linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] thermal: core: Store zone trips table in struct thermal_zone

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:27:09 +0100
From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
 Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
 Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
 Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
 Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com>,
 AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
 Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
 Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
 Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>, NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] thermal: core: Store zone trips table in struct
 thermal_zone_device

On 14/02/2024 13:28, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> 
> The current code expects thermal zone creators to pass a pointer to a
> writable trips table to thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() and
> that trips table is then used by the thermal core going forward.
> 
> Consequently, the callers of thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips()
> are required to hold on to the trips table passed to it until the given
> thermal zone is unregistered, at which point the trips table can be
> freed, but at the same time they are not expected to access that table
> directly.  This is both error prone and confusing.
> 
> To address it, turn the trips table pointer in struct thermal_zone_device
> into a flex array (counted by its num_trips field), allocate it during
> thermal zone device allocation and copy the contents of the trips table
> supplied by the zone creator (which can be const now) into it, which
> will allow the callers of thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() to
> drop their trip tables right after the zone registration.
> 
> This requires the imx thermal driver to be adjusted to store the new
> temperature in its internal trips table in imx_set_trip_temp(), because
> it will be separate from the core's trips table now and it has to be
> explicitly kept in sync with the latter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>

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