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2012-09-24hwmon: exynos4: move thermal sensor driver to driver/thermal directoryAmit Daniel Kachhap1-0/+52
This movement is needed because the hwmon entries and corresponding sysfs interface is a duplicate of utilities already provided by driver/thermal/thermal_sys.c. The goal is to place it in thermal folder and add necessary functions to use the in-kernel thermal interfaces. Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: SangWook Ju <sw.ju@samsung.com> Cc: Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
2012-09-24thermal: add generic cpufreq cooling implementationAmit Daniel Kachhap1-0/+32
This patchset introduces a new generic cooling device based on cpufreq that can be used on non-ACPI platforms. As a proof of concept, we have drivers for the following platforms using this mechanism now: * Samsung Exynos (Exynos4 and Exynos5) in the current patchset. * Freescale i.MX (git://git.linaro.org/people/amitdanielk/linux.git imx6q_thermal) There is a small change in cpufreq cooling registration APIs, so a minor change is needed for Freescale platforms. Brief Description: 1) The generic cooling devices code is placed inside driver/thermal/* as placing inside acpi folder will need un-necessary enabling of acpi code. This code is architecture independent. 2) This patchset adds generic cpu cooling low level implementation through frequency clipping. In future, other cpu related cooling devices may be added here. An ACPI version of this already exists (drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c) .But this will be useful for platforms like ARM using the generic thermal interface along with the generic cpu cooling devices. The cooling device registration API's return cooling device pointers which can be easily binded with the thermal zone trip points. The important APIs exposed are, a) struct thermal_cooling_device *cpufreq_cooling_register( struct cpumask *clip_cpus) b) void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev) 3) Samsung exynos platform thermal implementation is done using the generic cpu cooling APIs and the new trip type. The temperature sensor driver present in the hwmon folder(registered as hwmon driver) is moved to thermal folder and registered as a thermal driver. A simple data/control flow diagrams is shown below, Core Linux thermal <-----> Exynos thermal interface <----- Temperature Sensor | | \|/ | Cpufreq cooling device <--------------- TODO: *Will send the DT enablement patches later after the driver is merged. This patch: Add support for generic cpu thermal cooling low level implementations using frequency scaling up/down based on the registration parameters. Different cpu related cooling devices can be registered by the user and the binding of these cooling devices to the corresponding trip points can be easily done as the registration APIs return the cooling device pointer. The user of these APIs are responsible for passing clipping frequency . The drivers can also register to recieve notification about any cooling action called. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout] Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: SangWook Ju <sw.ju@samsung.com> Cc: Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
2012-09-24Thermal: set upper and lower limitsZhang Rui1-1/+8
set upper and lower limits when binding a thermal cooling device to a thermal zone device. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>
2012-07-24Thermal: Documentation updateZhang Rui1-10/+10
With commit 6503e5df08008b9a47022b5e9ebba658c8fa69af, the value of /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/mode has been changed from user/kernel to enabled/disabled. Update the documentation so that users won't be confused. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-07-24Thermal: Add Hysteresis attributesDurgadoss R1-0/+6
The Linux Thermal Framework does not support hysteresis attributes. Most thermal sensors, today, have a hysteresis value associated with trip points. This patch adds hysteresis attributes on a per-trip-point basis, to the Thermal Framework. These attributes are optionally writable. Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-07-24Thermal: Make Thermal trip points writeableDurgadoss R1-1/+3
Some of the thermal drivers using the Generic Thermal Framework require (all/some) trip points to be writeable. This patch makes the trip point temperatures writeable on a per-trip point basis, and modifies the required function call in thermal.c. This patch also updates the Documentation to reflect the new change. Signed-off-by: Durgadoss R <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-01-23thermal: Rename generate_netlink_eventJean Delvare1-1/+1
It doesn't seem right for the thermal subsystem to export a symbol named generate_netlink_event. This function is thermal-specific and its name should reflect that fact. Rename it to thermal_generate_netlink_event. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: R.Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-01-12thermal: Add event notification to thermal frameworkR.Durgadoss1-0/+12
This patch adds event notification support to the generic thermal sysfs framework in the kernel. The notification is in the form of a netlink event. Signed-off-by: R.Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-11-05thermal: add sanity check for the passive attributeFrans Pop1-0/+1
Values below 1000 milli-celsius don't make sense and can cause the system to go into a thermal heart attack: the actual temperature will always be lower and thus the system will be throttled down to its lowest setting. An additional problem is that values below 1000 will show as 0 in /proc/acpi/thermal/TZx/trip_points:passive. cat passive 0 echo -n 90 >passive bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument echo -n 90000 >passive cat passive 90000 Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-11-05thermal: sysfs-api.txt - document passive attribute for thermal zonesFrans Pop1-0/+9
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-11-05thermal: sysfs-api.txt - reformat for improved readabilityFrans Pop1-188/+192
The document currently uses large indentations which make the text too wide for easy readability. Also improve general consistency. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29thermal: update the documentationZhang Rui1-6/+27
Update the documentation for the thermal driver hwmon sys I/F. Change the ACPI thermal zone type to be consistent with hwmon. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-13thermal: fix generic thermal I/F for hwmonZhang, Rui1-11/+11
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07ACPI: thermal: syntax, spelling, kernel-docLen Brown1-12/+11
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01the generic thermal sysfs driverZhang Rui1-0/+246
The Generic Thermal sysfs driver for thermal management. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>