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

[Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>]

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?

> 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.

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. 


Cheers,


> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikko Perttunen <mperttunen@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
>