From patchwork Sun Dec 2 14:44:49 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Zhang Rui X-Patchwork-Id: 1830661 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-pm@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-process-083081@patchwork1.kernel.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by patchwork1.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1923FCA5 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2012 14:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753199Ab2LBOpk (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2012 09:45:40 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:34443 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752860Ab2LBOpj (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2012 09:45:39 -0500 Received: from azsmga002.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.35]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2012 06:45:35 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,201,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="175055554" Received: from unknown (HELO rzhang1-mobl4.ccr.corp.intel.com) ([10.255.21.163]) by AZSMGA002.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2012 06:45:30 -0800 From: Zhang Rui To: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Durgadoss R , Zhang Rui Subject: [PATCH 15/34] Thermal: Add documentation for platform layer data Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 22:44:49 +0800 Message-Id: <1354459508-3707-15-git-send-email-rui.zhang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <1354459508-3707-1-git-send-email-rui.zhang@intel.com> References: <1354459508-3707-1-git-send-email-rui.zhang@intel.com> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org From: Durgadoss R This patch adds documentation for thermal_bind_params and thermal_zone_params structures. Also, adds details on EXPORT_SYMBOL APIs. Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui --- Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt index ca1a1a3..88c0233 100644 --- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt @@ -112,6 +112,29 @@ temperature) and throttle appropriate devices. trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with in this thermal zone. +1.4 Thermal Zone Parameters +1.4.1 struct thermal_bind_params + This structure defines the following parameters that are used to bind + a zone with a cooling device for a particular trip point. + .cdev: The cooling device pointer + .weight: The 'influence' of a particular cooling device on this zone. + This is on a percentage scale. The sum of all these weights + (for a particular zone) cannot exceed 100. + .trip_mask:This is a bit mask that gives the binding relation between + this thermal zone and cdev, for a particular trip point. + If nth bit is set, then the cdev and thermal zone are bound + for trip point n. + .match: This call back returns success(0) if the 'tz and cdev' need to + be bound, as per platform data. +1.4.2 struct thermal_zone_params + This structure defines the platform level parameters for a thermal zone. + This data, for each thermal zone should come from the platform layer. + This is an optional feature where some platforms can choose not to + provide this data. + .governor_name: Name of the thermal governor used for this zone + .num_tbps: Number of thermal_bind_params entries for this zone + .tbp: thermal_bind_params entries + 2. sysfs attributes structure RO read only value @@ -126,6 +149,7 @@ if hwmon is compiled in or built as a module. |---type: Type of the thermal zone |---temp: Current temperature |---mode: Working mode of the thermal zone + |---policy: Thermal governor used for this zone |---trip_point_[0-*]_temp: Trip point temperature |---trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type |---trip_point_[0-*]_hyst: Hysteresis value for this trip point @@ -187,6 +211,10 @@ mode charge of the thermal management. RW, Optional +policy + One of the various thermal governors used for a particular zone. + RW, Required + trip_point_[0-*]_temp The temperature above which trip point will be fired. Unit: millidegree Celsius @@ -264,6 +292,7 @@ If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 |---type: acpitz |---temp: 37000 |---mode: enabled + |---policy: step_wise |---trip_point_0_temp: 100000 |---trip_point_0_type: critical |---trip_point_1_temp: 80000 @@ -305,3 +334,38 @@ to a thermal_zone_device when it registers itself with the framework. The event will be one of:{THERMAL_AUX0, THERMAL_AUX1, THERMAL_CRITICAL, THERMAL_DEV_FAULT}. Notification can be sent when the current temperature crosses any of the configured thresholds. + +5. Export Symbol APIs: + +5.1: get_tz_trend: +This function returns the trend of a thermal zone, i.e the rate of change +of temperature of the thermal zone. Ideally, the thermal sensor drivers +are supposed to implement the callback. If they don't, the thermal +framework calculated the trend by comparing the previous and the current +temperature values. + +5.2:get_thermal_instance: +This function returns the thermal_instance corresponding to a given +{thermal_zone, cooling_device, trip_point} combination. Returns NULL +if such an instance does not exist. + +5.3:notify_thermal_framework: +This function handles the trip events from sensor drivers. It starts +throttling the cooling devices according to the policy configured. +For CRITICAL and HOT trip points, this notifies the respective drivers, +and does actual throttling for other trip points i.e ACTIVE and PASSIVE. +The throttling policy is based on the configured platform data; if no +platform data is provided, this uses the step_wise throttling policy. + +5.4:thermal_cdev_update: +This function serves as an arbitrator to set the state of a cooling +device. It sets the cooling device to the deepest cooling state if +possible. + +5.5:thermal_register_governor: +This function lets the various thermal governors to register themselves +with the Thermal framework. At run time, depending on a zone's platform +data, a particular governor is used for throttling. + +5.6:thermal_unregister_governor: +This function unregisters a governor from the thermal framework.