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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
+# Copyright 2020 Linaro Ltd.
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/thermal/thermal-zones.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/base.yaml#
+
+title: Thermal zone binding
+
+maintainers:
+  - Amit Kucheria <amitk@kernel.org>
+
+description: |
+  Thermal management is achieved in devicetree by describing the sensor hardware
+  and the software abstraction of cooling devices and thermal zones required to
+  take appropriate action to mitigate thermal overloads.
+
+  The following node types are used to completely describe a thermal management
+  system in devicetree:
+   - thermal-sensor: device that measures temperature, has SoC-specific bindings
+   - cooling-device: device used to dissipate heat either passively or artively
+   - thermal-zones: a container of the following node types used to describe all
+     thermal data for the platform
+
+  This binding describes the thermal-zones.
+
+  The polling-delay properties of a thermal-zone are bound to the maximum dT/dt
+  (temperature derivative over time) in two situations for a thermal zone:
+    1. when passive cooling is activated (polling-delay-passive)
+    2. when the zone just needs to be monitored (polling-delay) or when
+       active cooling is activated.
+
+  The maximum dT/dt is highly bound to hardware power consumption and
+  dissipation capability. The delays should be chosen to account for said
+  max dT/dt, such that a device does not cross several trip boundaries
+  unexpectedly between polls. Choosing the right polling delays shall avoid
+  having the device in temperature ranges that may damage the silicon structures
+  and reduce silicon lifetime.
+
+properties:
+  thermal-zones:
+    type: object
+    description:
+      A /thermal-zones node is required in order to use the thermal framework to
+      manage input from the various thermal zones in the system in order to
+      mitigate thermal overload conditions. It does not represent a real device
+      in the system, but acts as a container to link thermal sensor devices,
+      platform-data regarding temperature thresholds and the mitigation actions
+      to take when the temperature crosses those thresholds.
+
+    properties:
+      $nodename:
+        pattern: "^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9,\\-]{1,12}-thermal$"
+        type: object
+        description:
+          Each thermal zone node contains information about how frequently it
+          must be checked, the sensor responsible for reporting temperature for
+          this zone, one sub-node containing the various trip points for this
+          zone and one sub-node containing all the zone cooling-maps.
+
+        properties:
+          polling-delay:
+            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+            minimum: 0
+            description:
+              The maximum number of milliseconds to wait between polls when
+              checking this thermal zone. Setting this to 0 disables the polling
+              timers setup by the thermal framework and assumes that the thermal
+              sensors in this zone support interrupts.
+
+          polling-delay-passive:
+            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+            minimum: 0
+            description:
+              The maximum number of milliseconds to wait between polls when
+              checking this thermal zone while doing passive cooling. Setting
+              this to 0 disables the polling timers setup by the thermal
+              framework and assumes that the thermal sensors in this zone
+              support interrupts.
+
+          thermal-sensors:
+            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
+            description:
+              A list of thermal sensor phandles and sensor specifiers used to
+              monitor this thermal zone.
+
+          trips:
+            type: object
+            description:
+              This node describes a set of points in the temperature domain at
+              which the thermal framework needs to takes action. The actions to
+              be taken are defined in another node called cooling-maps.
+
+            patternProperties:
+              "^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9,+\\._]{0,63}$":
+                type: object
+
+                properties:
+                  temperature:
+                    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/int32
+                    description:
+                      An integer expressing the trip temperature in millicelsius.
+
+                  hysteresis:
+                    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+                    description:
+                      An unsigned integer expressing the hysteresis delta with
+                      respect to the trip temperature property above, also in
+                      millicelsius.
+
+                  type:
+                    oneOf:
+                      - items:
+                        - enum:
+                            - active
+                            - passive
+                            - hot
+                            - critical
+                    description: |
+                      There are four valid trip types,
+                       - active   - enable active cooling e.g. fans
+                       - passive  - enable passive cooling e.g. throttling cpu
+                       - hot      - send notification to driver if .notify
+                                    callback registered
+                       - critical - send notification to driver if .notify
+                                    callback registered and trigger a shutdown
+
+                required:
+                  - temperature
+                  - hysteresis
+                  - type
+
+          cooling-maps:
+            type: object
+            description:
+              This node describes the action to be taken when a thermal zone
+              crosses one of the temperature thresholds described in the trips
+              node. The action takes the form of a mapping relation between a
+              trip and the target cooling device state.
