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2Generic Thermal Sysfs driver How To
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5Written by Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
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7Copyright (c)  2008 Intel Corporation
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100. Introduction
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12
13The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone
14devices (sensors) and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register
15with the thermal management solution and to be a part of it.
16
17This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to
18participate in thermal management.
19This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices
20and cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure.
21
22The main task of the thermal sysfs driver is to expose thermal zone attributes
23as well as cooling device attributes to the user space.
24An intelligent thermal management application can make decisions based on
25inputs from thermal zone attributes (the current temperature and trip point
26temperature) and throttle appropriate devices.
27
28- `[0-*]`	denotes any positive number starting from 0
29- `[1-*]`	denotes any positive number starting from 1
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311. thermal sysfs driver interface functions
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33
341.1 thermal zone device interface
35---------------------------------
36
37    ::
38
39	struct thermal_zone_device *
40	thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(const char *type,
41					const struct thermal_trip *trips,
42					int num_trips, void *devdata,
43					const struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops,
44					const struct thermal_zone_params *tzp,
45					unsigned int passive_delay,
46					unsigned int polling_delay)
47
48    This interface function adds a new thermal zone device (sensor) to the
49    /sys/class/thermal folder as `thermal_zone[0-*]`. It tries to bind all the
50    thermal cooling devices registered to it at the same time.
51
52    type:
53	the thermal zone type.
54    trips:
55	the table of trip points for this thermal zone.
56    devdata:
57	device private data
58    ops:
59	thermal zone device call-backs.
60
61	.should_bind:
62		check whether or not a given cooling device should be bound to
63		a given trip point in this thermal zone.
64	.get_temp:
65		get the current temperature of the thermal zone.
66	.set_trips:
67		set the trip points window. Whenever the current temperature
68		is updated, the trip points immediately below and above the
69		current temperature are found.
70	.change_mode:
71		change the mode (enabled/disabled) of the thermal zone.
72	.set_trip_temp:
73		set the temperature of a given trip point.
74	.get_crit_temp:
75		get the critical temperature for this thermal zone.
76	.set_emul_temp:
77		set the emulation temperature which helps in debugging
78		different threshold temperature points.
79	.get_trend:
80		get the trend of most recent zone temperature changes.
81	.hot:
82		hot trip point crossing handler.
83	.critical:
84		critical trip point crossing handler.
85    tzp:
86	thermal zone platform parameters.
87    passive_delay:
88	number of milliseconds to wait between polls when performing passive
89	cooling.
90    polling_delay:
91	number of milliseconds to wait between polls when checking
92	whether trip points have been crossed (0 for interrupt driven systems).
93
94    ::
95
96	void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
97
98    This interface function removes the thermal zone device.
99    It deletes the corresponding entry from /sys/class/thermal folder and
100    unbinds all the thermal cooling devices it uses.
101
102	::
103
104	   struct thermal_zone_device
105	   *thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(struct device *dev, int sensor_id,
106				void *data,
107				const struct thermal_zone_of_device_ops *ops)
108
109	This interface adds a new sensor to a DT thermal zone.
110	This function will search the list of thermal zones described in
111	device tree and look for the zone that refer to the sensor device
112	pointed by dev->of_node as temperature providers. For the zone
113	pointing to the sensor node, the sensor will be added to the DT
114	thermal zone device.
115
116	The parameters for this interface are:
117
118	dev:
119			Device node of sensor containing valid node pointer in
120			dev->of_node.
121	sensor_id:
122			a sensor identifier, in case the sensor IP has more
123			than one sensors
124	data:
125			a private pointer (owned by the caller) that will be
126			passed back, when a temperature reading is needed.
127	ops:
128			`struct thermal_zone_of_device_ops *`.
129
130			==============  =======================================
131			get_temp	a pointer to a function that reads the
132					sensor temperature. This is mandatory
133					callback provided by sensor driver.
134			set_trips	a pointer to a function that sets a
135					temperature window. When this window is
136					left the driver must inform the thermal
137					core via thermal_zone_device_update.
138			get_trend 	a pointer to a function that reads the
139					sensor temperature trend.
140			set_emul_temp	a pointer to a function that sets
141					sensor emulated temperature.
142			==============  =======================================
143
144	The thermal zone temperature is provided by the get_temp() function
145	pointer of thermal_zone_of_device_ops. When called, it will
146	have the private pointer @data back.
147
148	It returns error pointer if fails otherwise valid thermal zone device
149	handle. Caller should check the return handle with IS_ERR() for finding
150	whether success or not.
