Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] hwmon: Support set_trips() of thermal device ops

20.06.2021 22:21, Guenter Roeck пишет:

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 08:38:27PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

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20.06.2021 20:23, Guenter Roeck пишет:

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On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 07:12:22PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

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Support set_trips() callback of thermal device ops. This allows HWMON
device to operatively notify thermal core about temperature changes, which
is very handy to have in a case where HWMON sensor is used by CPU thermal
zone that performs passive cooling and emergency shutdown on overheat.
Thermal core will be able to react faster to temperature changes.

Why would this require a driver callback, and why can it not be handled
in the hwmon core alone ? The hwmon core could register a set_trip function
if the chip (driver) supports setting low and high limits, and it could
call the appropriate driver functions when hwmon_thermal_set_trips()
is called.

I wasn't sure about what other hwmon drivers may need and want to do for
programming of the trips, so decided to start with this variant. I'll
prepare v2 since you're suggesting that the universal callback should
work okay for all drivers, thanks.

It will require some checks during probe to make sure that writeable limits
exist, but that is still better than per-driver code. If for whatever
reason some platform expects a different set of registers (say,
critical limits instead of warning limits to attach to trip points),
or if some platform expects that limits are _not_ used as trip points,
that would not be driver but platform specific. You would not be able
to address that on driver level with a single callback either (after all,
lm90 compatible chips support up to three sets of limits).
That means you already made an implementation specific choice with your
code, by selecting one of those three sets of limits to act as trip
points, and by making trip point support mandatory for all lm90 compatible
chips. If we need to make that configurable, we'll need a better solution
than a single driver callback, and that solution may as well be generic
and driver independent.

Thank you for the clarification! If device makes a special use of lm90,
then very likely that it won't attach sensor to thermal zone. At least
all devices supported by mainline kernel should be okay here.

I think other sensors should be in a similar position. If a more complex
solution will be needed, then indeed hwmon API could be improved
further. The thermal device is created only for hwmon sensors that are
attached to thermal zone in a device-tree, so the scope of potentially
affected device should be small. Seems lm90 is actually the only hwmon
sensor that is used by thermal zones today.

AFAICS, all drivers return -EOPNOTSUPP if limits can't be changed, so we
could equal this error code to success in a case of set_trips(). The
set_trips() is very optional, if driver can't set limits, then the trips
won't trigger and thermal core will continue to work like set_trips()
wasn't hooked up. I'll implement this in v2.