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hwmon: sparx5: Fix initial reading of temperature

Message ID 20200903134704.8949-1-lars.povlsen@microchip.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series hwmon: sparx5: Fix initial reading of temperature | expand

Commit Message

Lars Povlsen Sept. 3, 2020, 1:47 p.m. UTC
If the temperature is read before the internal calibration is
completed, the driver returns -EIO. Instead it should return -EAGAIN
to encourage repeating the operation.

Signed-off-by: Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@microchip.com>
---
 drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--
2.27.0

Comments

Lars Povlsen Sept. 4, 2020, 8:33 a.m. UTC | #1
Guenter Roeck writes:

> On 9/3/20 6:47 AM, Lars Povlsen wrote:
>> If the temperature is read before the internal calibration is
>> completed, the driver returns -EIO. Instead it should return -EAGAIN
>> to encourage repeating the operation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@microchip.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
>> index 1a2b1026b026..98be48e3a22a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
>> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int s5_read(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
>>       case hwmon_temp_input:
>>               stat = readl_relaxed(hwmon->base + TEMP_STAT);
>>               if (!(stat & TEMP_STAT_VALID))
>> -                     return -EIO;
>> +                     return -EAGAIN;
>
> The problem is that this may result in a hard loop and effectively hang the system,
> or at least the calling process. It may be better to return -ENODATA in this situation.
>

Guenther,

Thank you for your response.

The motivation for the patch was as I tried to use thermal support to
control a fan, and I noticed an initial quip from
thermal_core.c:update_temperature() - it will throw a dev_warn() for
anything else than an "EAGAIN". The EAGAIN also seems to be used by
several other hwmon drivers in similar situations.

The bottom line is that I would like to get rid of the warning
message. Changing the error code to ENODATA does not fix what I am
trying to accomplish.

Do you have any suggestions on how to achieve the objective?

Sincerely,

---Lars

> Guenter
>
>>               value = stat & TEMP_STAT_TEMP;
>>               /*
>>                * From register documentation:
>> --
>> 2.27.0
>>
Guenter Roeck Sept. 4, 2020, 2:08 p.m. UTC | #2
On 9/4/20 1:33 AM, Lars Povlsen wrote:
> 
> Guenter Roeck writes:
> 
>> On 9/3/20 6:47 AM, Lars Povlsen wrote:
>>> If the temperature is read before the internal calibration is
>>> completed, the driver returns -EIO. Instead it should return -EAGAIN
>>> to encourage repeating the operation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@microchip.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
>>> index 1a2b1026b026..98be48e3a22a 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
>>> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int s5_read(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
>>>       case hwmon_temp_input:
>>>               stat = readl_relaxed(hwmon->base + TEMP_STAT);
>>>               if (!(stat & TEMP_STAT_VALID))
>>> -                     return -EIO;
>>> +                     return -EAGAIN;
>>
>> The problem is that this may result in a hard loop and effectively hang the system,
>> or at least the calling process. It may be better to return -ENODATA in this situation.
>>
> 
> Guenther,
> 
> Thank you for your response.
> 
> The motivation for the patch was as I tried to use thermal support to
> control a fan, and I noticed an initial quip from
> thermal_core.c:update_temperature() - it will throw a dev_warn() for
> anything else than an "EAGAIN". The EAGAIN also seems to be used by
> several other hwmon drivers in similar situations.
> 
> The bottom line is that I would like to get rid of the warning
> message. Changing the error code to ENODATA does not fix what I am
> trying to accomplish.
> 

Sigh. I know that -EAGAIN is used, but it has its own problems - userspace
is inclined to retry directly, causing hard loops.

Ok, lets go with -EAGAIN then. Can't be helped. I'll apply your patch.

Guenter

> Do you have any suggestions on how to achieve the objective?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> ---Lars
> 
>> Guenter
>>
>>>               value = stat & TEMP_STAT_TEMP;
>>>               /*
>>>                * From register documentation:
>>> --
>>> 2.27.0
>>>
>
Guenter Roeck Sept. 4, 2020, 4:40 p.m. UTC | #3
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:47:04PM +0200, Lars Povlsen wrote:
> If the temperature is read before the internal calibration is
> completed, the driver returns -EIO. Instead it should return -EAGAIN
> to encourage repeating the operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@microchip.com>

Applied. I added a note stating that I would prefer -ENODATA, and why,
but that this is not feasible due to thermal subsystem requirements. 

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --
> 2.27.0
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
> index 1a2b1026b026..98be48e3a22a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int s5_read(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
>  	case hwmon_temp_input:
>  		stat = readl_relaxed(hwmon->base + TEMP_STAT);
>  		if (!(stat & TEMP_STAT_VALID))
> -			return -EIO;
> +			return -EAGAIN;
>  		value = stat & TEMP_STAT_TEMP;
>  		/*
>  		 * From register documentation:
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
index 1a2b1026b026..98be48e3a22a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@  static int s5_read(struct device *dev, enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
 	case hwmon_temp_input:
 		stat = readl_relaxed(hwmon->base + TEMP_STAT);
 		if (!(stat & TEMP_STAT_VALID))
-			return -EIO;
+			return -EAGAIN;
 		value = stat & TEMP_STAT_TEMP;
 		/*
 		 * From register documentation: