Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] power: charger-manager: Avoid recursive thermal get_temp call

[Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>]

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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:47:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The charger manager supports POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TEMP property and acts
> as a thermal zone if any of these conditions match:
> 1. Fuel gauge used by charger manager supports POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TEMP.
> 2. 'cm-thermal-zone' property is present in DTS (then it will supersede
>    the fuel gauge temperature property).
> 
> However in case 1 (fuel gauge reports temperature and 'cm-thermal-zone'
> is not set) the charger manager forwards its get_temp calls to fuel
> gauge thermal zone.
> 
> This leads to reporting by lockdep a false positive deadlock for thermal
> zone's mutex because of nested calls to thermal_zone_get_temp(). This is
> false positive because these are different mutexes: one for charger
> manager thermal zone and second for fuel gauge thermal zone.
> 
> Get rid of false lockdep alert and recursive call by setting
> 'no_thermal' property for this power supply class. The thermal zone for
> charger manager won't be created (user space does not use it anyway).

also pulled into next, will also be included in 3.18-rc pull request.

-- Sebastian

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