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v3 cover Thermal ACPI APIs for generic trip points

Recently sent as a RFC, the thermal ACPI for generic trip points is a set of functions to fill the generic trip points structure which will become the standard structure for the thermal framework and its users.

Different Intel drivers and the ACPI thermal driver are using the ACPI tables to get the thermal zone information. As those are getting the same information, providing this set of ACPI function with the generic trip points will consolidate the code.

Also, the Intel PCH and the Intel 34xx drivers are converted to use the generic trip points relying on the ACPI generic trip point parsing functions.

These changes have been tested on a Thinkpad Lenovo x280 with the PCH and INT34xx drivers. No regression have been observed, the trip points remain the same for what is described on this system.

Changelog:

- V3:
- Took into account Rafael's comments
- Used a silence option THERMAL_ACPI in order to stay consistent with THERMAL_OF. It is up to the API user to select the option.

- V2:
- Fix the thermal ACPI patch where the thermal_acpi.c was not included in the series
- Provide a couple of users of this API which could have been tested on a real system

Daniel Lezcano (3):
thermal/acpi: Add ACPI trip point routines thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points for intel_pch thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points int340x

 drivers/thermal/Kconfig                       |   4 +
 drivers/thermal/Makefile                      |   1 +
 drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig                 |   1 +
 drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/Kconfig |   1 +
 .../int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.c    | 177 ++++----------
 .../int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.h    |  10 +-
 drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c     |  88 ++-----
 drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c                | 218 ++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/thermal.h                       |   8 +
 9 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 214 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c
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PATCH v3 1/3 thermal/acpi: Add ACPI trip point routines

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>

The ACPI specification describes the trip points, the device tree bindings as well.

The OF code uses the generic trip point structures.

The ACPI has their own trip points structure and uses the get_trip_* ops to retrieve them.

We can do the same as the OF code and create a set of ACPI functions to retrieve a trip point description. Having a common code for ACPI will help to cleanup the remaining Intel drivers and get rid of the get_trip_* functions.

These changes add the ACPI thermal calls to retrieve the basic information we need to be reused in the thermal ACPI and Intel drivers.

The different ACPI functions have the generic trip point structure passed as parameter where it is filled.

This structure aims to be the one used by all the thermal drivers and the thermal framework.

After this series, a couple of Intel drivers and the ACPI thermal driver will still have their own trip points definition but a new series on top of this one will finish the conversion to the generic trip point handling.

This series depends on the generic trip point added to the thermal framework and available in the thermal/linux-next branch.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/10/3/456

It has been tested on a Intel i7-8650U - x280 with the INT3400, the PCH, ACPITZ, and x86_pkg_temp. No regression observed so far.

---
V3:
- Removed too simple wrappers
- Changed the API to return an error and check the validity of the value
- Removed the comments describing the objects
- Added kerneldoc
- Made the Kconfig option silent
- Set the hysteresis value to zero by default

V2:
- Fixed the missing thermal_acpi.c in the patch

---
 drivers/thermal/Kconfig        |   4 +
 drivers/thermal/Makefile       |   1 +
 drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c | 211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/thermal.h        |   8 ++
 4 files changed, 224 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c
drivers/thermal/Kconfig +4 -0
index e052dae614eb..eaeb2b2ee6e9 100644
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ config THERMAL_OF
 	  Say 'Y' here if you need to build thermal infrastructure
 	  based on device tree.
 
+config THERMAL_ACPI
+       depends on ACPI
+       bool
+
 config THERMAL_WRITABLE_TRIPS
 	bool "Enable writable trip points"
 	help
drivers/thermal/Makefile +1 -0
index 2506c6c8ca83..60f0dfa9aae2 100644
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ thermal_sys-$(CONFIG_THERMAL_NETLINK)		+= thermal_netlink.o
 # interface to/from other layers providing sensors
 thermal_sys-$(CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON)		+= thermal_hwmon.o
 thermal_sys-$(CONFIG_THERMAL_OF)		+= thermal_of.o
+thermal_sys-$(CONFIG_THERMAL_ACPI)		+= thermal_acpi.o
 
 # governors
 thermal_sys-$(CONFIG_THERMAL_GOV_FAIR_SHARE)	+= gov_fair_share.o
drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c new file +211 -0

