[PATCH 1/6] thermal: of: Add support for hardware-tracked trip points

Mikko Perttunen mperttunen at nvidia.com
Fri Aug 1 04:42:05 PDT 2014


Moi Eduardo :)

On 30/07/14 17:16, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> Terve Mikko,
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:11:34AM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
>> This adds support for hardware-tracked trip points to the device tree
>> thermal sensor framework.
>>
>> The framework supports an arbitrary number of trip points. Whenever
>> the current temperature is updated, the trip points immediately
>> below and above the current temperature are found. A sensor driver
>
> One thing I don't follow on your proposal is the groundings you need to
> 'set_trips' whenever temperature changes. Given your intention is to add
> support to interrupt driven devices, shouldn't we 'set_trips' just when
> we cross the previously set trips range?

I think the reasoning for this was that I didn't want to make changes to 
thermal_core and thermal_zone_device_update only calls get_temp on the 
zone, so I had to add this code to get_temp. set_trips would anyway only 
be called if we had crossed a trip point.

>
>> callback `set_trips' is then called with the temperatures.
>> If there is no trip point above or below the current temperature,
>> the passed trip temperature will be LONG_MAX or LONG_MIN respectively.
>> In this callback, the driver should program the hardware such that
>> it is notified when either of these trip points are triggered.
>> When a trip point is triggered, the driver should call
>> `thermal_zone_device_update' for the respective thermal zone. This
>> will cause the trip points to be updated again.
>>
>> If the `set_trips' callback is not implemented (is NULL), the framework
>> behaves as before.
>
> As already mentioned by swarren, the proposal must be wider. We shall
> keep the same support in case the device is used in a system without
> device tree. In other words, if you want to see extra functionality for
> interrupt driven devices, you shall update the core part too, and draft
> a common messaging path.

Yeah, this is sensible. A simpler solution would be to just tell 
of-thermal drivers about the trip points and let the driver do whatever 
it wants. That would mirror the way normal thermal_core drivers are 
done. What is your opinion on that?

>
> In general, interrupt driven devices are not mapped in the current
> thermal framework. That is, the current code is timer interrupt driven.
> Other interrupt updates from devices are propagated to
> the framework using thermal_zone_device_update(). In other words, you would
> reprogram your hardware trips from your interrupt handler/workqueue then
> just let the framework know what is going on with temperature, via a simple
> thermal_zone_device_update().
>
> The way I see this going forward it would be a common interface to
> configure the thermal zones to be monitored:
> a. via polling only
> b. via interrupt only
> c. both a + b
>
> obviously, the above shall be informative only for userland.
>
> keep in mind also that changing interrupt configuration for high and low
> temperature thresholds can be racy.
>
> This feature was kept in the TODO list of the of-thermal.c because the
> we lack a proper support from the thermal framework (never came out of
> the TODO list, I know, I apologize for this). And this missing feature
> was spotted by the hwmon folks also, as they do have such support. So,
> the major missing improvements on interrupt driven devices shall come in
> three steps: (i) thermal framework, (ii) of-thermal (iii) thermal
> framework and hwmon interface.

For now, I think I'll submit a driver with just polling support so that 
we can get some support in.

