Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Add CPU cooling suppor,t

[Guilherme G. Piccoli]

On 27/09/2021 18:45, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> Hi Yassine, thanks for the patch! I was doing some experiments with a
> dragonboard 820-based board, and without your patch, a CPU benchmark can
> quickly cause overheating - throttling mechanism doesn't start and we
> get a FW reset to a bad state (likely a HW protection mechanism).
> 
> I noticed that a similar patch including cooling maps is present in
> Linaro's qcom tree [0], and it was submitted upstream [1], but there was
> a re-submission [2] by Konrad that was merged and dropped the thermals
> part. Based on some threads I read, it seems a FW lockup was detected
> with the complete patch?
> 
> I'm not sure, so I'm looping Konrad / Loic / Bjorn here, to understand
> better what made this portion of the patch to be dropped.
> Anyway, I think worth to mention this in your commit message Yassine,
> including perhaps a fixes tag like:
> 
> Fixes: 90173a954a22 ("arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Add CPU opps").
> 
> Also, I'm not sure why there was no response here or why it wasn't
> merged, but if it helps, please have my:
> 
> Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Guilherme
> 
> 
> [0]
> https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git/commit/?h=release/qcomlt-4.14&id=2274c48c671
> 
> [1]
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-msm/patch/1595253740-29466-6-git-send-email-loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> [2]
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20210527194455.782108-2-konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 


Unfortunately, (likely) due to a typo in the Subject field, this wasn't
threaded correctly. So, the original message I was responding is:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/jmayJcXoExAK2G7UBIXMz5CDN0BYgYkFZguHlPNRFOU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

I'm sorry about the confusion with the mail thread!
Cheers,


Guilherme