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include/linux/thermal.h +8 -0
index 30353e4b1424..ba2d5d4c23e2 100644
@@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ static inline void devm_thermal_of_zone_unregister(struct device *dev,
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_THERMAL_ACPI
+int thermal_acpi_trip_gtsh(struct acpi_device *adev);
+int thermal_acpi_trip_crit(struct acpi_device *adev, struct thermal_trip *trip);
+int thermal_acpi_trip_hot(struct acpi_device *adev, struct thermal_trip *trip);
+int thermal_acpi_trip_psv(struct acpi_device *adev, struct thermal_trip *trip);
+int thermal_acpi_trip_act(struct acpi_device *adev, struct thermal_trip *trip, int id);
+#endif
+
 int __thermal_zone_get_trip(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip_id,
 			    struct thermal_trip *trip);
 int thermal_zone_get_trip(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip_id,
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PATCH v3 2/3 thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points for intel_pch

In reply to Daniel Lezcano

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>

The thermal framework gives the possibility to register the trip points with the thermal zone. When that is done, no get_trip_* ops are needed and they can be removed.

Convert the ops content logic into generic trip points and register them with the thermal zone.

In order to consolidate the code, use the ACPI thermal framework API to fill the generic trip point from the ACPI tables.

It has been tested on a Intel i7-8650U - x280 with the INT3400, the PCH, ACPITZ, and x86_pkg_temp. No regression observed so far.

---
V3:
- The driver Kconfig option selects CONFIG_THERMAL_ACPI

---
 drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig             |  1 +
 drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c | 88 +++++------------------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +1 -0
index f0c845679250..738b88b290f4 100644
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config INTEL_BXT_PMIC_THERMAL
 config INTEL_PCH_THERMAL
 	tristate "Intel PCH Thermal Reporting Driver"
 	depends on X86 && PCI
+	select THERMAL_ACPI
 	help
 	  Enable this to support thermal reporting on certain intel PCHs.
 	  Thermal reporting device will provide temperature reading,
drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +19 -69

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Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points for intel_pch

Quoted 32 lines · Daniel Lezcano

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>

The thermal framework gives the possibility to register the trip points with the thermal zone. When that is done, no get_trip_* ops are
needed and they can be removed.

Convert the ops content logic into generic trip points and register them with the thermal zone.

In order to consolidate the code, use the ACPI thermal framework API to fill the generic trip point from the ACPI tables.

It has been tested on a Intel i7-8650U - x280 with the INT3400, the PCH, ACPITZ, and x86_pkg_temp. No regression observed so far.

---
V3:
- The driver Kconfig option selects CONFIG_THERMAL_ACPI

---
 drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig             |  1 +
 drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c | 88 +++++--------------
----
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +0 -0
index f0c845679250..738b88b290f4 100644

drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig config INTEL_BXT_PMIC_THERMAL · line 78

Quoted 4 lines
drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +1 -0
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config INTEL_BXT_PMIC_THERMAL
 config INTEL_PCH_THERMAL
 	tristate "Intel PCH Thermal Reporting Driver"
 	depends on X86 && PCI
+	select THERMAL_ACPI

THERMAL_ACPI depends on ACPI but the PCH thermal driver does not. So we will run into "unmet dependencies" issue when CONFIG_ACPI is cleared like below

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for THERMAL_ACPI
Depends on [n]: THERMAL [=y] && ACPI [=n]
Selected by [m]:
- INTEL_PCH_THERMAL [=m] && THERMAL [=y] && (X86 [=y] ||
X86_INTEL_QUARK [=n] || COMPILE_TEST [=n]) && X86 [=y] && PCI [=y]

thanks,
rui

Quoted 181 lines
drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +0 -0
 	help
 	  Enable this to support thermal reporting on certain intel

PCHs.

drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +0 -0
 	  Thermal reporting device will provide temperature reading,
drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +2 -0
index dabf11a687a1..530fe9b38381 100644
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
 #define WPT_TEMP_OFFSET	(PCH_TEMP_OFFSET *
 MILLIDEGREE_PER_DEGREE)
 #define GET_PCH_TEMP(x)	(((x) / 2) + PCH_TEMP_OFFSET)
 
