Re: [PATCH] drivers: thermal: do not clobber cooling dev state from userspace

[Zhang Rui]

On ä, 2018-05-07 at 11:55 -0600, Lina Iyer wrote:
> From: Ram Chandrasekar <rkumbako@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Let userspace be another voter for cooling device state instead of
> the
> overriding authority. It is possible that the thermal governor may
> find
> a higher cooling state desirable than what is recommended by the
> userspace. Separate out the current cooling device state from the
> userspace request and aggregate the userspace request with the
> governors' recommendation.
> 

hmmm, I don't understand this.
If the governor does not work well, we should either improve the
governor or use userspace governor instead.
do you have any examples that the kernel governor chooses improper
cooling state?

thanks,
rui

> Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âdrivers/thermal/thermal_core.cÂÂÂÂ| 1 +
> Âdrivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c | 2 +-
> Âdrivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.cÂÂÂ| 8 +++++++-
> Âinclude/linux/thermal.hÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 1 +
> Â4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 589925ac0994..c2e13e122934 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -970,6 +970,7 @@ __thermal_cooling_device_register(struct
> device_node *np,
> Â	cdev->updated = false;
> Â	cdev->device.class = &thermal_class;
> Â	cdev->devdata = devdata;
> +	cdev->sysfs_req = 0;
> Â	thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs(cdev);
> Â	dev_set_name(&cdev->device, "cooling_device%d", cdev->id);
> Â	result = device_register(&cdev->device);
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> index 2ba756af76b7..f550fdee0f9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_helpers.c
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_zone_set_trips);
> Âvoid thermal_cdev_update(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
> Â{
> Â	struct thermal_instance *instance;
> -	unsigned long target = 0;
> +	unsigned long target = cdev->sysfs_req;
> Â
> Â	mutex_lock(&cdev->lock);
> Â	/* cooling device is updated*/
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> index 275ffee292bf..eddada715ad2 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> @@ -719,7 +719,13 @@ thermal_cooling_device_cur_state_store(struct
> device *dev,
> Â	result = cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, state);
> Â	if (result)
> Â		return result;
> -	thermal_cooling_device_stats_update(cdev, state);
> +
> +	cdev->sysfs_req = state;
> +	mutex_lock(&cdev->lock);
> +	cdev->updated = false;
> +	mutex_unlock(&cdev->lock);
> +	thermal_cdev_update(cdev);
> +
> Â	return count;
> Â}
> Â
> diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
> index 5f4705f46c2f..7a133bd6ff86 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thermal.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
> @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ struct thermal_cooling_device {
> Â	struct mutex lock; /* protect thermal_instances list */
> Â	struct list_head thermal_instances;
> Â	struct list_head node;
> +	unsigned long sysfs_req;
> Â};
> Â
> Âstruct thermal_attr {