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For thermal management strategy you might be interested on limit the input power for a power supply. We already have current limit but basically what we probably want is to limit power. So, introduce the input_power_limit property. Although the common use case is limit the input power, in some specific cases it is the voltage that is problematic (i.e some regulators have different efficiencies at higher voltage resulting in more heat). So introduce also the input_voltage_limit property. This happens in one Chromebook and is used on the Pixel C's thermal management strategy to effectively limit the input power to 5V 3A when the screen is on. When the screen is on, the display, the CPU, and the GPU all contribute more heat to the system than while the screen is off, and we made a tradeoff to throttle the charger in order to give more of the thermal budget to those other components. So there's nothing fundamentally broken about the hardware that would cause the Pixel C to malfunction if we were charging at 9V or 12V instead of 5V when the screen is on, i.e. if userspace doesn't change this. What would happen is that you wouldn't meet Google's skin temperature targets on the system if the charger was allowed to run at 9V or 12V with the screen on. For folks hacking on Pixel Cs (which is now outside of Google's official support window for Android) and customizing their own kernel and userspace this would be acceptable, but we wanted to expose this feature in the power supply properties because the feature does exist in the Emedded Controller firmware of the Pixel C and all of Google's Chromebooks with USB-C made since 2015 in case someone running an up to date kernel wanted to limit the charging power for thermal or other reasons. This patch exposes a new property, similar to input current limit, to re-configure the maximum voltage from the external supply at runtime based on system-level knowledge or user input. Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org> Acked-by: Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@diasemi.com> Reviewed-by: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com> |
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This directory attempts to document the ABI between the Linux kernel and userspace, and the relative stability of these interfaces. Due to the everchanging nature of Linux, and the differing maturity levels, these interfaces should be used by userspace programs in different ways. We have four different levels of ABI stability, as shown by the four different subdirectories in this location. Interfaces may change levels of stability according to the rules described below. The different levels of stability are: stable/ This directory documents the interfaces that the developer has defined to be stable. Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces with no restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will be guaranteed for at least 2 years. Most interfaces (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always be available. testing/ This directory documents interfaces that are felt to be stable, as the main development of this interface has been completed. The interface can be changed to add new features, but the current interface will not break by doing this, unless grave errors or security problems are found in them. Userspace programs can start to rely on these interfaces, but they must be aware of changes that can occur before these interfaces move to be marked stable. Programs that use these interfaces are strongly encouraged to add their name to the description of these interfaces, so that the kernel developers can easily notify them if any changes occur (see the description of the layout of the files below for details on how to do this.) obsolete/ This directory documents interfaces that are still remaining in the kernel, but are marked to be removed at some later point in time. The description of the interface will document the reason why it is obsolete and when it can be expected to be removed. removed/ This directory contains a list of the old interfaces that have been removed from the kernel. Every file in these directories will contain the following information: What: Short description of the interface Date: Date created KernelVersion: Kernel version this feature first showed up in. Contact: Primary contact for this interface (may be a mailing list) Description: Long description of the interface and how to use it. Users: All users of this interface who wish to be notified when it changes. This is very important for interfaces in the "testing" stage, so that kernel developers can work with userspace developers to ensure that things do not break in ways that are unacceptable. It is also important to get feedback for these interfaces to make sure they are working in a proper way and do not need to be changed further. How things move between levels: Interfaces in stable may move to obsolete, as long as the proper notification is given. Interfaces may be removed from obsolete and the kernel as long as the documented amount of time has gone by. Interfaces in the testing state can move to the stable state when the developers feel they are finished. They cannot be removed from the kernel tree without going through the obsolete state first. It's up to the developer to place their interfaces in the category they wish for it to start out in. Notable bits of non-ABI, which should not under any circumstances be considered stable: - Kconfig. Userspace should not rely on the presence or absence of any particular Kconfig symbol, in /proc/config.gz, in the copy of .config commonly installed to /boot, or in any invocation of the kernel build process. - Kernel-internal symbols. Do not rely on the presence, absence, location, or type of any kernel symbol, either in System.map files or the kernel binary itself. See Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst.