thermal: introduce the Power Allocator governor

The power allocator governor is a thermal governor that controls system
and device power allocation to control temperature.  Conceptually, the
implementation divides the sustainable power of a thermal zone among
all the heat sources in that zone.

This governor relies on "power actors", entities that represent heat
sources.  They can report current and maximum power consumption and
can set a given maximum power consumption, usually via a cooling
device.

The governor uses a Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller
driven by the temperature of the thermal zone.  The output of the
controller is a power budget that is then allocated to each power
actor that can have bearing on the temperature we are trying to
control.  It decides how much power to give each cooling device based
on the performance they are requesting.  The PID controller ensures
that the total power budget does not exceed the control temperature.

Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h
index faebe881f062..8a6624488cc5 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h
@@ -88,6 +88,14 @@ static inline int thermal_gov_user_space_register(void) { return 0; }
 static inline void thermal_gov_user_space_unregister(void) {}
 #endif /* CONFIG_THERMAL_GOV_USER_SPACE */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_THERMAL_GOV_POWER_ALLOCATOR
+int thermal_gov_power_allocator_register(void);
+void thermal_gov_power_allocator_unregister(void);
+#else
+static inline int thermal_gov_power_allocator_register(void) { return 0; }
+static inline void thermal_gov_power_allocator_unregister(void) {}
+#endif /* CONFIG_THERMAL_GOV_POWER_ALLOCATOR */
+
 /* device tree support */
 #ifdef CONFIG_THERMAL_OF
 int of_parse_thermal_zones(void);