+
+            patternProperties:
+              "^map[0-9][-a-zA-Z0-9]*$":
+                type: object
+
+                properties:
+                  trip:
+                    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle
+                    description:
+                      A phandle of a trip point node within this thermal zone.
+
+                  cooling-device:
+                    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
+                    description:
+                      A list of cooling device phandles along with the minimum
+                      and maximum cooling state specifiers for each cooling
+                      device. Using the THERMAL_NO_LIMIT (-1UL) constant in the
+                      cooling-device phandle limit specifier lets the framework
+                      use the minimum and maximum cooling state for that cooling
+                      device automatically.
+
+                  contribution:
+                    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+                    minimum: 0
+                    maximum: 100
+                    description:
+                      The contribution of the cooling devices at the trip
+                      temperature, both referenced in this map, to this thermal
+                      zone as a percentage.
+
+                required:
+                  - trip
+                  - cooling-device
+
+examples:
+  - |
+    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
+    #include <dt-bindings/thermal/thermal.h>
+
+    // Example 1: SDM845 TSENS
+    soc: soc@0 {
+            #address-cells = <2>;
+            #size-cells = <2>;
+
+            /* ... */
+
+            tsens0: thermal-sensor@c263000 {
+                    compatible = "qcom,sdm845-tsens", "qcom,tsens-v2";
+                    reg = <0 0x0c263000 0 0x1ff>, /* TM */
+                          <0 0x0c222000 0 0x1ff>; /* SROT */
+                    #qcom,sensors = <13>;
+                    interrupts = <GIC_SPI 506 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+                    interrupt-names = "uplow";
+                    #thermal-sensor-cells = <1>;
+            };
+
+            tsens1: thermal-sensor@c265000 {
+                    compatible = "qcom,sdm845-tsens", "qcom,tsens-v2";
+                    reg = <0 0x0c265000 0 0x1ff>, /* TM */
+                          <0 0x0c223000 0 0x1ff>; /* SROT */
+                    #qcom,sensors = <8>;
+                    interrupts = <GIC_SPI 507 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+                    interrupt-names = "uplow";
+                    #thermal-sensor-cells = <1>;
+            };
+    };
+
+    /* ... */
+
+    thermal-zones {
+            cpu0-thermal {
+                    polling-delay-passive = <250>;
+                    polling-delay = <1000>;
+
+                    thermal-sensors = <&tsens0 1>;
+
+                    trips {
+                            cpu0_alert0: trip-point0 {
+                                    temperature = <90000>;
+                                    hysteresis = <2000>;
+                                    type = "passive";
+                            };
+
+                            cpu0_alert1: trip-point1 {
+                                    temperature = <95000>;
+                                    hysteresis = <2000>;
+                                    type = "passive";
+                            };
+
+                            cpu0_crit: cpu_crit {
+                                    temperature = <110000>;
+                                    hysteresis = <1000>;
+                                    type = "critical";
+                            };
+                    };
+
+                    cooling-maps {
+                            map0 {
+                                    trip = <&cpu0_alert0>;
+                                    cooling-device = <&CPU0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
+                                                     <&CPU1 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
+                                                     <&CPU2 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
+                                                     <&CPU3 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
+                            };
+
+                            map1 {
+                                    trip = <&cpu0_alert1>;
+                                    cooling-device = <&CPU0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
+                                                     <&CPU1 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
+                                                     <&CPU2 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
+                                                     <&CPU3 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT
+                                                            THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
+                            };
+                    };
+            };
+
+            /* ... */
+
+            cluster0-thermal {
+                    polling-delay-passive = <250>;
+                    polling-delay = <1000>;
+
+                    thermal-sensors = <&tsens0 5>;
+
+                    trips {
+                            cluster0_alert0: trip-point0 {
+                                    temperature = <90000>;
+                                    hysteresis = <2000>;
+                                    type = "hot";
+                            };
+                            cluster0_crit: cluster0_crit {
+                                    temperature = <110000>;
+                                    hysteresis = <2000>;
+                                    type = "critical";
+                            };
+                    };
+            };
+
+            /* ... */
+
+            gpu-thermal-top {
+                    polling-delay-passive = <250>;
+                    polling-delay = <1000>;
+
+                    thermal-sensors = <&tsens0 11>;
+
+                    trips {
+                            gpu1_alert0: trip-point0 {
+                                    temperature = <90000>;
+                                    hysteresis = <2000>;
+                                    type = "hot";
+                            };
+                    };
+            };
+    };
+...
