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Message-ID: <ce6c2e8a-65a7-4cb2-a91d-fbcaeef6edc1@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:42:29 +0200
From: neil.armstrong@...aro.org
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] thermal: core: Call monitor_thermal_zone() if zone
temperature is invalid
On 03/07/2024 16:00, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 03/07/2024 14:43, neil.armstrong@...aro.org wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/07/2024 14:25, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Neil,
>>>
>>> it seems there is something wrong with the driver actually.
>>>
>>> There can be a moment where the sensor is not yet initialized for different reason, so reading the temperature fails. The routine will just retry until the sensor gets ready.
>>>
>>> Having these errors seem to me that the sensor for this specific thermal zone is never ready which may be the root cause of your issue. The change is spotting this problem IMO.
>>
>> Probably, but it gets printed every second until system shutdown, but only for a single thermal_zone.
>>
>> Using v1 of Rafael's patch makes the message disappear completely.
>
> Yes, because you have probably the thermal zone polling delay set to zero, thus it fails the first time and does no longer try to set it up again. The V1 is an incomplete fix.
>
> Very likely the problem is in the sensor platform driver, or in the thermal zone description in the device tree which describes a non functional thermal zone.
>
It was at 0 but the delay was removed recently:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240510-topic-msm-polling-cleanup-v2-0-436ca4218da2@linaro.org/
That doesn't explain it because only the last platforms have this error message printed.
Neil
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