Several cpufreq drivers register themselves as thermal cooling devices. Adding a pointer to struct cpufreq_policy removes the need for them to store this pointer in a private data structure.
We can then auto-register the cpufreq driver as a thermal cooling device from cpufreq core code. Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <[email protected]> --- include/linux/cpufreq.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h index c86d6d8bdfed..7d0cf54125fa 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h +++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h @@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ struct cpufreq_policy { struct cpufreq_frequency_table *freq_table; enum cpufreq_table_sorting freq_table_sorted; +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_THERMAL + /* Pointer to the cooling device if used for thermal mitigation */ + struct thermal_cooling_device *cooldev; +#endif + struct list_head policy_list; struct kobject kobj; struct completion kobj_unregister; -- 2.17.1
