On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 04:38:23PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Baikal-T1 SoC provides an embedded process, voltage and temperature
> sensor to monitor an internal SoC environment (chip temperature, supply
> voltage and process monitor) and on time detect critical situations,
> which may cause the system instability and even damages. The IP-block
> is based on the Analog Bits PVT sensor, but is equipped with a
> dedicated control wrapper, which provides a MMIO registers-based access
> to the sensor core functionality (APB3-bus based) and exposes an
> additional functions like thresholds/data ready interrupts, its status
> and masks, measurements timeout. All of these is used to create a hwmon
> driver being added to the kernel by this commit.
>
> The driver implements support for the hardware monitoring capabilities
> of Baikal-T1 process, voltage and temperature sensors. PVT IP-core
> consists of one temperature and four voltage sensors, each of which is
> implemented as a dedicated hwmon channel config.
>
> The driver can optionally provide the hwmon alarms for each sensor the
> PVT controller supports. The alarms functionality is made compile-time
> configurable due to the hardware interface implementation peculiarity,
> which is connected with an ability to convert data from only one sensor
> at a time. Additional limitation is that the controller performs the
> thresholds checking synchronously with the data conversion procedure.
> Due to these limitations in order to have the hwmon alarms
> automatically detected the driver code must switch from one sensor to
> another, read converted data and manually check the threshold status
> bits. Depending on the measurements timeout settings this design may
> cause additional burden on the system performance. By default if the
> alarms kernel config is disabled the data conversion is performed by
> the driver on demand when read operation is requested via corresponding
> _input-file.
>
> Co-developed-by: Maxim Kaurkin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Kaurkin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
>
> Changelog v2:
> - Discard handwritten IO-access wrappers. Use normal readl/writel instead.
> - Use generic FIELD_{GET,PREP} macros instead of handwritten ones.
> - Since the driver depends on the OF config we can remove of_match_ptr()
> macro utilization.
> - Don't print error-message if no platform IRQ found. Just return an error.
> - Remove probe-status info string printout.
>
> Changelog v3:
> - Add bt1-pvt into the Documentation/hwmon/index.rst file.
> - Discard explicit "default n" from the SENSORS_BT1_PVT_ALARMS config.
> - Use "depends on SENSORS_BT1_PVT" statement instead of if-endif kbuild
> config clause.
> - Alphabetically order the include macro operators.
> - Discard unneeded include macro in the header file.
> - Use new generic interface of the hwmon alarms notifications introduced
> in the first patch (based on hwmon_notify_event()).
> - Add more descriptive information regarding the temp1_trim attribute.
> - Discard setting the platforms device private data by using
> platform_set_drvdata(). It's redundant since unused in the driver.
> - Pass "pvt" hwmon name instead of dev_name(dev) to
> devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info().
> - Add "baikal,pvt-temp-trim-millicelsius" temperature trim DT property
> support.
> - Discard kernel log warnings printed from the ISR when either min or
> max threshold levels are crossed.
> - Discard CONFIG_OF dependency since there is non at compile-time.
