On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 08:38:12 AM Nishanth Menon wrote: > With commit 1e4b545, regulator_get will now return -EPROBE_DEFER > when the cpu0-supply node is present, but the regulator is not yet > registered. > > It is possible for this to occur when the regulator registration > by itself might be defered due to some dependent interface not yet > instantiated. For example: an regulator which uses I2C and GPIO might > need both systems available before proceeding, in this case, the > regulator might defer it's registration. > > However, the cpufreq-cpu0 driver assumes that any un-successful return > result is equivalent of failure. > > When the regulator_get returns failure other than -EPROBE_DEFER, it > makes sense to assume that supply node is not present and proceed with > the assumption that only clock control is necessary in the platform. > > With this change, we can now handle the following conditions: > a) cpu0-supply binding is not present, regulator_get will return > appropriate error result, resulting in cpufreq-cpu0 driver controlling > just the clock. > b) cpu0-supply binding is present, regulator_get returns > -EPROBE_DEFER, we retry resulting in cpufreq-cpu0 driver registering > later once the regulator is available. > c) cpu0-supply binding is present, regulator_get returns > -EPROBE_DEFER, however, regulator never registers, we retry until > cpufreq-cpu0 driver fails to register pointing at device tree > information bug. However, in this case, the fact that cpufreq-cpu0 > operates with clock only when the DT binding clearly indicates need of > a supply is a bug of it's own. > d) cpu0-supply gets an regulator at probe - cpufreq-cpu0 driver > controls both the clock and regulator > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> I've queued this up for the v3.10-rc2 push. Thanks, Rafael > --- > V3: Changes since V1 (for 3.10-rc2?) > review comment updates (and dropped Viresh's original ack ;) ). > Now that regulator patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2451211/ > has been merged to master > based on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git pm+acpi-3.10-rc1 > > V2: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2505311/ > V1: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2396541/ > > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c > index 3ab8294..ecd8af9 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c > @@ -195,6 +195,22 @@ static int cpu0_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > cpu_dev = &pdev->dev; > cpu_dev->of_node = np; > > + cpu_reg = devm_regulator_get(cpu_dev, "cpu0"); > + if (IS_ERR(cpu_reg)) { > + /* > + * If cpu0 regulator supply node is present, but regulator is > + * not yet registered, we should try defering probe. > + */ > + if (PTR_ERR(cpu_reg) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { > + dev_err(cpu_dev, "cpu0 regulator not ready, retry\n"); > + ret = -EPROBE_DEFER; > + goto out_put_node; > + } > + pr_warn("failed to get cpu0 regulator: %ld\n", > + PTR_ERR(cpu_reg)); > + cpu_reg = NULL; > + } > + > cpu_clk = devm_clk_get(cpu_dev, NULL); > if (IS_ERR(cpu_clk)) { > ret = PTR_ERR(cpu_clk); > @@ -202,12 +218,6 @@ static int cpu0_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > goto out_put_node; > } > > - cpu_reg = devm_regulator_get(cpu_dev, "cpu0"); > - if (IS_ERR(cpu_reg)) { > - pr_warn("failed to get cpu0 regulator\n"); > - cpu_reg = NULL; > - } > - > ret = of_init_opp_table(cpu_dev); > if (ret) { > pr_err("failed to init OPP table: %d\n", ret); > -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html