The milli-Watts precision causes rounding errors while calculating
efficiency cost for each OPP. This is especially visible in the 'simple'
Energy Model (EM), where the power for each OPP is provided from OPP
framework. This can cause some OPPs to be marked inefficient, while
using micro-Watts precision that might not happen.
Update all EM users which access 'power' field and assume the value is
in milli-Watts.
Solve also an issue with potential overflow in calculation of energy
estimation on 32bit machine. It's needed now since the power value
(thus the 'cost' as well) are higher.
Example calculation which shows the rounding error and impact:
power = 'dyn-power-coeff' * volt_mV * volt_mV * freq_MHz
power_a_uW = (100 * 600mW * 600mW * 500MHz) / 10^6 = 18000
power_a_mW = (100 * 600mW * 600mW * 500MHz) / 10^9 = 18
power_b_uW = (100 * 605mW * 605mW * 600MHz) / 10^6 = 21961
power_b_mW = (100 * 605mW * 605mW * 600MHz) / 10^9 = 21
max_freq = 2000MHz
cost_a_mW = 18 * 2000MHz/500MHz = 72
cost_a_uW = 18000 * 2000MHz/500MHz = 72000
cost_b_mW = 21 * 2000MHz/600MHz = 70 // <- artificially better
cost_b_uW = 21961 * 2000MHz/600MHz = 73203
The 'cost_b_mW' (which is based on old milli-Watts) is misleadingly
better that the 'cost_b_uW' (this patch uses micro-Watts) and such
would have impact on the 'inefficient OPPs' information in the Cpufreq
framework. This patch set removes the rounding issue.
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
In commit e458716a92 ("PM: EM: Mark inefficiencies in CPUFreq"),
cpufreq_cpu_get() is called without a cpufreq_cpu_put(), permanently
increasing the reference counts of the policy struct.
Decrement the reference count once the policy struct is not used
anymore.
Fixes: e458716a92 ("PM: EM: Mark inefficiencies in CPUFreq")
Tested-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model gets more bits used in 'flags'. Avoid adding another
debugfs file just to print what is the status of a new flag. Simply
remove old debugfs files and add one generic which prints all flags
as a hex value.
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The .active_power() callback passes the device pointer when it's called.
Aligned with a convetion present in other subsystems and pass the 'dev'
as a first argument. It looks more cleaner.
Adjust all affected drivers which implement that API callback.
Suggested-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model (EM) allows to provide the 'cost' values when the device
driver provides the .get_cost() optional callback. This removes
restriction which is in the EM calculation function of the 'cost'
for each performance state. Now, the driver is in charge of providing
the right values which are then used by Energy Aware Scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model (EM) can be used on platforms which are missing real
power information. Those platforms would implement .get_cost() which
populates needed values for the Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS). The EAS
doesn't use 'power' fields from EM, but other frameworks might use them.
Thus, to avoid miss-usage of this specific type of EM, introduce a new
flags which can be checked by other frameworks.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model has a 1:1 mapping between OPPs and performance states
(em_perf_state). If a CPUFreq driver registers an Energy Model,
inefficiencies found by the latter can be applied to CPUFreq.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The new performance domain flag EM_PERF_DOMAIN_SKIP_INEFFICIENCIES allows
to not take into account inefficient states when estimating energy
consumption. This intends to let the Energy Model know that CPUFreq itself
will skip inefficiencies and such states don't need to be part of the
estimation anymore.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Merge the current "milliwatts" option into a "flag" field. This intends to
prepare the extension of this structure for inefficient states support in
the Energy Model.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Some SoCs, such as the sd855 have OPPs within the same performance domain,
whose cost is higher than others with a higher frequency. Even though
those OPPs are interesting from a cooling perspective, it makes no sense
to use them when the device can run at full capacity. Those OPPs handicap
the performance domain, when choosing the most energy-efficient CPU and
are wasting energy. They are inefficient.
Hence, add support for such OPPs to the Energy Model. The table can now
be read skipping inefficient performance states (and by extension,
inefficient OPPs).
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Currently, a debug message is printed if an inefficient state is detected
in the Energy Model. Unfortunately, it won't detect if the first state is
inefficient or if two successive states are. Fix this behavior.
Fixes: 27871f7a8a (PM: Introduce an Energy Model management framework)
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model (EM) provides useful information about device power in
each performance state to other subsystems like: Energy Aware Scheduler
(EAS). The energy calculation in EAS does arithmetic operation based on
the EM em_cpu_energy(). Current implementation of that function uses
em_perf_state::cost as a pre-computed cost coefficient equal to:
cost = power * max_frequency / frequency.
The 'power' is expressed in milli-Watts (or in abstract scale).
