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    thermal: devfreq_cooling: add new interface for direct power read · 2be83da8
    Lukasz Luba authored
    
    
    This patch introduces a new interface for device drivers connected to
    devfreq_cooling in the thermal framework: get_real_power().
    
    Some devices have more sophisticated methods (like power counters)
    to approximate the actual power that they use.
    In the previous implementation we had a pre-calculated power
    table which was then scaled by 'utilization'
    ('busy_time' and 'total_time' taken from devfreq 'last_status').
    
    With this new interface the driver can provide more precise data
    regarding actual power to the thermal governor every time the power
    budget is calculated. We then use this value and calculate the real
    resource utilization scaling factor.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Diamand <chris.diamand@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJavi Merino <javi.merino@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
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