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Maximum Power Mitigation Mechanism (MPMM)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|MPMM| is an optional microarchitectural power management mechanism supported by
some Arm Armv9-A cores, beginning with the Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 and
Cortex-A510 cores. This mechanism detects and limits high-activity events to
assist in |SoC| processor power domain dynamic power budgeting and limit the
triggering of whole-rail (i.e. clock chopping) responses to overcurrent
conditions.
|MPMM| is enabled on a per-core basis by the EL3 runtime firmware. The presence
of |MPMM| cannot be determined at runtime by the firmware, and therefore the
platform must expose this information through one of two possible mechanisms:
- |FCONF|, controlled by the ``ENABLE_MPMM_FCONF`` build option.
- A platform implementation of the ``plat_mpmm_topology`` function (the
default).
See :ref:`Maximum Power Mitigation Mechanism (MPMM) Bindings` for documentation
on the |FCONF| device tree bindings.
.. warning::
|MPMM| exposes gear metrics through the auxiliary |AMU| counters. An
external power controller can use these metrics to budget SoC power by
limiting the number of cores that can execute higher-activity workloads or
switching to a different DVFS operating point. When this is the case, the
|AMU| counters that make up the |MPMM| gears must be enabled by the EL3
runtime firmware - please see :ref:`Activity Monitor Auxiliary Counters` for
documentation on enabling auxiliary |AMU| counters.
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