There are corner cases when the EAS energy calculation for two Performance
Domains (PDs) return the same value. The EAS compares these values to
choose smaller one. It might happen that this values are equal due to
rounding error. In such scenario, we need better resolution, e.g. 1000
times better. To provide this possibility increase the resolution in the
em_perf_state::cost for 64-bit architectures. The cost of increasing
resolution on 32-bit is pretty high (64-bit division) and is not justified
since there are no new 32bit big.LITTLE EAS systems expected which would
benefit from this higher resolution.
This patch allows to avoid the rounding to milli-Watt errors, which might
occur in EAS energy estimation for each PD. The rounding error is common
for small tasks which have small utilization value.
There are two places in the code where it makes a difference:
1. In the find_energy_efficient_cpu() where we are searching for
best_delta. We might suffer there when two PDs return the same result,
like in the example below.
Scenario:
Low utilized system e.g. ~200 sum_util for PD0 and ~220 for PD1. There
are quite a few small tasks ~10-15 util. These tasks would suffer for
the rounding error. These utilization values are typical when running games
on Android. One of our partners has reported 5..10mA less battery drain
when running with increased resolution.
Some details:
We have two PDs: PD0 (big) and PD1 (little)
Let's compare w/o patch set ('old') and w/ patch set ('new')
We are comparing energy w/ task and w/o task placed in the PDs
a) 'old' w/o patch set, PD0
task_util = 13
cost = 480
sum_util_w/o_task = 215
sum_util_w_task = 228
scale_cpu = 1024
energy_w/o_task = 480 * 215 / 1024 = 100.78 => 100
energy_w_task = 480 * 228 / 1024 = 106.87 => 106
energy_diff = 106 - 100 = 6
(this is equal to 'old' PD1's energy_diff in 'c)')
b) 'new' w/ patch set, PD0
task_util = 13
cost = 480 * 1000 = 480000
sum_util_w/o_task = 215
sum_util_w_task = 228
energy_w/o_task = 480000 * 215 / 1024 = 100781
energy_w_task = 480000 * 228 / 1024 = 106875
energy_diff = 106875 - 100781 = 6094
(this is not equal to 'new' PD1's energy_diff in 'd)')
c) 'old' w/o patch set, PD1
task_util = 13
cost = 160
sum_util_w/o_task = 283
sum_util_w_task = 293
scale_cpu = 355
energy_w/o_task = 160 * 283 / 355 = 127.55 => 127
energy_w_task = 160 * 296 / 355 = 133.41 => 133
energy_diff = 133 - 127 = 6
(this is equal to 'old' PD0's energy_diff in 'a)')
d) 'new' w/ patch set, PD1
task_util = 13
cost = 160 * 1000 = 160000
sum_util_w/o_task = 283
sum_util_w_task = 293
scale_cpu = 355
energy_w/o_task = 160000 * 283 / 355 = 127549
energy_w_task = 160000 * 296 / 355 = 133408
energy_diff = 133408 - 127549 = 5859
(this is not equal to 'new' PD0's energy_diff in 'b)')
2. Difference in the 6% energy margin filter at the end of
find_energy_efficient_cpu(). With this patch the margin comparison also
has better resolution, so it's possible to have better task placement
thanks to that.
Fixes: 27871f7a8a ("PM: Introduce an Energy Model management framework")
Reported-by: CCJ Yeh <CCj.Yeh@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The debugfs directory '/sys/kernel/debug/energy_model' is needed before
the Energy Model registration can happen. With the recent change in
debugfs subsystem it's not allowed to create this directory at early
stage (core_initcall). Thus creating this directory would fail.
Postpone the creation of the EM debug dir to later stage: fs_initcall.
It should be safe since all clients: CPUFreq drivers, Devfreq drivers
will be initialized in later stages.
The custom debug log below prints the time of creation the EM debug dir
at fs_initcall and successful registration of EMs at later stages.
[ 1.505717] energy_model: creating rootdir
[ 3.698307] cpu cpu0: EM: created perf domain
[ 3.709022] cpu cpu1: EM: created perf domain
Fixes: 56348560d4 ("debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized")
Reported-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model supports power values expressed in milli-Watts or in an
'abstract scale'. Update the related comments is the code to reflect that
state.
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
There are different platforms and devices which might use different scale
for the power values. Kernel sub-systems might need to check if all
Energy Model (EM) devices are using the same scale. Address that issue and
store the information inside EM for each device. Thanks to that they can
be easily compared and proper action triggered.
Suggested-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Remove old function em_register_perf_domain which is no longer needed.
There is em_dev_register_perf_domain that covers old use cases and new as
well.
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add support for other devices than CPUs. The registration function
does not require a valid cpumask pointer and is ready to handle new
devices. Some of the internal structures has been reorganized in order to
keep consistent view (like removing per_cpu pd pointers).
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model framework is going to support devices other that CPUs. In
order to make this happen change the callback function and add pointer to
a device as an argument.
Update the related users to use new function and new callback from the
Energy Model.
Acked-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Add now function in the Energy Model framework which is going to support
new devices. This function will help in transition and make it smoother.
