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>The eCos Power Management package provides a framework for
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incorporating power management facilities in an embedded application.
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>The package does not contain any support for controlling the current
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power mode of any given processor, device or board. Instead it is the
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responsibility of the appropriate HAL or device driver package to
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controllers</I
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power controllers together and provides an interface for manipulating
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>The package does not contain any power management policy support.
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itself ever cause the system to go into low-power mode. Instead it is
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the responsibility of a separate policy module, provided by
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higher-level application code or by some other package, to decide when
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it would be appropriate to switch from one power mode to another. The
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power management package then provides the mechanisms for making it
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>Including Power Management</H2
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>The power management package is never included automatically in an
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eCos configuration: it is not part of any target specification or of
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any template. Instead it must be added explicitly to a configuration
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if the intended application requires power management functionality.
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When using the command-line <B
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information on how to use the various tools. The functionality
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provided by the power management package is defined in the header file
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>There are four defined modes of operation:</P
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>active</DT
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>The system is fully operational, and power consumption is expected to
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>There has been little or no activity for a short period of time. It is
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up to the policy module to determine what constitutes a short period
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of time, but typically it will be some tenths of a second or some
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small number of seconds. A possible action when entering idle mode is
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to reduce the system's clock speed, thus reducing the power drawn by
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the cpu.</P
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whenever the idle thread starts running. Instead it is entered when
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the policy module discovers that for a certain period of time the
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system has been spending most of its time in the idle thread.
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Theoretically it is possible to implement a policy module that would
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cause a switch to idle mode as soon as the idle thread starts running,
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but that could result in a great many power mode changes for no
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immediate benefit.</P
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>sleep</DT
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>The system has been idle for a significant period of time, perhaps
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some tens of seconds. It is desirable to shut down any hardware that
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is drawing a significant amount of power, for example a screen
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backlight.</P
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>off</DT
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>The system is powered down. Power consumption should be minimized.
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Some special action may be needed before the system comes back up, for
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example the user may need to press a specific button.</P
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>The exact transitions that will happen are decided by the policy
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module. One policy module might include transitions from active to
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idle, from idle to sleep, from sleep to off, and from any of idle,
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sleep or off directly back to active. Another policy module might
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only use the active and off states, bypassing the intermediate ones.</P
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>The power management package operates primarily on power controllers.
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The main functionality provided by a power controller is to switch the
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power mode for some part of the system, for example the lcd display or
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the cpu. A power controller consists primarily of a function which
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will be invoked to switch the power mode for the part of the overall
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system being controlled, plus some auxiliary data. A typical system
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will include a number of different power controllers:</P
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>Usually there will be one power controller
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or with the target platform, and provided by the corresponding HAL
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package. It is this controller which is responsible for switching off
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the system when entering the <SPAN
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somewhat special: attempting to switch off the cpu before other
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devices like the lcd display does not make sense because the cpu would
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no longer be executing any instructions for the latter operation.
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to a lower-power mode, and similarly when switching back to a
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higher-power mode it will be invoked first.</P
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hard requirement when porting eCos to a new processor or platform, and
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many eCos ports predate the availability of power management support.
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full power management functionality is desired then the appropriate
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HAL package would have to be extended first. System developers should
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examine the relevant HAL documentation and sources to determine what
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controllers, as part of the device driver package. It is not required
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that all device drivers provide power controllers. In some cases,
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especially for devices that are integrated with the processor,
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integrated devices as a side effect. In other cases the hardware may
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not provide any functionality that allows power consumption to be
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controlled. For any given device driver it is also possible that no
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power controller exists either because it was not required when the
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driver was written, or because the driver predates the availability of
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power management. Again the relevant documentation and sources should
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any specific hardware. For example a TCP/IP stack could provide a
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power controller so that it gets informed when the system has been
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reactivated: by looking at the system clock it can determine for how
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long the system has been switched off; using this information it can
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then recover from expired dhcp leases, or even to shut down any stream
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connections that may have become invalid (although arguably the stack
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>Basic Operation</H2
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>By default the Power Management package creates a thread during
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initialization. It is also possible for the package to be used without
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such a thread, for example in configurations which do not include a
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full kernel, and this alternative is described below. When a separate
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thread is used the stacksize and priority for this thread can be
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controlled by configuration options
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>CYGNUM_POWER_THREAD_STACKSIZE</TT
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>CYGNUM_POWER_THREAD_PRIORITY</TT
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will just wait on a semaphore internal to the package, and will do
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nothing until some other part of the system requests a change to the
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>At some point the policy module will decide that the system should
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move into a lower-power mode, for example from active to idle. This is
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achieved by calling the function <TT
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argument, <TT
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>PowerMode_Idle</TT
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>. This function manipulates
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some internal state and posts the semaphore, thus waking up the power
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management thread. Note that the function returns before the mode
