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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:59:15 -0500
From: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc: rafael@...nel.org, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
"open list:THERMAL" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] dt-bindings: thermal: Add the idle cooling device
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:03:18AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Some devices are not able to cool down by reducing their voltage /
> frequency because it could be not available or the system does not
> allow voltage scaling. In this configuration, it is not possible to
> use this strategy and the idle injection cooling device can be used
> instead.
>
> One idle cooling device is now present for the CPU as implemented by
> the combination of the idle injection framework belonging to the power
> capping framework and the thermal cooling device. The missing part is
> the DT binding providing a way to describe how the cooling device will
> work on the system.
>
> A first iteration was done by making the cooling device to point to
> the idle state. Unfortunately it does not make sense because it would
> need to duplicate the idle state description for each CPU in order to
> have a different phandle and make the thermal internal framework
> happy.
>
> It was proposed to add an cooling-cells to <3>, unfortunately the
> thermal framework is expecting a value of <2> as stated by the
> documentation and it is not possible from the cooling device generic
> code to loop this third value to the back end cooling device.
>
> Another proposal was to add a child 'thermal-idle' node as the SCMI
> does. This approach allows to have a self-contained configuration for
> the idle cooling device without colliding with the cpufreq cooling
> device which is based on the CPU node. In addition, it allows to have
> the cpufreq cooling device and the idle cooling device to co-exist
> together as showed in the example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> ---
> .../bindings/thermal/thermal-idle.yaml | 145 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 145 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-idle.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-idle.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-idle.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f9f59cfa3c36
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal-idle.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0)
Dual license please.
> +# Copyright 2020 Linaro Ltd.
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/thermal/thermal-idle.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Thermal idle cooling device binding
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> +
> +description: |
> + The thermal idle cooling device allows the system to passively
> + mitigate the temperature on the device by injecting idle cycles,
> + forcing it to cool down.
> +
> + This binding describes the thermal idle node.
> +
> +properties:
> + $nodename:
> + const: thermal-idle
> + description: |
> + A /thermal-idle node describes the idle cooling device properties to
/thermal-idle would be at the root node.
> + cool down efficiently the attached thermal zone.
> +
> + '#cooling-cells':
> + const: 2
> + description: |
> + Must be 2, in order to specify minimum and maximum cooling state used in
> + the cooling-maps reference. The first cell is the minimum cooling state
> + and the second cell is the maximum cooling state requested.
> +
> + duration:
> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> + description: |
> + The idle duration in microsecond the device begins to cool down.
> +
> + latency:
> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> + description: |
> + The exit latency constraint in microsecond for the injected
> + idle state for the device.
Both of these should have unit suffix. And then they don't need a type
def.
> +
> +required:
> + - '#cooling-cells'
> +
> +examples:
> + - |
> + #include <dt-bindings/thermal/thermal.h>
> +
> + // Example: Combining idle cooling device on big CPUs with cpufreq cooling device
> + cpus {
> + #address-cells = <2>;
> + #size-cells = <0>;
> +
> + /* ... */
> +
> + cpu_b0: cpu@100 {
> + device_type = "cpu";
> + compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
> + reg = <0x0 0x100>;
> + enable-method = "psci";
> + capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
> + dynamic-power-coefficient = <436>;
> + #cooling-cells = <2>; /* min followed by max */
> + cpu-idle-states = <&CPU_SLEEP &CLUSTER_SLEEP>;
> + idle-thermal {
thermal-idle...
> + #cooling-cells = <2>;
> + duration = <10000>;
> + latency = <500>;
> + };
> + };
> +
> + cpu_b1: cpu@101 {
> + device_type = "cpu";
> + compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
> + reg = <0x0 0x101>;
> + enable-method = "psci";
> + capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>;
> + dynamic-power-coefficient = <436>;
> + #cooling-cells = <2>; /* min followed by max */
> + cpu-idle-states = <&CPU_SLEEP &CLUSTER_SLEEP>;
> + idle-thermal {
> + #cooling-cells = <2>;
> + duration = <10000>;
> + latency = <500>;
> + };
> + };
> +
> + /* ... */
> +
> + };
> +
> + /* ... */
> +
> + thermal_zones {
> + cpu_thermal: cpu {
> + polling-delay-passive = <100>;
> + polling-delay = <1000>;
> +
> + /* ... */
> +
> + trips {
> + cpu_alert0: cpu_alert0 {
> + temperature = <65000>;
> + hysteresis = <2000>;
> + type = "passive";
> + };
> +
> + cpu_alert1: cpu_alert1 {
> + temperature = <70000>;
> + hysteresis = <2000>;
> + type = "passive";
> + };
> +
> + cpu_alert2: cpu_alert2 {
> + temperature = <75000>;
> + hysteresis = <2000>;
> + type = "passive";
> + };
> +
> + cpu_crit: cpu_crit {
> + temperature = <95000>;
> + hysteresis = <2000>;
> + type = "critical";
> + };
> + };
> +
> + cooling-maps {
> + map0 {
> + trip = <&cpu_alert1>;
> + cooling-device = <&{/cpus/cpu@.../idle-thermal} 0 15 >,
> + <&{/cpus/cpu@.../idle-thermal} 0 15>;
> + };
> +
> + map1 {
> + trip = <&cpu_alert2>;
> + cooling-device =
> + <&cpu_b0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
> + <&cpu_b1 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
> + };
> + };
> + };
> + };
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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