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This patch implements a fan control safety watchdog, by request of the
authors of userspace fan control scripts.

When the watchdog timer expires, the equivalent action of a "fan enable"
command is executed.  The watchdog timer is reset at every reception of a
fan control command that could change the state of the fan itself.

This command is meant to be used by userspace fan control daemons, to make
sure the fan is never left set to an unsafe level because of userspace
problems.

Users of the X31/X40/X41 "speed" command are on their own, the current
implementation of "speed" is just too incomplete to be used safely,
anyway.  Better to never use it, and just use the "level" command instead.

The watchdog is programmed using echo "watchdog <number>" > fan, where
number is the number of seconds to wait before doing an "enable", and zero
disables the watchdog.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh authored and Len Brown committed Dec 7, 2006
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20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
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Expand Up @@ -670,6 +670,26 @@ example:

modprobe ibm_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable

The ibm-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan level
to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the fan commands:
"enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog" within a configurable
ammount of time. To do this, use the "watchdog" command.

echo 'watchdog <interval>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan

Interval is the ammount of time in seconds to wait for one of the
above mentioned fan commands before reseting the fan level to a safe
one. If set to zero, the watchdog is disabled (default). When the
watchdog timer runs out, it does the exact equivalent of the "enable"
fan command.

Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will
be rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of
the above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is,
therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made
through means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" fan
commands.


Example Configuration
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70 changes: 67 additions & 3 deletions drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c
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#include <linux/backlight.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/dmi.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>

#include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
#include <acpi/acnamesp.h>
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enum fan_control_commands {
IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_SPEED = 0x0001, /* speed command */
IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_LEVEL = 0x0002, /* level command */
IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_ENABLE = 0x0004, /* enable/disable cmd */
IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_ENABLE = 0x0004, /* enable/disable cmd,
* and also watchdog cmd */
};

enum { /* Fan control constants */
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static int fan_control_status_known;
static u8 fan_control_initial_status;

static void fan_watchdog_fire(void *ignored);
static int fan_watchdog_maxinterval;
static DECLARE_WORK(fan_watchdog_task, fan_watchdog_fire, NULL);

static int fan_init(void)
{
fan_status_access_mode = IBMACPI_FAN_NONE;
fan_control_access_mode = IBMACPI_FAN_WR_NONE;
fan_control_commands = 0;
fan_control_status_known = 1;
fan_watchdog_maxinterval = 0;

if (gfan_handle) {
/* 570, 600e/x, 770e, 770x */
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return 0;
}

static void fan_exit(void)
{
cancel_delayed_work(&fan_watchdog_task);
flush_scheduled_work();
}

static void fan_watchdog_reset(void)
{
static int fan_watchdog_active = 0;

if (fan_watchdog_active)
cancel_delayed_work(&fan_watchdog_task);

if (fan_watchdog_maxinterval > 0) {
fan_watchdog_active = 1;
if (!schedule_delayed_work(&fan_watchdog_task,
msecs_to_jiffies(fan_watchdog_maxinterval
* 1000))) {
printk(IBM_ERR "failed to schedule the fan watchdog, "
"watchdog will not trigger\n");
}
} else
fan_watchdog_active = 0;
}

static int fan_read(char *p)
{
int len = 0;
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}

if (fan_control_commands & IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_ENABLE)
len += sprintf(p + len, "commands:\tenable, disable\n");
len += sprintf(p + len, "commands:\tenable, disable\n"
"commands:\twatchdog <timeout> (<timeout> is 0 (off), "
"1-120 (seconds))\n");

if (fan_control_commands & IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_SPEED)
len += sprintf(p + len, "commands:\tspeed <speed>"
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return 1;
}

static int fan_write_cmd_watchdog(const char *cmd, int *rc)
{
int interval;

if (sscanf(cmd, "watchdog %d", &interval) != 1)
return 0;

if (interval < 0 || interval > 120)
*rc = -EINVAL;
else
fan_watchdog_maxinterval = interval;

return 1;
}

static int fan_write(char *buf)
{
char *cmd;
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fan_write_cmd_level(cmd, &rc)) &&
!((fan_control_commands & IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_ENABLE) &&
(fan_write_cmd_enable(cmd, &rc) ||
fan_write_cmd_disable(cmd, &rc))) &&
fan_write_cmd_disable(cmd, &rc) ||
fan_write_cmd_watchdog(cmd, &rc))) &&
!((fan_control_commands & IBMACPI_FAN_CMD_SPEED) &&
fan_write_cmd_speed(cmd, &rc))
)
rc = -EINVAL;
else if (!rc)
fan_watchdog_reset();
}

return rc;
}

static void fan_watchdog_fire(void *ignored)
{
printk(IBM_NOTICE "fan watchdog: enabling fan\n");
if (fan_set_enable()) {
printk(IBM_ERR "fan watchdog: error while enabling fan\n");
/* reschedule for later */
fan_watchdog_reset();
}
}

static struct ibm_struct ibms[] = {
{
.name = "driver",
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.read = fan_read,
.write = fan_write,
.init = fan_init,
.exit = fan_exit,
.experimental = 1,
},
};
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