PowerCap: Introduce Intel RAPL power capping driver
authorJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:28:35 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:29:52 +0000 (13:29 +0200)
commit2d281d8196e38dd3a4ee9af26621ddde8329f269
treef3cce224bd2909635e8b311ae27d6234b9b0d9cc
parentbfd1ff6375c82930bfb3b401eee2c96720fa8e84
PowerCap: Introduce Intel RAPL power capping driver

The Intel Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) technology provides platform
software with the ability to monitor, control, and get notifications on
power usage.

This feature is present in all Sandy Bridge and later Intel processors.
Newer models allow more fine grained controls to be applied.  In RAPL,
power control is divided into domains, which include package, DRAM
controller, CPU core (Power Plane 0), graphics uncore (power plane 1), etc.

The purpose of this driver is to expose the RAPL settings to userspace.
Overall, RAPL fits in the new powercap class driver in that platform
level power capping controls are exposed via this generic interface.

This driver is based on an earlier patch from Zhang Rui.

However, while the previous work was mainly focused on thermal monitoring
the focus here is on the usability from user space perspective.

References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/26/93
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/powercap/Kconfig
drivers/powercap/Makefile
drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c [new file with mode: 0644]