linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] power_supply: Add no_thermal property to prevent recursive get

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Message-ID: <20141027182957.GD10897@earth.universe>
Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:29:58 +0100
From:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Myungjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
	Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@...sung.com>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] power_supply: Add no_thermal property to prevent
 recursive get_temp calls

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:47:36PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Add a 'no_thermal' property to the power supply class. If true then
> thermal zone won't be created for this power supply in
> power_supply_register().
> 
> Power supply drivers may want to set it if they support
> POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TEMP and they are forwarding this get property call to
> other thermal zone.
> 
> If they won't set it lockdep may report false positive deadlock for
> thermal zone's mutex because of nested calls to thermal_zone_get_temp().
> First is the call to thermal_zone_get_temp() of the driver's thermal
> zone. Thermal core gets POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TEMP property from this
> driver. The driver then calls other thermal zone thermal_zone_get_temp()
> and returns result.
> 
> Example of such driver is charger manager.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>

pulled into next, I will include it in 3.18-rc pull request.

-- Sebastian

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