Re: [PATCHv1 00/19] Improve SBS battery support

[Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>]

Hi Sebastian,

On 01.06.2020 19:05, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 12:40:27PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> On 13.05.2020 20:55, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
>>> This patchset improves support for SBS compliant batteries. Due to
>>> the changes, the battery now exposes 32 power supply properties and
>>> (un)plugging it generates a backtrace containing the following message
>>> without the first patch in this series:
>>>
>>> ---------------------------
>>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 20 at lib/kobject_uevent.c:659 add_uevent_var+0xd4/0x104
>>> add_uevent_var: too many keys
>>> ---------------------------
>>>
>>> For references this is what an SBS battery status looks like after
>>> the patch series has been applied:
>>>
>>> cat /sys/class/power_supply/sbs-0-000b/uevent
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=sbs-0-000b
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Discharging
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL=Normal
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH=Good
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=12
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=11441000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW=-26000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_AVG=-24000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=76
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_ERROR_MARGIN=1
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_TEMP=198
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_TIME_TO_EMPTY_AVG=438600
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_TIME_TO_FULL_AVG=3932100
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUMBER=0000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=10800000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN=10800000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW=31090000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL=42450000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN=41040000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=2924000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=3898000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=3800000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CONSTANT_CHARGE_CURRENT_MAX=3000000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_CONSTANT_CHARGE_VOLTAGE_MAX=12300000
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURE_YEAR=2017
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURE_MONTH=7
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURE_DAY=3
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=UR18650A
>>> POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=GEHC
>> This patch landed in linux-next dated 20200529. Sadly it causes a
>> regression on Samsung Exynos-based Chromebooks (Exynos5250 Snow,
>> Exynos5420 Peach-Pi and Exynos5800 Peach-Pit). System boots to
>> userspace, but then, when udev populates /dev, booting hangs:
>>
>> [    4.435167] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device
>> 179:51.
>> [    4.457477] devtmpfs: mounted
>> [    4.460235] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
>> [    4.464022] Run /sbin/init as init process
>> INIT: version 2.88 booting
>> [info] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S.
>> [    5.102096] random: crng init done
>> [....] Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: systemd-udevdstarting
>> version 236
>> [ ok .
>> [....] Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...[ ok done.
>> [....] Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[   34.409914]
>> TPS65090_RAILSDCDC1: disabling
>> [   34.412977] TPS65090_RAILSDCDC2: disabling
>> [   34.417021] TPS65090_RAILSDCDC3: disabling
>> [   34.423848] TPS65090_RAILSLDO1: disabling
>> [   34.429068] TPS65090_RAILSLDO2: disabling
> :(
>
> log does not look useful either.
>
>> Bisect between v5.7-rc1 and next-20200529 pointed me to the first bad
>> commit: [c4b12a2f3f3de670f6be5e96092a2cab0b877f1a] power: supply:
>> sbs-battery: simplify read_read_string_data.
> ok. I tested this on an to-be-upstreamed i.MX6 based system
> and arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-ppd.dts. I think the difference
> is, that i2c-exynos5 does not expose I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BLOCK_DATA.
> I hoped all systems using SBS battery support this, but now
> I see I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_EMUL only supports writing block data.
> Looks like I need to add another patch implementing that
> using the old code with added PEC support.
>
> In any case that should only return -ENODEV for the property
> (and uevent), but not break boot. So something fishy is going
> on.
>
>> However reverting it in linux-next doesn't fix the issue, so the
>> next commits are also relevant to this issue.
> The next patch, which adds PEC support depends on the simplification
> of sbs_read_string_data. The old, open coded variant will result in
> PEC failure for string properties (which should not stop boot either
> of course). Can you try reverting both?
Indeed, reverting both (and fixing the conflict) restores proper boot.
> If that helps I will revert those two instead of dropping the whole
> series for this merge window.
>
>> Let me know how can I help debugging it.
> I suspect, that this is userspace endlessly retrying reading the
> battery uevent when an error is returned. Could you check this?
> Should be easy to see by adding some printfs.
I've added some debug messages in sbs_get_property() and it read the 
same properties many times. However I've noticed that if I wait long 
enough booting finally continues.
> That would mean a faulty battery could stall complete boot without
> a useful error message, which is bad and needs to be fixed.
>
> Sorry for the inconvience and thanks for your report,

No problem, finding regressions is one of the linux-next goal.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland