggered in response to a wakeup signal from one of the |
| devices below the bridge (this also is the case for root bridges) and, for |
| example, native PCI PMEs from devices unknown to the system's ACPI BIOS may be |
| handled this way. |
| |
| A GPE may be triggered when the system is sleeping (i.e. when it is in one of |
| the ACPI S1-S4 states), in which case system wakeup is started by its core logic |
| (the device that was the source of the signal causing the system wakeup to occur |
| may be identified later). The GPEs used in such situations are referred to as |
| wakeup GPEs. |
| |
| Usually, however, GPEs are also triggered when the system is in the working |
| state (ACPI S0) and in that case the system's core logic generates a System |
| Control Interrupt (SCI) to notify the kernel of the event. Then, the SCI |
| handler identifies the GPE that caused the interrupt to be generated which, |
| in turn, allows the kernel to identify the source of the event (that may be |
| a PCI device signaling wakeup). The GPEs used for notifying the kernel of |
| events occurring while the system is in the working state are referred to as |
| runtime GPEs. |
| |
| Unfortunately, there is no standard way of handling wakeup signals sent by |
| conventional PCI devices on systems that are not ACPI-based, but there is one |
| for PCI Express devices. Namely, the PCI Express Base Specification introduced |
| a native mechanism for converting native PCI PMEs into interrupts generated by |
| root ports. For conventional PCI devices native PMEs are out-of-band, so they |
| are routed separately and they need not pass through bridges (in principle they |
| may be routed directly to the system's core logic), but for PCI Express devices |
| they are in-band messages that have to pass through the PCI Express hierarchy, |
| including the root port on the path from the device to the Root Complex. Thus |
| it was possible to introduce a mechanism by which a root port generates an |
| interrupt whenever it receives a PME message from one of the devices below it. |
| The PCI Express Requester ID of the device that sent the PME message is then |
| recorded in one of the root port's configuration registers from where it may be |
| read by the interrupt handler allowing the device to be identified. [PME |
| messages sent by PCI Express endpoints integrated with the Root Complex don't |
| pass through root ports, but instead they cause a Root Complex Event Collector |
| (if there is one) to generate interrupts.] |
| |
| In principle the native PCI Express PME signaling may also be used on ACPI-based |
| systems along with the GPEs, but to use it the kernel has to ask the system's |
| ACPI BIOS to release control of root port configuration registers. The ACPI |
| BIOS, however, is not required to allow the kernel to control these registers |
| and if it doesn't do that, the kernel must not modify their contents. Of course |
| the native PCI Express PME signaling cannot be used by the kernel in that case. |
| |
| |
| 2. PCI Subsystem and Device Power Management |
| ============================================ |
| |
| 2.1. Device Power Management Callbacks |
| -------------------------------------- |
| |
| The PCI Subsystem participates in the power management of PCI devices in a |
| number of ways. First of all, it provides an intermediate code layer between |
| the device power management core (PM core) and PCI device drivers. |
| Specifically, the pm field of the PCI subsystem's struct bus_type object, |
| pci_bus_type, points to a struct dev_pm_ops object, pci_dev_pm_ops, containing |
| pointers to several device power management callbacks:: |
| |
| const struct dev_pm_ops pci_dev_pm_ops = { |
| .prepare = pci_pm_prepare, |
| .complete = pci_pm_complete, |
| .suspend = pci_pm_suspend, |
| .resume = pci_pm_resume, |
| .freeze = pci_pm_freeze, |
| .thaw = pci_pm_thaw, |
| .poweroff = pci_pm_poweroff, |
| .restore = pci_pm_restore, |
| .suspend_noirq = pci_pm_suspend_noirq, |
| .resume_noirq = pci_pm_resume_noirq, |
| .freeze_noirq = pci_pm_freeze_noirq, |
| .thaw_noirq = pci_pm_thaw_noirq, |
| .poweroff_noirq = pci_pm_poweroff_noirq, |
| .restore_noirq = pci_pm_restore_noirq, |
| .runtime_suspend = pci_pm_runtime_suspend, |
| .runtime_resume = pci_pm_runtime_resume, |
| .runtime_idle = pci_pm_runtime_idle, |
| }; |
| |
| These callbacks are executed by the PM core in various situations related to |
| device power management and they, in turn, execute power management callbacks |
| provided by PCI device drivers. They also perform power management operations |
| involving some standard configuration registers of PCI devices that device |
| drivers need not know or care about. |
| |
| The structure representing a PCI device, struct pci_dev, contains several fields |
| that these callbacks operate on:: |
| |
| struct pci_dev { |
| ... |
| pci_power_t current_state; /* Current operating state. */ |
| int pm_cap; /* PM capability offset in the |
| configuration space */ |
| unsigned int pme_support:5; /* Bitmask of states from which PME# |
| can be generated */ |
| unsigned int pme_interrupt:1;/* Is native PCIe PME signaling used? */ |
| unsigned int d1_support:1; /* Low power state D1 is supported */ |
| unsigned int d2_support:1; /* Low power state D2 is supported */ |
| unsigned int no_d1d2:1; /* D1 and D2 are forbidden */ |
| unsigned int wakeup_prepared:1; /* Device prepared for wake up */ |
| unsigned int d3_delay; /* D3->D0 transition time in ms */ |
| ... |
| }; |
| |
| They also indirectly use some fields of the struct device that is embedded in |
| struct pci_dev. |
| |
| 2.2. Device Initialization |
| -------------------------- |
| |
| The PCI subsystem's first task related to device power management is to |
| prepare the device for power management and initialize the fields of struct |
| pci_dev used for this purpose. This happens in two functions defined in |
| drivers/pci/pci.c, pci_pm_init() and platform_pci_wakeup_init(). |
| |
| The first of these functions checks if the device supports native PCI PM |
| and if that's the case the offset of its power management capability structure |
