Hi Rob, Uwe, On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:58 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 15:28:46 +0200, =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= wrote: > > Referencing device tree nodes from a property allows to pass arguments. > > This is for example used for referencing gpios. This looks as follows: > > > > gpio_ctrl: gpio-controller { > > #gpio-cells = <2> > > ... > > } > > > > someothernode { > > gpios = <&gpio_ctrl 5 0 &gpio_ctrl 3 0>; > > ... > > } > > > > To know the number of arguments this must be either fixed, or the > > referenced node is checked for a $cells_name (here: "#gpio-cells") > > property and with this information the start of the second reference can > > be determined. > > > > Currently regulators are referenced with no additional arguments. To > > allow some optional arguments without having to change all referenced > > nodes this change introduces a way to specify a default cell_count. So > > when a phandle is parsed we check for the $cells_name property and use > > it as before if present. If it is not present we fall back to > > cells_count if non-negative and only fail if cells_count is smaller than > > zero. > > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This is now commit e42ee61017f58cd9 ("of: Let of_for_each_phandle fallback to non-negative cell_count") in robh/for-next, which causes a lock-up when booting a shmobile_defconfig kernel on r8a7791/koelsch: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 0-....: (2099 ticks this GP) idle=6fe/1/0x40000002 softirq=29/29 fqs=1050 (t=2100 jiffies g=-1131 q=0) NMI backtrace for cpu 0 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.3.0-rc2-shmobile-00050-ge42ee61017f58cd9 #376 Hardware name: Generic R-Car Gen2 (Flattened Device Tree) [<c010f8ac>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010b620>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [<c010b620>] (show_stack) from [<c073d038>] (dump_stack+0x7c/0x9c) [<c073d038>] (dump_stack) from [<c0742e80>] (nmi_cpu_backtrace+0xa0/0xb8) [<c0742e80>] (nmi_cpu_backtrace) from [<c0742f1c>] (nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x84/0x114) [<c0742f1c>] (nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace) from [<c017d684>] (rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xac/0xc8) [<c017d684>] (rcu_dump_cpu_stacks) from [<c017a598>] (rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x2ac/0x6b4) [<c017a598>] (rcu_sched_clock_irq) from [<c0183980>] (update_process_times+0x30/0x5c) [<c0183980>] (update_process_times) from [<c01941a8>] (tick_nohz_handler+0xcc/0x120) [<c01941a8>] (tick_nohz_handler) from [<c05b1d40>] (arch_timer_handler_virt+0x28/0x30) [<c05b1d40>] (arch_timer_handler_virt) from [<c016c9e0>] (handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xe8/0x21c) [<c016c9e0>] (handle_percpu_devid_irq) from [<c0167a8c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x18/0x28) [<c0167a8c>] (generic_handle_irq) from [<c0167b3c>] (__handle_domain_irq+0xa0/0xb4) [<c0167b3c>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<c03673ec>] (gic_handle_irq+0x58/0x90) [<c03673ec>] (gic_handle_irq) from [<c0101a8c>] (__irq_svc+0x6c/0x90) Exception stack(0xeb08dd30 to 0xeb08dd78) dd20: c0cc7514 20000013 00000005 00003b27 dd40: eb7c4020 c0cc750c 00000051 00000051 20000013 c0c66b08 eb1cdc00 00000018 dd60: 00000000 eb08dd80 c05c1a38 c0756c00 20000013 ffffffff [<c0101a8c>] (__irq_svc) from [<c0756c00>] (_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1c/0x20) [<c0756c00>] (_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore) from [<c05c1a38>] (of_find_node_by_phandle+0xcc/0xf0) [<c05c1a38>] (of_find_node_by_phandle) from [<c05c1bb8>] (of_phandle_iterator_next+0x68/0x178) [<c05c1bb8>] (of_phandle_iterator_next) from [<c05c22bc>] (of_count_phandle_with_args+0x5c/0x7c) [<c05c22bc>] (of_count_phandle_with_args) from [<c053fc38>] (i2c_demux_pinctrl_probe+0x24/0x1fc) [<c053fc38>] (i2c_demux_pinctrl_probe) from [<c04463c4>] (platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x94) [<c04463c4>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c0444a20>] (really_probe+0x1f0/0x2b8) [<c0444a20>] (really_probe) from [<c0444e68>] (driver_probe_device+0x140/0x158) [<c0444e68>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0444ff0>] (device_driver_attach+0x44/0x5c) [<c0444ff0>] (device_driver_attach) from [<c04450b4>] (__driver_attach+0xac/0xb4) [<c04450b4>] (__driver_attach) from [<c0443178>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x64/0xa0) [<c0443178>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c04438a8>] (bus_add_driver+0x148/0x1a8) [<c04438a8>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c0445ad0>] (driver_register+0xac/0xf0) [<c0445ad0>] (driver_register) from [<c0b010b0>] (do_one_initcall+0xa8/0x1d4) [<c0b010b0>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0b01448>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x26c/0x2c8) [<c0b01448>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0751c70>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x10c) [<c0751c70>] (kernel_init) from [<c01010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c) Exception stack(0xeb08dfb0 to 0xeb08dff8) dfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 dfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 dfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 Presumably it loops forever, due to a conversion of -1 to unsigned somewhere? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds