Re: [PATCH] acpi: thermal: honor "mode" sysfs file setting

From: Enric Balletbo Serra
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 08:58:18 EST


Hi Rui,

2017-06-29 7:19 GMT+02:00 Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 00:14 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Thursday, June 22, 2017 02:45:42 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Sameer Nanda <snanda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Under each thermal zone there is a file called "mode". Writing
>> > enabled
>> > or disabled to this file allows a given thermal zone to be enabled
>> > or
>> > disabled. Honor writes to this file by enabling or disabling the
>> > polling timers.
>> >
>> > With this change, in the acpi_thermal_add path,
>> > acpi_thermal_get_info
>> > gets called before acpi_thermal_register_thermal_zone. Since
>> > tz_enabled
>> > was getting set to 1 only in acpi_thermal_register_thermal_zone,
>> > acpi_thermal_get_info ended up disabling thermal polling so moved
>> > the
>> > setting of tz_enabled to 1 into acpi_thermal_add itself.
>> >
>> > After this patch echoing enabled|disabled to "mode" sysfs will
>> > start/stop
>> > the polling of the temperature.
>> >
> I see, so there are three logics to decide the polling frequency
>
> 1. returned by _TZP, according to ACPI spec
> 2. overridden by thermal.tzp module parameter
> 3. cleared when the thermal zone is disabled and restored when the
> thermal zone is re-enabled (missing in current code)
>
> what we are doing in this patch is to introduce the third logic, and
> move all the code of 1, 2 and 3 into
> acpi_thermal_get_polling_frequency().
> To align with this change, tz->tz_enable=1 is moved earlier, before
> acpi_thermal_get_polling_frequency() being invoked in
> acpi_thermal_add().
> right?
>

Right.

>> > Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > >
>> Rui, Srinivas, can you please have a look at this one and let me know
>> what you
>> think?
>>
>> >
>> > ---
>> > drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>> > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
>> > index 1d0417b..68ad9fe 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
>> > @@ -223,6 +223,17 @@ static int
>> > acpi_thermal_get_polling_frequency(struct acpi_thermal *tz)
>> > if (!tz)
>> > return -EINVAL;
>> >
>> > + if (tz->tz_enabled == THERMAL_DEVICE_DISABLED) {
>> > + tz->polling_frequency = 0;
>> > + return 0;
>> > + }
>> > +
>> > + /* Get default polling frequency [_TZP] (optional) */
>> > + if (tzp) {
>> > + tz->polling_frequency = tzp;
>> > + return 0;
>> > + }
>> > +
>> > status = acpi_evaluate_integer(tz->device->handle, "_TZP",
>> > NULL, &tmp);
>> > if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>> > return -ENODEV;
>> > @@ -582,6 +593,14 @@ static int thermal_set_mode(struct
>> > thermal_zone_device *thermal,
>> > ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO,
>> > "%s kernel ACPI thermal control\n",
>> > tz->tz_enabled ? "Enable" : "Disable"));
>> > +
>> > + acpi_thermal_get_polling_frequency(tz);
>> > +
>> > + mutex_lock(&tz->thermal_zone->lock);
>> > + tz->thermal_zone->polling_delay = tz-
>> > >polling_frequency * 100;
>> > + tz->thermal_zone->passive_delay = tz-
>> > >polling_frequency * 100;
>
> To me, this policy, "disabling polling when disabling thermal zone,
> enabling polling after enabling thermal zone" applies to all the
> thermal zones, thus it's better to be implemented in thermal subsystem,
> rather than ACPI thermal driver.
>

Ok, sounds reasonable, maybe we can call get_mode in
thermal_zone_device_set_polling and cancel the workqueue if device is
DISABLED and reenable if device is ENABLED. Guess that can be more
simple. Let me think about it and I'll prepare a second version of the
patch.

> BTW, two other comments about the code itself,
> 1. I don't like the way how tz->polling_delay/tz->passive_delay are
> changed here. If we have to do this, better using a thermal API, and we
> should invoke monitor_thermal_zone() right after updating these two
> fields.
> 2. passive_delay is set to wrong value here.
>

Thanks, I'll look at this and check once I figure out how to move all
to the thermal subsystem.

> thanks,
> rui
>> > + mutex_unlock(&tz->thermal_zone->lock);
>> > +
>> > acpi_thermal_check(tz);
>> > }
>> > return 0;
>> > @@ -930,8 +949,6 @@ static int
>> > acpi_thermal_register_thermal_zone(struct acpi_thermal *tz)
>> > if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>> > return -ENODEV;
>> >
>> > - tz->tz_enabled = 1;
>> > -
>> > dev_info(&tz->device->dev, "registered as
>> > thermal_zone%d\n",
>> > tz->thermal_zone->id);
>> > return 0;
>> > @@ -1039,11 +1056,7 @@ static int acpi_thermal_get_info(struct
>> > acpi_thermal *tz)
>> > if (!result)
>> > tz->flags.cooling_mode = 1;
>> >
>> > - /* Get default polling frequency [_TZP] (optional) */
>> > - if (tzp)
>> > - tz->polling_frequency = tzp;
>> > - else
>> > - acpi_thermal_get_polling_frequency(tz);
>> > + acpi_thermal_get_polling_frequency(tz);
>> >
>> > return 0;
>> > }
>> > @@ -1088,6 +1101,7 @@ static int acpi_thermal_add(struct
>> > acpi_device *device)
>> > return -ENOMEM;
>> >
>> > tz->device = device;
>> > + tz->tz_enabled = 1;
>> > strcpy(tz->name, device->pnp.bus_id);
>> > strcpy(acpi_device_name(device),
>> > ACPI_THERMAL_DEVICE_NAME);
>> > strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_THERMAL_CLASS);
>> >
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