| in the configuration space is stored in the pm_cap field of the device's struct |
| pci_dev object. Next, the function checks which PCI low-power states are |
| supported by the device and from which low-power states the device can generate |
| native PCI PMEs. The power management fields of the device's struct pci_dev and |
| the struct device embedded in it are updated accordingly and the generation of |
| PMEs by the device is disabled. |
| |
| The second function checks if the device can be prepared to signal wakeup with |
| the help of the platform firmware, such as the ACPI BIOS. If that is the case, |
| the function updates the wakeup fields in struct device embedded in the |
| device's struct pci_dev and uses the firmware-provided method to prevent the |
| device from signaling wakeup. |
| |
| At this point the device is ready for power management. For driverless devices, |
| however, this functionality is limited to a few basic operations carried out |
| during system-wide transitions to a sleep state and back to the working state. |
| |
| 2.3. Runtime Device Power Management |
| ------------------------------------ |
| |
| The PCI subsystem plays a vital role in the runtime power management of PCI |
| devices. For this purpose it uses the general runtime power management |
| (runtime PM) framework described in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst. |
| Namely, it provides subsystem-level callbacks:: |
| |
| pci_pm_runtime_suspend() |
| pci_pm_runtime_resume() |
| pci_pm_runtime_idle() |
| |
| that are executed by the core runtime PM routines. It also implements the |
| entire mechanics necessary for handling runtime wakeup signals from PCI devices |
| in low-power states, which at the time of this writing works for both the native |
| PCI Express PME signaling and the ACPI GPE-based wakeup signaling described in |
| Section 1. |
| |
| First, a PCI device is put into a low-power state, or suspended, with the help |
| of pm_schedule_suspend() or pm_runtime_suspend() which for PCI devices call |
| pci_pm_runtime_suspend() to do the actual job. For this to work, the device's |
| driver has to provide a pm->runtime_suspend() callback (see below), which is |
| run by pci_pm_runtime_suspend() as the first action. If the driver's callback |
| returns successfully, the device's standard configuration registers are saved, |
| the device is prepared to generate wakeup signals and, finally, it is put into |
| the target low-power state. |
| |
| The low-power state to put the device into is the lowest-power (highest number) |
| state from which it can signal wakeup. The exact method of signaling wakeup is |
| system-dependent and is determined by the PCI subsystem on the basis of the |
| reported capabilities of the device and the platform firmware. To prepare the |
| device for signaling wakeup and put it into the selected low-power state, the |
| PCI subsystem can use the platform firmware as well as the device's native PCI |
| PM capabilities, if supported. |
| |
| It is expected that the device driver's pm->runtime_suspend() callback will |
| not attempt to prepare the device for signaling wakeup or to put it into a |
| low-power state. The driver ought to leave these tasks to the PCI subsystem |
| that has all of the information necessary to perform them. |
| |
| A suspended device is brought back into the "active" state, or resumed, |
| with the help of pm_request_resume() or pm_runtime_resume() which both call |
| pci_pm_runtime_resume() for PCI devices. Again, this only works if the device's |
| driver provides a pm->runtime_resume() callback (see below). However, before |
| the driver's callback is executed, pci_pm_runtime_resume() brings the device |
| back into the full-power state, prevents it from signaling wakeup while in that |
| state and restores its standard configuration registers. Thus the driver's |
| callback need not worry about the PCI-specific aspects of the device resume. |
| |
| Note that generally pci_pm_runtime_resume() may be called in two different |
| situations. First, it may be called at the request of the device's driver, for |
| example if there are some data for it to process. Second, it may be called |
| as a result of a wakeup signal from the device itself (this sometimes is |
| referred to as "remote wakeup"). Of course, for this purpose the wakeup signal |
| is handled in one of the ways described in Section 1 and finally converted into |
| a notification for the PCI subsystem after the source device has been |
| identified. |
| |
| The pci_pm_runtime_idle() function, called for PCI devices by pm_runtime_idle() |
| and pm_request_idle(), executes the device driver's pm->runtime_idle() |
| callback, if defined, and if that callback doesn't return error code (or is not |
| present at all), suspends the device with the help of pm_runtime_suspend(). |
| Sometimes pci_pm_runtime_idle() is called automatically by the PM core (for |
| example, it is called right after the device has just been resumed), in which |
| cases it is expected to suspend the device if that makes sense. Usually, |
| however, the PCI subsystem doesn't really know if the device really can be |
| suspended, so it lets the device's driver decide by running its |
| pm->runtime_idle() callback. |
| |
| 2.4. System-Wide Power Transitions |
| ---------------------------------- |
| There are a few different types of system-wide power transitions, described in |
| Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst. Each of them requires devices to be handled |
| in a specific way and the PM core executes subsystem-level power management |
| callbacks for this purpose. They are executed in phases such that each phase |
| involves executing the same subsystem-level callback for every device belonging |
| to the given subsystem before the next phase begins. These phases always run |
| after tasks have been frozen. |
| |
| 2.4.1. System Suspend |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| When the system is going into a sleep state in which the contents of memory will |
| be preserved, such as one of the ACPI sleep states S1-S3, the phases are: |
| |
| prepare, suspend, suspend_noirq. |
| |
