Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: Driver for temperature sensors on SATA drives

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 1/12/20 10:37 AM, Gabriel C wrote:
> Am So., 12. Jan. 2020 um 16:26 Uhr schrieb Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>:
>>
>> On 1/12/20 5:45 AM, Gabriel C wrote:
>>> Am So., 12. Jan. 2020 um 14:07 Uhr schrieb Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>:
>>>>
>>>> On 1/12/20 4:07 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 1:03 PM Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Am So., 12. Jan. 2020 um 12:22 Uhr schrieb Linus Walleij
>>>>>> <linus.walleij@linaro.org>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 12:18 PM Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What I've noticed however is the nvme temperature low/high values on
>>>>>>>> the Sensors X are strange here.
>>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>>> Sensor 1:     +27.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>>>>>>>> Sensor 2:     +29.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>>> Sensor 1:     +23.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>>>>>>>> Sensor 2:     +25.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That doesn't look strange to me. It seems like reasonable defaults
>>>>>>> from the firmware if either it doesn't really log the min/max temperatures
>>>>>>> or hasn't been through a cycle of updating these yet. Just set both
>>>>>>> to absolute min/max temperatures possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok I'll check that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you mean by setting the temperatures to use a lmsensors config?
>>>>>> Or is there a way to set these with a nvme command?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not that I know of.
>>>>>
>>>>> The min/max are the minumum and maximum temperatures the
>>>>> device has experienced during this power-on cycle.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, that would be lowest/highest. The above are (or should be) per-sensor
>>>> setpoints. The default for those is typically the absolute minimum /
>>>> maximum of the supported range.
>>>>
>>>> Some SATA drives report the lowest/highest temperatures experienced
>>>> since power cycle, like here.
>>>>
>>>> drivetemp-scsi-5-0
>>>> Adapter: SCSI adapter
>>>> temp1:        +23.0°C  (low  =  +0.0°C, high = +60.0°C)
>>>>                           (crit low = -41.0°C, crit = +85.0°C)
>>>>                           (lowest = +20.0°C, highest = +31.0°C)
>>>>
>>>
>>> The SATA temperatures are fine and reported like this here too, just
>>> the nvme ones are strange.
>>>
>>> drivetemp-scsi-4-0
>>> Adapter: SCSI adapter
>>> temp1:        +28.0°C  (low  =  +1.0°C, high = +61.0°C)
>>>                         (crit low =  +2.0°C, crit = +60.0°C)
>>>                         (lowest = +16.0°C, highest = +31.0°C)
>>>
>>> drivetemp-scsi-12-0
>>> Adapter: SCSI adapter
>>> temp1:        +29.0°C  (low  =  +1.0°C, high = +61.0°C)
>>>                         (crit low =  +2.0°C, crit = +60.0°C)
>>>                         (lowest = +18.0°C, highest = +32.0°C)
>>>
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> Btw, where I can find the code does these calculations?
>>>
>>
>> Not sure if that is what you are looking for, but the nvme hardware
>> monitoring driver is at drivers/nvme/host/hwmon.c, the SATA hardware
>> monitoring driver is at drivers/hwmon/drivetemp.c.
>>
> 
> I have a look thanks.
> 
> I'm using your v2 patch for the nvme part since you posted it on 5.4 kernels.
> This is probably why I find the way the temperatures are now reported
> very strange.
> 
> The ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro in my laptop seems to work better:
> 
> nvme-pci-0200
> Adapter: PCI adapter
> Composite:    +37.9°C  (low  =  -0.1°C, high = +74.8°C)
>                        (crit = +79.8°C)
> 
> Low is 0° which is what the spec suggests.
> 
>> The limits on nvme drives are configurable.
> 
> Yes, I found this out already.
> 
>> root@server:/sys/class/hwmon# sensors nvme-pci-0100
>> nvme-pci-0100
>> Adapter: PCI adapter
>> Composite:    +40.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +84.8°C)
>>                          (crit = +84.8°C)
>> Sensor 1:     +40.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>> Sensor 2:     +43.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>>
>> root@server:/sys/class/hwmon# echo 0 > hwmon1/temp2_min
>> root@server:/sys/class/hwmon# echo 100000 > hwmon1/temp2_max
> 
> An lm-sensors configuration will work too.
> 
Sure, the above was just an example.

>> root@server:/sys/class/hwmon# sensors nvme-pci-0100
>> nvme-pci-0100
>> Adapter: PCI adapter
>> Composite:    +38.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +84.8°C)
>>                          (crit = +84.8°C)
>> Sensor 1:     +38.9°C  (low  =  -0.1°C, high = +99.8°C)
>> Sensor 2:     +42.9°C  (low  = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)
>>
>> If you dislike the defaults, just configure whatever you think is
>> appropriate for your system.
> 
> It's not about disliking the values. I want to find out if these Samsung models
> don't support that, or it is a bug somewhere in writing/calculating the values.
> 
No, this is not a bug. It is perfectly valid for individual sensors to have
uninitialized limits. If I recall correctly, the NVME specification
specifically states that the default settings for individual sensors
shall be those values (0 and 65535 Kelvin, specifically).

And, yes, I would agree that is a bit odd that NVME drives report temperatures
in Kelvin, but such is the world.

> In the case, Samsung and others don't support such a thing wouldn't be
> better to just ignore
> the bogus reading altogether?

Again, you can set whatever limits you like. The default limits on many
hardware sensor chips have odd values. Just looking at my system:

nct6797-isa-0a20
Adapter: ISA adapter
in0:                    +0.48 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +1.74 V)
in1:                    +1.02 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in2:                    +3.39 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in3:                    +3.31 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in4:                    +1.00 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in5:                    +0.14 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in6:                    +0.82 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in7:                    +3.38 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in8:                    +3.26 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in9:                    +1.82 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in10:                   +0.00 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)
in11:                   +0.74 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in12:                   +1.20 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in13:                   +0.68 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM
in14:                   +1.50 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM


Are you suggesting that we should not support setting min/max values for
all drivers just because they are often not initialized to reasonable values
by default ?

Guenter