+#define PCH_MAX_TRIPS 3 /* critical, hot, passive */
+
 /* Amount of time for each cooling delay, 100ms by default for now
 */

static unsigned int delay_timeout = 100;
module_param(delay_timeout, int, 0644);

drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +10 -26
@@ -82,12 +84,7 @@ struct pch_thermal_device {
 	const struct pch_dev_ops *ops;
 	struct pci_dev *pdev;
 	struct thermal_zone_device *tzd;
-	int crt_trip_id;
-	unsigned long crt_temp;
-	int hot_trip_id;
-	unsigned long hot_temp;
-	int psv_trip_id;
-	unsigned long psv_temp;
+	struct thermal_trip trips[PCH_MAX_TRIPS];
 	bool bios_enabled;
 };
 
@@ -102,33 +99,22 @@ static void pch_wpt_add_acpi_psv_trip(struct
 pch_thermal_device *ptd,
 				      int *nr_trips)
 {
 	struct acpi_device *adev;
-
-	ptd->psv_trip_id = -1;
+	int ret;
 
 	adev = ACPI_COMPANION(&ptd->pdev->dev);
-	if (adev) {
-		unsigned long long r;
-		acpi_status status;
-
-		status = acpi_evaluate_integer(adev->handle, "_PSV",
 NULL,
-					       &r);
-		if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) {
-			unsigned long trip_temp;
-
-			trip_temp = deci_kelvin_to_millicelsius(r);
-			if (trip_temp) {
-				ptd->psv_temp = trip_temp;
-				ptd->psv_trip_id = *nr_trips;
-				++(*nr_trips);
-			}
-		}
-	}
+	if (!adev)
+		return;
+		
+	ret = thermal_acpi_trip_psv(adev, &ptd->trips[*nr_trips]);
+	if (ret)
+		return;
+
+	++(*nr_trips);
 }
 #else
 static void pch_wpt_add_acpi_psv_trip(struct pch_thermal_device
 *ptd,
 				      int *nr_trips)
 {
-	ptd->psv_trip_id = -1;

}
#endif

drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +4 -6
@@ -163,21 +149,19 @@ static int pch_wpt_init(struct
 pch_thermal_device *ptd, int *nr_trips)
 	}
 
 read_trips:
-	ptd->crt_trip_id = -1;
 	trip_temp = readw(ptd->hw_base + WPT_CTT);
 	trip_temp &= 0x1FF;
 	if (trip_temp) {
-		ptd->crt_temp = GET_WPT_TEMP(trip_temp);
-		ptd->crt_trip_id = 0;
+		ptd->trips[*nr_trips].temperature =
 GET_WPT_TEMP(trip_temp);
+		ptd->trips[*nr_trips].type = THERMAL_TRIP_CRITICAL;
 		++(*nr_trips);
 	}
 
-	ptd->hot_trip_id = -1;
 	trip_temp = readw(ptd->hw_base + WPT_PHL);
 	trip_temp &= 0x1FF;
 	if (trip_temp) {
-		ptd->hot_temp = GET_WPT_TEMP(trip_temp);
-		ptd->hot_trip_id = *nr_trips;
+		ptd->trips[*nr_trips].temperature =
 GET_WPT_TEMP(trip_temp);
+		ptd->trips[*nr_trips].type = THERMAL_TRIP_HOT;
drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +0 -33
 		++(*nr_trips);
 	}
@@ -298,39 +282,6 @@ static int pch_thermal_get_temp(struct
 thermal_zone_device *tzd, int *temp)
 	return	ptd->ops->get_temp(ptd, temp);
 }
 
-static int pch_get_trip_type(struct thermal_zone_device *tzd, int
 trip,
-			     enum thermal_trip_type *type)
-{
-	struct pch_thermal_device *ptd = tzd->devdata;
-
-	if (ptd->crt_trip_id == trip)
-		*type = THERMAL_TRIP_CRITICAL;
-	else if (ptd->hot_trip_id == trip)
-		*type = THERMAL_TRIP_HOT;
-	else if (ptd->psv_trip_id == trip)
-		*type = THERMAL_TRIP_PASSIVE;
-	else
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static int pch_get_trip_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *tzd, int
 trip, int *temp)
-{
-	struct pch_thermal_device *ptd = tzd->devdata;
-
-	if (ptd->crt_trip_id == trip)
-		*temp = ptd->crt_temp;
-	else if (ptd->hot_trip_id == trip)
-		*temp = ptd->hot_temp;
-	else if (ptd->psv_trip_id == trip)
-		*temp = ptd->psv_temp;
-	else
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-

