Re: [PATCH v3] thermal/core: Clear all mitigation when thermal zone is disabled

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 7:57 PM Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi
<quic_manafm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Whenever a thermal zone is in trip violated state, there is a chance
> that the same thermal zone mode can be disabled either via thermal
> core API or via thermal zone sysfs. Once it is disabled, the framework
> bails out any re-evaluation of thermal zone. It leads to a case where
> if it is already in mitigation state, it will stay the same state
> until it is re-enabled.
>
> To avoid above mentioned issue, on thermal zone disable request
> reset thermal zone and clear mitigation for each trip explicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi <quic_manafm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 51374f4..e288c82 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -447,10 +447,18 @@ static int thermal_zone_device_set_mode(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>
>         thermal_zone_device_update(tz, THERMAL_EVENT_UNSPECIFIED);
>
> -       if (mode == THERMAL_DEVICE_ENABLED)
> +       if (mode == THERMAL_DEVICE_ENABLED) {
>                 thermal_notify_tz_enable(tz->id);
> -       else
> +       } else {
> +               int trip;
> +
> +               /* make sure all previous throttlings are cleared */
> +               thermal_zone_device_init(tz);
> +               for (trip = 0; trip < tz->trips; trip++)
> +                       handle_thermal_trip(tz, trip);
> +

It looks to me like this has a potential of confusing user space by
setting the temperature to invalid before notifying it that the zone
has been disabled.

>                 thermal_notify_tz_disable(tz->id);
> +       }
>
>         return ret;
>  }
>