> ---
> Documentation/hwmon/bt1-pvt.rst | 116 ++++
> Documentation/hwmon/index.rst | 1 +
> drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 25 +
> drivers/hwmon/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/hwmon/bt1-pvt.c | 1155 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/hwmon/bt1-pvt.h | 244 +++++++
> 6 files changed, 1542 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/bt1-pvt.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/bt1-pvt.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/bt1-pvt.h
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/bt1-pvt.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/bt1-pvt.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f5f47891d87a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/bt1-pvt.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +Kernel driver bt1-pvt
> +=====================
> +
> +Supported chips:
> +
> + * Baikal-T1 PVT sensor (in SoC)
> +
> + Prefix: 'bt1-pvt'
> +
> + Addresses scanned: -
> +
> + Datasheet: Provided by BAIKAL ELECTRONICS upon request and under NDA
> +
> +Authors:
> + Maxim Kaurkin <[email protected]>
> + Serge Semin <[email protected]>
> +
> +Description
> +-----------
> +
> +This driver implements support for the hardware monitoring capabilities of
> the
> +embedded into Baikal-T1 process, voltage and temperature sensors. PVT IP-core
> +consists of one temperature and four voltage sensors, which can be used to
> +monitor the chip internal environment like heating, supply voltage and
> +transistors performance. The driver can optionally provide the hwmon alarms
> +for each sensor the PVT controller supports. The alarms functionality is made
> +compile-time configurable due to the hardware interface implementation
> +peculiarity, which is connected with an ability to convert data from only one
> +sensor at a time. Additional limitation is that the controller performs the
> +thresholds checking synchronously with the data conversion procedure. Due to
> +these in order to have the hwmon alarms automatically detected the driver
> code
> +must switch from one sensor to another, read converted data and manually
> check
> +the threshold status bits. Depending on the measurements timeout settings
> +(update_interval sysfs node value) this design may cause additional burden on
> +the system performance. So in case if alarms are unnecessary in your system
> +design it's recommended to have them disabled to prevent the PVT IRQs being
> +periodically raised to get the data cache/alarms status up to date. By
> default
> +in alarm-less configuration the data conversion is performed by the driver
> +on demand when read operation is requested via corresponding _input-file.
> +
> +Temperature Monitoring
> +----------------------
> +
> +Temperature is measured with 10-bit resolution and reported in millidegree
> +Celsius. The driver performs all the scaling by itself therefore reports true
> +temperatures that don't need any user-space adjustments. While the data
> +translation formulae isn't linear, which gives us non-linear discreteness,
> +it's close to one, but giving a bit better accuracy for higher temperatures.
> +The temperature input is mapped as follows (the last column indicates the
> input
> +ranges)::
> +
> + temp1: CPU embedded diode -48.38C - +147.438C
> +
> +In case if the alarms kernel config is enabled in the driver the temperature
> input
> +has associated min and max limits which trigger an alarm when crossed.
> +
> +Voltage Monitoring
> +------------------
> +
> +The voltage inputs are also sampled with 10-bit resolution and reported in
> +millivolts. But in this case the data translation formulae is linear, which
> +provides a constant measurements discreteness. The data scaling is also
> +performed by the driver, so returning true millivolts. The voltage inputs are
> +mapped as follows (the last column indicates the input ranges)::
> +
> + in0: VDD (processor core) 0.62V - 1.168V
> + in1: Low-Vt (low voltage threshold) 0.62V - 1.168V
> + in2: High-Vt (high voltage threshold) 0.62V - 1.168V
> + in3: Standard-Vt (standard voltage threshold) 0.62V - 1.168V
> +
> +In case if the alarms configis enabled in the driver the voltage inputs
> +have associated min and max limits which trigger an alarm when crossed.
> +
> +Sysfs Attributes
> +----------------
> +
> +Following is a list of all sysfs attributes that the driver provides, their
> +permissions and a short description:
> +
> +=============================== =======
> =======================================
> +Name Perm Description
> +=============================== =======
> =======================================
> +update_interval RW Measurements update interval per
> + sensor.
> +temp1_type RO Sensor type (always 1 as CPU embedded
> + diode).
> +temp1_label RO CPU Core Temperature sensor.
> +temp1_input RO Measured temperature in millidegree
> + Celsius.
> +temp1_min RW Low limit for temp input.
> +temp1_max RW High limit for temp input.
> +temp1_min_alarm RO Temperature input alarm.
> Returns 1 if
> + temperature input went below min limit,
> + 0 otherwise.
> +temp1_max_alarm RO Temperature input alarm.
> Returns 1 if
> + temperature input went above max limit,
> + 0 otherwise.
> +temp1_trim RW Temperature sensor trimming factor in
> + millidegree Celsius. It can be used to
> + manually adjust the temperature
> + measurements within 7.130 degrees
> + Celsius.
vs. standard ABI:
temp[1-*]_offset`
Temperature offset which is added to the temperature reading
by the chip.
Unit: millidegree Celsius
If you really think this is necessary, why not use the standard ABI ?
Guenter
