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

[Nícolas F. R. A. Prado]

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 at baylibre.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Balsam CHIHI <bchihi at 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 at collabora.com>
> >
> >     v3 :
> >         - Rebased :
> >             base-commit: 6a3d37b4d885129561e1cef361216f00472f7d2e
> >         - Fix issues in v2 pointed out by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado at 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. It supports triggering
interrupts when crossing the thresholds. Immediate mode is meant for one-off
readings of the temperature. This is why I suggested using filtered mode.

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

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

Another option that comes to mind would be to enable immediate mode only during
the get_temp() callback, to immediately read a value, and return to filtered
mode at the end. That might work, but I haven't tried yet.

Thanks,
Nícolas