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…ip point

thermal.act=-1 disables all active trip points
in all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.act=C, where C > 0, overrides all lowest temperature
active trip points in all thermal zones to C degrees Celsius.
Raising this trip-point may allow you to keep your system silent
up to a higher temperature.  However, it will not allow you to
raise the lowest temperature trip point above the next higher
trip point (if there is one).  Lowering this trip point may
kick in the fan sooner.

Note that overriding this trip-point will disable any BIOS attempts
to implement hysteresis around the lowest temperature trip point.
This may result in the fan starting and stopping frequently
if temperature frequently crosses C.

WARNING: raising trip points above the manufacturer's defaults
may cause the system to run at higher temperature and shorten
its life.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Len Brown committed Aug 12, 2007
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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Expand Up @@ -1820,6 +1820,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
thash_entries= [KNL,NET]
Set number of hash buckets for TCP connection

thermal.act= [HW,ACPI]
-1: disable all active trip points in all thermal zones
<degrees C>: override all lowest active trip points

thermal.nocrt= [HW,ACPI]
Set to disable actions on ACPI thermal zone
critical and hot trip points.
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34 changes: 30 additions & 4 deletions drivers/acpi/thermal.c
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Expand Up @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Diefenbaugh");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ACPI Thermal Zone Driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

static int act;
module_param(act, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(act, "Disable or override all lowest active trip points.\n");

static int tzp;
module_param(tzp, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(tzp, "Thermal zone polling frequency, in 1/10 seconds.\n");
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char name[5] = { '_', 'A', 'C', ('0' + i), '\0' };

status =
acpi_evaluate_integer(tz->device->handle, name, NULL,
&tz->trips.active[i].temperature);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
if (act == -1)
break; /* disable all active trip points */

status = acpi_evaluate_integer(tz->device->handle,
name, NULL, &tz->trips.active[i].temperature);

if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
if (i == 0) /* no active trip points */
break;
if (act <= 0) /* no override requested */
break;
if (i == 1) { /* 1 trip point */
tz->trips.active[0].temperature =
CELSIUS_TO_KELVIN(act);
} else { /* multiple trips */
/*
* Don't allow override higher than
* the next higher trip point
*/
tz->trips.active[i - 1].temperature =
(tz->trips.active[i - 2].temperature <
CELSIUS_TO_KELVIN(act) ?
tz->trips.active[i - 2].temperature :
CELSIUS_TO_KELVIN(act));
}
break;
}

name[2] = 'L';
status =
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