Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::3:6 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:137:e000::3:6;
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <12350772.O9o76ZdvQC@kreacher> <4869676.GXAFRqVoOG@kreacher> <d83a54db-4dc8-483e-9f4e-4c7d853f4c46@linaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <d83a54db-4dc8-483e-9f4e-4c7d853f4c46@linaro.org>
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:31:02 +0100
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0jWr6F4Ge_MAgK1zHNv1sWAPNO3Q=Lr01C+j16_tzGasg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] thermal: trip: Rework thermal_zone_set_trip() and
 its callers
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
        Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:40 AM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
>
> On 29/11/2023 14:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >
> > Both trip_point_temp_store() and trip_point_hyst_store() use
> > thermal_zone_set_trip() to update a given trip point, but none of them
> > actually needs to change more than one field in struct thermal_trip
> > representing it.  However, each of them effectively calls
> > __thermal_zone_get_trip() twice in a row for the same trip index value,
> > once directly and once via thermal_zone_set_trip(), which is not
> > particularly efficient, and the way in which thermal_zone_set_trip()
> > carries out the update is not particularly straightforward.
> >
> > Moreover, some checks done by them both need not go under the thermal
> > zone lock and code duplication between them can be reduced quite a bit
> > by moving the majority of logic into thermal_zone_set_trip().
> >
> > Rework all of the above functions to address the above.
>
> The resulting change looks to me over complicate for the code it is
> supposed to improve. One new function, one enum and leaking the sysfs
> buffer to a function located outside of thermal-sysfs.c. That does not
> improve the readability IMO.
>
> The function thermal_zone_set_trip is only called from thermal_syfs.c
>
> Why not directly change the trip point temp/hyst value in the array in
> the thermal_sysfs functions and remove the function
> thermal_zone_set_trip() ?

I can do that if you prefer it.