| The following PCI bus type's callbacks, respectively, are used in these phases:: |
| |
| pci_pm_prepare() |
| pci_pm_suspend() |
| pci_pm_suspend_noirq() |
| |
| The pci_pm_prepare() routine first puts the device into the "fully functional" |
| state with the help of pm_runtime_resume(). Then, it executes the device |
| driver's pm->prepare() callback if defined (i.e. if the driver's struct |
| dev_pm_ops object is present and the prepare pointer in that object is valid). |
| |
| The pci_pm_suspend() routine first checks if the device's driver implements |
| legacy PCI suspend routines (see Section 3), in which case the driver's legacy |
| suspend callback is executed, if present, and its result is returned. Next, if |
| the device's driver doesn't provide a struct dev_pm_ops object (containing |
| pointers to the driver's callbacks), pci_pm_default_suspend() is called, which |
| simply turns off the device's bus master capability and runs |
| pcibios_disable_device() to disable it, unless the device is a bridge (PCI |
| bridges are ignored by this routine). Next, the device driver's pm->suspend() |
| callback is executed, if defined, and its result is returned if it fails. |
| Finally, pci_fixup_device() is called to apply hardware suspend quirks related |
| to the device if necessary. |
| |
| Note that the suspend phase is carried out asynchronously for PCI devices, so |
| the pci_pm_suspend() callback may be executed in parallel for any pair of PCI |
| devices that don't depend on each other in a known way (i.e. none of the paths |
| in the device tree from the root bridge to a leaf device contains both of them). |
| |
| The pci_pm_suspend_noirq() routine is executed after suspend_device_irqs() has |
| been called, which means that the device driver's interrupt handler won't be |
| invoked while this routine is running. It first checks if the device's driver |
| implements legacy PCI suspends routines (Section 3), in which case the legacy |
| late suspend routine is called and its result is returned (the standard |
| configuration registers of the device are saved if the driver's callback hasn't |
| done that). Second, if the device driver's struct dev_pm_ops object is not |
| present, the device's standard configuration registers are saved and the routine |
| returns success. Otherwise the device driver's pm->suspend_noirq() callback is |
| executed, if present, and its result is returned if it fails. Next, if the |
| device's standard configuration registers haven't been saved yet (one of the |
| device driver's callbacks executed before might do that), pci_pm_suspend_noirq() |
| saves them, prepares the device to signal wakeup (if necessary) and puts it into |
| a low-power state. |
| |
| The low-power state to put the device into is the lowest-power (highest number) |
| state from which it can signal wakeup while the system is in the target sleep |
| state. Just like in the runtime PM case described above, the mechanism of |
| signaling wakeup is system-dependent and determined by the PCI subsystem, which |
| is also responsible for preparing the device to signal wakeup from the system's |
| target sleep state as appropriate. |
| |
| PCI device drivers (that don't implement legacy power management callbacks) are |
| generally not expected to prepare devices for signaling wakeup or to put them |
| into low-power states. However, if one of the driver's suspend callbacks |
| (pm->suspend() or pm->suspend_noirq()) saves the device's standard configuration |
| registers, pci_pm_suspend_noirq() will assume that the device has been prepared |
| to signal wakeup and put into a low-power state by the driver (the driver is |
| then assumed to have used the helper functions provided by the PCI subsystem for |
| this purpose). PCI device drivers are not encouraged to do that, but in some |
| rare cases doing that in the driver may be the optimum approach. |
| |
| 2.4.2. System Resume |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| When the system is undergoing a transition from a sleep state in which the |
| contents of memory have been preserved, such as one of the ACPI sleep states |
| S1-S3, into the working state (ACPI S0), the phases are: |
| |
| resume_noirq, resume, complete. |
| |
| The following PCI bus type's callbacks, respectively, are executed in these |
| phases:: |
| |
| pci_pm_resume_noirq() |
| pci_pm_resume() |
| pci_pm_complete() |
| |
| The pci_pm_resume_noirq() routine first puts the device into the full-power |
| state, restores its standard configuration registers and applies early resume |
| hardware quirks related to the device, if necessary. This is done |
| unconditionally, regardless of whether or not the device's driver implements |
| legacy PCI power management callbacks (this way all PCI devices are in the |
| full-power state and their standard configuration registers have been restored |
| when their interrupt handlers are invoked for the first time during resume, |
| which allows the kernel to avoid problems with the handling of shared interrupts |
| by drivers whose devices are still suspended). If legacy PCI power management |
| callbacks (see Section 3) are implemented by the device's driver, the legacy |
| early resume callback is executed and its result is returned. Otherwise, the |
| device driver's pm->resume_noirq() callback is executed, if defined, and its |
| result is returned. |
| |
| The pci_pm_resume() routine first checks if the device's standard configuration |
| registers have been restored and restores them if that's not the case (this |
| only is necessary in the error path during a failing suspend). Next, resume |
| hardware quirks related to the device are applied, if necessary, and if the |
| device's driver implements legacy PCI power management callbacks (see |
| Section 3), the driver's legacy resume callback is executed and its result is |
| returned. Otherwise, the device's wakeup signaling mechanisms are blocked and |
| its driver's pm->resume() callback is executed, if defined (the callback's |
| result is then returned). |
| |
| The resume phase is carried out asynchronously for PCI devices, like the |
| suspend phase described above, which means that if two PCI devices don't depend |
