Power Saving

What a way to make a gift!

I’m pleased to announce the 1.72 release of Laptop Mode Tools. Major changes include the port of the GUI configuration utility to Python 3 and PyQt5. Some tweaks, fixes and enhancements in current modules. Extending {black,white}list of devices to types other than USB. Listing of devices by their devtype attribute.

A filtered list of changes is mentioned below. For the full log, please refer to the git repository.

It is interesting how a user-space task could lead to hinder a Linux kernel software suspend operation.

[11735.155443] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[11735.155445] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[11735.215091] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11735.215172] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11735.558676] rfkill: input handler enabled
[11735.608859] (NULL device *): firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8723befw_36.bin
[11735.609910] (NULL device *): firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_bt/rtl8723b_fw.bin
[11735.611871] Freezing user space processes ... 
[11755.615603] Freezing of tasks failed after 20.003 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
[11755.615854] digikam         D    0 13262  13245 0x00000004
[11755.615859] Call Trace:
[11755.615873]  __schedule+0x28e/0x880
[11755.615878]  schedule+0x2c/0x80
[11755.615889]  request_wait_answer+0xa3/0x220 [fuse]
[11755.615895]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[11755.615902]  __fuse_request_send+0x86/0x90 [fuse]
[11755.615907]  fuse_request_send+0x27/0x30 [fuse]
[11755.615914]  fuse_send_readpages.isra.30+0xd1/0x120 [fuse]
[11755.615920]  fuse_readpages+0xfd/0x110 [fuse]
[11755.615928]  __do_page_cache_readahead+0x200/0x2d0
[11755.615936]  filemap_fault+0x37b/0x640
[11755.615940]  ? filemap_fault+0x37b/0x640
[11755.615944]  ? filemap_map_pages+0x179/0x320
[11755.615950]  __do_fault+0x1e/0xb0
[11755.615953]  __handle_mm_fault+0xc8a/0x1160
[11755.615958]  handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x200
[11755.615964]  __do_page_fault+0x257/0x4d0
[11755.615968]  do_page_fault+0x2e/0xd0
[11755.615973]  page_fault+0x22/0x30
[11755.615976] RIP: 0033:0x7f32d3c7ff90
[11755.615978] RSP: 002b:00007ffd887c9d18 EFLAGS: 00010246
[11755.615981] RAX: 00007f32d3fc9c50 RBX: 000000000275e440 RCX: 0000000000000003
[11755.615982] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007ffd887c9f10 RDI: 000000000275e440
[11755.615984] RBP: 00007ffd887c9f10 R08: 000000000275e820 R09: 00000000018d2f40
[11755.615986] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000189cbc0
[11755.615987] R13: 0000000001839dc0 R14: 000000000275e440 R15: 0000000000000000
[11755.616014] OOM killer enabled.
[11755.616015] Restarting tasks ... done.
[11755.817640] PM: suspend exit
[11755.817698] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
[11755.817700] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[11755.983156] rfkill: input handler disabled
[11756.030209] rfkill: input handler enabled
[11756.073529] Freezing user space processes ... 
[11776.084309] Freezing of tasks failed after 20.010 seconds (2 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
[11776.084630] digikam         D    0 13262  13245 0x00000004
[11776.084636] Call Trace:
[11776.084653]  __schedule+0x28e/0x880
[11776.084659]  schedule+0x2c/0x80
[11776.084672]  request_wait_answer+0xa3/0x220 [fuse]
[11776.084680]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[11776.084688]  __fuse_request_send+0x86/0x90 [fuse]
[11776.084695]  fuse_request_send+0x27/0x30 [fuse]
[11776.084703]  fuse_send_readpages.isra.30+0xd1/0x120 [fuse]
[11776.084711]  fuse_readpages+0xfd/0x110 [fuse]
[11776.084721]  __do_page_cache_readahead+0x200/0x2d0
[11776.084730]  filemap_fault+0x37b/0x640
[11776.084735]  ? filemap_fault+0x37b/0x640
[11776.084743]  ? __update_load_avg_blocked_se.isra.33+0xa1/0xf0
[11776.084749]  ? filemap_map_pages+0x179/0x320
[11776.084755]  __do_fault+0x1e/0xb0
[11776.084759]  __handle_mm_fault+0xc8a/0x1160
[11776.084765]  handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x200
[11776.084772]  __do_page_fault+0x257/0x4d0
[11776.084777]  do_page_fault+0x2e/0xd0
[11776.084783]  page_fault+0x22/0x30
[11776.084787] RIP: 0033:0x7f31ddf315e0
[11776.084789] RSP: 002b:00007ffd887ca068 EFLAGS: 00010202
[11776.084793] RAX: 00007f31de13c350 RBX: 00000000040be3f0 RCX: 000000000283da60
[11776.084795] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000040be3f0 RDI: 00000000040be3f0
[11776.084797] RBP: 00007f32d3fca1e0 R08: 0000000005679250 R09: 0000000000000020
[11776.084799] R10: 00000000058fc1b0 R11: 0000000004b9ac50 R12: 0000000000000000
[11776.084801] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[11776.084806] QXcbEventReader D    0 13268  13245 0x00000004
[11776.084810] Call Trace:
[11776.084817]  __schedule+0x28e/0x880
[11776.084823]  schedule+0x2c/0x80
[11776.084827]  rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x25a/0x490
[11776.084832]  call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x17/0x30
[11776.084836]  ? call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x17/0x30
[11776.084842]  down_write_killable+0x2d/0x50
[11776.084848]  do_mprotect_pkey+0xa9/0x2f0
[11776.084854]  SyS_mprotect+0x13/0x20
[11776.084859]  system_call_fast_compare_end+0xc/0x97
[11776.084861] RIP: 0033:0x7f32d1f7c057
[11776.084863] RSP: 002b:00007f32cbb8c8d8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000000a
[11776.084867] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f32c4000020 RCX: 00007f32d1f7c057
[11776.084869] RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: 00007f32c4024000
[11776.084871] RBP: 00000000000000c5 R08: 00007f32c4000000 R09: 0000000000024000
[11776.084872] R10: 00007f32c4024000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00000000000000a0
[11776.084874] R13: 00007f32c4022f60 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 00000000000000e0
[11776.084906] OOM killer enabled.
[11776.084907] Restarting tasks ... done.
[11776.289655] PM: suspend exit
[11776.459624] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready
[11776.469521] rfkill: input handler disabled
[11776.978733] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready
[11777.038879] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp1s0: link is not ready
[11778.022062] wlp1s0: authenticate with 50:8f:4c:82:4d:dd
[11778.033155] wlp1s0: send auth to 50:8f:4c:82:4d:dd (try 1/3)
[11778.038522] wlp1s0: authenticated
[11778.041511] wlp1s0: associate with 50:8f:4c:82:4d:dd (try 1/3)
[11778.059860] wlp1s0: RX AssocResp from 50:8f:4c:82:4d:dd (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=5)
[11778.060253] wlp1s0: associated
[11778.060308] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp1s0: link becomes ready
[11778.987669] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11779.117608] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11779.160930] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11779.784045] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11779.913668] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
[11779.961517] [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
11:58 ♒♒♒   ☺    

