[PATCH 3/3] Introducing cpuidle: Basic documentation for cpuidle

[PATCH 3/3] Introducing cpuidle: Basic documentation for cpuidle

[Venkatesh Pallipadi]

Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc-mm/Documentation/cpuidle/core.txt
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+		Supporting multiple CPU idle levels in kernel
+
+				cpuidle
+
+General Information:
+
+Various CPUs today support multiple idle levels that are differentiated
+by varying exit latencies and power consumption during idle.
+cpuidle is a generic in-kernel infrastructure that separates
+idle policy (governor) from idle mechanism (driver) and provides a
+standardized infrastructure to support independent development of
+governors and drivers.
+
+cpuidle resides under /drivers/cpuidle.
+
+
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc-mm/Documentation/cpuidle/driver.txt
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+
+		Supporting multiple CPU idle levels in kernel
+
+				cpuidle drivers
+
+
+
+
+cpuidle driver supports capability detection for a particular system. The
+init and exit routines will be called for each online CPU, with a percpu
+cpuidle_driver object and driver should fill in cpuidle_states inside
+cpuidle_driver depending on the CPU capability.
+
+Driver can handle dynamic state changes (like battery<->AC), by calling
+force_redetect interface.
+
+It is possible to have more than one driver registered at the same time and
+user can switch between drivers using /sysfs interface.
+
+Interfaces:
+int cpuidle_register_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
+void cpuidle_unregister_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv);
+int cpuidle_force_redetect(struct cpuidle_device *dev);
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc-mm/Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt
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+
+		Supporting multiple CPU idle levels in kernel
+
+				cpuidle sysfs
+
+System global cpuidle information are under
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle
+
+The current interfaces in this directory has self-explanatory names:
+* available_drivers
+* available_governors
+* current_driver
+* current_governor
+
+Per logical CPU specific cpuidle information are under
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle
+for each online cpu X
+
+Under this percpu directory, there is a directory for each idle state supported
+by the driver, which in turn has
+* latency
+* power
+* time
+* usage
+
+