Re: [PATCH v8 05/26] clocksource: Add driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx OST

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Quoting Paul Cercueil (2019-01-24 12:46:28)
> 
> 
> Le jeu. 24 janv. 2019 à 16:28, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> a 
> écrit :
> > Quoting Guenter Roeck (2019-01-23 10:01:55)
> >>  On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 02:25:53PM -0300, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> >>  > Hi,
> >>  >
> >>  > Le mer. 23 janv. 2019 Ã  11:31, Guenter Roeck 
> >> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> >>  > >On 1/23/19 4:58 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> >>  > >>On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:09 PM Paul Cercueil 
> >> <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>  > >>wrote:
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>From: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>OST is the OS Timer, a 64-bit timer/counter with buffered 
> >> reading.
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>SoCs before the JZ4770 had (if any) a 32-bit OST; the JZ4770 
> >> and
> >>  > >>>JZ4780 have a 64-bit OST.
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>This driver will register both a clocksource and a sched_clock 
> >> to the
> >>  > >>>system.
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>  > >>>Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>  > >>>---
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>Notes:
> >>  > >>>      v5: New patch
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>      v6: - Get rid of SoC IDs; pass pointer to 
> >> ingenic_ost_soc_info
> >>  > >>>as
> >>  > >>>            devicetree match data instead.
> >>  > >>>          - Use device_get_match_data() instead of the of_* 
> >> variant
> >>  > >>>          - Handle error of dev_get_regmap() properly
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>      v7: Fix section mismatch by using
> >>  > >>>builtin_platform_driver_probe()
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >>>      v8: builtin_platform_driver_probe() does not work 
> >> anymore in
> >>  > >>>          4.20-rc6? The probe function won't be called. Work 
> >> around
> >>  > >>>this
> >>  > >>>          for now by using late_initcall.
> >>  > >>>
> >>  > >
> >>  > >Did anyone notice this ? Either something is wrong with the 
> >> driver, or
> >>  > >with the kernel core. Hacking around it seems like the worst 
> >> possible
> >>  > >"solution".
> >>  >
> >>  > I can confirm it still happens on 5.0-rc3.
> >>  >
> >>  > Just to explain what I'm doing:
> >>  >
> >>  > My ingenic-timer driver probes with builtin_platform_driver_probe 
> >> (this
> >>  > works),
> >>  > and then calls of_platform_populate to probe its children. This 
> >> driver,
> >>  > ingenic-ost, is one of them, and will fail to probe with
> >>  > builtin_platform_driver_probe.
> >>  >
> >> 
> >>  The big question is _why_ it fails to probe.
> >> 
> > 
> > Are you sharing the device tree node between a 'normal' platform 
> > device
> > driver and something more low level DT that marks the device's backing
> > DT node as OF_POPULATED early on? That's my only guess why it's not
> > working.
> 
> I do, but I clear the OF_POPULATED flag so that it is then probed as a
> normal platform device, and it's not on this driver's node but its 
> parent.
> 

Where do you clear the OF_POPULATED flag?





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