151
152	::
153
154	    void thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(struct device *dev,
155						   struct thermal_zone_device *tzd)
156
157	This interface unregisters a sensor from a DT thermal zone which was
158	successfully added by interface thermal_zone_of_sensor_register().
159	This function removes the sensor callbacks and private data from the
160	thermal zone device registered with thermal_zone_of_sensor_register()
161	interface. It will also silent the zone by remove the .get_temp() and
162	get_trend() thermal zone device callbacks.
163
164	::
165
166	  struct thermal_zone_device
167	  *devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(struct device *dev,
168				int sensor_id,
169				void *data,
170				const struct thermal_zone_of_device_ops *ops)
171
172	This interface is resource managed version of
173	thermal_zone_of_sensor_register().
174
175	All details of thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() described in
176	section 1.1.3 is applicable here.
177
178	The benefit of using this interface to register sensor is that it
179	is not require to explicitly call thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister()
180	in error path or during driver unbinding as this is done by driver
181	resource manager.
182
183	::
184
185		void devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister(struct device *dev,
186						struct thermal_zone_device *tzd)
187
188	This interface is resource managed version of
189	thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister().
190	All details of thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister() described in
191	section 1.1.4 is applicable here.
192	Normally this function will not need to be called and the resource
193	management code will ensure that the resource is freed.
194
195	::
196
197		int thermal_zone_get_slope(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
198
199	This interface is used to read the slope attribute value
200	for the thermal zone device, which might be useful for platform
201	drivers for temperature calculations.
202
203	::
204
205		int thermal_zone_get_offset(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
206
207	This interface is used to read the offset attribute value
208	for the thermal zone device, which might be useful for platform
209	drivers for temperature calculations.
210
2111.2 thermal cooling device interface
212------------------------------------
213
214
215    ::
216
217	struct thermal_cooling_device
218	*thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name,
219			void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *)
220
221    This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...)
222    to /sys/class/thermal/ folder as `cooling_device[0-*]`. It tries to bind itself
223    to all the thermal zone devices registered at the same time.
224
225    name:
226	the cooling device name.
227    devdata:
228	device private data.
229    ops:
230	thermal cooling devices call-backs.
231
232	.get_max_state:
233		get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device.
234	.get_cur_state:
235		get the Currently requested throttle state of the
236		cooling device.
237	.set_cur_state:
238		set the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
239
240    ::
241
242	void thermal_cooling_device_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
243
244    This interface function removes the thermal cooling device.
245    It deletes the corresponding entry from /sys/class/thermal folder and
246    unbinds itself from all the thermal zone devices using it.
247
2481.4 Thermal Zone Parameters
249---------------------------
250
251    ::
252
253	struct thermal_zone_params
254
255    This structure defines the platform level parameters for a thermal zone.
256    This data, for each thermal zone should come from the platform layer.
257    This is an optional feature where some platforms can choose not to
258    provide this data.
259
260    .governor_name:
261	       Name of the thermal governor used for this zone
262    .no_hwmon:
263	       a boolean to indicate if the thermal to hwmon sysfs interface
264	       is required. when no_hwmon == false, a hwmon sysfs interface
265	       will be created. when no_hwmon == true, nothing will be done.
266	       In case the thermal_zone_params is NULL, the hwmon interface
267	       will be created (for backward compatibility).
268
2692. sysfs attributes structure
270=============================
271
272==	================
273RO	read only value
274WO	write only value
275RW	read/write value
276==	================
277
278Thermal sysfs attributes will be represented under /sys/class/thermal.
279Hwmon sysfs I/F extension is also available under /sys/class/hwmon
280if hwmon is compiled in or built as a module.
281
282Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered::
283
284  /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]:
285    |---type:			Type of the thermal zone
286    |---temp:			Current temperature
287    |---mode:			Working mode of the thermal zone
288    |---policy:			Thermal governor used for this zone
289    |---available_policies:	Available thermal governors for this zone
290    |---trip_point_[0-*]_temp:	Trip point temperature
291    |---trip_point_[0-*]_type:	Trip point type
292    |---trip_point_[0-*]_hyst:	Hysteresis value for this trip point
293    |---emul_temp:		Emulated temperature set node
294    |---sustainable_power:      Sustainable dissipatable power
295    |---k_po:                   Proportional term during temperature overshoot
296    |---k_pu:                   Proportional term during temperature undershoot
297    |---k_i:                    PID's integral term in the power allocator gov
298    |---k_d:                    PID's derivative term in the power allocator
299    |---integral_cutoff:        Offset above which errors are accumulated
300    |---slope:                  Slope constant applied as linear extrapolation
301    |---offset:                 Offset constant applied as linear extrapolation
302
303Thermal cooling device sys I/F, created once it's registered::
304
305  /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device[0-*]:
306    |---type:			Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...)