| on each other in a known way, the pci_pm_resume() routine may be executed for |
| the both of them in parallel. |
| |
| The pci_pm_complete() routine only executes the device driver's pm->complete() |
| callback, if defined. |
| |
| 2.4.3. System Hibernation |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| System hibernation is more complicated than system suspend, because it requires |
| a system image to be created and written into a persistent storage medium. The |
| image is created atomically and all devices are quiesced, or frozen, before that |
| happens. |
| |
| The freezing of devices is carried out after enough memory has been freed (at |
| the time of this writing the image creation requires at least 50% of system RAM |
| to be free) in the following three phases: |
| |
| prepare, freeze, freeze_noirq |
| |
| that correspond to the PCI bus type's callbacks:: |
| |
| pci_pm_prepare() |
| pci_pm_freeze() |
| pci_pm_freeze_noirq() |
| |
| This means that the prepare phase is exactly the same as for system suspend. |
| The other two phases, however, are different. |
| |
| The pci_pm_freeze() routine is quite similar to pci_pm_suspend(), but it runs |
| the device driver's pm->freeze() callback, if defined, instead of pm->suspend(), |
| and it doesn't apply the suspend-related hardware quirks. It is executed |
| asynchronously for different PCI devices that don't depend on each other in a |
| known way. |
| |
| The pci_pm_freeze_noirq() routine, in turn, is similar to |
| pci_pm_suspend_noirq(), but it calls the device driver's pm->freeze_noirq() |
| routine instead of pm->suspend_noirq(). It also doesn't attempt to prepare the |
| device for signaling wakeup and put it into a low-power state. Still, it saves |
| the device's standard configuration registers if they haven't been saved by one |
| of the driver's callbacks. |
| |
| Once the image has been created, it has to be saved. However, at this point all |
| devices are frozen and they cannot handle I/O, while their ability to handle |
| I/O is obviously necessary for the image saving. Thus they have to be brought |
| back to the fully functional state and this is done in the following phases: |
| |
| thaw_noirq, thaw, complete |
| |
| using the following PCI bus type's callbacks:: |
| |
| pci_pm_thaw_noirq() |
| pci_pm_thaw() |
| pci_pm_complete() |
| |
| respectively. |
| |
| The first of them, pci_pm_thaw_noirq(), is analogous to pci_pm_resume_noirq(), |
| but it doesn't put the device into the full power state and doesn't attempt to |
| restore its standard configuration registers. It also executes the device |
| driver's pm->thaw_noirq() callback, if defined, instead of pm->resume_noirq(). |
| |
| The pci_pm_thaw() routine is similar to pci_pm_resume(), but it runs the device |
| driver's pm->thaw() callback instead of pm->resume(). It is executed |
| asynchronously for different PCI devices that don't depend on each other in a |
| known way. |
| |
| The complete phase it the same as for system resume. |
| |
| After saving the image, devices need to be powered down before the system can |
| enter the target sleep state (ACPI S4 for ACPI-based systems). This is done in |
| three phases: |
| |
| prepare, poweroff, poweroff_noirq |
| |
| where the prepare phase is exactly the same as for system suspend. The other |
| two phases are analogous to the suspend and suspend_noirq phases, respectively. |
| The PCI subsystem-level callbacks they correspond to:: |
| |
| pci_pm_poweroff() |
| pci_pm_poweroff_noirq() |
| |
| work in analogy with pci_pm_suspend() and pci_pm_poweroff_noirq(), respectively, |
| although they don't attempt to save the device's standard configuration |
| registers. |
| |
| 2.4.4. System Restore |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| System restore requires a hibernation image to be loaded into memory and the |
| pre-hibernation memory contents to be restored before the pre-hibernation system |
| activity can be resumed. |
| |
| As described in Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst, the hibernation image is loaded |
| into memory by a fresh instance of the kernel, called the boot kernel, which in |
| turn is loaded and run by a boot loader in the usual way. After the boot kernel |
| has loaded the image, it needs to replace its own code and data with the code |
| and data of the "hibernated" kernel stored within the image, called the image |
| kernel. For this purpose all devices are frozen just like before creating |
| the image during hibernation, in the |
| |
| prepare, freeze, freeze_noirq |
| |
| phases described above. However, the devices affected by these phases are only |
| those having drivers in the boot kernel; other devices will still be in whatever |
| state the boot loader left them. |
| |
| Should the restoration of the pre-hibernation memory contents fail, the boot |
| kernel would go through the "thawing" procedure described above, using the |
| thaw_noirq, thaw, and complete phases (that will only affect the devices having |
| drivers in the boot kernel), and then continue running normally. |
| |
| If the pre-hibernation memory contents are restored successfully, which is the |
| usual situation, control is passed to the image kernel, which then becomes |
| responsible for bringing the system back to the working state. To achieve this, |
| it must restore the devices' pre-hibernation functionality, which is done much |
| like waking up from the memory sleep state, although it involves different |
| phases: |
| |
| restore_noirq, restore, complete |
| |
| The first two of these are analogous to the resume_noirq and resume phases |
| described above, respectively, and correspond to the following PCI subsystem |
| callbacks:: |
| |
| pci_pm_restore_noirq() |
| pci_pm_restore() |
| |
| These callbacks work in analogy with pci_pm_resume_noirq() and pci_pm_resume(), |
| respectively, but they execute the device driver's pm->restore_noirq() and |
| pm->restore() callbacks, if available. |
| |
| The complete phase is carried out in exactly the same way as during system |
| resume. |
| |
| |
| 3. PCI Device Drivers and Power Management |
| ========================================== |
