Commit 24f0d316 authored by Leo Yan's avatar Leo Yan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

doc: coresight: correct usage for disabling idle states

In the coresight CPU debug document it suggests to use 'echo' command
to set latency request to /dev/cpu_dma_latency so can disable all CPU
idle states, but in fact this doesn't work.

This is because when the command 'echo' exits, it releases the device
node's file descriptor and the kernel release function removes the QoS
constraint; finally when the command 'echo' finished there have no
constraint imposed on cpu_dma_latency.

This patch changes to use 'exec' to access '/dev/cpu_dma_latency', the
command 'exec' can avoid the file descriptor to be closed so we can
keep the constraint on cpu_dma_latency.

This patch also adds the info for reference docs for PM QoS and cpuidle
sysfs.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarKim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarMathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0bbb194c
......@@ -149,11 +149,23 @@ If you want to limit idle states at boot time, you can use "nohlt" or
At the runtime you can disable idle states with below methods:
Set latency request to /dev/cpu_dma_latency to disable all CPUs specific idle
states (if latency = 0uS then disable all idle states):
# echo "what_ever_latency_you_need_in_uS" > /dev/cpu_dma_latency
Disable specific CPU's specific idle state:
It is possible to disable CPU idle states by way of the PM QoS
subsystem, more specifically by using the "/dev/cpu_dma_latency"
interface (see Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt for more
details). As specified in the PM QoS documentation the requested
parameter will stay in effect until the file descriptor is released.
For example:
# exec 3<> /dev/cpu_dma_latency; echo 0 >&3
...
Do some work...
...
# exec 3<>-
The same can also be done from an application program.
Disable specific CPU's specific idle state from cpuidle sysfs (see
Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt):
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$cpu/cpuidle/state$state/disable
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