For now it still checks if the cpumask is a valid pointer, which will be
removed later when the new structures and infrastructure will be ready.
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The Energy Model uses concept of performance domain and capacity states in
order to calculate power used by CPUs. Change naming convention from
capacity to performance state would enable wider usage in future, e.g.
upcoming support for other devices other than CPUs.
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The recently introduced Energy Model (EM) framework manages power cost
tables of CPUs. These tables are currently only visible from kernel
space. However, in order to debug the behaviour of subsystems that use
the EM (EAS for example), it is often required to know what the power
costs are from userspace.
For this reason, introduce under /sys/kernel/debug/energy_model a set of
directories representing the performance domains of the system. Each
performance domain contains a set of sub-directories representing the
different capacity states (cs) and their attributes, as well as a file
exposing the related CPUs.
The resulting hierarchy is as follows on Arm juno r0 for example:
/sys/kernel/debug/energy_model
├── pd0
│ ├── cpus
│ ├── cs:450000
│ │ ├── cost
│ │ ├── frequency
│ │ └── power
│ ├── cs:575000
│ │ ├── cost
│ │ ├── frequency
│ │ └── power
│ ├── cs:700000
│ │ ├── cost
│ │ ├── frequency
│ │ └── power
│ ├── cs:775000
│ │ ├── cost
│ │ ├── frequency
│ │ └── power
│ └── cs:850000
│ ├── cost
│ ├── frequency
│ └── power
└── pd1
├── cpus
├── cs:1100000
│ ├── cost
│ ├── frequency
│ └── power
├── cs:450000
│ ├── cost
│ ├── frequency
│ └── power
├── cs:625000
│ ├── cost
│ ├── frequency
│ └── power
├── cs:800000
│ ├── cost
│ ├── frequency
│ └── power
└── cs:950000
├── cost
├── frequency
└── power
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Several subsystems in the kernel (task scheduler and/or thermal at the
time of writing) can benefit from knowing about the energy consumed by
CPUs. Yet, this information can come from different sources (DT or
firmware for example), in different formats, hence making it hard to
exploit without a standard API.
As an attempt to address this, introduce a centralized Energy Model
(EM) management framework which aggregates the power values provided
by drivers into a table for each performance domain in the system. The
power cost tables are made available to interested clients (e.g. task
scheduler or thermal) via platform-agnostic APIs. The overall design
is represented by the diagram below (focused on Arm-related drivers as
an example, but applicable to any architecture):
+---------------+ +-----------------+ +-------------+
| Thermal (IPA) | | Scheduler (EAS) | | Other |
+---------------+ +-----------------+ +-------------+
| | em_pd_energy() |
| | em_cpu_get() |
+-----------+ | +--------+
| | |
v v v
+---------------------+
| |
| Energy Model |
| |
| Framework |
| |
+---------------------+
^ ^ ^
| | | em_register_perf_domain()
+----------+ | +---------+
| | |
+---------------+ +---------------+ +--------------+
| cpufreq-dt | | arm_scmi | | Other |
+---------------+ +---------------+ +--------------+
^ ^ ^
| | |
+--------------+ +---------------+ +--------------+
| Device Tree | | Firmware | | ? |
+--------------+ +---------------+ +--------------+
Drivers (typically, but not limited to, CPUFreq drivers) can register
data in the EM framework using the em_register_perf_domain() API. The
calling driver must provide a callback function with a standardized
signature that will be used by the EM framework to build the power
cost tables of the performance domain. This design should offer a lot of
flexibility to calling drivers which are free of reading information
from any location and to use any technique to compute power costs.
Moreover, the capacity states registered by drivers in the EM framework
are not required to match real performance states of the target. This
is particularly important on targets where the performance states are
not known by the OS.
The power cost coefficients managed by the EM framework are specified in
milli-watts. Although the two potential users of those coefficients (IPA
and EAS) only need relative correctness, IPA specifically needs to
compare the power of CPUs with the power of other components (GPUs, for
example), which are still expressed in absolute terms in their
respective subsystems. Hence, specifying the power of CPUs in
milli-watts should help transitioning IPA to using the EM framework
without introducing new problems by keeping units comparable across
sub-systems.
On the longer term, the EM of other devices than CPUs could also be
managed by the EM framework, which would enable to remove the absolute
unit. However, this is not absolutely required as a first step, so this
extension of the EM framework is left for later.
On the client side, the EM framework offers APIs to access the power
cost tables of a CPU (em_cpu_get()), and to estimate the energy
consumed by the CPUs of a performance domain (em_pd_energy()). Clients
such as the task scheduler can then use these APIs to access the shared
data structures holding the Energy Model of CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org
Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com
Cc: currojerez@riseup.net
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: edubezval@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org
Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org
Cc: smuckle@google.com
Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org
Cc: tkjos@google.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-4-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Lukasz Luba