| |
| 3.1. Power Management Callbacks |
| ------------------------------- |
| |
| PCI device drivers participate in power management by providing callbacks to be |
| executed by the PCI subsystem's power management routines described above and by |
| controlling the runtime power management of their devices. |
| |
| At the time of this writing there are two ways to define power management |
| callbacks for a PCI device driver, the recommended one, based on using a |
| dev_pm_ops structure described in Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst, and the |
| "legacy" one, in which the .suspend(), .suspend_late(), .resume_early(), and |
| .resume() callbacks from struct pci_driver are used. The legacy approach, |
| however, doesn't allow one to define runtime power management callbacks and is |
| not really suitable for any new drivers. Therefore it is not covered by this |
| document (refer to the source code to learn more about it). |
| |
| It is recommended that all PCI device drivers define a struct dev_pm_ops object |
| containing pointers to power management (PM) callbacks that will be executed by |
| the PCI subsystem's PM routines in various circumstances. A pointer to the |
| driver's struct dev_pm_ops object has to be assigned to the driver.pm field in |
| its struct pci_driver object. Once that has happened, the "legacy" PM callbacks |
| in struct pci_driver are ignored (even if they are not NULL). |
| |
| The PM callbacks in struct dev_pm_ops are not mandatory and if they are not |
| defined (i.e. the respective fields of struct dev_pm_ops are unset) the PCI |
| subsystem will handle the device in a simplified default manner. If they are |
| defined, though, they are expected to behave as described in the following |
| subsections. |
| |
| 3.1.1. prepare() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The prepare() callback is executed during system suspend, during hibernation |
| (when a hibernation image is about to be created), during power-off after |
| saving a hibernation image and during system restore, when a hibernation image |
| has just been loaded into memory. |
| |
| This callback is only necessary if the driver's device has children that in |
| general may be registered at any time. In that case the role of the prepare() |
| callback is to prevent new children of the device from being registered until |
| one of the resume_noirq(), thaw_noirq(), or restore_noirq() callbacks is run. |
| |
| In addition to that the prepare() callback may carry out some operations |
| preparing the device to be suspended, although it should not allocate memory |
| (if additional memory is required to suspend the device, it has to be |
| preallocated earlier, for example in a suspend/hibernate notifier as described |
| in Documentation/driver-api/pm/notifiers.rst). |
| |
| 3.1.2. suspend() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The suspend() callback is only executed during system suspend, after prepare() |
| callbacks have been executed for all devices in the system. |
| |
| This callback is expected to quiesce the device and prepare it to be put into a |
| low-power state by the PCI subsystem. It is not required (in fact it even is |
| not recommended) that a PCI driver's suspend() callback save the standard |
| configuration registers of the device, prepare it for waking up the system, or |
| put it into a low-power state. All of these operations can very well be taken |
| care of by the PCI subsystem, without the driver's participation. |
| |
| However, in some rare case it is convenient to carry out these operations in |
| a PCI driver. Then, pci_save_state(), pci_prepare_to_sleep(), and |
| pci_set_power_state() should be used to save the device's standard configuration |
| registers, to prepare it for system wakeup (if necessary), and to put it into a |
| low-power state, respectively. Moreover, if the driver calls pci_save_state(), |
| the PCI subsystem will not execute either pci_prepare_to_sleep(), or |
| pci_set_power_state() for its device, so the driver is then responsible for |
| handling the device as appropriate. |
| |
| While the suspend() callback is being executed, the driver's interrupt handler |
| can be invoked to handle an interrupt from the device, so all suspend-related |
| operations relying on the driver's ability to handle interrupts should be |
| carried out in this callback. |
| |
| 3.1.3. suspend_noirq() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The suspend_noirq() callback is only executed during system suspend, after |
| suspend() callbacks have been executed for all devices in the system and |
| after device interrupts have been disabled by the PM core. |
| |
| The difference between suspend_noirq() and suspend() is that the driver's |
| interrupt handler will not be invoked while suspend_noirq() is running. Thus |
| suspend_noirq() can carry out operations that would cause race conditions to |
| arise if they were performed in suspend(). |
| |
| 3.1.4. freeze() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The freeze() callback is hibernation-specific and is executed in two situations, |
| during hibernation, after prepare() callbacks have been executed for all devices |
| in preparation for the creation of a system image, and during restore, |
| after a system image has been loaded into memory from persistent storage and the |
| prepare() callbacks have been executed for all devices. |
| |
| The role of this callback is analogous to the role of the suspend() callback |
| described above. In fact, they only need to be different in the rare cases when |
| the driver takes the responsibility for putting the device into a low-power |
| state. |
| |
| In that cases the freeze() callback should not prepare the device system wakeup |
| or put it into a low-power state. Still, either it or freeze_noirq() should |
| save the device's standard configuration registers using pci_save_state(). |
| |
| 3.1.5. freeze_noirq() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The freeze_noirq() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed during |
| hibernation, after prepare() and freeze() callbacks have been executed for all |
