RE: [PATCH v3 0/6] thermal: exynos: Add kernel thermal support forexynos platform

From: Zhang, Rui
Date: Tue May 08 2012 - 16:06:37 EST

Hi, Amit,

Sorry for the late response as I'm in a travel recently.

I think the generic cpufreq cooling patches are good.

But about the THERMAL_TRIP_STATE_INSTANCE patch, what I'd like to see is that
1. from thermal zone point of view, when the temperature is higher than a trip point, either ACTIVE or PASSIVE, what we should do is to set device cooling state to cur_state+1, right?
The only difference is that if we should take passive cooling actions or active cooling actions based on the policy.
So my question would be if it is possible to combine these two kind of trip points together. Maybe something like this:

In thermal_zone_device_update(),

...
case THERMAL_TRIP_PASSIVE:
if (passive cooling not allowed)
continue;
if (tc1)
thermal_zone_device_passive();
else
thermal_set_cooling_state();
break;
case THERMAL_TRIP_ACTIVE:
if (active cooling not allowed)
continue;
thermal_set_cooling_state();
break;
...

and thermal_set_cooling_state() {
list_for_each_entry(instance, &tz->cooling_devices, node) {
if (instance->trip != count)
continue;

cdev = instance->cdev;

if (temp >= trip_temp)
cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, 1);
else
cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, 0);
}
}

2. use only one cooling_device instance for a thermal_zone, and introduce cdev->trips which shows the trip points this cooling device is bind to.
And we may use multiple cooling devices states for one active trip point.

Then, thermal_set_cooling_state() would be look like

list_for_each_entry(instance, &tz->cooling_devices, node) {
cdev = instance->cdev;
/* check whether this cooling device is bind to the trip point */
if (!(cdev->trips & 1<<count))
continue;
cdev->ops->get_max_state(cdev, &max_state);
cdev->ops->get_cur_state(cdev, &cur_state);

if (temp >= trip_temp) {
if (cur_state++ <= max_state))
cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, cur_state);
} else if ((temp < trip_temp) && (cur_state-- >= 0))
cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, cur_state);
}
}

With these two things, I think the WARN_ZONE AND MONITOR_ZONE can be registered as two PASSIVE trip points in the generic thermal layer, right?
Actually, this is one thing in my TODO list. And I'd glad to make it high priority if this solves the problem you have.

Thanks,
rui

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From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amit Daniel Kachhap
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Subject: [PATCH v3 0/6] thermal: exynos: Add kernel thermal support for exynos platform
Importance: High

Hi Andrew,

This patchset introduces a new generic cooling device based on cpufreq that can be used on non-ACPI platforms. As a proof of concept, we have drivers for the following platforms using this mechanism now:

* TI OMAP (git://git.linaro.org/people/amitdanielk/linux.git omap4460_thermal)
* Samsung Exynos (Exynos4 and Exynos5) in the current patchset.
* Freescale i.MX (git://git.linaro.org/people/amitdanielk/linux.git imx6q_thermal)

These patches have been reviewed by Rui Zhang (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/9/448)
who seems to agree with them in principle, but I haven't had any luck getting them merged, perhaps a lack of maintainer bandwidth.

ACPI platforms currently have such a mechanism but it is wrapped in ACPI'isms that we don't have on ARM platforms. If this is accepted, I'm proposing to convert over the ACPI thermal driver to use this common code too.

Can you please merge these patches for 3.5?

Thanks,
Amit Daniel


Changes since V2:
*Added Exynos5 TMU sensor support by enhancing the exynos4 tmu driver. Exynos5 TMU driver was internally developed by SangWook Ju <sw.ju@xxxxxxxxxxx>.
*Removed cpuhotplug cooling code in this patchset.
*Rebased the patches against 3.4-rc6 kernel.

