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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "ThermalUtil.h"
+
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <android-base/file.h>
+#include <android-base/logging.h>
+#include <android-base/parseint.h>
+#include <android-base/strings.h>
+
+static constexpr auto THERMAL_PREFIX = "/sys/class/thermal/";
+
+static int thermal_filter(const dirent* de) {
+  if (android::base::StartsWith(de->d_name, "thermal_zone")) {
+    return 1;
+  }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static std::vector<std::string> InitThermalPaths() {
+  dirent** namelist;
+  int n = scandir(THERMAL_PREFIX, &namelist, thermal_filter, alphasort);
+  if (n == -1) {
+    PLOG(ERROR) << "Failed to scandir " << THERMAL_PREFIX;
+    return {};
+  }
+  if (n == 0) {
+    LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to find CPU thermal info in " << THERMAL_PREFIX;
+    return {};
+  }
+
+  std::vector<std::string> thermal_paths;
+  while (n--) {
+    thermal_paths.push_back(THERMAL_PREFIX + std::string(namelist[n]->d_name) + "/temp");
+    free(namelist[n]);
+  }
+  free(namelist);
+  return thermal_paths;
+}
+
+int GetMaxValueFromThermalZone() {
+  static std::vector<std::string> thermal_paths = InitThermalPaths();
+  int max_temperature = -1;
+  for (const auto& path : thermal_paths) {
+    std::string content;
+    if (!android::base::ReadFileToString(path, &content)) {
+      PLOG(WARNING) << "Failed to read " << path;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    int temperature;
+    if (!android::base::ParseInt(android::base::Trim(content), &temperature)) {
+      LOG(WARNING) << "Failed to parse integer in " << content;
+      continue;
+    }
+    max_temperature = std::max(temperature, max_temperature);
+  }
+  LOG(INFO) << "current maximum temperature: " << max_temperature;
+  return max_temperature;
+}
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