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>Implementing a Power Controller&nbsp;--&nbsp;adding power management support to device drivers and
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><A
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><H2
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>Implementing a Power Controller</H2
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><P
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>A system will have some number of power controllers. Usually there
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will be one power controller for the cpu,
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<TT
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CLASS="VARNAME"
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>power_controller_cpu</TT
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>, typically provided by one of
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the HAL packages and responsible for managing the processor itself and
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associated critical components such as memory. Some or all of the
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device drivers will provide power controllers, allowing the power
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consumption of the associated devices to be controlled. There may be
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some arbitrary number of other controllers present in the system. The
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power management package does not impose any restrictions on the
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number or nature of the power controllers in the system, other than
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insisting that at most one <TT
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CLASS="VARNAME"
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>power_controller_cpu</TT
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> be
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provided.</P
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><P
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>Each power controller involves a single data structure of type
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<SPAN
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>PowerController</SPAN
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>, defined in the header file
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>cyg/power/power.h</TT
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>. These data
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<TT
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>__POWER__</TT
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>, so that the power management package and
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other code can easily locate all the controllers in the system. This
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table is constructed at link-time, avoiding code-size or run-time
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overheads. To facilitate this the package provides two macros which
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should be used to define a power controller,
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<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>POWER_CONTROLLER()</TT
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> and
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<TT
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>POWER_CONTROLLER_CPU()</TT
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>.</P
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>The macro <TT
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> takes four arguments:</P
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TYPE="1"
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><P
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>A variable name. This can be used to access the power controller
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directly, as well as via the table.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>A priority. The table of power controllers is sorted, such that power
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controllers with a numerically lower priority come earlier in the
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table. The special controller <TT
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CLASS="VARNAME"
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>power_controller_cpu</TT
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>
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always comes at the end of the table. When moving from a high-power
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mode to a lower-powered mode, the power management package iterates
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through the table from front to back. When moving to a higher-powered
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mode the reverse direction is used. The intention is that the power
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controller for a software-only package such as a TCP/IP stack should
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appear near the start of the table, whereas the controllers for the
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ethernet and similar devices would be near the end of the table. Hence
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when the policy module initiates a mode change to a lower-powered mode
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the TCP/IP stack gets a chance to cancel this mode change, before the
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devices it depends on are powered down. Similarly when moving to a
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higher-powered mode the devices will be re-activated before any
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software that depends on those devices.</P
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><P
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>The header file <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>cyg/power/power.h</TT
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> defines three
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priorities <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>PowerPri_Early</TT
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>,
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<TT
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>PowerPri_Typical</TT
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> and
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<TT
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>PowerPri_Late</TT
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>. For most controllers one of these
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priorities, possibly with a small number added or subtracted, will
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give sufficient control. If an application developer is uncertain
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about the relative priorities of the various controllers, a simple
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<A
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>test program</A
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> that iterates over
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the table will quickly eliminate any confusion.</P
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><P
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>A constant string identifier. If the system has been configured
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without support for such identifiers
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(<TT
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>CYGIMP_POWER_PROVIDE_STRINGS</TT
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>) then this identifer
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will be discarded at compile-time. Otherwise it will be made available
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to higher-level code using the function
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<TT
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
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>power_get_controller_id</TT
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>. </P
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><LI
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><P
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>A function pointer. This will be invoked to perform actual mode
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changes, as described below.</P
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><P
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>A typical example of the use of the
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<TT
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>POWER_CONTROLLER</TT
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> macro would be as follows:</P
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>#include &lt;pkgconf/system.h&gt;
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>This creates a variable <TT
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>,
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which is a power controller data structure that will end up near the
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end of the table of power controllers. Higher-level code can
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iterate through this table and report the string <TT
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>"xyzzy
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device"</TT
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> to the user. Whenever there is a mode change
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operation that affects this controller, the function
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<TT
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>xyzzy_device_power_mode_change</TT
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> will be invoked.
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The variable is declared static so this controller cannot be
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manipulated by name in any other code. Alternatively, if the variable
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had not been declared static other code could manipulate this
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controller by name as well as through the table, especially if the
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package for the xyzzy device driver explicitly declared this
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variable in an exported header file. Obviously exporting the variable
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involves a slight risk of a name clash at link time.</P
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><P
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>The above code explicitly checks for the presence of the power
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management package before including that package's header file or
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providing any related functionality. Since power management
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functionality is optional, such checks are recommended.</P
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><P
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>The macro <TT
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>POWER_CONTROLLER_CPU</TT
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> only takes two
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arguments, a string identifier and a mode change function pointer.
