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mt76: mt7915e: Fix degraded performance after temporary overheat
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mt7915e registers a cooling_device with wrong semantics:

1. cooling_device expect that higher states values should cool more, but
   mt7915e did the opposite...  with the exception of state == 0, which
   should "disable thermal management", but does not seem to have any
   effect since the previous state is kept.

The result is that when the thermal zone heats up a bit and bumps the
cooling_device state from 0 to 1 to cool a bit, the performance is
destroyed, and when going back from 1 to 0, the performance stays bad.

2. Reading the cooling_device state does not always return the last
   written state, but can return the actual hardware throttle state,
   which is different.

This is a problem because the mt7915 firmware actually implement the
equivalent of a thermal zone with trip points.  Setting the cooling
device state actually changes the throttles at each trip point, so the
following could occur if the first issue is fixed:

- thermal subsystem set state to 100% power (state=0)
- mt7915e driver set trip throttles to [100%, 50%, 25%, 12%]
- hardware heats up and decides to switch to 50% power
- thermal subsystem see that power is 50% (state=50), decide to increase
  it to 60% (state=40) because the rest of the system is cool.
- mt7915e driver set trip throttle to [60%, 30%, 15%, 7%]
- hardware thus switches to 30% power
[race to the bottom continues...]

This patch corrects the semantics of the cooling_device to the one that
the thermal subsystem expect it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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Nicolas Cavallari authored and Felix Fietkau committed Feb 24, 2022
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17 changes: 11 additions & 6 deletions drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/init.c
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Expand Up @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static int
mt7915_thermal_get_max_throttle_state(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
unsigned long *state)
{
*state = MT7915_THERMAL_THROTTLE_MAX;
*state = MT7915_CDEV_THROTTLE_MAX;

return 0;
}
Expand All @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ mt7915_thermal_get_cur_throttle_state(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
{
struct mt7915_phy *phy = cdev->devdata;

*state = phy->throttle_state;
*state = phy->cdev_state;

return 0;
}
Expand All @@ -118,22 +118,27 @@ mt7915_thermal_set_cur_throttle_state(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
unsigned long state)
{
struct mt7915_phy *phy = cdev->devdata;
u8 throttling = MT7915_THERMAL_THROTTLE_MAX - state;
int ret;

if (state > MT7915_THERMAL_THROTTLE_MAX)
if (state > MT7915_CDEV_THROTTLE_MAX)
return -EINVAL;

if (phy->throttle_temp[0] > phy->throttle_temp[1])
return 0;

if (state == phy->throttle_state)
if (state == phy->cdev_state)
return 0;

ret = mt7915_mcu_set_thermal_throttling(phy, state);
/*
* cooling_device convention: 0 = no cooling, more = more cooling
* mcu convention: 1 = max cooling, more = less cooling
*/
ret = mt7915_mcu_set_thermal_throttling(phy, throttling);
if (ret)
return ret;

phy->throttle_state = state;
phy->cdev_state = state;

return 0;
}
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mt7915.h
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Expand Up @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
#define MT7915_CFEND_RATE_11B 0x03 /* 11B LP, 11M */

#define MT7915_THERMAL_THROTTLE_MAX 100
#define MT7915_CDEV_THROTTLE_MAX 99

#define MT7915_SKU_RATE_NUM 161

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ struct mt7915_phy {
struct ieee80211_vif *monitor_vif;

struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev;
u8 cdev_state;
u8 throttle_state;
u32 throttle_temp[2]; /* 0: critical high, 1: maximum */

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