Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] thermal: core: Add mechanism for connecting trips with driver data

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:29 PM Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 25/07/2023 14:04, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Some drivers need to update trip point data (temperature and/or
> > hysteresis) upon notifications from the platform firmware or they
> > may need to reprogram hardware when trip point parameters are changed
> > via sysfs.  For those purposes, they need to connect struct thermal_trip
> > to a private data set associated with the trip or the other way around
> > and using a trip point index for that may not always work, because the
> > core may need to reorder the trips during thermal zone registration (in
> > particular, they may need to be sorted).
> >
> > To allow that to be done without using a trip point index, introduce
> > a new field in struct thermal_trip that can be pointed by the driver
> > to its own data structure containing a trip pointer to be initialized
> > by the core during thermal zone registration.  That pointer will then
> > have to be updated by the core every time the location of the given
> > trip point object in memory changes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > v2 -> v3: No changes.
> >
> > v1 -> v2: No changes.
> >
> > ---
> >   drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++---
> >   include/linux/thermal.h        |   13 +++++++++++++
> >   2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-pm/include/linux/thermal.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/thermal.h
> > +++ linux-pm/include/linux/thermal.h
> > @@ -76,16 +76,29 @@ struct thermal_zone_device_ops {
> >       void (*critical)(struct thermal_zone_device *);
> >   };
> >
> > +struct thermal_trip_ref {
> > +     struct thermal_trip *trip;
> > +};
>
> That introduces a circular dependency. That should be avoided.

Sorry, but this is an empty statement without any substance.

> >   /**
> >    * struct thermal_trip - representation of a point in temperature domain
> >    * @temperature: temperature value in miliCelsius
> >    * @hysteresis: relative hysteresis in miliCelsius
> >    * @type: trip point type
> > + * @driver_ref: driver's reference to this trip point
> > + *
> > + * If @driver_ref is not NULL, the trip pointer in the object pointed to by it
> > + * will be initialized by the core during thermal zone registration and updated
> > + * whenever the location of the given trip object changes.  This allows the
> > + * driver to access the trip point data without knowing the relative ordering
> > + * of trips within the trip table used by the core and, given a trip pointer,
> > + * to get back to its private data associated with the given trip.
> >    */
> >   struct thermal_trip {
> >       int temperature;
> >       int hysteresis;
> >       enum thermal_trip_type type;
> > +     struct thermal_trip_ref *driver_ref;
> >   };
>
> Why not use void *priv ?

Because it wouldn't work.

> AFAICT, the ACPI driver is the only one where when we reorder the trip
> points, the trip id is no longer matching the definition provided by the
> ACPI description.

No, it is not the only one.  Every driver that needs to handle trip
point update notifications from the platform firmware will have this
problem.

> It is possible to have the driver *specific* code to define its own
> structure with the id and use it instead of the trip_id.

Then it would need to walk the trips[] table in the thermal zone, if I
understand the suggestion correctly, which goes kind of against your
previous changes.

> So we end up with the ACPI driver registering the trip points with a
> data structure containing a private trip id.
>
> The thermal framework is not supposed to have to deal with this kind of
> driver issues and from a higher perspective, any driver specific thing
> must stay in the driver.
>
> eg.
>
> struct acpi_thermal_trip_data {
>         int id;
>         ... other info
> };
>
> struct acpi_thermal_trip_data attd[NRTRIPS] = { .id = 0 }, { .id = 1 }, ...
>
> struct thermal_trip trips[NRTRIPS];
>
> trips[i].priv = &attd[i];

But the driver needs to get from priv to trips[i], not the other way around.

> The drivers with another kind of specific trip data can use this field.

They could if the trips did not get reordered.  Otherwise they would
need to walk trips[] every time and have a way to match each trip
against its private counterpart.

I guess they could use the address of the private part as a tag in
this, but is walking trips[] by drivers something that you really
want?

>
>
> >   struct thermal_cooling_device_ops {
> > Index: linux-pm/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> > +++ linux-pm/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> > @@ -1306,14 +1306,28 @@ thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(
> >       if (result)
> >               goto release_device;
> >
> > +     mutex_lock(&tz->lock);
> > +
> >       for (count = 0; count < num_trips; count++) {
> > -             struct thermal_trip trip;
> > +             int temperature = 0;
> > +
> > +             if (trips) {
> > +                     temperature = trips[count].temperature;
> > +                     if (trips[count].driver_ref)
> > +                             trips[count].driver_ref->trip = &trips[count];
> > +             } else {
> > +                     struct thermal_trip trip;
>
> As mentioned above, that should not appear in the thermal core code.

Well, this is a matter of opinion to me.  Clearly, I disagree with it.

Anyway, I want to be productive, so here's the thing: either something
like this is done, or drivers need to be allowed to walk the trips
table.

Which one is better?

>
> > -             result = thermal_zone_get_trip(tz, count, &trip);
> > -             if (result || !trip.temperature)
> > +                     result = __thermal_zone_get_trip(tz, count, &trip);
> > +                     if (!result)
> > +                             temperature = trip.temperature;
> > +             }
> > +             if (!temperature)
> >                       set_bit(count, &tz->trips_disabled);
> >       }
> >
> > +     mutex_unlock(&tz->lock);
> > +
> >       /* Update 'this' zone's governor information */
> >       mutex_lock(&thermal_governor_lock);