hwmon: (coretemp) Do not return -EAGAIN for low temperatures
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:25:17 +0000 (10:25 -0800)
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:36:52 +0000 (21:36 -0800)
Some Intel CPUs do not set the 'valid' bit in IA32_THERM_STATUS if the
temperature is too low to be measured. This condition will not change until
the CPU is hot enough for its temperature to be measured. Returning an error
in such conditions is not very useful. Drop checking the valid bit and just
return the reported temperature instead.

Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c

index b2e59b395ce475a91b6c9bbeecf66a3e4e3caeee..bbb0b0d463f7e0c7cf489a3b30ff2057563d1749 100644 (file)
@@ -177,18 +177,19 @@ static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev,
        /* Check whether the time interval has elapsed */
        if (!tdata->valid || time_after(jiffies, tdata->last_updated + HZ)) {
                rdmsr_on_cpu(tdata->cpu, tdata->status_reg, &eax, &edx);
-               tdata->valid = 0;
-               /* Check whether the data is valid */
-               if (eax & 0x80000000) {
-                       tdata->temp = tdata->tjmax -
-                                       ((eax >> 16) & 0x7f) * 1000;
-                       tdata->valid = 1;
-               }
+               /*
+                * Ignore the valid bit. In all observed cases the register
+                * value is either low or zero if the valid bit is 0.
+                * Return it instead of reporting an error which doesn't
+                * really help at all.
+                */
+               tdata->temp = tdata->tjmax - ((eax >> 16) & 0x7f) * 1000;
+               tdata->valid = 1;
                tdata->last_updated = jiffies;
        }
 
        mutex_unlock(&tdata->update_lock);
-       return tdata->valid ? sprintf(buf, "%d\n", tdata->temp) : -EAGAIN;
+       return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", tdata->temp);
 }
 
 struct tjmax_pci {