Hi Anand, On 21/10/2019 16:11, Anand Moon wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 23:40, Martin Blumenstingl > <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi Anand, >> >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:04 PM Anand Moon <linux.amoon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> [...] >>>> Next step it to try narrow down the clock causing the issue. >>>> Remove clk_ignore_unused from the command line and add CLK_INGORE_UNUSED >>>> to the flag of some clocks your clock controller (g12a I think) until >>>> >>>> The peripheral clock gates already have this flag (something we should >>>> fix someday) so don't bother looking there. >>>> >>>> Most likely the source of the pwm is getting disabled between the >>>> late_init call and the probe of the PWM module. Since the pwm is already >>>> active (w/o a driver), gating the clock source shuts dowm the power to >>>> the cores. >>>> >>>> Looking a the possible inputs in pwm driver, I'd bet on fdiv4. >>>> >>> >>> I had give this above steps a try but with little success. >>> I am still looking into this much close. >> it's not clear to me if you have only tested with the PWM and/or >> FCLK_DIV4 clocks. can you please describe what you have tested so far? >> > Sorry for delayed response. > > I had just looked into clk related to SD_EMMC_A/B/C, > with adding CLK_IGNORE/CRITICAL. > Also looked into clk_summary for eMMC and microSD card, > to identify the root cause, but I failed to move ahead. > >> for reference - my way of debugging this in the past was: >> 1. add some printks to clk_disable_unused_subtree (right after the >> clk_core_is_enabled check) to see which clocks are being disabled >> 2. add CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED or CLK_IS_CRITICAL to the clocks which are >> being disabled based on the information from step #1 >> 3. (at some point I had a working kernel with lots of clocks with >> CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED/CLK_IS_CRITICAL) >> 4. start dropping the CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED/CLK_IS_CRITICAL flags again >> until you have traced it down to the clocks that are the actual issue >> (so far I always had only one clock which caused issues, but it may be >> multiple) >> 5. investigate (and/or ask on the mailing list, Amlogic developers are >> reading the mails here as well) for the few clocks from step #4 >> > > Thanks for you valuable suggestion. I have your patch to debug this > [0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9725921/mbox/ > > So from the fist step I could identify that all the clk were getting closed > after some core cpu clk was failing. Here is the log. > > step1: [1] https://pastebin.com/p13F9HGG > > so I marked these clk as CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED and finally > I made it to boot using microSD card. > > After this just I converted these CLK to CLK_IS_CRITICAL > as mostly these are used the CPU clk for now. > Here is boot log successful for as of now. > > Finally: [2] https://pastebin.com/qB6pMyGQ > > I know clk maintainer are against marking flags as *CLK_IS_CRITICAL* > But this is just the step to move ahead. Thanks for the extensive debug. > > Attach is my local clk and dts patch.Just for testing. > [3] clk_critical.patch Could you test with only the following changes: diff --git a/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c b/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c index ea4c791f106d..f49f5463363e 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c +++ b/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static struct clk_regmap g12a_fclk_div2 = { &g12a_fclk_div2_div.hw }, .num_parents = 1, + .flags = CLK_IS_CRITICAL, }, }; @@ -672,7 +673,7 @@ static struct clk_regmap g12b_cpub_clk = { &g12a_sys_pll.hw }, .num_parents = 2, - .flags = CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT, + .flags = CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT | CLK_IS_CRITICAL, }, }; > > Plz share your thought on this. > >>> Well I am not the expert in clk or bus configuration. >>> but after looking into the datasheet of for clk configuration >>> I found some bus are not configured correctly. >> did you find any reason which indicates that the problem is related to a bus? >> the issues I had were due to clocks not being assigned to their >> consumers in .dts - that can be anything (from a bus to something >> different). >> > > Yes I feel each core bus should be independent > as each clk PLL controls these bus. > > for example datasheet: *6-5 Clock Connections* > > What I feel currently missing with bus are > clock gating (enable/disable of features). > clock-controller > reset-controller > > Here is the current overview of bus topology > using latest u-boot (dm tree). > > [4] https://pastebin.com/MZ25bgiP > > Bet Regards > -Anand >