1 Generic Thermal Sysfs driver How To
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4 Written by Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
6 Updated: 2 January 2008
8 Copyright (c) 2008 Intel Corporation
13 The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone devices (sensors)
14 and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the thermal management
15 solution and to be a part of it.
17 This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to participate
18 in thermal management.
19 This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices and
20 cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure.
22 The main task of the thermal sysfs driver is to expose thermal zone attributes as well
23 as cooling device attributes to the user space.
24 An intelligent thermal management application can make decisions based on inputs
25 from thermal zone attributes (the current temperature and trip point temperature)
26 and throttle appropriate devices.
28 [0-*] denotes any positive number starting from 0
29 [1-*] denotes any positive number starting from 1
31 1. thermal sysfs driver interface functions
33 1.1 thermal zone device interface
34 1.1.1 struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(char *name, int trips,
35 void *devdata, struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops)
37 This interface function adds a new thermal zone device (sensor) to
38 /sys/class/thermal folder as thermal_zone[0-*].
39 It tries to bind all the thermal cooling devices registered at the same time.
41 name: the thermal zone name.
42 trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports.
43 devdata: device private data
44 ops: thermal zone device call-backs.
45 .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device.
46 .unbind: unbind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device.
47 .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone.
48 .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone.
49 "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel.
50 "user" will prevent kernel thermal driver actions upon trip points
51 so that user applications can take charge of thermal management.
52 .set_mode: set the mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone.
53 .get_trip_type: get the type of certain trip point.
54 .get_trip_temp: get the temperature above which the certain trip point
57 1.1.2 void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
59 This interface function removes the thermal zone device.
60 It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and unbind all
61 the thermal cooling devices it uses.
63 1.2 thermal cooling device interface
64 1.2.1 struct thermal_cooling_device *thermal_cooling_device_register(char *name,
65 void *devdata, struct thermal_cooling_device_ops *)
67 This interface function adds a new thermal cooling device (fan/processor/...) to
68 /sys/class/thermal/ folder as cooling_device[0-*].
69 It tries to bind itself to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time.
70 name: the cooling device name.
71 devdata: device private data.
72 ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs.
73 .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device.
74 .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
75 .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device.
77 1.2.2 void thermal_cooling_device_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
79 This interface function remove the thermal cooling device.
80 It deletes the corresponding entry form /sys/class/thermal folder and unbind
81 itself from all the thermal zone devices using it.
83 1.3 interface for binding a thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device
84 1.3.1 int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
85 int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);
87 This interface function bind a thermal cooling device to the certain trip point
88 of a thermal zone device.
89 This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .bind callback.
90 tz: the thermal zone device
91 cdev: thermal cooling device
92 trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
95 1.3.2 int thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
96 int trip, struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev);
98 This interface function unbind a thermal cooling device from the certain trip point
99 of a thermal zone device.
100 This function is usually called in the thermal zone device .unbind callback.
101 tz: the thermal zone device
102 cdev: thermal cooling device
103 trip: indicates which trip point the cooling devices is associated with
104 in this thermal zone.
106 2. sysfs attributes structure
111 All thermal sysfs attributes will be represented under /sys/class/thermal
113 Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
115 |-----type: Type of the thermal zone
116 |-----temp: Current temperature
117 |-----mode: Working mode of the thermal zone
118 |-----trip_point_[0-*]_temp: Trip point temperature
119 |-----trip_point_[0-*]_type: Trip point type
121 Thermal cooling device sys I/F, created once it's registered:
122 |cooling_device[0-*]:
123 |-----type : Type of the cooling device(processor/fan/...)
124 |-----max_state: Maximum cooling state of the cooling device
125 |-----cur_state: Current cooling state of the cooling device
128 These two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs.
129 They represent the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device.
130 They are created/removed for each
131 thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful execution.
134 |-----cdev[0-*]: The [0-*]th cooling device in the current thermal zone
135 |-----cdev[0-*]_trip_point: Trip point that cdev[0-*] is associated with
138 ***************************
139 * Thermal zone attributes *
140 ***************************
142 type Strings which represent the thermal zone type.
143 This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration.
144 Eg: "ACPI thermal zone" indicates it's a ACPI thermal device
148 temp Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor)
153 mode One of the predefined values in [kernel, user]
154 This file gives information about the algorithm
155 that is currently managing the thermal zone.
156 It can be either default kernel based algorithm
157 or user space application.
160 kernel = Thermal management in kernel thermal zone driver.
161 user = Preventing kernel thermal zone driver actions upon
162 trip points so that user application can take full
163 charge of the thermal management.
165 trip_point_[0-*]_temp The temperature above which trip point will be fired
170 trip_point_[0-*]_type Strings which indicate the type of the trip point
171 E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive,
172 active[0-*] for ACPI thermal zone.
176 cdev[0-*] Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F
177 for cooling device throttling control represents.
181 cdev[0-*]_trip_point The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal zone
182 -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip point.
186 ******************************
187 * Cooling device attributes *
188 ******************************
190 type String which represents the type of device
191 eg: For generic ACPI: this should be "Fan",
193 eg. For memory controller device on intel_menlow platform:
194 this should be "Memory controller"
198 max_state The maximum permissible cooling state of this cooling device.
202 cur_state The current cooling state of this cooling device.
203 the value can any integer numbers between 0 and max_state,
204 cur_state == 0 means no cooling
205 cur_state == max_state means the maximum cooling.
209 3. A simple implementation
211 ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical/hot/passive/active.
212 If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive, active[0] and active[1] at the same time,
213 it may register itself as a thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all.
214 It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as thermal_cooling_device.
215 If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 method,
216 the sys I/F structure will be built like this:
221 |-----type: ACPI thermal zone
224 |-----trip_point_0_temp: 100
225 |-----trip_point_0_type: critical
226 |-----trip_point_1_temp: 80
227 |-----trip_point_1_type: passive
228 |-----trip_point_2_temp: 70
229 |-----trip_point_2_type: active[0]
230 |-----trip_point_3_temp: 60
231 |-----trip_point_3_type: active[1]
232 |-----cdev0: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device0
233 |-----cdev0_trip_point: 1 /* cdev0 can be used for passive */
234 |-----cdev1: --->/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device3
235 |-----cdev1_trip_point: 2 /* cdev1 can be used for active[0]*/
238 |-----type: Processor