Re: [PATCH] thermal/drivers/netlink: Add the temperature when crossing a trip point

[Daniel Lezcano]

Hi Srinivas,

On 27/03/2021 18:46, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 17:37 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:38 PM Daniel Lezcano
>> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The slope of the temperature increase or decrease can be high and
>>> when
>>> the temperature crosses the trip point, there could be a
>>> significant
>>> difference between the trip temperature and the measured
>>> temperatures.
>>>
>>> That forces the userspace to read the temperature back right after
>>> receiving a trip violation notification.
>>>
>>> In order to be efficient, give the temperature which resulted in
>>> the
>>> trip violation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Srinivas, what do you think?
> 
> - IMO netlink message should also be treated as we treat other ABIs. So
> add only when this is a must. Although here GENL version is incremented
> , users are not that careful. At least on x86, we know users created
> their own applications.

I don't see where is the problem. The protocol is still compatible with
the previous version, so that does not break the existing AFAICT. That
is done on purpose.

There is a new attribute added, the application using the previous
version will just not be aware of its presence and parse the message
without getting the temperature.

> - Here the concern is temperature is changing so fast then netlink +
> user space processing latency is enough to change further to read
> temperature again. Atleast we assume that and read temperature again.
> So not sure that this is the right approach to add another field for
> the temperature.

I'm not sure to understand your comment. Whatever the mechanism
(interrupt based or polling), the temperature is read in any case by the
call to thermal_zone_device_update() which in turns calls
handle_trip_point and then send the message. So, why not add the
temperature as the userspace is interested on getting the temperature
anyway.

For instance, in polling mode, (usually set to 1000ms), the trip point
crossing is detected with a long delay and during this time the
temperature could be far beyond the trip temperature.

It is not about netlink latency but about avoiding a back and forth when
the trip point is crossed and the temperature wavering around.


>>> ---
>>>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c    |  6 ++++--
>>>  drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.c | 11 ++++++-----
>>>  drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.h |  8 ++++----
>>>  include/uapi/linux/thermal.h      |  2 +-
>>>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>>> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>>> index 996c038f83a4..948020ef51b1 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>>> @@ -430,10 +430,12 @@ static void handle_thermal_trip(struct
>>> thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip)
>>>         if (tz->last_temperature != THERMAL_TEMP_INVALID) {
>>>                 if (tz->last_temperature < trip_temp &&
>>>                     tz->temperature >= trip_temp)
>>> -                       thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(tz->id, trip);
>>> +                       thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(tz->id, trip,
>>> +                                                 tz->temperature);
>>>                 if (tz->last_temperature >= trip_temp &&
>>>                     tz->temperature < (trip_temp - hyst))
>>> -                       thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(tz->id, trip);
>>> +                       thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(tz->id, trip,
>>> +                                                   tz-
>>>> temperature);
>>>         }
>>>
>>>         if (type == THERMAL_TRIP_CRITICAL || type ==
>>> THERMAL_TRIP_HOT)
>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.c
>>> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.c
>>> index 1234dbe95895..a16dd4d5d710 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.c
>>> @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ static int thermal_genl_event_tz(struct param
>>> *p)
>>>  static int thermal_genl_event_tz_trip_up(struct param *p)
>>>  {
>>>         if (nla_put_u32(p->msg, THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_TZ_ID, p->tz_id)
>>> ||
>>> -           nla_put_u32(p->msg, THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_TZ_TRIP_ID, p-
>>>> trip_id))
>>> +           nla_put_u32(p->msg, THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_TZ_TRIP_ID, p-
>>>> trip_id) ||
>>> +           nla_put_u32(p->msg, THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_TZ_TEMP, p-
>>>> temp))
>>>                 return -EMSGSIZE;
>>>
>>>         return 0;
>>> @@ -285,16 +286,16 @@ int thermal_notify_tz_disable(int tz_id)
>>>         return
>>> thermal_genl_send_event(THERMAL_GENL_EVENT_TZ_DISABLE, &p);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> -int thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(int tz_id, int trip_id)
>>> +int thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(int tz_id, int trip_id, int temp)
>>>  {
>>> -       struct param p = { .tz_id = tz_id, .trip_id = trip_id };
>>> +       struct param p = { .tz_id = tz_id, .trip_id = trip_id,
>>> .temp = temp };
>>>
>>>         return
>>> thermal_genl_send_event(THERMAL_GENL_EVENT_TZ_TRIP_DOWN, &p);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> -int thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(int tz_id, int trip_id)
>>> +int thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(int tz_id, int trip_id, int temp)
>>>  {
>>> -       struct param p = { .tz_id = tz_id, .trip_id = trip_id };
>>> +       struct param p = { .tz_id = tz_id, .trip_id = trip_id,
>>> .temp = temp };
>>>
>>>         return
>>> thermal_genl_send_event(THERMAL_GENL_EVENT_TZ_TRIP_UP, &p);
>>>  }
>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.h
>>> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.h
>>> index 828d1dddfa98..e554f76291f4 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_netlink.h
>>> @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ int thermal_notify_tz_create(int tz_id, const
>>> char *name);
>>>  int thermal_notify_tz_delete(int tz_id);
>>>  int thermal_notify_tz_enable(int tz_id);
>>>  int thermal_notify_tz_disable(int tz_id);
>>> -int thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(int tz_id, int id);
>>> -int thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(int tz_id, int id);
>>> +int thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(int tz_id, int id, int temp);
>>> +int thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(int tz_id, int id, int temp);
>>>  int thermal_notify_tz_trip_delete(int tz_id, int id);
>>>  int thermal_notify_tz_trip_add(int tz_id, int id, int type,
>>>                                int temp, int hyst);
>>> @@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ static inline int thermal_notify_tz_disable(int
>>> tz_id)
>>>         return 0;
>>>  }
>>>
>>> -static inline int thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(int tz_id, int id)
>>> +static inline int thermal_notify_tz_trip_down(int tz_id, int id,
>>> int temp)
>>>  {
>>>         return 0;
>>>  }
>>>
>>> -static inline int thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(int tz_id, int id)
>>> +static inline int thermal_notify_tz_trip_up(int tz_id, int id, int
>>> temp)
>>>  {
>>>         return 0;
>>>  }
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/thermal.h
>>> b/include/uapi/linux/thermal.h
>>> index c105054cbb57..bf5d9c8ef16f 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/thermal.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/thermal.h
>>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ enum thermal_trip_type {
>>>
>>>  /* Adding event notification support elements */
>>>  #define THERMAL_GENL_FAMILY_NAME               "thermal"
>>> -#define THERMAL_GENL_VERSION                   0x01
>>> +#define THERMAL_GENL_VERSION                   0x02
>>>  #define THERMAL_GENL_SAMPLING_GROUP_NAME       "sampling"
>>>  #define THERMAL_GENL_EVENT_GROUP_NAME          "event"
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.17.1
>>>
> 


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