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<TT
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>power_controller_cpu</TT
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> so there is no need to provide
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a variable name. The resulting power controller structure always
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appears at the end of the table, so there is no need to specify a
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priority. Typical usage of the <TT
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>POWER_CONTROLLER_CPU</TT
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>
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>This defines a power controller structure
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<TT
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>power_controller_cpu</TT
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>. It should not be declared
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static since higher-level code may well want to manipulate the cpu's
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power mode directly, and the variable is declared by the power
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management package's header file.</P
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><P
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>Some care has to be taken to ensure that the power controllers
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actually end up in the final executable. If a power controller
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variable ends up in an ordinary library and is never referenced
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directly then typically the linker will believe that the variable is
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not needed and it will not end up in the executable. For eCos packages
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this can be achieved in the CDL, by specifying that the containing
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source file should end up in <TT
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> rather
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>If the file <TT
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>data.c</TT
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> instantiates a power
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controller this is now guaranteed to end up in the final executable,
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as intended. Typically HAL and device driver packages will already
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have some data that must not be eliminated by the linker, so they will
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already contain a file that gets built into
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<TT
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>libextras.a</TT
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>. For power controllers defined inside
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application code it is important that the power controllers end up in
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<TT
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>.o</TT
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> object files rather than in
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<TT
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>.a</TT
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> library archive files.</P
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><P
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>All the real work of a power controller is done by the mode change
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function. If the power management package has been configured to use a
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separate thread then this mode change function will be invoked by that
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thread (except for the special case of <A
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><TT
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>power_set_controller_mode_now</TT
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></A
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>).
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>power_set_mode</TT
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> or
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<TT
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>power_set_controller_mode</TT
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>.</P
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><P
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>The mode change function will be invoked with three arguments. The
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first argument identifies the power controller. Usually this argument
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is not actually required since a given mode change function will only
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ever be invoked for a single power controller. For example,
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>xyzzy_device_power_mode_change</TT
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> will only ever be
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used in conjunction with <TT
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>xyzzy_power_controller</TT
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>.
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all of which can share a single mode change function, and in that case
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it is essential to identify the specific controller. The second
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argument specifies the mode the controller should switch to, if
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possible: it will be one of <TT
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>PowerMode_Active</TT
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>,
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<TT
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>PowerMode_Idle</TT
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>, <TT
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>
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>. The final argument will be one of
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<TT
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>PowerModeChange_Controller</TT
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>,
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PowerModeChange_ControllerNow, or
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<TT
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>PowerModeChange_Global</TT
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>, and identifies the call
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that caused this invocation. For example, if the mode change function
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was invoked because of a call to <TT
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>
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>.
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>off</SPAN
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> mode if the associated device is still busy, but
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if the request was aimed specifically at this controller then it could
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instead abort any current I/O operations and switch off the device.</P
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><P
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>The <SPAN
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>PowerController</SPAN
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> data structure contains
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><I
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>mode</I
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></TT
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>, that needs to be updated
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by the power mode change function. At all times it should indicate the
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current mode for this controller. When a mode change is requested the
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desired mode is passed as the second argument. The exact operation of
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the power mode change function depends very much on what is being
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controlled and the current circumstances, but some guidelines are
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possible:</P
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><P
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>If the request can be satisfied without obvious detriment, do so and
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><I
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></TT
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> field. Reducing the power
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consumption of a device that is not currently being used is generally
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harmless.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>If a request is a no-op, for example if the system is switching
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>idle</SPAN
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> to <SPAN
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>sleep</SPAN
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> mode and the controller
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does not distinguish between these modes, simply act as if the request
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><LI
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><P
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>If a request is felt to be unsafe, for example shutting down a
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device that is still in use, then the controller may decide
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to reject this request. This is especially true if the request was a
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global mode change as opposed to one intended specifically for this
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controller: in the latter case the policy module should be given due
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deference. There are a number of ways in which a request can be
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rejected:</P
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><P
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><OL
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TYPE="a"
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><LI
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><P
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>If the request cannot be satisfied immediately but may be feasible in
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a short while, leave the <TT
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><I
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>mode</I
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></TT
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> field
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unchanged. Higher-level code in the policy module can interpret this
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as a hint to retry the operation a little bit later. This approach is
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also useful if the mode change can be started but will take some time
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to complete, for example shutting down a socket connection, and
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additional processing will be needed later on.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>If the request is felt to be inappropriate, for example switching off
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a device that is still in use, the mode change function can
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call <TT
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>power_set_controller_mode</TT
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> to reset the
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desired mode for this controller back to the current mode.
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Higher-level code can then interpret this as a hint that there is more
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activity in the system than had been apparent.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>For a global mode change, if the new mode is felt to be inappropriate
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then the power controller can call <TT
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
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>power_set_mode</TT
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>
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to indicate this. An example of this would be the policy module
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deciding to switch off the whole unit while there is still I/O
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activity.</P
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><P
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>Mode change functions should not directly manipulate any other fields
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in the <SPAN
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>PowerController</SPAN
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> data structure. If it
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is necessary to keep track of additional data then static variables
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can be used.</P
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><P
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>It should be noted that the above are only guidelines. Their
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application in any given situation may be unclear. In addition the
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detailed requirements of specific systems will vary, so even if the
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power controller for a given device driver follows the above
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guidelines exactly it may turn out that slightly different behaviour
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would be more appropriate for the actual system that is being
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developed. Fortunately the open source nature of
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<SPAN
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>eCos</SPAN
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> allows system developers to fine-tune
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power controllers to meet their exact requirements.</P
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