[PATCH v1] thermal: rockchip: make temperature reporting much more accurate

Caesar Wang wxt at rock-chips.com
Sun Jan 18 08:15:53 PST 2015


In general, the kernel should report temperature readings exactly as
reported by the hardware. The cpu / gpu thermal driver works in 5 degree
increments,but we ought to do more accurate. The temperature will do
linear interpolation between the entries in the table.

Test= $md5sum /dev/zero &
$while true; do grep "" /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone[1-2]/temp;
sleep .5; done

e.g. We can get the result as follows:
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp:39994
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/temp:39086
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp:39994
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/temp:39540
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp:39540
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/temp:39540
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp:39540
    /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/temp:39994

Signed-off-by: Caesar Wang <wxt at rock-chips.com>

---

 drivers/thermal/rockchip_thermal.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/rockchip_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/rockchip_thermal.c
index 1bcddfc..a7ae23a 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/rockchip_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/rockchip_thermal.c
@@ -193,19 +193,18 @@ static u32 rk_tsadcv2_temp_to_code(long temp)
 
 static long rk_tsadcv2_code_to_temp(u32 code)
 {
-	int high, low, mid;
-
-	low = 0;
-	high = ARRAY_SIZE(v2_code_table) - 1;
-	mid = (high + low) / 2;
+	unsigned int low = 0;
+	unsigned int high = ARRAY_SIZE(v2_code_table) - 1;
+	unsigned int mid = (low + high) / 2;
+	unsigned int scale;
 
 	if (code > v2_code_table[low].code || code < v2_code_table[high].code)
 		return 125000; /* No code available, return max temperature */
 
 	while (low <= high) {
-		if (code >= v2_code_table[mid].code && code <
-		    v2_code_table[mid - 1].code)
-			return v2_code_table[mid].temp;
+		if (code >= v2_code_table[mid].code &&
+		    code < v2_code_table[mid - 1].code)
+			break;
 		else if (code < v2_code_table[mid].code)
 			low = mid + 1;
 		else
@@ -213,7 +212,16 @@ static long rk_tsadcv2_code_to_temp(u32 code)
 		mid = (low + high) / 2;
 	}
 
-	return 125000;
+	/*
+	 * The 5C granularity provided by the table is too much. Let's
+	 * assume that the relationship between sensor readings and
+	 * temperature between 2 table entries is linear and extrapolate
+	 * to produce less granular result.
+	 */
+	scale = (v2_code_table[mid].temp - v2_code_table[mid - 1].temp) /
+		(v2_code_table[mid - 1].code - v2_code_table[mid].code);
+	return v2_code_table[mid - 1].temp +
+			(v2_code_table[mid - 1].code - code) * scale;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
1.9.1





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