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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
	linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:48:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090818234803.2004.28814.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090818234757.2004.88017.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com>

Augment the documentation of the hwmon sysfs API to accomodate ACPI power
meters.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface |   60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
index dcbd502..8b5a654 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
@@ -353,10 +353,20 @@ power[1-*]_average		Average power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
 
-power[1-*]_average_interval	Power use averaging interval
+power[1-*]_average_interval	Power use averaging interval.  A poll
+				notification is sent to this file if the
+				hardware changes the averaging interval.
 				Unit: milliseconds
 				RW
 
+power[1-*]_average_interval_max	Maximum power use averaging interval
+				Unit: milliseconds
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_average_interval_min	Minimum power use averaging interval
+				Unit: milliseconds
+				RO
+
 power[1-*]_average_highest	Historical average maximum power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
@@ -365,6 +375,18 @@ power[1-*]_average_lowest	Historical average minimum power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
 
+power[1-*]_average_max		A poll notification is sent to
+				power[1-*]_average when power use
+				rises above this value.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
+power[1-*]_average_min		A poll notification is sent to
+				power[1-*]_average when power use
+				sinks below this value.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
 power[1-*]_input		Instantaneous power use
 				Unit: microWatt
 				RO
@@ -381,6 +403,42 @@ power[1-*]_reset_history	Reset input_highest, input_lowest,
 				average_highest and average_lowest.
 				WO
 
+power[1-*]_accuracy		Accuracy of the power meter.
+				Unit: Percent
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_alarm		1 if the system is drawing more power than the
+				cap allows; 0 otherwise.  A poll notification is
+				sent to this file if the power use exceeds the
+				cap.  The action that is taken when this event
+				happens is undefined--it is possible that the
+				hardware will reduce performance to cut the
+				power use, but it is also possible that the
+				system designer expects the OS to try to
+				reduce power consumption.  Contact your
+				machine's vendor to find out which.
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_cap			If power use rises above this limit, the
+				system should take action to reduce power use.
+				A poll notification is sent to this file if the
+				cap is changed by the hardware.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
+power[1-*]_cap_hyst		Margin of hysteresis built around capping and
+				notification.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RW
+
+power[1-*]_cap_max		Maximum cap that can be set.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RO
+
+power[1-*]_cap_min		Minimum cap that can be set.
+				Unit: microWatt
+				RO
+
 **********
 * Energy *
 **********


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-18 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-18 23:47 [PATCH 0/2] ACPI 4.0 power meter Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-18 23:48 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2009-08-18 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] acpi_power_meter: hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-20 23:47   ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-25  0:43 [PATCH 0/2] ACPI 4.0 power meter Darrick J. Wong
2009-07-25  0:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Enhance the sysfs API for power meters Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-07 18:09   ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-08 17:40     ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-08 21:48       ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 21:12         ` Darrick J. Wong
2009-08-12 11:56           ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-18 23:32             ` Darrick J. Wong

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