thermal: rcar-thermal: update thermal zone only when temperature changes

Avoid updating the thermal zone in case an IRQ was triggered but the
temperature didn't effectively change.
Note this is not a driver issue.
Below is a captured debug trace illustrating the purpose of this patch:
out of 8 thermal zone updates, only 2 are actually necessary.

[   41.120000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=25000
[   41.120000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   41.120000] rcar_thermal_work(): temp is now 30000C, update thermal zone
[   58.990000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   58.990000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   58.990000] rcar_thermal_work(): same temp, do not update thermal zone
[   59.290000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   59.290000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   59.290000] rcar_thermal_work(): same temp, do not update thermal zone
[   59.590000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   59.590000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   59.590000] rcar_thermal_work(): same temp, do not update thermal zone
[   59.890000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   59.890000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   59.890000] rcar_thermal_work(): same temp, do not update thermal zone
[   60.190000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   60.190000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   60.190000] rcar_thermal_work(): same temp, do not update thermal zone
[   60.490000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   60.490000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=30000
[   60.490000] rcar_thermal_work(): same temp, do not update thermal zone
[   60.790000] rcar_thermal_work(): cctemp=30000
[   60.790000] rcar_thermal_work(): nctemp=35000
[   60.790000] rcar_thermal_work(): temp is now 35000C, update thermal zone

I suspect this may be due to sensor sampling accuracy / fluctuation,
but no formal proof.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Titiano <ptitiano@baylibre.com>
Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c
index 88cfeec6a28f421ecca3008e190f3e7bebf114fc..5a37940b02c99df447a0fc024177edccabd96635 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c
@@ -299,12 +299,17 @@ static void _rcar_thermal_irq_ctrl(struct rcar_thermal_priv *priv, int enable)
 static void rcar_thermal_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
        struct rcar_thermal_priv *priv;
+       unsigned long cctemp, nctemp;
 
        priv = container_of(work, struct rcar_thermal_priv, work.work);
 
+       rcar_thermal_get_temp(priv->zone, &cctemp);
        rcar_thermal_update_temp(priv);
        rcar_thermal_irq_enable(priv);
-       thermal_zone_device_update(priv->zone);
+
+       rcar_thermal_get_temp(priv->zone, &nctemp);
+       if (nctemp != cctemp)
+               thermal_zone_device_update(priv->zone);
 }
 
 static u32 rcar_thermal_had_changed(struct rcar_thermal_priv *priv, u32 status)