From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
To: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>,
thierry.reding@gmail.com, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, edubezval@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] thermal: tegra: continue if sensor register fails
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:07:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <299fc8a0-39e4-1bd9-821b-4712a7f25028@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e09bc13-7880-40f2-3f90-01d2cc3510ba@nvidia.com>
On 22/11/2018 08:10, Wei Ni wrote:
>
>
> On 21/11/2018 8:51 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 21/11/2018 11:23, Wei Ni wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21/11/2018 4:55 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> On 13/11/2018 11:06, Wei Ni wrote:
>>>>> Don't bail when a sensor fails to register with the
>>>>> thermal zone and allow other sensors to register.
>>>>> This allows other sensors to register with thermal
>>>>> framework even if one sensor fails registration.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if ignoring the error is really safe. Can you describe the
>>>> real situation you want to overcome ? How do you differentiate critical
>>>> sensors ?
>>>
>>> The driver will always try to register 4 thermal zones, including cpu,
>>> gpu, mem and pll, but if the dts file doesn't set the corresponding
>>> sensors, then the register will be failed.
>>> Normally, the dts file will set all 4 sensors, but there may have some
>>> platform doesn't support them all. So we post this patch.
>>
>> Ignoring errors is not the way to go to support different platforms. Fix
>> the DT.
>
> The issue isn't in DT file. The Tegra soc thermal include 4 sensors:
> cpu, gpu, mem, pll. But in some platforms, for example, we may only need
> to support 2 sensors, such as cpu and gpu, so we only configure these
> two senors in DT file. But the driver will always try to register 4
> sensors, cpu/gpu/mem/pll, so mem and pll will be registered failed. So
> in this case we need to ignoring the failure, and continue to enable the
> driver.
You can fix this by changing the driver to support the platform and
register the sensor you are interested in.
Ignoring errors is not a good idea.
>>> BTW, what do you mean "critical sensors"? We will set critical trip temp
>>> for all sensors.
>>
>> I meant sensor for thermal zone getting really high temperature.
>
> We doesn't have the critical sensors. We set the critical trip temp for
> all registered sensors. And these trip temp is set to the Tegra
> hardware. So it mean if the temperature reached the critical trip point,
> then the system will be shutdown directly.
>
>>
>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c | 8 +++++---
>>>>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c b/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
>>>>> index ed28110a3535..a824d2e63af3 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
>>>>> @@ -1370,9 +1370,9 @@ static int tegra_soctherm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>>> &tegra_of_thermal_ops);
>>>>> if (IS_ERR(z)) {
>>>>> err = PTR_ERR(z);
>>>>> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register sensor: %d\n",
>>>>> - err);
>>>>> - goto disable_clocks;
>>>>> + dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "failed to register sensor %s: %d\n",
>>>>> + soc->ttgs[i]->name, err);
>>>>> + continue;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> zone->tz = z;
>>>>> @@ -1434,6 +1434,8 @@ static int __maybe_unused soctherm_resume(struct device *dev)
>>>>> struct thermal_zone_device *tz;
>>>>>
>>>>> tz = tegra->thermctl_tzs[soc->ttgs[i]->id];
>>>>> + if (!tz)
>>>>> + continue;
>>>>> err = tegra_soctherm_set_hwtrips(dev, soc->ttgs[i], tz);
>>>>> if (err) {
>>>>> dev_err(&pdev->dev,
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-22 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-13 10:06 [PATCH v2 0/3] Fixes for Tegra soctherm Wei Ni
2018-11-13 10:06 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] thermal: tegra: continue if sensor register fails Wei Ni
2018-11-21 8:55 ` Daniel Lezcano
2018-11-21 10:23 ` Wei Ni
2018-11-21 12:51 ` Daniel Lezcano
2018-11-22 7:10 ` Wei Ni
2018-11-22 13:07 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2018-11-23 6:15 ` Wei Ni
2018-11-23 6:51 ` Daniel Lezcano
2018-11-23 8:28 ` Wei Ni
2018-11-13 10:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] thermal: tegra: remove unnecessary warnings Wei Ni
2018-11-13 10:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] thermal: tegra: fix memory allocation Wei Ni
2018-11-20 7:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Fixes for Tegra soctherm Wei Ni
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