307    |---max_state:		Maximum cooling state of the cooling device
308    |---cur_state:		Current cooling state of the cooling device
309    |---stats:			Directory containing cooling device's statistics
310    |---stats/reset:		Writing any value resets the statistics
311    |---stats/time_in_state_ms:	Time (msec) spent in various cooling states
312    |---stats/total_trans:	Total number of times cooling state is changed
313    |---stats/trans_table:	Cooling state transition table
314
315
316Then next two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs. They represent
317the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device.
318
319::
320
321  /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[0-*]:
322    |---cdev[0-*]:		[0-*]th cooling device in current thermal zone
323    |---cdev[0-*]_trip_point:	Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with
324    |---cdev[0-*]_weight:       Influence of the cooling device in
325				this thermal zone
326
327Besides the thermal zone device sysfs I/F and cooling device sysfs I/F,
328the generic thermal driver also creates a hwmon sysfs I/F for each _type_
329of thermal zone device. E.g. the generic thermal driver registers one hwmon
330class device and build the associated hwmon sysfs I/F for all the registered
331ACPI thermal zones.
332
333Please read Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-thermal for thermal
334zone and cooling device attribute details.
335
336::
337
338  /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon[0-*]:
339    |---name:			The type of the thermal zone devices
340    |---temp[1-*]_input:	The current temperature of thermal zone [1-*]
341    |---temp[1-*]_critical:	The critical trip point of thermal zone [1-*]
342
343Please read Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst for additional information.
344
3453. A simple implementation
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347
348ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical, hot,
349passive, active. If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive,
350active[0] and active[1] at the same time, it may register itself as a
351thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all.
352It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as
353thermal_cooling_device. Both are considered to have the same
354effectiveness in cooling the thermal zone.
355
356If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0
357method, the sys I/F structure will be built like this::
358
359 /sys/class/thermal:
360  |thermal_zone1:
361    |---type:			acpitz
362    |---temp:			37000
363    |---mode:			enabled
364    |---policy:			step_wise
365    |---available_policies:	step_wise fair_share
366    |---trip_point_0_temp:	100000
367    |---trip_point_0_type:	critical
368    |---trip_point_1_temp:	80000
369    |---trip_point_1_type:	passive
370    |---trip_point_2_temp:	70000
371    |---trip_point_2_type:	active0
372    |---trip_point_3_temp:	60000
373    |---trip_point_3_type:	active1
374    |---cdev0:			--->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0
375    |---cdev0_trip_point:	1	/* cdev0 can be used for passive */
376    |---cdev0_weight:           1024
377    |---cdev1:			--->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device3
378    |---cdev1_trip_point:	2	/* cdev1 can be used for active[0]*/
379    |---cdev1_weight:           1024
380
381  |cooling_device0:
382    |---type:			Processor
383    |---max_state:		8
384    |---cur_state:		0
385
386  |cooling_device3:
387    |---type:			Fan
388    |---max_state:		2
389    |---cur_state:		0
390
391 /sys/class/hwmon:
392  |hwmon0:
393    |---name:			acpitz
394    |---temp1_input:		37000
395    |---temp1_crit:		100000
396
3974. Export Symbol APIs
398=====================
399
4004.1. get_tz_trend
401-----------------
402
403This function returns the trend of a thermal zone, i.e the rate of change
404of temperature of the thermal zone. Ideally, the thermal sensor drivers
405are supposed to implement the callback. If they don't, the thermal
406framework calculated the trend by comparing the previous and the current
407temperature values.
408
4094.2. thermal_cdev_update
410------------------------
411
412This function serves as an arbitrator to set the state of a cooling
413device. It sets the cooling device to the deepest cooling state if
414possible.
415
4165. thermal_emergency_poweroff
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418
419On an event of critical trip temperature crossing the thermal framework
420shuts down the system by calling hw_protection_shutdown(). The
421hw_protection_shutdown() first attempts to perform an orderly shutdown
422but accepts a delay after which it proceeds doing a forced power-off
423or as last resort an emergency_restart.
424
425The delay should be carefully profiled so as to give adequate time for
426orderly poweroff.
427
428If the delay is set to 0 emergency poweroff will not be supported. So a
429carefully profiled non-zero positive value is a must for emergency
430poweroff to be triggered.
431