From patchwork Mon Nov 9 17:29:21 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Punit Agrawal X-Patchwork-Id: 7585651 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-pm@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-parsemail@patchwork1.web.kernel.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.136]) by patchwork1.web.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2569F1AF for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECFA2060F for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247A220650 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752190AbbKIRaL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2015 12:30:11 -0500 Received: from fw-tnat.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.140]:19923 "EHLO cam-smtp0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353AbbKIRaH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2015 12:30:07 -0500 Received: from e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com (e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.207.164]) by cam-smtp0.cambridge.arm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id tA9HTu39015096; Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:29:56 GMT Received: by e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:29:56 +0000 From: Punit Agrawal To: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org, Punit Agrawal , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edubezval@gmail.com, dawei.chien@mediatek.com, Rob Herring , Mark Rutland Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Add optional dynamic-power-coefficient property Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:29:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1447090163-13700-2-git-send-email-punit.agrawal@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.3 In-Reply-To: <1447090163-13700-1-git-send-email-punit.agrawal@arm.com> References: <1447090163-13700-1-git-send-email-punit.agrawal@arm.com> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP The dynamic power consumption of a device is proportional to the square of voltage (V) and the clock frequency (f). It can be expressed as Pdyn = dynamic-power-coefficient * V^2 * f. The coefficient represents the running time dynamic power consumption in units of mw/MHz/uVolt^2 and can be used in the above formula to calculate the dynamic power in mW. Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Mark Rutland --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt index 91e6e5c..c33362d 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt @@ -240,6 +240,23 @@ nodes to be present and contain the properties described below. Definition: Specifies the syscon node controlling the cpu core power domains. + - dynamic-power-coefficient + Usage: optional + Value type: + Definition: A u32 value that represents the running time dynamic + power coefficient in units of mW/MHz/uVolt^2. The + coefficient can either be calculated from power + measurements or derived by analysis. + + The dynamic power consumption of the CPU is + proportional to the square of the Voltage (V) and + the clock frequency (f). The coefficient is used to + calculate the dynamic power as below - + + Pdyn = dynamic-power-coefficient * V^2 * f + + where voltage is in uV, frequency is in MHz. + Example 1 (dual-cluster big.LITTLE system 32-bit): cpus {