Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Add LVTS support for mt8192

From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
To: "Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com>,
	"Chen-Yu Tsai" <wenst@chromium.org>
Cc: "Bernhard Rosenkränzer" <bero@baylibre.com>,
	angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com, rafael@kernel.org,
	amitk@kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com, matthias.bgg@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Add LVTS support for mt8192
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 12:06:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb9e97d8-4983-b2be-6b52-0af362d17005@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572f5a88-8c2e-4324-b477-836a5024ec67@notapiano>

On 01/06/2023 19:09, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:49:43PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 3:51 AM Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bero@baylibre.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Balsam CHIHI <bchihi@baylibre.com>
>>>
>>> Add full LVTS support (MCU thermal domain + AP thermal domain) to MediaTek MT8192 SoC.
>>> Also, add Suspend and Resume support to LVTS Driver (all SoCs),
>>> and update the documentation that describes the Calibration Data Offsets.
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>>      v4 :
>>>          - Shrink the lvts_ap thermal sensor I/O range to 0xc00 to make
>>>            room for SVS support, pointed out by
>>>            AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
>>>
>>>      v3 :
>>>          - Rebased :
>>>              base-commit: 6a3d37b4d885129561e1cef361216f00472f7d2e
>>>          - Fix issues in v2 pointed out by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@collabora.com>:
>>>            Use filtered mode to make sure threshold interrupts are triggered,
>>
>> I'm seeing sensor readout (either through sysfs/thermal/<x>/temp or hwmon)
>> fail frequently on MT8192. If I run `sensors` (lm-sensors), at least a couple
>> of the LVTS sensors would be N/A. Not sure if this is related to this change.
> 
> Yes, it is. Filtered mode has some delay associated with reading, meaning most
> of the time the value isn't ready, while immediate mode is, well, pretty much
> immediate and the read always succeeds.
> 
> For temperature monitoring, filtered mode should be used. 

Why?

> As far as the thermal framework goes, it's ok that filtered mode doesn't always
> return a value, as it will keep the old one.

It is not by design but just the code not returning the error when 
updating the thermal zone as it should so the side effect is giving the 
illusion everything is all right.

> But of course, having the
> temperature readout always work would be a desired improvement.

More than a desired improvement, it is mandatory. How can the thermal 
framework protect and mitigate the temperature with a twisted vision of 
the thermal situation?

> As for ways to achieve that, I think the intended way would be to enable the
> interrupts that signal data ready on filtered mode (bits 19, 20, 21, 28), read
> the temperature and cache it so it is always available when the get_temp()
> callback is called.

It sounds very strange how the filtered mode is working. We setup the 
filtered mode, then we shall receive an interrupt telling the data is 
ready so we can read it?

> The issue with this is that it would cause *a lot* of
> interrupts, which doesn't seem worth it.

Why not use the immediate mode + interrupts ?

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