Changes since V1:
*Moved the sensor driver to driver/thermal folder from driver/hwmon folder as suggested by Mark Brown and Guenter Roeck *Added notifier support to notify the registered drivers of any cpu cooling action. The driver can modify the default cooling behaviour(eg set different max clip frequency).
*The percentage based frequency replaced with absolute clipped frequency.
*Some more conditional checks when setting max frequency.
*Renamed the new trip type THERMAL_TRIP_STATE_ACTIVE to THERMAL_TRIP_STATE_INSTANCE *Many review comments from R, Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@xxxxxxxxx> and eduardo.valentin@xxxxxx implemented.
*Removed cooling stats through debugfs patch *The V1 based can be found here,
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/123
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/3/32

Changes since RFC:
*Changed the cpu cooling registration/unregistration API's to instance based *Changed the STATE_ACTIVE trip type to pass correct instance id *Adding support to restore back the policy->max_freq after doing frequency
clipping.
*Moved the trip cooling stats from sysfs node to debugfs node as suggested
by Greg KH greg@xxxxxxxxx
*Incorporated several review comments from eduardo.valentin@xxxxxx *Moved the Temperature sensor driver from driver/hwmon/ to driver/mfd as discussed with Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> and Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/5/7)
*Some changes according to the changes in common cpu cooling APIs *The RFC based patches can be found here,
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/13/186
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/21/169


Brief Description:

1) The generic cooling devices code is placed inside driver/thermal/* as placing inside acpi folder will need un-necessary enabling of acpi code. This codes is architecture independent.

2) This patchset adds a new trip type THERMAL_TRIP_STATE_INSTANCE which passes cooling device instance number and may be helpful for cpufreq cooling devices to take the correct cooling action. This trip type avoids the temperature comparision check again inside the cooling handler.

3) This patchset adds generic cpu cooling low level implementation through frequency clipping and cpu hotplug. In future, other cpu related cooling devices may be added here. An ACPI version of this already exists (drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c). But this will be useful for platforms like ARM using the generic thermal interface along with the generic cpu cooling devices. The cooling device registration API's return cooling device pointers which can be easily binded with the thermal zone trip points.
The important APIs exposed are,
a)struct thermal_cooling_device *cpufreq_cooling_register(
struct freq_clip_table *tab_ptr, unsigned int tab_size,
const struct cpumask *mask_val)
b)void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)

4) Samsung exynos platform thermal implementation is done using the generic cpu cooling APIs and the new trip type. The temperature sensor driver present in the hwmon folder(registered as hwmon driver) is moved to thermal folder and registered as a thermal driver.

All this patchset is based on Kernel version 3.4-rc6

A simple data/control flow diagrams is shown below,

Core Linux thermal <-----> Exynos thermal interface <----- Temperature Sensor
| |
\|/ |
Cpufreq cooling device <---------------

TODO:
*Will send the DT enablement patches later after the driver is merged.


Amit Daniel Kachhap (6):
thermal: Add a new trip type to use cooling device instance number
thermal: Add generic cpufreq cooling implementation
hwmon: exynos4: Move thermal sensor driver to driver/thermal
directory
thermal: exynos5: Add exynos5 thermal sensor driver support
thermal: exynos: Register the tmu sensor with the kernel thermal
layer
ARM: exynos: Add thermal sensor driver platform data support

Documentation/hwmon/exynos4_tmu | 81 ---
Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt | 60 ++
Documentation/thermal/exynos_thermal | 52 ++
Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | 4 +-
drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 10 -
drivers/hwmon/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/hwmon/exynos4_tmu.c | 514 --------------
drivers/thermal/Kconfig | 20 +
drivers/thermal/Makefile | 4 +-
drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 359 ++++++++++
drivers/thermal/exynos_thermal.c | 933 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 62 ++-
include/linux/cpu_cooling.h | 62 ++
include/linux/platform_data/exynos4_tmu.h | 83 ---
include/linux/platform_data/exynos_thermal.h | 100 +++
include/linux/thermal.h | 1 +
16 files changed, 1651 insertions(+), 695 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/exynos4_tmu create mode 100644 Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/thermal/exynos_thermal
delete mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/exynos4_tmu.c create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/exynos_thermal.c create mode 100644 include/linux/cpu_cooling.h delete mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/exynos4_tmu.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/exynos_thermal.h

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