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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2021-10-07 10:25:46 +0200
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thermal: Move ABI documentation to Documentation/ABI
The thermal ABI and the internal development details are described in: Documentation/driver-api/thermal/sysfs-api.rst Move the sysfs ABI description to Documentation/ABI, ensuring that scripts/get_abi.pl will properly parse it. While here, also update the thermal record in MAINTAINERS to point to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> [ rjw: Changelog end subject edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/type
+Description:
+ Strings which represent the thermal zone type.
+ This is given by thermal zone driver as part of registration.
+ E.g: "acpitz" indicates it's an ACPI thermal device.
+ In order to keep it consistent with hwmon sys attribute; this
+ shouldbe a short, lowercase string, not containing spaces nor
+ dashes.
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/temp
+Description:
+ Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor).
+
+ Unit: millidegree Celsius
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/mode
+Description:
+ One of the predefined values in [enabled, disabled].
+ This file gives information about the algorithm that is
+ currently managing the thermal zone. It can be either default
+ kernel based algorithm or user space application.
+
+ enabled
+ enable Kernel Thermal management.
+ disabled
+ Preventing kernel thermal zone driver actions upon
+ trip points so that user application can take full
+ charge of the thermal management.
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/policy
+Description:
+ One of the various thermal governors used for a particular zone.
+
+ RW, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/available_policies
+Description:
+ Available thermal governors which can be used for a
+ particular zone.
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/trip_point_Y_temp
+Description:
+ The temperature above which trip point will be fired.
+
+ Unit: millidegree Celsius
+
+ RO, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/trip_point_Y_type
+Description:
+ Strings which indicate the type of the trip point.
+
+ E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive, `active[0-*]`
+ for ACPI thermal zone.
+
+ RO, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/trip_point_Y_hyst
+Description:
+ The hysteresis value for a trip point, represented as an
+ integer.
+
+ Unit: Celsius
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/cdevY
+Description:
+ Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F
+ for cooling device throttling control represents.
+
+ RO, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/cdevY_trip_point
+Description:
+ The trip point in this thermal zone which `cdev[0-*]` is
+ associated with; -1 means the cooling device is not
+ associated with any trip point.
+
+ RO, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/cdevY_weight
+Description:
+ The influence of `cdev[0-*]` in this thermal zone. This value
+ is relative to the rest of cooling devices in the thermal
+ zone. For example, if a cooling device has a weight double
+ than that of other, it's twice as effective in cooling the
+ thermal zone.
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/emul_temp
+Description:
+ Interface to set the emulated temperature method in thermal zone
+ (sensor). After setting this temperature, the thermal zone may
+ pass this temperature to platform emulation function if
+ registered or cache it locally. This is useful in debugging
+ different temperature threshold and its associated cooling
+ action. This is write only node and writing 0 on this node
+ should disable emulation.
+
+ Unit: millidegree Celsius
+
+ WO, Optional
+
+ WARNING:
+ Be careful while enabling this option on production systems,
+ because userland can easily disable the thermal policy by simply
+ flooding this sysfs node with low temperature values.
+
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/k_d
+Description:
+ The derivative term of the power allocator governor's PID
+ controller. For more information see
+ Documentation/driver-api/thermal/power_allocator.rst
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/k_i
+Description:
+ The integral term of the power allocator governor's PID
+ controller. This term allows the PID controller to compensate
+ for long term drift. For more information see
+ Documentation/driver-api/thermal/power_allocator.rst
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/k_po
+Description:
+ The proportional term of the power allocator governor's PID
+ controller during temperature overshoot. Temperature overshoot
+ is when the current temperature is above the "desired
+ temperature" trip point. For more information see
+ Documentation/driver-api/thermal/power_allocator.rst
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/k_pu
+Description:
+ The proportional term of the power allocator governor's PID
+ controller during temperature undershoot. Temperature undershoot
+ is when the current temperature is below the "desired
+ temperature" trip point. For more information see
+ Documentation/driver-api/thermal/power_allocator.rst
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/integral_cutoff
+Description:
+ Temperature offset from the desired temperature trip point
+ above which the integral term of the power allocator
+ governor's PID controller starts accumulating errors. For
+ example, if integral_cutoff is 0, then the integral term only
+ accumulates error when temperature is above the desired
+ temperature trip point. For more information see
+ Documentation/driver-api/thermal/power_allocator.rst
+
+ Unit: millidegree Celsius
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/slope
+Description:
+ The slope constant used in a linear extrapolation model
+ to determine a hotspot temperature based off the sensor's
+ raw readings. It is up to the device driver to determine
+ the usage of these values.
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/offset
+Description:
+ The offset constant used in a linear extrapolation model
+ to determine a hotspot temperature based off the sensor's
+ raw readings. It is up to the device driver to determine
+ the usage of these values.
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zoneX/sustainable_power
+Description:
+ An estimate of the sustained power that can be dissipated by
+ the thermal zone. Used by the power allocator governor. For
+ more information see
+ Documentation/driver-api/thermal/power_allocator.rst
+
+ Unit: milliwatts
+
+ RW, Optional
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/type
+Description:
+ String which represents the type of device, e.g:
+
+ - for generic ACPI: should be "Fan", "Processor" or "LCD"
+ - for memory controller device on intel_menlow platform:
+ should be "Memory controller".
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/max_state
+Description:
+ The maximum permissible cooling state of this cooling device.
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/cur_state
+Description:
+ The current cooling state of this cooling device.
+ The value can any integer numbers between 0 and max_state:
+
+ - cur_state == 0 means no cooling
+ - cur_state == max_state means the maximum cooling.
+
+ RW, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/stats/reset
+Description:
+ Writing any value resets the cooling device's statistics.
+
+ WO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/stats/time_in_state_ms:
+Description:
+ The amount of time spent by the cooling device in various
+ cooling states. The output will have "<state> <time>" pair
+ in each line, which will mean this cooling device spent <time>
+ msec of time at <state>.
+
+ Output will have one line for each of the supported states.
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/stats/total_trans
+Description:
+ A single positive value showing the total number of times
+ the state of a cooling device is changed.
+
+ RO, Required
+
+What: /sys/class/thermal/cooling_deviceX/stats/trans_table
+Description:
+ This gives fine grained information about all the cooling state
+ transitions. The cat output here is a two dimensional matrix,
+ where an entry <i,j> (row i, column j) represents the number
+ of transitions from State_i to State_j. If the transition
+ table is bigger than PAGE_SIZE, reading this will return
+ an -EFBIG error.
+
+ RO, Required