Hello Marek, On 10/27/2016 07:34 AM, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > ASoC Samsung sub-drivers tried to get access to their DMA engine > controllers as a last step in driver probe. If a DMA engine was not > available yet, samsung_asoc_dma_platform_register() function ended in > -EPROBE_DEFER, but the driver already registered its component to ASoC > core. This patch moves samsung_asoc_dma_platform_register() call before > registering any components, to the common place, where driver was gathering > all needed resources. > > In case of Samsung Exynos i2s driver the issue was even worse. The driver > managed already to register its secondary DAI platform device before > even getting the DMA engine access. That together with -EPROBE_DEFER error > code from samsung_i2s_probe() immediately triggered another round of > deferred probe retry and in turn endless loop of driver probing. > > This patch fixes broken boot on Odroid XU3 and other Exynos5422-based > boards. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Thanks for fixing this, the patch looks good to me: Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I've tested this patch and fixes the probe deferral storm that I was seeing on an Exynos5800 Peach Pi Chromebook: Tested-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I think this patch should be v4.9-rc material, since the issue prevents some machines to boot correctly on v4.9-rc: http://arm-soc.lixom.net/bootlogs/mainline/v4.8-14644-ge9f8f48/pi-arm-exynos_defconfig.html Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html