Commit ae6ccaa6 authored by Lukasz Luba's avatar Lukasz Luba Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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PM: EM: convert power field to micro-Watts precision and align drivers

The milli-Watts precision causes rounding errors while calculating
efficiency cost for each OPP. This is especially visible in the 'simple'
Energy Model (EM), where the power for each OPP is provided from OPP
framework. This can cause some OPPs to be marked inefficient, while
using micro-Watts precision that might not happen.

Update all EM users which access 'power' field and assume the value is
in milli-Watts.

Solve also an issue with potential overflow in calculation of energy
estimation on 32bit machine. It's needed now since the power value
(thus the 'cost' as well) are higher.

Example calculation which shows the rounding error and impact:

power = 'dyn-power-coeff' * volt_mV * volt_mV * freq_MHz

power_a_uW = (100 * 600mW * 600mW * 500MHz) / 10^6 = 18000
power_a_mW = (100 * 600mW * 600mW * 500MHz) / 10^9 = 18

power_b_uW = (100 * 605mW * 605mW * 600MHz) / 10^6 = 21961
power_b_mW = (100 * 605mW * 605mW * 600MHz) / 10^9 = 21

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