Re: [PATCH] thermal: tegra: add get_trend ops

[Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>]

On 20/11/2018 11:38 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:11:17PM +0800, Wei Ni wrote:
>> Add support for get_trend ops that allows soctherm
>> sensors to be used with the step-wise governor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c b/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
>> index ed28110a3535..d2951fbe2b7c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
>> @@ -488,9 +488,43 @@ static int tegra_thermctl_set_trip_temp(void *data, int trip, int temp)
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static int tegra_thermctl_get_trend(void *data, int trip,
>> +				    enum thermal_trend *trend)
>> +{
>> +	struct tegra_thermctl_zone *zone = data;
>> +	struct thermal_zone_device *tz = zone->tz;
>> +	int trip_temp, temp, last_temp, ret;
>> +
>> +	if (!tz)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	ret = tz->ops->get_trip_temp(zone->tz, trip, &trip_temp);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	mutex_lock(&tz->lock);
>> +	temp = tz->temperature;
>> +	last_temp = tz->last_temperature;
>> +	mutex_unlock(&tz->lock);
>> +
>> +	if (temp > trip_temp) {
>> +		if (temp >= last_temp)
>> +			*trend = THERMAL_TREND_RAISING;
>> +		else
>> +			*trend = THERMAL_TREND_STABLE;
>> +	} else if (temp < trip_temp) {
>> +		*trend = THERMAL_TREND_DROPPING;
>> +	} else {
>> +		*trend = THERMAL_TREND_STABLE;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
> 
> This looks like a reimplementation of the get_tz_trend() helper. Is
> seems like that helper already has everything we need. Perhaps this
> isn't working because of-thermal installs of_thermal_get_trend(), a
> function that returns -EINVAL if the driver doesn't implement the
> ->get_trend() callback.

1. The get_tz_trend() helper can work, because it has:
if (tz->emul_temperature || !tz->ops->get_trend ||
            tz->ops->get_trend(tz, trip, &trend)) {
...
}
the tz->ops->get_trend is of_thermal_get_trend(). If without special
get_trend(), it will return -EINVAL, so it will implement the if block
to get the "trend". If we have the special get_trend(), then the
of_thermal_get_trend() will return 0, so this helper will not implement
the if block, it will get the "trend" from the special get_trend().

2. There has a little difference between the helper and our special
callback. The tegra_thermctl_get_trend() consider the trip_temp, but the
get_tz_trend() helper didn't.

> 
> Perhaps a better way would be to do something like this in
> thermal_zone_of_add_sensor():
> 
> 	if (ops->get_trend)
> 		tzd->ops->get_trend = of_thermal_get_trend;
> 
> That's similar to how ->set_trips() and ->set_emul_temp() are set up
> and should make sure that get_tz_trend() will do the right thing for
> all drivers that don't implement a special ->get_trend().

As above description, I think the of_thermal_get_trend() already can
handle this case, doesn't need to change.

Wei.

> 
> Thierry
>