From: Joshua Crofts <crofts@kernel.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joshua Crofts <crofts@kernel.org>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] PM: runtime: add new runtime metrics and summary
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:43:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110-pm-runtime-summary-v1-0-12ebf283db78@kernel.org> (raw)
Add a new set additional PM runtime metrics to improve power management
debugging and reporting (these metrics may be useful to userspace
utilities such as Powertop).
MOTIVATION:
The current implementation only measures the duration a device spends in
suspended or active mode, which is very limiting. We can't find out how
many times a device changed state or what its shortest suspend cycle
was (to detect a sort of power "thrashing" behaviour).
NEW FEATURES:
This series introduces the following new metrics:
- resume_count : number of successful transitions to active
- suspend_count: number of successful transitions to suspended
- last_suspended_time: duration of the most recent sleep cycle (ns)
- min_suspended_time / max_suspended_sleep: shortest and longest sleep
cycle durations to help detect power thrashing (ns)
By reading the debugfs file /sys/kernel/debug/pm_runtime_summary, you
get the following table describing the power stats of each device with
runtime PM enabled:
Device Status Resumes Suspends Active(ms) Suspend(ms) Last(ms) Min(ms) Max(ms)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0000:00:02.0 active 1 0 45688 0 0 0 0
0000:00:1f.0 active 1 0 45687 0 0 0 0
0000:00:1f.2 active 1 0 45686 0 0 0 0
0000:00:1f.3 suspended 1 1 1658 44028 0 0 0
00:03:0 active 15 14 19627 25899 42 5 14811
00:03:0.0 active 14 13 19626 25900 42 5 14811
TESTING:
Tested with an x86_64 defconfig kernel and QEMU.
AI ASSISTANCE:
Gemini was used to prepare this series.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Crofts <crofts@kernel.org>
---
Joshua Crofts (3):
PM: runtime: add additional suspend/resume metrics
PM: add sysfs attributes for additional suspend/resume metrics
PM: runtime: add debugfs entry for pm_runtime_summary
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power | 36 ++++++
drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 156 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/base/power/sysfs.c | 81 +++++++++++++
include/linux/pm.h | 12 ++
4 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
change-id: 20261110-pm-runtime-summary-8dd29a1383bc
Best regards,
--
Joshua Crofts <crofts@kernel.org>
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 10:43 Joshua Crofts [this message]
2026-11-10 10:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] PM: runtime: add additional suspend/resume metrics Joshua Crofts
2026-11-10 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] PM: add sysfs attributes for " Joshua Crofts
2026-11-10 17:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-10 18:50 ` Joshua Crofts
2026-11-10 18:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-10 18:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-10 19:02 ` Joshua Crofts
2026-11-10 21:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-10 10:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] PM: runtime: add debugfs entry for pm_runtime_summary Joshua Crofts
2026-11-11 3:38 ` [PATCH 0/3] PM: runtime: add new runtime metrics and summary Samuel Wu
2026-11-11 9:11 ` Joshua Crofts
2026-11-11 16:56 ` Samuel Wu
2026-11-12 8:42 ` Joshua Crofts
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