Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Dec 2022 17:06:56 +0000 | From | Matthias Kaehlcke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] thermal/of: Allow users to set governor for a thermal zone in DT |
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 05:11:11PM +0800, Di Shen wrote: > The governor of all thermal zones can be initialized in > thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(), but it is always the > def_governor, this means the governor of all thermal zones are > the same. > > Allow users to set governor for a specific thermal zone in DT, in > this way, users can use different policies for thermal management.
There have been other attempts in the past of adding this to the device tree (e.g. [1]), which were rejected since the DT should describe the hardware, not policy. Userspace can configure thermal zones to use a non-default governor through sysfs.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/3b80853abb45a9e067cf7a16754b07bb67712457.1520274879.git.amit.kucheria@linaro.org/
> > Signed-off-by: Di Shen <di.shen@unisoc.com> > --- > drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c > index d4b6335ace15..4a29ac3be2ac 100644 > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c > @@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ static struct thermal_zone_params *thermal_of_parameters_init(struct device_node > int coef[2]; > int ncoef = ARRAY_SIZE(coef); > int prop, ret; > + const char *governor_name; > > tzp = kzalloc(sizeof(*tzp), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!tzp) > @@ -365,6 +366,11 @@ static struct thermal_zone_params *thermal_of_parameters_init(struct device_node > if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "sustainable-power", &prop)) > tzp->sustainable_power = prop; > > + if (!of_property_read_string(np, "policy", &governor_name)) { > + strncpy(tzp->governor_name, governor_name, THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH - 1); > + tzp->governor_name[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH - 1] = '\0'; > + } > + > /* > * For now, the thermal framework supports only one sensor per > * thermal zone. Thus, we are considering only the first two > -- > 2.17.1 >
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