Re: [PATCH 4/4] docs: hwmon: (smpro-hwmon) Add documentation

Guenter Roeck
2021-02-25T16:45:11Z

On 2/25/21 2:18 AM, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> Add documentation for the Ampere(R)'s Altra(R) SMpro hwmon driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thu Nguyen <thu@os.amperecomputing.com>
> Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> Documentation/hwmon/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.rst | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 101 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.rst
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
> index 8d5a2df1ecb6..b48a980ed08b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
> @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ Hardware Monitoring Kernel Drivers
> sis5595
> sl28cpld
> smm665
> + smpro-hwmon

"hwmon" seems a bit redundant here.

> smsc47b397
> smsc47m192
> smsc47m1
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d546b90982e5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/smpro-hwmon.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +
> +Kernel driver Ampere(R)'s Altra(R) SMpro hwmon
> +==============================================
> +
> +Supported chips:
> +
> + * Ampere(R) Altra(R)
> +
> + Prefix: 'smpro'
> +
> + Reference: Altra SoC BMC Interface Specification
> +
> +Author: Thu Nguyen <thu@os.amperecomputing.com>
> +
> +Description
> +-----------
> +This driver supports hardware monitoring for Ampere(R) Altra(R) SoC's based on the
> +SMpro co-processor (SMpro).
> +The following sensor types are supported by the driver:
> +
> + * temperature
> + * voltage
> + * current
> + * power
> +
> +The SMpro interface provides the registers to query the various sensors and
> +their values which are then exported to userspace by this driver.
> +
> +Usage Notes
> +-----------
> +
> +SMpro hwmon driver creates two sysfs files for each sensor.
> +
> +* File ``<sensor_type><idx>_label`` reports the sensor label.
> +* File ``<sensor_type><idx>_input`` returns the sensor value.
> +
> +The sysfs files are allocated in the SMpro root fs folder.
> +There is one root folder for each SMpro instance.
> +
> +When the SoC is turned off, the driver is failed to read the registers.
> +It returns TIMEDOUT Error(-110) for the read sensors.
> +

Maybe better something like

When the SoC is turned off, the driver will fail to read registers
and return -ETIMEDOUT.

Can that indeed happen ? That seems to be highly undesirable.

> +Sysfs entries
> +-------------
> +
> +The following sysfs files are supported:
> +
> +* Ampere(R) Altra(R):
> +
> +=============== ============= ======= ===============================================
> +Name Unit Perm Description
> +temp1_input mili Celsius RO SoC temperature

s/mili/milli/ throughout

> +temp2_input mili Celsius RO Highest temperature reported by the SoC VRDs
> +temp3_input mili Celsius RO Highest temperature reported by the DIMM VRDs
> +temp4_input mili Celsius RO Highest temperature reported by the Core VRDs

What does "highest" stand for here ? Is it the _current_ highest
temperature, added up by the hardware/firmware, or is it the historic
highest temperature ? Historic data should be reported as tempX_highest.

> +temp5_input mili Celsius RO Highest temperature of DIMM Channel 0 to 3

drop; reported individually.

> +temp6_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH0
> +temp7_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH1
> +temp8_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH2
> +temp9_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH3
> +temp10_input mili Celsius RO Highest temperature of DIMM Channel 4 to 7

drop; reported individually.

> +temp11_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH4
> +temp12_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH5
> +temp13_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH6
> +temp14_input mili Celsius RO Temperature of DIMM0 on CH7
> +temp15_input mili Celsius RO MEM HOT Threshold
> +temp16_input mili Celsius RO SoC VRD HOT Threshold

Report as tempX_max or tempX_crit, as appropriate (eg temp2_max or
temp2_crit for SoC VRD HOT Threshold). If there is a single threshold
temperature for all DIMMs, report the same limit value for all DIMM
temperature sensors.

> +temp17_input mili Celsius RO Highest temperature reported by the RCA VRD

Same question about "highest" as above. Either "highest" is
inappropriate, or there are multiple RCA VRDs and only the
highest temperature of those is reported (which should be
explicitly stated).

> +in0_input mili Volt RO Core voltage
> +in1_input mili Volt RO SoC voltage
> +in2_input mili Volt RO DIMM VRD1 voltage
> +in3_input mili Volt RO DIMM VRD2 voltage
> +in4_input mili Volt RO Maximum voltage of DIMM VRD1 and VRD2

drop; reported individually.

> +in5_input mili Volt RO RCA VRD voltage
> +cur1_input mili Ampere RO Core VRD current
> +cur2_input mili Ampere RO SoC VRD current
> +cur3_input mili Ampere RO DIMM VRD1 current
> +cur4_input mili Ampere RO DIMM VRD2 current
> +cur5_input mili Ampere RO RCA VRD current
> +power1_input nano Wat RO Core VRD power

Expected scale is micro-Watt.

> +power2_input nano Wat RO SoC VRD power
> +power3_input nano Wat RO DIMM VRD1 power
> +power4_input nano Wat RO DIMM VRD2 power
> +power5_input nano Wat RO CPU VRD power, total of SoC and Core VRD power

drop

> +power6_input nano Wat RO Total of DIMM VRD1 and VRD2 power

drop

> +power7_input nano Wat RO RCA VRD power
> +power8_input nano Wat RO Socket TDP

Report as max attribute

> +=============== ============= ======= ===============================================
> +
> +Example::
> +
> + # cat in0_input
> + 830
> + # cat temp1_input
> + 37000
> + # cat curr1_input
> + 9000
> + # cat power5_input
> + 19500000
>