linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: accel: kx022a: Improve reset delay

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Message-ID: <1f315c2f3eea86fe4db48f0168660ab4b0b020f1.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:46:38 +0100
From: Nuno Sá <noname.nuno@...il.com>
To: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>, Matti Vaittinen
	 <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, Lars-Peter Clausen
 <lars@...afoo.de>, 	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: accel: kx022a: Improve reset delay

On Thu, 2024-11-14 at 11:54 +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 14/11/2024 11:43, Nuno Sá wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-11-14 at 08:57 +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > > All the sensors supported by kx022a driver seemed to require some delay
> > > after software reset to be operational again. More or less a random
> > > msleep(1) was added to cause the driver to go to sleep so the sensor has
> > > time to become operational again.
> > > 
> > > Now we have official docuumentation available:
> > > https://fscdn.rohm.com/kionix/en/document/AN010_KX022ACR-Z_Power-on_Procedure_E.pdf
> > > https://fscdn.rohm.com/kionix/en/document/TN027-Power-On-Procedure.pdf
> > > https://fscdn.rohm.com/kionix/en/document/AN011_KX134ACR-LBZ_Power-on_Procedure_E.pdf
> > > 
> > > stating the required time is 2 ms.
> > > 
> > > Due to the nature of the current msleep implementation, the msleep(1) is
> > > likely to be sleeping more than 2ms already - but the value "1" is
> > > misleading in case someone needs to optimize the start time and change
> > > the msleep to a more accurate delay. Hence it is better for
> > > "documentation" purposes to use value which actually reflects the
> > > specified 2ms wait time.
> > > 
> > > Change the value of delay after software reset to match the
> > > specifications and add links to the power-on procedure specifications.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > > Sorry for not including this to the KX134ACR-LBZ series I sent
> > > yesterday. It was only half an hour after I had sent the KX134ACR-LBZ
> > > support when I was notified about the existence of the KX022ACR-Z
> > > start-up procedure specification... Hence this lone patch to code which
> > > I just sent a miscallaneous series for before.
> > > 
> > >   drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c | 11 ++++++++---
> > >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c b/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-
> > > kx022a.c
> > > index 32387819995d..ccabe2e3b130 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c
> > > @@ -1121,10 +1121,15 @@ static int kx022a_chip_init(struct kx022a_data
> > > *data)
> > >   		return ret;
> > >   
> > >   	/*
> > > -	 * I've seen I2C read failures if we poll too fast after the
> > > sensor
> > > -	 * reset. Slight delay gives I2C block the time to recover.
> > > +	 * According to the power-on procedure documents, there is (at
> > > least)
> > > +	 * 2ms delay required after the software reset. This should be
> > > same
> > > for
> > > +	 * all, KX022ACR-Z, KX132-1211, KX132ACR-LBZ and KX134ACR-LBZ.
> > > +	 *
> > > +	 *
> > > https://fscdn.rohm.com/kionix/en/document/AN010_KX022ACR-Z_Power-on_Procedure_E.pdf
> > > +	 *
> > > https://fscdn.rohm.com/kionix/en/document/TN027-Power-On-Procedure.pdf
> > > +	 *
> > > https://fscdn.rohm.com/kionix/en/document/AN011_KX134ACR-LBZ_Power-on_Procedure_E.pdf
> > >   	 */
> > > -	msleep(1);
> > > +	msleep(2);
> > 
> > msleep() is not advisable for something lower than 20ms. Maybe take the
> > opportunity and change it to fsleep()?
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion Nuno. I did originally consider using the 
> usleep_range() since the checkpatch knows to warn about msleep with 
> small times.
> 
> However, there should be no rush to power-on the sensor at startup. It 
> usually does not matter if the sleep is 2 or 20 milli seconds, as long 
> as it is long enough. I wonder if interrupting the system with hrtimers 
> for _all_ smallish delays (when the longer delay would not really hurt)

That's why you have ranges of about 20% (I think) in usleep() so you minimize
hrtimers interrupts.

Other thing is boot time... Sleeping 20ms instead of 2ms is a huge difference.
Imagine if everyone thought like this for small sleeps :)?

> is a the best design choice. Hence I'd rather keep the msleep when we 
> don't need to guarantee delay to be short instead of defaulting to 
> hrtimers or even busy-loop when it is not required.
> 
> Do you think I am mistaken?
> 

To me this is more about correctness and do what the docs tell us to do :).
Sure, here you know what you're doing and you don't care if you end up sleeping
more than 2ms but that's not always the case and code like this allows for legit
mistakes (if someone just copy paste this for example).

Not a big deal anyways...

- Nuno Sá