Re: [PATCH] thermal: samsung: Only update available threshold limits

From: Tushar Behera
Date: Thu Apr 24 2014 - 07:30:53 EST


On 04/24/2014 04:18 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, April 14, 2014 11:08:15 AM Tushar Behera wrote:
>> Currently the threshold limits are updated in 2 stages, once for all
>> software trigger levels and again for hardware trip point.
>>
>> While updating the software trigger levels, it overwrites the threshold
>> limit for hardware trip point thereby forcing the Exynos core to issue
>> an emergency shutdown.
>
> On what SoC type have you encountered this problem? It doesn't seem to
> happen on older SoCs (at least Exynos4210 and Exynos4x12 ones).
>

I found this issue while testing on Exynos5420 with these patches [1].

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/1/38

>> Updating only the required fields in threshold register fixes this issue.
>
> With the current code there is indeed a time window during which threshold
> limit for hardware trip point is set to zero so the fix is correct.
>


--
Tushar Behera
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/