Re: [PATCH 0/3] Thermal reset support in PMC

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On 13/08/14 13:53, Thierry Reding wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 01:41:52PM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:


On 13/08/14 13:36, Thierry Reding wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:52:22PM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
On 13/08/14 11:57, Thierry Reding wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:42:53AM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:


On 13/08/14 11:12, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
On 13/08/14 11:07, Thierry Reding wrote:
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 11:12:57AM +0300, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
Hi,

this series adds support for hardware-triggered thermal reset to the PMC
driver. Namely, it adds device tree properties for specifying the I2C
command to be sent when thermtrip is triggered. It is to be noted
that thermtrip won't be ever triggered without a soctherm driver to
calibrate the sensors, but I'll follow up with that patch.

pmc.c required some juggling around to make the match data usable in
probe, since I didn't want to put the code into the initcall either, since
the soctherm driver won't be initialized by that point anyway.

Series tested on Jetson-TK1. Should work on Tegra30 and Tegra114 too.

Can you describe the procedure used to test this? We currently have a
bunch of features in Tegra that some people have tested at some point
during development but the test procedures never got documented. That
means whenever we want to test something we need to go and reinvent a
bunch of tests after the fact.

So what I'd like to start doing is collect tests (preferably in some
scripted way) so that they can be kept in a repository that people can
easily clone and run on devices.

Could you provide something like that for thermtrip?

Sure. I'll see if I can make a just a test script or if a local patch is
needed to test. Btw, I also have a pretty nice test script for EMC
ready, and I agree that such a repository would be very nice.

Here is a test program. It it works, the device with immediately shut down.

https://gist.github.com/cyndis/66126c9c176b5f94a76f

Is there a way to set the trip temperature without going through
/dev/mem? I'd expect the device to have a sysfs interface of some
sort.

The thermtrip "device" isn't currently exposed in any way. If it were
exposed, I suppose it would be exposed as thermal zone devices, each with
one trip point. Even then, the thermal framework doesn't really support this
properly; none of the trip point types really apply to this kind of trip
point, and x86 systems don't expose their trips either.

Okay. The reason why I asked is because I'm not sure yet that having C
programs in the test suite would be good, so having something that's
easily scriptable would be preferred.

I agree. Looks like Python's stdlib has mmap support, so maybe we could use
that.

Yes, possibly. It still means that somebody needs to have some kind of
advanced scripting available to test this. While having a testsuite is
useful, it would still be nice to occasionally be able to test things
with just simple shell commands.

Anyway, since debugging is pretty much the only use case for modifying
the trip temperature, I thought adding the tz_devices would be a bit
overkill.

An alternative could be a file in debugfs.

True, though there's the "don't expose dangerous stuff in debugfs" argument
against that. I don't really have problem with it, though.
Although in this case I think the script approach would be good enough.

I've said this before and I don't think "dangerous stuff in debugfs" is
a valid argument. You need superuser privileges to access debugfs, and
if you have such privileges you can do pretty much what you want (run
the test program you posted for example).

I agree with you completely. I guess I can add a debugfs entry to the soctherm driver, probably in a separate patch once the original series is in. It is then up to the thermal maintainers whether they agree with us or not.


Thierry

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