When multiple thermal zones are bound to the same cooling device, multiple
kernel threads may want to update the cooling device state by calling
thermal_cdev_update(). Having cdev not protected by a mutex can lead to a race
condition. Consider the following situation with two kernel threads k1 and k2:
Thread k1 Thread k2
||
|| call thermal_cdev_update()
|| ...
|| set_cur_state(cdev, target);
call power_actor_set_power() ||
... ||
instance->target = state; ||
cdev->updated = false; ||
|| cdev->updated = true;
|| // completes execution
call thermal_cdev_update() ||
// cdev->updated == true ||
return; ||
\/
time
k2 has already looped through the thermal instances looking for the deepest
cooling device state and is preempted right before setting cdev->updated to
true. Now, k1 runs, modifies the thermal instance state and sets cdev->updated
to false. Then, k1 is preempted and k2 continues the execution by setting
cdev->updated to true, therefore preventing k1 from performing the update.
Notice that this is not an issue if k2 looks at the instance->target modified by
k1 "after" it is assigned by k1. In fact, in this case the update will happen
anyway and k1 can safely return immediately from thermal_cdev_update().
This may lead to a situation where a thermal governor never updates the cooling
device. For example, this is the case for the step_wise governor: when calling
the function thermal_zone_trip_update(), the governor may always get a new state
equal to the old one (which, however, wasn't notified to the cooling device) and
will therefore skip the update.
CC: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
CC: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
CC: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Reported-by: Toby Huang <toby.huang@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michele Di Giorgio <michele.digiorgio@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Bang-bang thermal governor uses trip point hysteresis to make decisions.
Hysteresis is a required property in the device tree for trip points, but it is
an optional thermal zone device operation. Hence, we need to check whether the
function pointer is valid or not.
If it is not available, we assume the hysteresis to be zero. Consequently, a
highly varying temperature will make the governor continuosly switch a cooling
device ON and OFF.
CC: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
CC: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
CC: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Signed-off-by: Michele Di Giorgio <michele.digiorgio@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
The thermal code uses int, long and unsigned long for temperatures
in different places.
Using an unsigned type limits the thermal framework to positive
temperatures without need. Also several drivers currently will report
temperatures near UINT_MAX for temperatures below 0°C. This will probably
immediately shut the machine down due to overtemperature if started below
0°C.
'long' is 64bit on several architectures. This is not needed since INT_MAX °mC
is above the melting point of all known materials.
Consistently use a plain 'int' for temperatures throughout the thermal code and
the drivers. This only changes the places in the drivers where the temperature
is passed around as pointer, when drivers internally use another type this is
not changed.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
The bang-bang thermal governor uses a hysteresis to switch abruptly on
or off a cooling device. It is intended to control fans, which can
not be throttled but just switched on or off.
Bang-bang cannot be set as default governor as it is intended for
special devices only. For those special devices the driver needs to
explicitely request it.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Michele Di Giorgio