Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] asus-wmi: add platform_profile support

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 8/16/21 1:00 AM, Luke Jones wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15 2021 at 15:48:49 +0200, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/14/21 9:51 AM, Luke Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sat, Aug 14 2021 at 16:31:02 +1200, Luke D. Jones <luke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>  Changelog:
>>>>  - V2
>>>>    + Correctly unregister from platform_profile if
>>>>      throttle_thermal_policy fails
>>>>    + Do platform_profile_notify() in both throttle_thermal_policy_store()
>>>>      and in throttle_thermal_policy_switch_next()
>>>>    + Remove unnecessary prep for possible fan-boost modes as this
>>>>      doesn't match expected platform_profile behaviour
>>>>  - V3
>>>>    + Add missing declaration for err in
>>>>      throttle_thermal_policy_switch_next
>>>>
>>>>  Luke D. Jones (1):
>>>>    asus-wmi: Add support for platform_profile
>>>>
>>>>   drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>   1 file changed, 135 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>>>  2.31.1
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  I teested the patch again and it appears that the platform_profile_notify() in both throttle_thermal_policy_store() and throttle_thermal_policy_switch_next() updates the /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile sysfs path fine, but userspace isn't updated?
>>>
>>>  The way I'm checking is:
>>>  1. echo 1 |sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/throttle_thermal_policy
>>>  2. cat -p /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile
>>>    - performance (updated correctly by platform_profile_notify)
>>>  3. Check gnome-settings, not updated.
>>>
>>>  Doing `echo "performance" |sudo tee /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile` updates both throttle_thermal_policy and userspace as expected. I'm wondering if I've missed something?
>>
>> If you add a printk where you call platform_profile_notify() and you see that
>> happening, then you are likely seeing a userspace bug. Possibly your
>> power-profile-daemon is simply a bit old and therefor does not support
>> the combination of profiles which asus-wmi offers, IIRC it falls back to
>> using intel-pstate in that case.
> 
> It's possible that it's a userspace bug then. The power-profile-daemon I'm using is fresh from git (0.9+). To be clear updating via /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile works perfectly fine and power-profile-daemon updates etc. But if I do platform_profile_notify() then it doesn't seem to be updated. Nevertheless I will finalise the patch as it is and submit for merging and we can go from there.

This is weird, I wonder if there is a difference in glib versions used, where one does
include polling for POLLPRI on sysfs files in GFileMonitor and the other only uses
inotify which only catches changes from another userspace write ?

Regards,

Hans