[PATCH] thermal/drivers/sun8i: Don't fail probe due to zone registration failure

Icenowy Zheng uwu at icenowy.me
Sat Jul 22 05:11:43 PDT 2023


在 2023-07-18星期二的 16:04 +0100,Mark Brown写道:
> Currently the sun8i thermal driver will fail to probe if any of the
> thermal zones it is registering fails to register with the thermal
> core.
> Since we currently do not define any trip points for the GPU thermal
> zones on at least A64 or H5 this means that we have no thermal
> support
> on these platforms:
> 
> [    1.698703] thermal_sys: Failed to find 'trips' node
> [    1.698707] thermal_sys: Failed to find trip points for thermal-
> sensor id=1

I think this is an issue in the core thermal subsystem, and sent a
patch; Unfortunately the patch seems to be rejected by linux-arm-kernel
(and some other mailing lists)...

I will then resend it again and put Mark into CC list.

> 
> even though the main CPU thermal zone on both SoCs is fully
> configured.
> This does not seem ideal, while we may not be able to use all the
> zones
> it seems better to have those zones which are usable be operational.
> Instead just carry on registering zones if we get any non-deferral
> error, allowing use of those zones which are usable.
> 
> This means that we also need to update the interrupt handler to not
> attempt to notify the core for events on zones which we have not
> registered, I didn't see an ability to mask individual interrupts and
> I would expect that interrupts would still be indicated in the ISR
> even
> if they were masked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> ---
> I noticed this while trying to debug an issue with memory corruption
> on
> boot which since the merge window has prevented Pine64 Plus (an A64)
> from booting at all:
> 
>   
> https://storage.kernelci.org/mainline/master/v6.5-rc2/arm64/defconfig/gcc-10/lab-baylibre/baseline-sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.txt
> 
> (which I bisected to a random memory management change that clearly
> wasn't at fault) and has been causing less consistent but still very
> severe boot issues on Libretech Tritium (a H3).  The corruption
> appears
> to happen when unbinding a the one thermal zone that does register,
> I've
> not figured out exactly where.
> 
> The memory corruption issue obviously needs to be dealt with properly
> (I'm still digging into it) but this does allow both platforms to
> boot
> reliably and seems like a sensible thing to do independently, ideally
> we
> could get this in as a fix.
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> b/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> index 195f3c5d0b38..b69134538867 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ static irqreturn_t sun8i_irq_thread(int irq, void
> *data)
>         int i;
>  
>         for_each_set_bit(i, &irq_bitmap, tmdev->chip->sensor_num) {
> +               /* We allow some zones to not register. */
> +               if (IS_ERR(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd))
> +                       continue;
>                 thermal_zone_device_update(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd,
>                                           
> THERMAL_EVENT_UNSPECIFIED);
>         }
> @@ -465,8 +468,17 @@ static int sun8i_ths_register(struct ths_device
> *tmdev)
>                                                       i,
>                                                       &tmdev-
> >sensor[i],
>                                                       &ths_ops);
> -               if (IS_ERR(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd))
> -                       return PTR_ERR(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd);
> +
> +               /*
> +                * If an individual zone fails to register for
> reasons
> +                * other than probe deferral (eg, a bad DT) then
> carry
> +                * on, other zones might register successfully.
> +                */
> +               if (IS_ERR(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd)) {
> +                       if (PTR_ERR(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd) == -
> EPROBE_DEFER)
> +                               return PTR_ERR(tmdev->sensor[i].tzd);
> +                       continue;
> +               }
>  
>                 devm_thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(tmdev->dev, tmdev-
> >sensor[i].tzd);
>         }
> 
> ---
> base-commit: fdf0eaf11452d72945af31804e2a1048ee1b574c
> change-id: 20230718-thermal-sun8i-registration-df3a136ccafa
> 
> Best regards,



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