Re: [PATCH v10 0/4] Add vendor agnostic mechanism to report hardware sleep

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Apr 20 2023 - 13:08:41 EST


On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 5:27 PM Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> 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.
>
> v9->v10:
> * Add tags
> * Rebase on linux-pm/bleeding-edge as it will apply through this tree
>
> 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(-)
>

Whole series applied as 6.4-rc1 material, thanks!