I am pleased to announce the 1.71 release of Laptop Mode Tools. This release includes some new modules, some bug fixes, and there are some efficiency improvements too. Many thanks to our users; most changes in this release are contributions from our users.

A filtered list of changes in mentioned below. For the full log, please refer to the git repository.

Source tarball, Feodra/SUSE RPM Packages available at:
https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools/releases

Debian packages will be available soon in Unstable.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.70. This release adds support for AHCI Runtime PM, introduced in Linux 4.6. It also includes many important bug fixes, mostly related to invocation and determination of power states.

Changelog:

1.70 - Sat Sep 24 16:51:02 IST 2016
* Deal harder with broken battery states
* On machines with 2+ batteries, determine states from all batteries
* Limit status message logging frequency. Some machines tend to send
ACPI events too often. Thanks Maciej S. Szmigiero
* Try harder to determine power states. As reports have shown, the
power_supply subsystem has had incorrect state reporting on many machines,
for both, BAT and AC.
* Relax conditional events where Laptop Mode Tools should be executed. This
affected for use cases of Laptop being docked and undocked
Thanks Daniel Koch.
* CPU Hotplug settings extended
* Cleanup states for improved Laptop Mode Tools invocation
Thanks: Tomas Janousek
* Align Intel P State default to what the actual driver (intel_pstate.c)
uses
Thanks: George Caswell and Matthew Gabeler-Lee
* Add support for AHCI Runtime PM in module intel-sata-powermgmt
* Many systemd and initscript fixes
* Relax default USB device list. This avoids the long standing issues with
USB devices (mice, keyboard) that mis-behaved during autosuspend

Having moved to a new place, now at times, I also have to deal with power outages. As heat increases, the power outages will be much longer and more frequent. So much, that UPS and Power Inverters run out. Such are ideal times to measure idle power consumption for my laptop.

Here’s what my default (and idle) OS looks like. It should be standard to most “typical” users. Some minor odds could be apport, dnsmasq, and maybe, tor. Also, thanks to systemd, there are some native services which are now converted to socket activation based ones. There’s also Laptop Mode Tools for userspace power savings. But huge thanks to Intel’s work in making the kernel more power efficient. With things like Runtime PM and Intel P-State , we can now define, default and aggressive power-savings modes, helping conserve more power.