Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] thermal: core/ACPI: Fix processor cooling device regression

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Mar 13 2023 - 14:02:28 EST


On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 5:47 PM Zhang, Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, Rafael,
>
> The only concern to me is that, in thermal_cooling_device_update(), we
> should handle the cases that the cooling device is current used by
> one/more thermal zone. say, something like
>
> list_for_each_entry(pos, &cdev->thermal_instances, cdev_node) {
> /* e.g. what to do if tz1 set it to state 1 previously */
> }
> I have not got a clear idea what we should do here.

For each instance, set upper to max_state if above it and set target
to upper if above it I'd say.

I guess otherwise there may be some confusion in principle and I have
missed that piece, so thanks for pointing it out!

> But given that I have confirmed that this patch series fixes the
> original problem, and the ACPI passive cooling is unlikely to be
> triggered before CPUFREQ_CREATE_POLICY notification, probably we can
> address that problem later.
>
> Tested-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!