static void pch_critical(struct thermal_zone_device *tzd) {
dev_dbg(&tzd->device, "%s: critical temperature reached\n",
tzd->type);

drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +2 -4
@@ -338,8 +289,6 @@ static void pch_critical(struct
 thermal_zone_device *tzd)
 
 static struct thermal_zone_device_ops tzd_ops = {
 	.get_temp = pch_thermal_get_temp,
-	.get_trip_type = pch_get_trip_type,
-	.get_trip_temp = pch_get_trip_temp,
 	.critical = pch_critical,
 };
@@ -423,8 +372,9 @@ static int intel_pch_thermal_probe(struct pci_dev
 *pdev,
 	if (err)
 		goto error_cleanup;
 
-	ptd->tzd = thermal_zone_device_register(bi->name, nr_trips, 0,
 ptd,
-						&tzd_ops, NULL, 0, 0);
+	ptd->tzd = thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(bi->name,
 ptd->trips,
+							   nr_trips, 0,

ptd,

drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +1 -0
+							   &tzd_ops,

NULL, 0, 0);

drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c +0 -0
 	if (IS_ERR(ptd->tzd)) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register thermal zone

%s\n",
bi->name);

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Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points for intel_pch

Hi Rui,

Quoted 42 lines · Rui
Quoted 32 lines · Daniel Lezcano

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>

The thermal framework gives the possibility to register the trip points with the thermal zone. When that is done, no get_trip_* ops are
needed and they can be removed.

Convert the ops content logic into generic trip points and register them with the thermal zone.

In order to consolidate the code, use the ACPI thermal framework API to fill the generic trip point from the ACPI tables.

It has been tested on a Intel i7-8650U - x280 with the INT3400, the PCH, ACPITZ, and x86_pkg_temp. No regression observed so far.

---
V3:
- The driver Kconfig option selects CONFIG_THERMAL_ACPI

---
  drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig             |  1 +
  drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c | 88 +++++--------------
----
  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +0 -0
index f0c845679250..738b88b290f4 100644

drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig config INTEL_BXT_PMIC_THERMAL · line 78

Quoted 4 lines
drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig +1 -0
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config INTEL_BXT_PMIC_THERMAL
  config INTEL_PCH_THERMAL
  	tristate "Intel PCH Thermal Reporting Driver"
  	depends on X86 && PCI
+	select THERMAL_ACPI

THERMAL_ACPI depends on ACPI but the PCH thermal driver does not. So we will run into "unmet dependencies" issue when CONFIG_ACPI is cleared like below

Quoted 6 lines

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for THERMAL_ACPI
Depends on [n]: THERMAL [=y] && ACPI [=n]
Selected by [m]:
- INTEL_PCH_THERMAL [=m] && THERMAL [=y] && (X86 [=y] ||
X86_INTEL_QUARK [=n] || COMPILE_TEST [=n]) && X86 [=y] && PCI [=y]

Ah yes, indeed. Thanks for spotting this.

Given the code, I think we should do:

select THERMAL_ACPI if ACPI

it is from my POV semantically correct.

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PATCH v3 3/3 thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points int340x

In reply to Daniel Lezcano

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>

The thermal framework gives the possibility to register the trip points with the thermal zone. When that is done, no get_trip_* ops are needed and they can be removed.

Convert the ops content logic into generic trip points and register them with the thermal zone.

In order to consolidate the code, use the ACPI thermal framework API to fill the generic trip point from the ACPI tables.

It has been tested on a Intel i7-8650U - x280 with the INT3400, the PCH, ACPITZ, and x86_pkg_temp. No regression observed so far.