| devices in preparation for the creation of a system image, and during restore, |
| after a system image has been loaded into memory and after prepare() and |
| freeze() callbacks have been executed for all devices. It is always executed |
| after device interrupts have been disabled by the PM core. |
| |
| The role of this callback is analogous to the role of the suspend_noirq() |
| callback described above and it very rarely is necessary to define |
| freeze_noirq(). |
| |
| The difference between freeze_noirq() and freeze() is analogous to the |
| difference between suspend_noirq() and suspend(). |
| |
| 3.1.6. poweroff() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The poweroff() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed when the system |
| is about to be powered off after saving a hibernation image to a persistent |
| storage. prepare() callbacks are executed for all devices before poweroff() is |
| called. |
| |
| The role of this callback is analogous to the role of the suspend() and freeze() |
| callbacks described above, although it does not need to save the contents of |
| the device's registers. In particular, if the driver wants to put the device |
| into a low-power state itself instead of allowing the PCI subsystem to do that, |
| the poweroff() callback should use pci_prepare_to_sleep() and |
| pci_set_power_state() to prepare the device for system wakeup and to put it |
| into a low-power state, respectively, but it need not save the device's standard |
| configuration registers. |
| |
| 3.1.7. poweroff_noirq() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The poweroff_noirq() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed after |
| poweroff() callbacks have been executed for all devices in the system. |
| |
| The role of this callback is analogous to the role of the suspend_noirq() and |
| freeze_noirq() callbacks described above, but it does not need to save the |
| contents of the device's registers. |
| |
| The difference between poweroff_noirq() and poweroff() is analogous to the |
| difference between suspend_noirq() and suspend(). |
| |
| 3.1.8. resume_noirq() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The resume_noirq() callback is only executed during system resume, after the |
| PM core has enabled the non-boot CPUs. The driver's interrupt handler will not |
| be invoked while resume_noirq() is running, so this callback can carry out |
| operations that might race with the interrupt handler. |
| |
| Since the PCI subsystem unconditionally puts all devices into the full power |
| state in the resume_noirq phase of system resume and restores their standard |
| configuration registers, resume_noirq() is usually not necessary. In general |
| it should only be used for performing operations that would lead to race |
| conditions if carried out by resume(). |
| |
| 3.1.9. resume() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The resume() callback is only executed during system resume, after |
| resume_noirq() callbacks have been executed for all devices in the system and |
| device interrupts have been enabled by the PM core. |
| |
| This callback is responsible for restoring the pre-suspend configuration of the |
| device and bringing it back to the fully functional state. The device should be |
| able to process I/O in a usual way after resume() has returned. |
| |
| 3.1.10. thaw_noirq() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The thaw_noirq() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed after a |
| system image has been created and the non-boot CPUs have been enabled by the PM |
| core, in the thaw_noirq phase of hibernation. It also may be executed if the |
| loading of a hibernation image fails during system restore (it is then executed |
| after enabling the non-boot CPUs). The driver's interrupt handler will not be |
| invoked while thaw_noirq() is running. |
| |
| The role of this callback is analogous to the role of resume_noirq(). The |
| difference between these two callbacks is that thaw_noirq() is executed after |
| freeze() and freeze_noirq(), so in general it does not need to modify the |
| contents of the device's registers. |
| |
| 3.1.11. thaw() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The thaw() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed after thaw_noirq() |
| callbacks have been executed for all devices in the system and after device |
| interrupts have been enabled by the PM core. |
| |
| This callback is responsible for restoring the pre-freeze configuration of |
| the device, so that it will work in a usual way after thaw() has returned. |
| |
| 3.1.12. restore_noirq() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The restore_noirq() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed in the |
| restore_noirq phase of hibernation, when the boot kernel has passed control to |
| the image kernel and the non-boot CPUs have been enabled by the image kernel's |
| PM core. |
| |
| This callback is analogous to resume_noirq() with the exception that it cannot |
| make any assumption on the previous state of the device, even if the BIOS (or |
| generally the platform firmware) is known to preserve that state over a |
| suspend-resume cycle. |
| |
| For the vast majority of PCI device drivers there is no difference between |
| resume_noirq() and restore_noirq(). |
| |
| 3.1.13. restore() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The restore() callback is hibernation-specific. It is executed after |
| restore_noirq() callbacks have been executed for all devices in the system and |
| after the PM core has enabled device drivers' interrupt handlers to be invoked. |
| |
| This callback is analogous to resume(), just like restore_noirq() is analogous |
| to resume_noirq(). Consequently, the difference between restore_noirq() and |
| restore() is analogous to the difference between resume_noirq() and resume(). |
| |
| For the vast majority of PCI device drivers there is no difference between |
| resume() and restore(). |
| |
| 3.1.14. complete() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The complete() callback is executed in the following situations: |
