On Monday, January 14, 2019 5:34:53 PM CET Amit Kucheria wrote:
> 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
> +

Why here and not at the end of the struct?

>       struct list_head        policy_list;
>       struct kobject          kobj;
>       struct completion       kobj_unregister;
> 

Also, I would suggest combining this one with patch [02/10].

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