zephyr/doc/guides/pm/device.rst

Device Power Management Infrastructure
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The device power management infrastructure consists of interfaces to the
:ref:`device_model_api`. These APIs send control commands to the device driver
to update its power state or to get its current power state.

Zephyr RTOS supports two methods of doing device power management.

* Runtime Device Power Management
* System Power Management

Runtime Device Power Management
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In this method, the application or any component that deals with devices directly
and has the best knowledge of their use, performs the device power management. This
saves power if some devices that are not in use can be turned off or put
in power saving mode. This method allows saving power even when the CPU is
active. The components that use the devices need to be power aware and should
be able to make decisions related to managing device power.

In this method, the SOC interface can enter CPU or SOC power states quickly when
:code:`pm_system_suspend()` gets called. This is because it does not need to
spend time doing device power management if the devices are already put in the
appropriate power state by the application or component managing the devices.

System Power Management
***********************

In this method device power management is mostly done inside
:code:`pm_system_suspend()` along with entering a CPU or SOC power state.

If a decision to enter a lower power state is made, the implementation would enter it
only after checking if the devices are not in the middle of a hardware
transaction that cannot be interrupted. This method can be used in
implementations where the applications and components using devices are not
expected to be power aware and do not implement runtime device power management.

.. image:: images/central_method.svg
   :align: center

This method can also be used to emulate a hardware feature supported by some
SOCs which triggers automatic entry to a lower power state when all devices are idle.
Refer to `Busy Status Indication`_ to see how to indicate whether a device is busy
or idle.

Device Power Management States
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The power management subsystem defines device states in
:c:enum:`pm_device_state`. These states are classified based on the degree of
device context that gets lost in those states, kind of operations done to save
power, and the impact on the device behavior due to the state transition. Device
context includes device registers, clocks, memory etc.

Device Power Management Operations
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Zephyr RTOS power management subsystem provides a control function interface
to device drivers to indicate power management operations to perform. Each
device driver defines:

* The device's supported power states.
* The device's supported transitions between power states.
* The device's necessary operations to handle the transition between power states.

The following are some examples of operations that the device driver may perform
in transition between power states:

* Save/Restore device states.
* Gate/Un-gate clocks.
* Gate/Un-gate power.
* Mask/Un-mask interrupts.

Device Model with Power Management Support
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Drivers initialize the devices using macros. See :ref:`device_model_api` for
details on how these macros are used. Use the DEVICE_DEFINE macro to initialize
drivers providing power management support via the PM control function.
One of the macro parameters is the pointer to the PM action callback.
If the driver doesn't implement any power control operations, it can initialize
the corresponding pointer with ``NULL``.

.. _pm-device-busy:

Busy Status Indication
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The SOC interface executes some power policies that can turn off power to devices,
causing them to lose their state. If the devices are in the middle of some
hardware transaction, like writing to flash memory when the power is turned
off, then such transactions would be left in an inconsistent state. This
infrastructure guards such transactions by indicating to the SOC interface that
the device is in the middle of a hardware transaction.

When the :c:func:`pm_system_suspend()` is called, depending on the power state
returned by the policy manager, the system may suspend or put devices in low
power if they are not marked as busy.

Wakeup capability
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Some devices are capable of waking the system up from a sleep state.
When a device has such capability, applications can enable or disable
this feature on a device dynamically using
:c:func:`pm_device_wakeup_enable`.

This property can be set on device declaring the property ``wakeup-source`` in
the device node in devicetree. For example, this devicetree fragment sets the
``gpio0`` device as a "wakeup" source:

.. code-block:: devicetree

		gpio0: gpio@40022000 {
			compatible = "ti,cc13xx-cc26xx-gpio";
			reg = <0x40022000 0x400>;
			interrupts = <0 0>;
			status = "disabled";
			label = "GPIO_0";
			gpio-controller;
			wakeup-source;
			#gpio-cells = <2>;
		};

By default, "wakeup" capable devices do not have this functionality enabled
during the device initialization. Applications can enable this functionality
later calling :c:func:`pm_device_wakeup_enable`.

.. note::

   This property is **only** used by the system power management to identify
   devices that should not be suspended.
   It is responsability of driver or the application to do any additional
   configuration required by the device to support it.