This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thermal/drivers/step_wise: Fix temperature regulation misbehavior
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: thermal-drivers-step_wise-fix-temperature-regulation-misbehavior.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:35 CET 2017
From: Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:05:58 +0200 Subject: thermal/drivers/step_wise: Fix temperature regulation misbehavior
From: Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
[ Upstream commit 07209fcf33542c1ff1e29df2dbdf8f29cdaacb10 ]
There is a particular situation when the cooling device is cpufreq and the heat dissipation is not efficient enough where the temperature increases little by little until reaching the critical threshold and leading to a SoC reset.
The behavior is reproducible on a hikey6220 with bad heat dissipation (eg. stacked with other boards).
Running a simple C program doing while(1); for each CPU of the SoC makes the temperature to reach the passive regulation trip point and ends up to the maximum allowed temperature followed by a reset.
This issue has been also reported by running the libhugetlbfs test suite.
What is observed is a ping pong between two cpu frequencies, 1.2GHz and 900MHz while the temperature continues to grow.
It appears the step wise governor calls get_target_state() the first time with the throttle set to true and the trend to 'raising'. The code selects logically the next state, so the cpu frequency decreases from 1.2GHz to 900MHz, so far so good. The temperature decreases immediately but still stays greater than the trip point, then get_target_state() is called again, this time with the throttle set to true *and* the trend to 'dropping'. From there the algorithm assumes we have to step down the state and the cpu frequency jumps back to 1.2GHz. But the temperature is still higher than the trip point, so get_target_state() is called with throttle=1 and trend='raising' again, we jump to 900MHz, then get_target_state() is called with throttle=1 and trend='dropping', we jump to 1.2GHz, etc ... but the temperature does not stabilizes and continues to increase.
[ 237.922654] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 237.922678] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 237.922690] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=0 [ 237.922701] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=0, target=1 [ 238.026656] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=2,throttle=1 [ 238.026680] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=2,throttle=1 [ 238.026694] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 238.026707] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=0 [ 238.134647] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 238.134667] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 238.134679] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=0 [ 238.134690] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=0, target=1
In this situation the temperature continues to increase while the trend is oscillating between 'dropping' and 'raising'. We need to keep the current state untouched if the throttle is set, so the temperature can decrease or a higher state could be selected, thus preventing this oscillation.
Keeping the next_target untouched when 'throttle' is true at 'dropping' time fixes the issue.
The following traces show the governor does not change the next state if trend==2 (dropping) and throttle==1.
[ 2306.127987] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 2306.128009] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 2306.128021] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=0 [ 2306.128031] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=0, target=1 [ 2306.231991] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=2,throttle=1 [ 2306.232016] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=2,throttle=1 [ 2306.232030] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2306.232042] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=1 [ 2306.335982] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=0,throttle=1 [ 2306.336006] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=0,throttle=1 [ 2306.336021] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2306.336034] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=1 [ 2306.439984] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=2,throttle=1 [ 2306.440008] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=2,throttle=0 [ 2306.440022] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2306.440034] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=0
[ ... ]
After a while, if the temperature continues to increase, the next state becomes 2 which is 720MHz on the hikey. That results in the temperature stabilizing around the trip point.
[ 2455.831982] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 2455.832006] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=1,throttle=0 [ 2455.832019] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2455.832032] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=1 [ 2455.935985] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=0,throttle=1 [ 2455.936013] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=0,throttle=0 [ 2455.936027] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2455.936040] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=1 [ 2456.043984] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=0,throttle=1 [ 2456.044009] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=0,throttle=0 [ 2456.044023] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2456.044036] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=1 [ 2456.148001] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 2456.148028] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=1,throttle=1 [ 2456.148042] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=1 [ 2456.148055] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=1, target=2 [ 2456.252009] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip0[type=1,temp=65000]:trend=2,throttle=1 [ 2456.252041] thermal thermal_zone0: Trip1[type=1,temp=75000]:trend=2,throttle=0 [ 2456.252058] thermal cooling_device0: cur_state=2 [ 2456.252075] thermal cooling_device0: old_target=2, target=1
IOW, this change is needed to keep the state for a cooling device if the temperature trend is oscillating while the temperature increases slightly.
Without this change, the situation above leads to a catastrophic crash by a hardware reset on hikey. This issue has been reported to happen on an OMAP dra7xx also.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com Cc: John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org Tested-by: Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com Reviewed-by: Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin edubezval@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/thermal/step_wise.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/thermal/step_wise.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/step_wise.c @@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ * If the temperature is higher than a trip point, * a. if the trend is THERMAL_TREND_RAISING, use higher cooling * state for this trip point - * b. if the trend is THERMAL_TREND_DROPPING, use lower cooling - * state for this trip point + * b. if the trend is THERMAL_TREND_DROPPING, do nothing * c. if the trend is THERMAL_TREND_RAISE_FULL, use upper limit * for this trip point * d. if the trend is THERMAL_TREND_DROP_FULL, use lower limit @@ -94,9 +93,11 @@ static unsigned long get_target_state(st if (!throttle) next_target = THERMAL_NO_TARGET; } else { - next_target = cur_state - 1; - if (next_target > instance->upper) - next_target = instance->upper; + if (!throttle) { + next_target = cur_state - 1; + if (next_target > instance->upper) + next_target = instance->upper; + } } break; case THERMAL_TREND_DROP_FULL:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.lezcano@linaro.org are
queue-4.9/thermal-drivers-step_wise-fix-temperature-regulation-misbehavior.patch