Commit 5c113b5e authored by John Brooks's avatar John Brooks Committed by Jonathan Cameron

iio: dht11: Use usleep_range instead of msleep for start signal

The DHT22 (AM2302) datasheet specifies that the LOW start pulse should not
exceed 20ms. However, observations with an oscilloscope of an RPi Model 2B
(rev 1.1) communicating with a DHT22 sensor showed that the driver was
consistently sending start pulses longer than 20ms:

Kernel 4.7.10-v7+ (n=132):
    Minimum pulse length: 20.20ms
    Maximum:              29.84ms
    Mean:                 24.96ms
    StDev:                2.82ms
    Sensor response rate: 100%
    Read success rate:    76%

On kernel 4.8, the start pulse was so long that the sensor would not even
respond 97% of the time:

Kernel 4.8.16-v7+ (n=100):
    Minimum pulse length: 30.4ms
    Maximum:              74.4ms
    Mean:                 39.3ms
    StDev:                10.2ms
    Sensor response rate: 3%
    Read success rate:    3%

The driver would return ETIMEDOUT and write log messages like this:

[   51.430987] dht11 dht11@0: Only 1 signal edges detected
[   66.311019] dht11 dht11@0: Only 0 signal edges detected

Replacing msleep(18) with usleep_range(18000, 20000) made the pulse length
sane again and restored responsiveness:

Kernel 4.8.16-v7+ with usleep_range (n=123):
    Minimum pulse length: 18.16ms
    Maximum:              20.20ms
    Mean:                 19.85ms
    StDev:                0.51ms
    Sensor response rate: 100%
    Read success rate:    84%

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Brooks <john@fastquake.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHarald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
parent d1aaf20e
......@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@
* a) select an implementation using busy loop polling on those systems
* b) use the checksum to do some probabilistic decoding
*/
#define DHT11_START_TRANSMISSION 18 /* ms */
#define DHT11_START_TRANSMISSION_MIN 18000 /* us */
#define DHT11_START_TRANSMISSION_MAX 20000 /* us */
#define DHT11_MIN_TIMERES 34000 /* ns */
#define DHT11_THRESHOLD 49000 /* ns */
#define DHT11_AMBIG_LOW 23000 /* ns */
......@@ -228,7 +229,8 @@ static int dht11_read_raw(struct iio_dev *iio_dev,
ret = gpio_direction_output(dht11->gpio, 0);
if (ret)
goto err;
msleep(DHT11_START_TRANSMISSION);
usleep_range(DHT11_START_TRANSMISSION_MIN,
DHT11_START_TRANSMISSION_MAX);
ret = gpio_direction_input(dht11->gpio);
if (ret)
goto err;
......
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