Re: weird cooling_device/cur_state sysfs behaviour

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

Adding Rafael,

On 20/03/2020 18:43, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 20/03/2020 16:10, Willy Wolff wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Hope you're doing well with the situation.
>>
>> I fill that my board get a cold too...
>>
>> When I write to a sysfs node, I have a weird behaviour about the function that is called behind.
>> This bug appears on an arm32 odroid-xu3, and only after v5.4, v5.3.18 behave correctly.
>>
>>
>> Here my modification to see what's going on:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
>> index aa99edb4dff7..a437ae3f4b9f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
>> @@ -706,11 +706,22 @@ cur_state_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>         return result ? result : count;
>>  }
>>  
>> +
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>
>> As you can see, the function is recalled with one character less, until the "buffer is empty".
>> I don't understand why. Can anybody help me for this thing?
>> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> Very likely the problem is coming from:
> 
>         result = cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, state);
> 
> which returns '1' as showed by the traces:
> 
> drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c:735:cur_state_store result = 1, count = 3
> 
> And because of the return condition above:
> 
> 	return result ? result : count;
> 
>  the function is returning result, so '1', which is interpreted by the
> sysfs as "I wrote one character', so it recalls the function with the
> two remaining characters, etc ...
> 
> The problem is from the governor AFAICT, which governor is it?

I went through the code and I believe the problem is coming from:

cpufreq_set_cur_state
 -> freq_qos_update_request
   -> freq_qos_apply
       -> pm_qos_update_target =>

" * This function returns 1 if the aggregated constraint value has changed,"

	freq_qos_apply() does:

		ret = pm_qos_update_target()
	...
	return ret;


At the first glance, it is related to commit 77751a466ebd1 (Nov 2019).




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