| |
| - during system resume, after resume() callbacks have been executed for all |
| devices, |
| - during hibernation, before saving the system image, after thaw() callbacks |
| have been executed for all devices, |
| - during system restore, when the system is going back to its pre-hibernation |
| state, after restore() callbacks have been executed for all devices. |
| |
| It also may be executed if the loading of a hibernation image into memory fails |
| (in that case it is run after thaw() callbacks have been executed for all |
| devices that have drivers in the boot kernel). |
| |
| This callback is entirely optional, although it may be necessary if the |
| prepare() callback performs operations that need to be reversed. |
| |
| 3.1.15. runtime_suspend() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The runtime_suspend() callback is specific to device runtime power management |
| (runtime PM). It is executed by the PM core's runtime PM framework when the |
| device is about to be suspended (i.e. quiesced and put into a low-power state) |
| at run time. |
| |
| This callback is responsible for freezing the device and preparing it to be |
| put into a low-power state, but it must allow the PCI subsystem to perform all |
| of the PCI-specific actions necessary for suspending the device. |
| |
| 3.1.16. runtime_resume() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The runtime_resume() callback is specific to device runtime PM. It is executed |
| by the PM core's runtime PM framework when the device is about to be resumed |
| (i.e. put into the full-power state and programmed to process I/O normally) at |
| run time. |
| |
| This callback is responsible for restoring the normal functionality of the |
| device after it has been put into the full-power state by the PCI subsystem. |
| The device is expected to be able to process I/O in the usual way after |
| runtime_resume() has returned. |
| |
| 3.1.17. runtime_idle() |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The runtime_idle() callback is specific to device runtime PM. It is executed |
| by the PM core's runtime PM framework whenever it may be desirable to suspend |
| the device according to the PM core's information. In particular, it is |
| automatically executed right after runtime_resume() has returned in case the |
| resume of the device has happened as a result of a spurious event. |
| |
| This callback is optional, but if it is not implemented or if it returns 0, the |
| PCI subsystem will call pm_runtime_suspend() for the device, which in turn will |
| cause the driver's runtime_suspend() callback to be executed. |
| |
| 3.1.18. Pointing Multiple Callback Pointers to One Routine |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Although in principle each of the callbacks described in the previous |
| subsections can be defined as a separate function, it often is convenient to |
| point two or more members of struct dev_pm_ops to the same routine. There are |
| a few convenience macros that can be used for this purpose. |
| |
| The SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS macro declares a struct dev_pm_ops object with one |
| suspend routine pointed to by the .suspend(), .freeze(), and .poweroff() |
| members and one resume routine pointed to by the .resume(), .thaw(), and |
| .restore() members. The other function pointers in this struct dev_pm_ops are |
| unset. |
| |
| The UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS macro is similar to SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS, but it |
| additionally sets the .runtime_resume() pointer to the same value as |
| .resume() (and .thaw(), and .restore()) and the .runtime_suspend() pointer to |
| the same value as .suspend() (and .freeze() and .poweroff()). |
| |
| The SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS can be used inside of a declaration of struct |
| dev_pm_ops to indicate that one suspend routine is to be pointed to by the |
| .suspend(), .freeze(), and .poweroff() members and one resume routine is to |
| be pointed to by the .resume(), .thaw(), and .restore() members. |
| |
| 3.1.19. Driver Flags for Power Management |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| The PM core allows device drivers to set flags that influence the handling of |
| power management for the devices by the core itself and by middle layer code |
| including the PCI bus type. The flags should be set once at the driver probe |
| time with the help of the dev_pm_set_driver_flags() function and they should not |
| be updated directly afterwards. |
| |
| The DPM_FLAG_NEVER_SKIP flag prevents the PM core from using the direct-complete |
| mechanism allowing device suspend/resume callbacks to be skipped if the device |
| is in runtime suspend when the system suspend starts. That also affects all of |
| the ancestors of the device, so this flag should only be used if absolutely |
| necessary. |
| |
| The DPM_FLAG_SMART_PREPARE flag instructs the PCI bus type to only return a |
| positive value from pci_pm_prepare() if the ->prepare callback provided by the |
| driver of the device returns a positive value. That allows the driver to opt |
| out from using the direct-complete mechanism dynamically. |
| |
| The DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND flag tells the PCI bus type that from the driver's |
| perspective the device can be safely left in runtime suspend during system |
| suspend. That causes pci_pm_suspend(), pci_pm_freeze() and pci_pm_poweroff() |
| to skip resuming the device from runtime suspend unless there are PCI-specific |
| reasons for doing that. Also, it causes pci_pm_suspend_late/noirq(), |
| pci_pm_freeze_late/noirq() and pci_pm_poweroff_late/noirq() to return early |
| if the device remains in runtime suspend in the beginning of the "late" phase |
| of the system-wide transition under way. Moreover, if the device is in |
| runtime suspend in pci_pm_resume_noirq() or pci_pm_restore_noirq(), its runtime |
| power management status will be changed to "active" (as it is going to be put |
| into D0 going forward), but if it is in runtime suspend in pci_pm_thaw_noirq(), |
