thermal: gov_step_wise: Restore passive polling management
Consider a thermal zone with one passive trip point, a cooling device with 3 states (0, 1, 2) bound to it, passive polling enabled (nonzero passive_delay_jiffies) and no regular polling (polling_delay_jiffies equal to 0) that is managed by the Step-Wise governor. Suppose that the initial state of the cooling device is 0 and the zone temperature is below the trip point to start with. When the trip point is crossed, tz->passive is incremented by the thermal core and the governor's .manage() callback is invoked. It sets 'throttle' to 'true' for the trip in question and get_target_state() returns 1 for the instance corresponding to the cooling device (say that 'upper' and 'lower' are set to 2 and 0 for it, respectively), so its state changes to 1. Passive polling is still active for the zone, so next time the temperature is updated, the governor's .manage() callback will be invoked again. If the temperature is still rising, it will change the state of the cooling device to 2. Now suppose that next time the zone temperature is updated, it falls below the trip point, so tz->passive is decremented for the zone (say it becomes 0 then) and the governor's .manage() callbacks runs. It finds that the temperature trend for the zone is 'falling' and 'throttle' will be set to 'false' for the trip in question, so the cooling device's state will be changed to 1. However, because tz->polling is 0 for the zone, the governor's .manage() callback may not be invoked again for a long time and the cooling device's state will not be reset back to 0. This can happen because commit 042a3d80 ("thermal: core: Move passive polling management to the core") removed passive polling management from the Step-Wise governor. Before that change, thermal_zone_trip_update() would bump up tz->passive when changing the target state for a thermal instance from "no target" to a specific value and it would drop tz->passive when changing it back to "no target" which would cause passive polling to be active for the zone until the governor has reset the states of all cooling devices. In particular, in the example above tz->passive would be incremented when changing the state of the cooling device from 0 to 1 and then it would be still nonzero when the state of the cooling device was changed from 2 to 1. To prevent this problem from occurring, restore the passive polling management in the Step-Wise governor by partially reverting the commit in question and update the comment in the restored code to explain its role more clearly. Fixes: 042a3d80 ("thermal: core: Move passive polling management to the core") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/ZmVfcEOxmjUHZTSX@hovoldconsulting.comReported-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org> Tested-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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