linux-kernel - [RFD] DT binding for a new CPU cooling device

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Date:   Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:32:36 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: [RFD] DT binding for a new CPU cooling device


Hi,

currently the binding for a cooling device associated with a thermal
zone is a phandle to the cooling device itself, like:

cooling-device = <&cpu0 0 2>;
cooling-device = <&gpu0 0 2>;
cooling-device = <&lcd0 5 10>;
cooling-device = <&fan0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT 4>;

In the case of the cpu, now we can mitigate by injecting idle period [1]
and this can co-exist with the existing DVFS mitigation (at different
trip point).

As it is not possible to use also a phandle to a CPU because the binding
is used by the DVFS cpu cooling device, does it make sense to refer to
an idle state? like:

cooling-device = <&CPU_SLEEP THERMAL_NO_LIMITE THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;

Thanks in advance for any advice

  -- Daniel

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/11/1902

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