| the function will set the power.direct_complete flag for it (to make the PM core |
| skip the subsequent "thaw" callbacks for it) and return. |
| |
| Setting the DPM_FLAG_LEAVE_SUSPENDED flag means that the driver prefers the |
| device to be left in suspend after system-wide transitions to the working state. |
| This flag is checked by the PM core, but the PCI bus type informs the PM core |
| which devices may be left in suspend from its perspective (that happens during |
| the "noirq" phase of system-wide suspend and analogous transitions) and next it |
| uses the dev_pm_may_skip_resume() helper to decide whether or not to return from |
| pci_pm_resume_noirq() early, as the PM core will skip the remaining resume |
| callbacks for the device during the transition under way and will set its |
| runtime PM status to "suspended" if dev_pm_may_skip_resume() returns "true" for |
| it. |
| |
| 3.2. Device Runtime Power Management |
| ------------------------------------ |
| |
| In addition to providing device power management callbacks PCI device drivers |
| are responsible for controlling the runtime power management (runtime PM) of |
| their devices. |
| |
| The PCI device runtime PM is optional, but it is recommended that PCI device |
| drivers implement it at least in the cases where there is a reliable way of |
| verifying that the device is not used (like when the network cable is detached |
| from an Ethernet adapter or there are no devices attached to a USB controller). |
| |
| To support the PCI runtime PM the driver first needs to implement the |
| runtime_suspend() and runtime_resume() callbacks. It also may need to implement |
| the runtime_idle() callback to prevent the device from being suspended again |
| every time right after the runtime_resume() callback has returned |
| (alternatively, the runtime_suspend() callback will have to check if the |
| device should really be suspended and return -EAGAIN if that is not the case). |
| |
| The runtime PM of PCI devices is enabled by default by the PCI core. PCI |
| device drivers do not need to enable it and should not attempt to do so. |
| However, it is blocked by pci_pm_init() that runs the pm_runtime_forbid() |
| helper function. In addition to that, the runtime PM usage counter of |
| each PCI device is incremented by local_pci_probe() before executing the |
| probe callback provided by the device's driver. |
| |
| If a PCI driver implements the runtime PM callbacks and intends to use the |
| runtime PM framework provided by the PM core and the PCI subsystem, it needs |
| to decrement the device's runtime PM usage counter in its probe callback |
| function. If it doesn't do that, the counter will always be different from |
| zero for the device and it will never be runtime-suspended. The simplest |
| way to do that is by calling pm_runtime_put_noidle(), but if the driver |
| wants to schedule an autosuspend right away, for example, it may call |
| pm_runtime_put_autosuspend() instead for this purpose. Generally, it |
| just needs to call a function that decrements the devices usage counter |
| from its probe routine to make runtime PM work for the device. |
| |
| It is important to remember that the driver's runtime_suspend() callback |
| may be executed right after the usage counter has been decremented, because |
| user space may already have caused the pm_runtime_allow() helper function |
| unblocking the runtime PM of the device to run via sysfs, so the driver must |
| be prepared to cope with that. |
| |
| The driver itself should not call pm_runtime_allow(), though. Instead, it |
| should let user space or some platform-specific code do that (user space can |
| do it via sysfs as stated above), but it must be prepared to handle the |
| runtime PM of the device correctly as soon as pm_runtime_allow() is called |
| (which may happen at any time, even before the driver is loaded). |
| |
| When the driver's remove callback runs, it has to balance the decrementation |
| of the device's runtime PM usage counter at the probe time. For this reason, |
| if it has decremented the counter in its probe callback, it must run |
| pm_runtime_get_noresume() in its remove callback. [Since the core carries |
| out a runtime resume of the device and bumps up the device's usage counter |
| before running the driver's remove callback, the runtime PM of the device |
| is effectively disabled for the duration of the remove execution and all |
| runtime PM helper functions incrementing the device's usage counter are |
| then effectively equivalent to pm_runtime_get_noresume().] |
| |
| The runtime PM framework works by processing requests to suspend or resume |
| devices, or to check if they are idle (in which cases it is reasonable to |
| subsequently request that they be suspended). These requests are represented |
| by work items put into the power management workqueue, pm_wq. Although there |
| are a few situations in which power management requests are automatically |
| queued by the PM core (for example, after processing a request to resume a |
| device the PM core automatically queues a request to check if the device is |
| idle), device drivers are generally responsible for queuing power management |
| requests for their devices. For this purpose they should use the runtime PM |
| helper functions provided by the PM core, discussed in |
| Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst. |
| |
| Devices can also be suspended and resumed synchronously, without placing a |
| request into pm_wq. In the majority of cases this also is done by their |
| drivers that use helper functions provided by the PM core for this purpose. |
| |
| For more information on the runtime PM of devices refer to |
| Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst. |
| |
| |
| 4. Resources |
| ============ |
| |
| PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev. 3.0 |
| |
| PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, Rev. 1.2 |
| |
| Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification, Rev. 3.0b |
| |
| PCI Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0 |
| |
| Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst |
| |
| Documentation/power/runtime_pm.rst |