---
V3:
- The driver Kconfig option selects CONFIG_THERMAL_ACPI
- Change the initialization to use GTSH for the hysteresis on all the trip points

---
 drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/Kconfig |   1 +
 .../int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.c    | 177 ++++--------------
 .../int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.h    |  10 +-
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)
drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/Kconfig +1 -0
index 5d046de96a5d..b7072d37101d 100644
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config INT340X_THERMAL
 	select THERMAL_GOV_USER_SPACE
 	select ACPI_THERMAL_REL
 	select ACPI_FAN
+	select THERMAL_ACPI
 	select INTEL_SOC_DTS_IOSF_CORE
 	select PROC_THERMAL_MMIO_RAPL if POWERCAP
 	help
drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.c +40 -137

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drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.h +2 -8
index e28ab1ba5e06..0c2c8de92014 100644
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <acpi/acpi_lpat.h>
 
 #define INT340X_THERMAL_MAX_ACT_TRIP_COUNT	10
+#define INT340X_THERMAL_MAX_TRIP_COUNT INT340X_THERMAL_MAX_ACT_TRIP_COUNT + 3
 
 struct active_trip {
 	int temp;
@@ -19,15 +20,8 @@ struct active_trip {
 
 struct int34x_thermal_zone {
 	struct acpi_device *adev;
-	struct active_trip act_trips[INT340X_THERMAL_MAX_ACT_TRIP_COUNT];
-	unsigned long *aux_trips;
+	struct thermal_trip *trips;
 	int aux_trip_nr;
-	int psv_temp;
-	int psv_trip_id;
-	int crt_temp;
-	int crt_trip_id;
-	int hot_temp;
-	int hot_trip_id;
 	struct thermal_zone_device *zone;
 	struct thermal_zone_device_ops *ops;
 	void *priv_data;
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In reply to Daniel Lezcano

Hi, Daniel,

Quoted 6 lines · Daniel Lezcano

Recently sent as a RFC, the thermal ACPI for generic trip points is a set of
functions to fill the generic trip points structure which will become the
standard structure for the thermal framework and its users.

Quoted 6 lines

Different Intel drivers and the ACPI thermal driver are using the ACPI tables to
get the thermal zone information. As those are getting the same information,
providing this set of ACPI function with the generic trip points will consolidate the code.

My understanding is that the ACPI thermal driver (drivers/acpi/thermal.c) should be one of the top users of these APIs.

Is there any specific reason that it is not included in this patch series? or is it just that you don't have ACPI thermal driver running on your test platform?

thanks,
rui

Quoted 43 lines

Also, the Intel PCH and the Intel 34xx drivers are converted to use the generic
trip points relying on the ACPI generic trip point parsing functions.

These changes have been tested on a Thinkpad Lenovo x280 with the PCH and
INT34xx drivers. No regression have been observed, the trip points remain the
same for what is described on this system.

Changelog:

- V3:
- Took into account Rafael's comments
- Used a silence option THERMAL_ACPI in order to stay consistent with THERMAL_OF. It is up to the API user to select the option.

- V2:
- Fix the thermal ACPI patch where the thermal_acpi.c was not
included in
the series
- Provide a couple of users of this API which could have been
tested on a
real system

Daniel Lezcano (3):
thermal/acpi: Add ACPI trip point routines thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points for intel_pch thermal/drivers/intel: Use generic trip points int340x

 drivers/thermal/Kconfig                       |   4 +
 drivers/thermal/Makefile                      |   1 +
 drivers/thermal/intel/Kconfig                 |   1 +
 drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/Kconfig |   1 +
 .../int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.c    | 177 ++++----------
 .../int340x_thermal/int340x_thermal_zone.h    |  10 +-
 drivers/thermal/intel/intel_pch_thermal.c     |  88 ++-----
 drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c                | 218
++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/thermal.h                       |   8 +
 9 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 214 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/thermal_acpi.c
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Quoted 16 lines · Rui

Hi, Daniel,

Quoted 6 lines · Daniel Lezcano

Recently sent as a RFC, the thermal ACPI for generic trip points is a set of
functions to fill the generic trip points structure which will become the
standard structure for the thermal framework and its users.

Quoted 6 lines

Different Intel drivers and the ACPI thermal driver are using the ACPI tables to
get the thermal zone information. As those are getting the same information,
providing this set of ACPI function with the generic trip points will consolidate the code.

Quoted 2 lines

My understanding is that the ACPI thermal driver (drivers/acpi/thermal.c) should be one of the top users of these APIs.

Yes, correct.

Quoted 3 lines

Is there any specific reason that it is not included in this patch series? or is it just that you don't have ACPI thermal driver running on your test platform?

The generic trip point handling in the acpi thermal driver is another story. Some code reorg and cleanup should be done before. I have a series for that but I need to test it more. That is the reason why it will be submitted after this series is reviewed, so the changes will be focused on the acpi thermal driver only.

I have a laptop with acpitz but only the critical trip temp.

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