Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: rockchip: Configure the GPU thermal zone for mickey

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 17:23:32 EST


On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:01 AM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > mickey crams a lot of hardware into a tiny package, which requires
> > more aggressive thermal throttling than for devices with a larger
> > footprint. Configure the GPU thermal zone to throttle the GPU
> > progressively at temperatures >= 60ÂC. Heat dissipated by the
> > CPUs also affects the GPU temperature, hence we cap the CPU
> > frequency to 1.4 GHz for temperatures above 65ÂC. Further throttling
> > of the CPUs may be performed by the CPU thermal zone.
> >
> > The configuration matches that of the downstram Chrome OS 3.14
>
> s/downstram/downstream

ack

>
> > + cooling-maps {
> > + /* After 1st level throttle the GPU down to as low as 400 MHz */
> > + gpu_warmish_limit_gpu {
> > + trip = <&gpu_alert_warmish>;
> > + cooling-device = <&gpu THERMAL_NO_LIMIT 1>;
>
> As per my comment in patch #1, you are probably ending up throttling
> to 500 MHz, not 400 MHz. Below will all have similar problems unless
> we actually delete the 500 MHz operating point.

Thanks for pointing that out. As per disussion on patch #1 we'll
disable the 500 MHz OPP to stay in sync with downstream and avoid
problems in case someone decides to re-purpose NPLL.

> > + };
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Slightly after we throttle the GPU, we'll also make sure that
> > + * the CPU can't go faster than 1.4 GHz. Note that we won't
> > + * throttle the CPU lower than 1.4 GHz due to GPU heat--we'll
> > + * let the CPU do the rest itself.
> > + */
> > + gpu_warm_limit_cpu {
> > + trip = <&gpu_alert_warm>;
> > + cooling-device = <&cpu0 4 4>;
>
> Shouldn't you list cpu1, cpu2, and cpu3 too? That'd match what
> upstream did elsewhere in this file?

ack, should have noticed, I 'yelled' at others before for not doing this ...