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change has completed, and in fact depending on thread priorities this
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return may happen before any power controller has been invoked.</P
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><P
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>When the power management thread wakes up it examines the internal
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state to figure out what it should be doing. In this case it is
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supposed to change the global power mode, so it will iterate over all
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the power controllers requesting each one to switch to the
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<SPAN
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>idle</SPAN
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> mode. It is up to each power controller to handle
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this request appropriately. Optionally the thread will invoke a
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callback function after processing each power controller, so that
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higher-level code such as the policy module can more easily keep
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track of the actual state of each controller. Once the thread has
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iterated through all the power controllers it will again wait on the
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internal semaphore for the next request to arrive.</P
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><P
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><B
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>Note: </B
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>At present the power management thread always runs at a single
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priority, which defaults to a low priority. A possible future
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enhancement would be to support two separate priorities. When
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switching to a lower-powered mode the thread would run at a low
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priority as before, thus allowing other threads to run and get a
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chance to cancel this mode change. When switching to a higher-powered
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mode the thread would run at a high priority. This could be especially
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important when moving out of the <SPAN
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CLASS="TYPE"
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>off</SPAN
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> state: for example
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it would ensure that all device drivers get a chance to wake up before
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ordinary application threads get to run again and possibly attempt I/O
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operations.</P
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><P
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>Although usually calls to <TT
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>power_set_mode</TT
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> will
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come from just one place in the policy module, this is not a hard
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requirement. It is possible for multiple threads to call this
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function, with no need for any synchronization. If the power
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management thread is in the middle of performing a mode change and a
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new request comes in, the thread will detect this, abort the current
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operation, and start iterating through the power controllers again
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with the new mode. This check happens between every power controller
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| 418 |
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invocation. Usefully this makes it possible for power controllers
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themselves to manipulate power modes: a power controller is invoked to
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change mode; for some reason it determines that the new mode is
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inappropriate; it calls <TT
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>power_set_mode</TT
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> to move
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the system back to another mode; when the power controller returns
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this event will be detected; the power management thread will abort
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the current mode change, and start the new one.</P
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><P
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>In addition to changing the power mode for the system as a whole,
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individual controllers can be manipulated using the function
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<TT
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| 432 |
|
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
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>power_set_controller_mode</TT
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| 434 |
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>. For example, while the
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system as a whole might be in <SPAN
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| 436 |
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CLASS="TYPE"
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>active</SPAN
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> mode certain devices
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might be kept in <SPAN
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| 440 |
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CLASS="TYPE"
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>sleep</SPAN
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> mode until they are explicitly
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activated. It is possible to mix concurrent calls to
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<TT
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| 445 |
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
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| 446 |
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>power_set_mode</TT
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| 447 |
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> and
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| 448 |
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<TT
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| 449 |
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
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| 450 |
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>power_set_controller_mode</TT
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| 451 |
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|
>, and when a power
|
| 452 |
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|
controller is invoked it may use
|
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<TT
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| 454 |
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
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| 455 |
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>power_set_controller_mode</TT
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| 456 |
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> to request further
|
| 457 |
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changes to its own or to another controller's mode as required.</P
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><P
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| 459 |
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>There are some scenarios where the power management package should not
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| 460 |
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use its own thread. One scenario is if the configuration is
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| 461 |
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specifically for a single-threaded application such as RedBoot.
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| 462 |
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Another scenario is if the policy module already involves a separate
|
| 463 |
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thread: it may make more sense if the various power management
|
| 464 |
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operations are synchronous with respect to the calling thread. The use
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| 465 |
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of a separate thread inside the power management package is controlled
|
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by the configuration option <TT
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| 467 |
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CLASS="VARNAME"
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| 468 |
|
|
>CYGPKG_POWER_THREAD</TT
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| 469 |
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|
>,
|
| 470 |
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which is active only if the kernel package is present and enabled by
|
| 471 |
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default.</P
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| 472 |
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><P
|
| 473 |
|
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>If no separate power management thread is used then obviously the
|
| 474 |
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implementations of <TT
|
| 475 |
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
|
| 476 |
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|
>power_set_mode</TT
|
| 477 |
|
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> and
|
| 478 |
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<TT
|
| 479 |
|
|
CLASS="FUNCTION"
|
| 480 |
|
|
>power_set_controller_mode</TT
|
| 481 |
|
|
> will be somewhat
|
| 482 |
|
|
different: instead of waking up a separate thread to do the work,
|
| 483 |
|
|
these functions will now manipulate the power controllers directly. If
|
| 484 |
|
|
the system does still involve multiple threads then only one thread
|
| 485 |
|
|
may call <TT
|
| 486 |
|
|
CLASS="FUNCTION"
|
| 487 |
|
|
>power_set_mode</TT
|
| 488 |
|
|
> or
|
| 489 |
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<TT
|
| 490 |
|
|
CLASS="FUNCTION"
|
| 491 |
|
|
>power_set_controller_mode</TT
|
| 492 |
|
|
> at a time: the power
|
| 493 |
|
|
management package will not provide any synchronization, that must
|
| 494 |
|
|
happen at a higher level. However when a power controller is invoked
|
| 495 |
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|
it can still call these functions as required.</P
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