Re: [PATCH v9 0/4] Add vendor agnostic mechanism to report hardware sleep

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Mon Apr 17 2023 - 04:25:58 EST


Hi Mario, et al.,

On 4/14/23 03:23, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> An important part of validating that s0ix worked properly is to check how
> much of a cycle was spent in a hardware sleep state.
>
> The reporting of hardware sleep is a mix of kernel messages and sysfs
> files that vary from vendor to vendor. Collecting this information
> requires extra information on the kernel command line or fetching from
> debugfs.
>
> To make this information more readily accessible introduce a new file in
> suspend_stats that drivers can report into during their resume routine.
>
> Userspace can fetch this information and compare it against the duration
> of the cycle to allow determining residency percentages and flagging
> problems.
>
> Mario Limonciello (4):
> PM: Add sysfs files to represent time spent in hardware sleep state
> platform/x86/amd: pmc: Report duration of time in hw sleep state
> platform/x86/intel/pmc: core: Always capture counters on suspend
> platform/x86/intel/pmc: core: Report duration of time in HW sleep
> state
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power | 29 +++++++++++++
> drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc.c | 6 +--
> drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmc/core.c | 17 ++++----
> drivers/platform/x86/intel/pmc/core.h | 4 +-
> include/linux/suspend.h | 8 ++++
> kernel/power/main.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++------
> 6 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 09a9639e56c01c7a00d6c0ca63f4c7c41abe075d

Thank you for working on this, this looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

For the series. Since this also touches kernel/power/main.c
I think it would be best if the entire series is merged
through the linux-pm tree and I'm fine with the pdx86 bits
also getting merged through linux-pm.

Rafael ?

Regards,

Hans