>
>
> Cheers,
>
>

Thanks, Mikko

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>   include/linux/thermal.h      |  3 +-
>>   2 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
>> index 04b1be7..bfccea5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
>> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ struct __thermal_zone {
>>        /* trip data */
>>        int ntrips;
>>        struct __thermal_trip *trips;
>> +     long prev_low_trip, prev_high_trip;
>>
>>        /* cooling binding data */
>>        int num_tbps;
>> @@ -98,19 +99,66 @@ struct __thermal_zone {
>>        void *sensor_data;
>>        int (*get_temp)(void *, long *);
>>        int (*get_trend)(void *, long *);
>> +     int (*set_trips)(void *, long, long);
>>   };
>>
>> +/***   Automatic trip handling   ***/
>> +
>> +static int of_thermal_set_trips(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, long temp)
>> +{
>> +     struct __thermal_zone *data = tz->devdata;
>> +     long low = LONG_MIN, high = LONG_MAX;
>> +     int i;
>> +
>> +     /* Hardware trip points not supported */
>> +     if (!data->set_trips)
>> +             return 0;
>> +
>> +     /* No need to change trip points */
>> +     if (temp > data->prev_low_trip && temp < data->prev_high_trip)
>> +             return 0;
>> +
>> +     for (i = 0; i < data->ntrips; ++i) {
>> +             struct __thermal_trip *trip = data->trips + i;
>> +             long trip_low = trip->temperature - trip->hysteresis;
>> +
>> +             if (trip_low < temp && trip_low > low)
>> +                     low = trip_low;
>> +
>> +             if (trip->temperature > temp && trip->temperature < high)
>> +                     high = trip->temperature;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     dev_dbg(&tz->device,
>> +             "temperature %ld, updating trip points to %ld, %ld\n",
>> +             temp, low, high);
>> +
>> +     data->prev_low_trip = low;
>> +     data->prev_high_trip = high;
>> +
>> +     return data->set_trips(data->sensor_data, low, high);
>> +}
>> +
>>   /***   DT thermal zone device callbacks   ***/
>>
>>   static int of_thermal_get_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>>                               unsigned long *temp)
>>   {
>>        struct __thermal_zone *data = tz->devdata;
>> +     int err;
>>
>>        if (!data->get_temp)
>>                return -EINVAL;
>>
>> -     return data->get_temp(data->sensor_data, temp);
>> +     err = data->get_temp(data->sensor_data, temp);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>> +     err = of_thermal_set_trips(tz, *temp);
>
> Here, if you update trips whenever you get_temp, you are possibly
> reprogramming your trips on every poll. Remember, this function will be
> called on every poll, in the current implementation.
>
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>> +     return 0;
>>   }
>>
>>   static int of_thermal_get_trend(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
>> @@ -222,6 +270,22 @@ static int of_thermal_set_mode(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>>        return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> +static int of_thermal_update_trips(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
>> +{
>> +     long temp;
>> +     int err;
>> +
>> +     err = of_thermal_get_temp(tz, &temp);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>> +     err = of_thermal_set_trips(tz, temp);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>> +     return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int of_thermal_get_trip_type(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
>>                                    enum thermal_trip_type *type)
>>   {
>> @@ -252,6 +316,7 @@ static int of_thermal_set_trip_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
>>                                    unsigned long temp)
>>   {
>>        struct __thermal_zone *data = tz->devdata;
>> +     int err;
>>
>>        if (trip >= data->ntrips || trip < 0)
>>                return -EDOM;
>> @@ -259,6 +324,10 @@ static int of_thermal_set_trip_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
>>        /* thermal framework should take care of data->mask & (1 << trip) */
>>        data->trips[trip].temperature = temp;
>>
>> +     err = of_thermal_update_trips(tz);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>>        return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> @@ -279,6 +348,7 @@ static int of_thermal_set_trip_hyst(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
>>                                    unsigned long hyst)
>>   {
>>        struct __thermal_zone *data = tz->devdata;
>> +     int err;
>>
>>        if (trip >= data->ntrips || trip < 0)
>>                return -EDOM;
>> @@ -286,6 +356,10 @@ static int of_thermal_set_trip_hyst(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip,
>>        /* thermal framework should take care of data->mask & (1 << trip) */
>>        data->trips[trip].hysteresis = hyst;
>>
>> +     err = of_thermal_update_trips(tz);
>> +     if (err)
>> +             return err;
>> +
>>        return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> @@ -325,10 +399,12 @@ static struct thermal_zone_device *
>>   thermal_zone_of_add_sensor(struct device_node *zone,
>>                           struct device_node *sensor, void *data,
>>                           int (*get_temp)(void *, long *),
>> -                        int (*get_trend)(void *, long *))
>> +                        int (*get_trend)(void *, long *),
>> +                        int (*set_trips)(void *, long, long))
>
> we need to clean the above arguments. they should become a .ops.
>
>>   {
>>        struct thermal_zone_device *tzd;
>>        struct __thermal_zone *tz;
>> +     int err;
>>
>>        tzd = thermal_zone_get_zone_by_name(zone->name);
>>        if (IS_ERR(tzd))
>> @@ -339,8 +415,15 @@ thermal_zone_of_add_sensor(struct device_node *zone,
>>        mutex_lock(&tzd->lock);
>>        tz->get_temp = get_temp;
>>        tz->get_trend = get_trend;
>> +     tz->set_trips = set_trips;
>>        tz->sensor_data = data;
>>
>> +     err = of_thermal_update_trips(tzd);
>> +     if (err) {
>> +             mutex_unlock(&tzd->lock);
>> +             return ERR_PTR(err);
>> +     }
>> +
>>        tzd->ops->get_temp = of_thermal_get_temp;
>>        tzd->ops->get_trend = of_thermal_get_trend;
>>        mutex_unlock(&tzd->lock);
>> @@ -384,7 +467,8 @@ thermal_zone_of_add_sensor(struct device_node *zone,
>>   struct thermal_zone_device *
>>   thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(struct device *dev, int sensor_id,
>>                                void *data, int (*get_temp)(void *, long *),
>> -                             int (*get_trend)(void *, long *))
>> +                             int (*get_trend)(void *, long *),
>> +                             int (*set_trips)(void *, long, long))
>
> ditto.
>
>>   {
>>        struct device_node *np, *child, *sensor_np;
>>
>> @@ -422,7 +506,8 @@ thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(struct device *dev, int sensor_id,
>>                        return thermal_zone_of_add_sensor(child, sensor_np,
>>                                                          data,
>>                                                          get_temp,
>> -                                                       get_trend);
>> +                                                       get_trend,
>> +                                                       set_trips);
>
> ditto.
>
>>                }
>>        }
>>        of_node_put(np);
>> @@ -466,6 +551,7 @@ void thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(struct device *dev,
>>
>>        tz->get_temp = NULL;
>>        tz->get_trend = NULL;
>> +     tz->set_trips = NULL;
>>        tz->sensor_data = NULL;
>>        mutex_unlock(&tzd->lock);
>>   }
>> @@ -671,6 +757,9 @@ thermal_of_build_thermal_zone(struct device_node *np)
>>        /* trips */
>>        child = of_get_child_by_name(np, "trips");
>>
>> +     tz->prev_high_trip = LONG_MIN;
>> +     tz->prev_low_trip = LONG_MAX;
>> +
>>        /* No trips provided */
>>        if (!child)
>>                goto finish;
>> diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
>> index f7e11c7..2f8951c 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/thermal.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
>> @@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ struct thermal_genl_event {
>>   struct thermal_zone_device *
>>   thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(struct device *dev, int id,
>>                                void *data, int (*get_temp)(void *, long *),
>> -                             int (*get_trend)(void *, long *));
>> +                             int (*get_trend)(void *, long *),
>> +                             int (*set_trips)(void *, long, long));
>>   void thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(struct device *dev,
>>                                       struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>>   #else
>> --
>> 1.8.1.5
>>
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