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Message-ID: <c53f99db-353a-26c3-3b0a-3a3befbed528@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:25:30 +0200
From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
Michal Wilczynski <michal.wilczynski@...el.com>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/11] ACPI: thermal: Carry out trip point updates
under zone lock
On 07/08/2023 20:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
>
> There is a race condition between acpi_thermal_trips_update() and
> acpi_thermal_check_fn(), because the trip points may get updated while
> the latter is running which in theory may lead to inconsistent results.
> For example, if two trips are updated together, using the temperature
> value of one of them from before the update and the temperature value
> of the other one from after the update may not lead to the expected
> outcome.
>
> Moreover, if thermal_get_trend() runs when a trip points update is in
> progress, it may end up using stale trip point temperatures.
>
> To address this, make acpi_thermal_trips_update() call
> thermal_zone_device_adjust() to carry out the trip points update and
> provide a new acpi_thermal_adjust_thermal_zone() wrapper around
> __acpi_thermal_trips_update() as the callback function for the latter.
>
> While at it, change the acpi_thermal_trips_update() return data type
> to void as that function always returns 0 anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> ---
[ ... ]
> {
> - int i, ret = acpi_thermal_trips_update(tz, ACPI_TRIPS_INIT);
> bool valid;
> + int i;
>
> - if (ret)
> - return ret;
> + __acpi_thermal_trips_update(tz, ACPI_TRIPS_INIT);
>
> valid = tz->trips.critical.valid |
> tz->trips.hot.valid |
> @@ -710,6 +732,7 @@ static struct thermal_zone_device_ops ac
> .get_trend = thermal_get_trend,
> .hot = acpi_thermal_zone_device_hot,
> .critical = acpi_thermal_zone_device_critical,
> + .update = acpi_thermal_adjust_thermal_zone,
It is too bad we have to add a callback in the core code just for this
driver.
I'm wondering if it is not possible to get rid of it ?
Is it possible to use an internal lock for the ACPI driver to solve the
race issue above ?
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