Re: [PATCH 2/6] thermal: of: Export non-devres helper to register/unregister thermal zone

Claudiu Beznea
2025-01-30T23:16:25Z

Hi, Daniel,

On 31.01.2025 00:33, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 30/01/2025 21:53, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
>> Hi, Daniel,
>>
>> On 30.01.2025 19:24, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On 30/01/2025 11:30, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30.01.2025 12:07, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:08:03AM +0200, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, Daniel,
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>>>>>> Would the IP need some cycles to capture the temperature accurately
>>>>>>> after the
>>>>>>> clock is enabled ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is nothing about this mentioned about this in the HW manual of the
>>>>>> RZ/G3S SoC. The only points mentioned are as described in the driver
>>>>>> code:
>>>>>> - wait at least 3us after each IIO channel read
>>>>>> - wait at least 30us after enabling the sensor
>>>>>> - wait at least 50us after setting OE bit in TSU_SM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For this I chose to have it implemented as proposed.
>>>>>
>>>>> IMO, disabling/enabling the clock between two reads through the pm
>>>>> runtime may
>>>>> not be a good thing, especially if the system enters a thermal situation
>>>>> where
>>>>> it has to mitigate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without any testing capturing the temperatures and compare between the
>>>>> always-on
>>>>> and on/off, it is hard to say if it is true or not. Up to you to test
>>>>> that or
>>>>> not. If you think it is fine, then let's go with it.
>>>>
>>>> I tested it with and w/o the runtime PM and on/off support (so, everything
>>>> ON from the probe) and the reported temperature values were similar.
>>>
>>>
>>> Did you remove the roundup to 0.5°C ?
>>
>> I did the testing as suggested and, this time, collected results and
>> compared side by side. I read the temperature for 10 minutes, 60 seconds
>> after the Linux prompt showed up. There is, indeed, a slight difference b/w
>> the 2 cases.
>>
>> When the runtime PM doesn't touch the clocks on read the reported
>> temperature varies b/w 53-54 degrees while when the runtime PM
>> enables/disables the clocks a single read reported 55 degrees, the rest
>> reported 54 degrees.
>>
>> I plotted the results side by side here:
>> https://i2.paste.pics/f07eaeddc2ccc3c6695fe5056b52f4a2.png?
>> trs=0a0eaab99bb59ebcb10051eb298f437c7cd50c16437a87392aebc16cd9013e18&rand=vWXm2VTrbt
>>
>> Please let me know how do you consider it.
>

After sending this to you I figured it out that precision is lost somewhere
so I re-tested it with the following diff (multiplied parts of the equation
with 1000):

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/renesas/rzg3s_thermal.c
b/drivers/thermal/renesas/rzg3s_thermal.c
index 6719f9ca05eb..84e18ff69d7c 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/renesas/rzg3s_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/renesas/rzg3s_thermal.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static int rzg3s_thermal_get_temp(struct
thermal_zone_device *tz, int *temp)
}

ret = 0;
- ts_code_ave = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(ts_code_ave, TSU_READ_STEPS);
+ ts_code_ave = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(MCELSIUS(ts_code_ave), TSU_READ_STEPS);

/*
* According to the HW manual (section 40.4.4 Procedure for
Measuring the Temperature)
@@ -91,11 +91,8 @@ static int rzg3s_thermal_get_temp(struct
thermal_zone_device *tz, int *temp)
*
* Tj = (ts_code_ave - priv->calib0) * 165 / (priv->calib0 -
priv->calib1) - 40
*/
- *temp = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((ts_code_ave - priv->calib1) * 165,
- (priv->calib0 - priv->calib1)) - 40;
-
- /* Report it in mili degrees Celsius and round it up to 0.5 degrees
Celsius. */
- *temp = roundup(MCELSIUS(*temp), 500);
+ *temp = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((u64)(ts_code_ave -
MCELSIUS(priv->calib1)) * MCELSIUS(165),
+ MCELSIUS(priv->calib0 - priv->calib1)) -
MCELSIUS(40);

rpm_put:
pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(dev);

With this, the results seems similar b/w runtime PM and no runtime PM cases.

The tests were executed after the board was off for few hours. The
first test was with runtime PM suspend/resume on each read. Then the board
was rebooted and re-run the test w/o runtime PM suspend/resume on reads.

Figure with results is here:
https://i2.paste.pics/5f353a4f04b07b4bead3086624aba23f.png?trs=0a0eaab99bb59ebcb10051eb298f437c7cd50c16437a87392aebc16cd9013e18&rand=5n34QNjWID

> Thanks for taking the time to provide a figure
>
> Testing thermal can be painful because it should be done under certain
> conditions.
>
> I guess there was no particular work load on the system when running the
> tests.

No load, indeed.

>
> At the first glance, it seems, without the pm runtime, the measurement is
> more precise as it catches more thermal changes. But the test does not give
> information about the thermal behavior under stress. And one second
> sampling is too long to really figure it out.
>
> In the kernel source tree, there is a tool to read the temperature in an
> optimized manner, you may want to use it to read the temperature at a
> higher rate. It is located in tools/thermal/thermometer
>
> Compiling is a bit fuzzy ATM, so until it is fixed, here are the steps:
>
> (you should install libconfig-dev and libnl-3-dev packages).
>
> cd $LINUX_DIR/tools/thermal/lib
> make
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$LINUX_DIR/tools/thermal/lib
>
> cd $LINUX_DIR/tools
> make thermometer
>
>
>
> Then change directory:
>
> cd $LINUX_DIR/tools/thermal/thermometer
>
>
> Run the tool:
>
> ./thermometer -o out -c t.conf -l DEBUG -- <my_command>
>
>
> The content of the configuration file t.conf is:
>
> thermal-zones = (
>           {    name = "cpu[0_9].*-thermal";
>         polling = 100; }
>       )
>
> All the captured data will be in the 'out' directory
>
> For 'my_command', I suggest to use a script containing:
>
> sleep 10; dhrystone -t 1 -r 120; sleep 10
>
> If you need the dhrystone binary, let me know.
>
> The thermal zone device tree configuration should be changed to use a 65°C
> passive trip point instead of 100°C (and the kernel setup with the step
> wise governor as default).
>
> The resulting figure from the temperature should show a flat temperature
> figure during 10 seconds, then the temperature increasing until reaching
> the temperature threshold of 65°C, the temperature stabilizing around it,
> then followed by a temperature decreasing when the test finishes.
>
> If the temperature does not reach the limit, decrease the trip point
> temperature or increase the dhrystone duration (the -r 120 option)
>
> At this point, you should the test with and without pm runtime but in order
> to have consistent results, you should wait ~20 minutes between two tests.
>
> The shape of the figures will give the immediate information about how the
> mitigation vs thermal sensor vs cooling device behave.
>
> Additionally, you can enable the thermal DEBUGFS option and add the
> collected information statistics from /sys/kernel/debug/thermal/*** in the
> results.
>
>
> Hope that helps

Thank you for all these details. I'll have a look on it but starting with
Monday as I won't have access to setup in the following days.

Thank you,
Claudiu

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