linux-hardened/Documentation/hwmon/jc42
Clemens Ladisch 2c6315da6a hwmon: (jc42) do not allow writing to locked registers
On systems where the temperature sensor is actually used, the BIOS is
likely to have locked the alarm registers.  In that case, all writes
through the corresponding sysfs files would be silently ignored.

To prevent this, detect the locks and make the affected sysfs files
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2011-02-16 08:18:33 -08:00

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Kernel driver jc42
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Supported chips:
* Analog Devices ADT7408
Prefix: 'adt7408'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/ADT7408.pdf
* IDT TSE2002B3, TS3000B3
Prefix: 'tse2002b3', 'ts3000b3'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://www.idt.com/products/getdoc.cfm?docid=18715691
http://www.idt.com/products/getdoc.cfm?docid=18715692
* Maxim MAX6604
Prefix: 'max6604'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX6604.pdf
* Microchip MCP9805, MCP98242, MCP98243, MCP9843
Prefixes: 'mcp9805', 'mcp98242', 'mcp98243', 'mcp9843'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/21977b.pdf
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/21996a.pdf
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/22153c.pdf
* NXP Semiconductors SE97, SE97B
Prefix: 'se97'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/SE97.pdf
http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/SE97B.pdf
* NXP Semiconductors SE98
Prefix: 'se98'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/SE98.pdf
* ON Semiconductor CAT34TS02, CAT6095
Prefix: 'cat34ts02', 'cat6095'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheet:
http://www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/CAT34TS02-D.PDF
http://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/CAT6095-D.PDF
* ST Microelectronics STTS424, STTS424E02
Prefix: 'stts424'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheets:
http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds/13447/stts424.pdf
http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds/13448/stts424e02.pdf
* JEDEC JC 42.4 compliant temperature sensor chips
Prefix: 'jc42'
Addresses scanned: I2C 0x18 - 0x1f
Datasheet:
http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/4_01_04R19.pdf
Author:
Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Description
-----------
This driver implements support for JEDEC JC 42.4 compliant temperature sensors,
which are used on many DDR3 memory modules for mobile devices and servers. Some
systems use the sensor to prevent memory overheating by automatically throttling
the memory controller.
The driver auto-detects the chips listed above, but can be manually instantiated
to support other JC 42.4 compliant chips.
Example: the following will load the driver for a generic JC 42.4 compliant
temperature sensor at address 0x18 on I2C bus #1:
# modprobe jc42
# echo jc42 0x18 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device
A JC 42.4 compliant chip supports a single temperature sensor. Minimum, maximum,
and critical temperature can be configured. There are alarms for high, low,
and critical thresholds.
There is also an hysteresis to control the thresholds for resetting alarms.
Per JC 42.4 specification, the hysteresis threshold can be configured to 0, 1.5,
3.0, and 6.0 degrees C. Configured hysteresis values will be rounded to those
limits. The chip supports only a single register to configure the hysteresis,
which applies to all limits. This register can be written by writing into
temp1_crit_hyst. Other hysteresis attributes are read-only.
If the BIOS has configured the sensor for automatic temperature management, it
is likely that it has locked the registers, i.e., that the temperature limits
cannot be changed.
Sysfs entries
-------------
temp1_input Temperature (RO)
temp1_min Minimum temperature (RO or RW)
temp1_max Maximum temperature (RO or RW)
temp1_crit Critical high temperature (RO or RW)
temp1_crit_hyst Critical hysteresis temperature (RO or RW)
temp1_max_hyst Maximum hysteresis temperature (RO)
temp1_min_alarm Temperature low alarm
temp1_max_alarm Temperature high alarm
temp1_crit_alarm Temperature critical alarm