Re: [PATCH RFC 0/8] Introduce warming in thermal framework

[Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 23:22, Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Thermal framework today supports monitoring for rising temperatures and
> subsequently initiating cooling action in case of a thermal trip point
> being crossed. There are scenarios where a SoC need warming mitigating
> action to be activated if the temperature falls below a cetain permissible
> limit.  Since warming action can be considered mirror opposite of cooling
> action, most of the thermal framework can be re-used to achieve this. The
> key assumption in this patch series is that a device can act either as a
> warming device or a cooling device and not as both.
>
> In order to support warming three extensions are needed in the thermal
> framework.
>
> 1. Indication that a trip point is being monitored for falling temperature
> and not rising temperature. We discussed two different ways to achieve this
> during LPC. First option is to introduce a new trip type to indicate that a
> trip is a cold trip(THERMAL_TRIP_COLD). The second option is to introduce a
> new property for trip point that will indicate whether a trip point is
> being monitored for rising temperature or falling temperature. The patch
> series(patches 1-4) chooses the second approach since it allows trip points
> of any type to be monitored for rising or falling temperature.Also this was
> the preferred approach when discussed during LPC. The approach that
> introduces a new cold trip type was posted on the list earlier as a RFC and
> can be found at [1].
>
> 2. Extend the exisitng governors to handle monitoring of falling
> temperature. The patch series(patches 5 & 6) extends the step wise governor
> to monitor the falling temperature.Other governors return doing nothing if
> the trip point they are being called for is being monitored for falling
> temperature. The governors' mitigate function is called "throttle" in the
> thermal framework and with this patch series it is a misnomer as the
> function is called for both throttling and warming up. Ideally
> "throttle" should be renamed to "mitigate" to improve readability of code.
> The renaming is not part of this series.
>
> 3. Finally, the cooling device framework itself can be reused for a warming
> device. As stated before a device can act either as a warming device or a
> cooling device and not as both.  With this the cooling state in the
> framework can be considered as mitigating state with 0 as the state with no
> thermal mitigation and higher the number higher the thermal mitigation.
> Again what affects the code readability and comprehension is the term
> "cooling" which is a misnomer here. Ideally the term "cooling" should be
> renamed to "mitigating" and hence thermal_cooling_device will become
> thermal_mitgating_device. The renaming is not part of the patch series as
> even though the renaming is a simple search-replace, it will change a lot
> of files.  The patch series(patches 7 & 8) instead introduces a minimal set
> of _warming_device_ apis to register and unregister warming devices which
> internally is identical to the _cooling_device_ counterpart.

Gentle ping for review..

>
> 1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/10/639
>
> Thara Gopinath (8):
>   dt-bindings: thermal: Introduce monitor-falling parameter to thermal
>     trip point binding
>   thermal: Introduce new property monitor_type for trip point.
>   thermal: thermal_of: Extend thermal dt driver to support
>     bi-directional monitoring of a thermal trip point.
>   thermal:core:Add genetlink notifications for monitoring falling
>     temperature
>   thermal: gov_step_wise: Extend thermal step-wise governor to monitor
>     falling temperature.
>   thermal: Modify thermal governors to do nothing for trip points being
>     monitored for falling temperature
>   thermal:core: Add is_warming_dev and supporting warming device api's
>     to the cooling dev framework.
>   soc:qcom:qcom_aoss: Change cooling_device_register to
>     warming_device_register
>
>  .../bindings/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml       |   7 ++
>  drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c                  |   6 +-
>  drivers/thermal/gov_bang_bang.c               |  12 ++
>  drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c              |  12 ++
>  drivers/thermal/gov_power_allocator.c         |  12 ++
>  drivers/thermal/gov_step_wise.c               |  62 +++++++---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c                | 113 +++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h                |   2 +
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c                  |  22 ++++
>  include/linux/thermal.h                       |   9 ++
>  include/uapi/linux/thermal.h                  |   5 +
>  11 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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Warm Regards
Thara