On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 20:16 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 02:28:22PM +0000, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: > > > Some questions: > > - How exactly are devm allocations supposed to work concerning > > probe > > deferrals? > > Probe deferrals are just normal probe errors, any devm_ allocated > stuff > gets unwound. OK, that is where my understanding was weary. So you are saying anything should really get allocated again upon the second time. > > - Does or should the platform get cleared during a probe deferral > > cycle? > > - If so, why does that not work? > > Is something writing to static data when it should be writing to > dynamically allocated data? That's what this sounds like, we > shouldn't > be modifying any static data and any data dynamically allocated > during > probe ought to be being discarded. OK, I believe I start to see what you are saying. I guess the bug lays in soc-core then not properly discarding the platform and the second time around it is using a stale pointer to that which now of course points to whatever happens to be there! Let me try a few more things and I will cook up a proper patch to fix that... > > - Or is some special implicit probe deferral handling missing in > > soc- > > core? > > Like I say a probe deferral is just a normal error. Yeah, right. Thanks!