Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: sun50i: add thermal driver for h6

[Maxime Ripard]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 02:10:47AM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 11:41:28PM +0200, OndÅej Jirman wrote:
> > > > > +static int tsens_get_temp(void *data, int *temp)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > + struct tsensor *s = data;
> > > > > + struct tsens_device *tmdev = s->tmdev;
> > > > > + int val;
> > > > > +
> > > > > + regmap_read(tmdev->regmap, tmdev->chip->temp_data_base +
> > > > > +             0x4 * s->id, &val);
> > > > > +
> > > > > + if (unlikely(val == 0))
> > > > > +         return -EBUSY;
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure why a val equals to 0 would be associated with EBUSY?
> > >
> > > Thermal zone driver can (will) call get_temp before we got the
> > > first interrupt and the thermal data. In that case val will be 0.
> > >
> > > Resulting in:
> > >
> > >  (val + offset) * scale = (-2794) * -67 = 187198
> > >
> > > 187ÂC and immediate shutdown during boot - based on cirtical
> > > temperature being reached.
> > >
> > > Busy here means, get_temp does not yet have data. Thermal zone
> > > driver just reports any error to dmesg output.
> >
> > Ah, that makes sense.
> >
> > I guess if we're switching to an interrupt-based driver, then we can
> > just use a waitqueue, or is get_temp supposed to be atomic?
>
> I think get_temp should not be bloacked.

Why not?

Maxime

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