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52 lines
2.1 KiB
Plaintext
Executable file
Kernel driver power_meter
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This driver talks to ACPI 4.0 power meters.
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Supported systems:
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* Any recent system with ACPI 4.0.
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Prefix: 'power_meter'
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Datasheet: http://acpi.info/, section 10.4.
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Author: Darrick J. Wong
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Description
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This driver implements sensor reading support for the power meters exposed in
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the ACPI 4.0 spec (Chapter 10.4). These devices have a simple set of
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features--a power meter that returns average power use over a configurable
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interval, an optional capping mechanism, and a couple of trip points. The
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sysfs interface conforms with the specification outlined in the "Power" section
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of Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.
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Special Features
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The power[1-*]_is_battery knob indicates if the power supply is a battery.
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Both power[1-*]_average_{min,max} must be set before the trip points will work.
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When both of them are set, an ACPI event will be broadcast on the ACPI netlink
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socket and a poll notification will be sent to the appropriate
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power[1-*]_average sysfs file.
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The power[1-*]_{model_number, serial_number, oem_info} fields display arbitrary
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strings that ACPI provides with the meter. The measures/ directory contains
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symlinks to the devices that this meter measures.
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Some computers have the ability to enforce a power cap in hardware. If this is
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the case, the power[1-*]_cap and related sysfs files will appear. When the
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average power consumption exceeds the cap, an ACPI event will be broadcast on
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the netlink event socket and a poll notification will be sent to the
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appropriate power[1-*]_alarm file to indicate that capping has begun, and the
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hardware has taken action to reduce power consumption. Most likely this will
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result in reduced performance.
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There are a few other ACPI notifications that can be sent by the firmware. In
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all cases the ACPI event will be broadcast on the ACPI netlink event socket as
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well as sent as a poll notification to a sysfs file. The events are as
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follows:
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power[1-*]_cap will be notified if the firmware changes the power cap.
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power[1-*]_interval will be notified if the firmware changes the averaging
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interval.
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