Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] arm64: dts: mt7622: Drop the general purpose timer node

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On Fri, 2018-11-23 at 18:07 +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> 
> On 12/11/2018 02:28, Ryder Lee wrote:
> > The crash http://termbin.com/zitb is caused by the timer register
> > into system in early pahse during kernel boot, but the clock
> > sources didn't get ready at that time.
> > 
> > A better way is to switch to use CLK_OF_DECLARE() in driver for things
> > that need them early, but this node is actually useless in MT7622.
> > So we drop it.
> 
> I suppose the root cause is, that the driver doesn't check the error
> timer_of_init returned.
> 
> Would you mind to test the following patch to see if this fixes the problem?
> 
> --->8
> From be91e56ed527261137335af340845eb3dd3dd33a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 17:04:08 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: error out on probe defer
> 
> If the clocks are not yet present, because they are loaded after
> the timer is initialized, we are unable to boot.
> Check if the return value of timer_of_init and return on EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> Error seen is:
> [    0.008337] Failed to get clock for /timer@10004000
> [    0.013435] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at ../drivers/clk/clk.c:3615
> __clk_put+0xf0/0x120
> [    0.021453] Modules linked in:
> [    0.024614] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
> 4.20.0-rc1-00063-g2859d9abd7e8 #2
> [    0.032902] Hardware name: MediaTek MT7622 RFB1 board (DT)
> [    0.038580] pstate: 20000085 (nzCv daIf -PAN -UAO)
> [    0.043538] pc : __clk_put+0xf0/0x120
> [    0.047328] lr : clk_put+0xc/0x18
> [    0.050753] sp : ffff000009163ed0
> [    0.054178] x29: ffff000009163ed0 x28: 0000000041010018
> [    0.059676] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
> [    0.065174] x25: ffff0000090cb008 x24: ffff80001dfd7800
> [    0.070672] x23: ffff000008f934b8 x22: ffff80001dfdeae0
> [    0.076169] x21: ffff80001dfdeae0 x20: fffffffffffffdfb
> [    0.081668] x19: ffff00000929ac40 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> [    0.087166] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> [    0.092664] x15: ffff0000091696c8 x14: ffff0000892cd70f
> [    0.098162] x13: ffff0000092cd71d x12: ffff000009181348
> [    0.103661] x11: ffff000009181000 x10: 0000000005f5e0ff
> [    0.109159] x9 : 0000000000000040 x8 : ffff000009181400
> [    0.114657] x7 : ffff80001c800270 x6 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.120155] x5 : ffff80001c800248 x4 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.125653] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000
> [    0.131151] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : fffffffffffffdfb
> [    0.136649] Call trace:
> [    0.139175]  __clk_put+0xf0/0x120
> [    0.142605]  timer_of_cleanup+0x60/0x7c
> [    0.146572]  mtk_gpt_init+0x18c/0x1a0
> [    0.150359]  timer_probe+0x74/0x10c
> [    0.153969]  time_init+0x14/0x44
> [    0.157307]  start_kernel+0x29c/0x414
> [    0.161098] ---[ end trace c3137b005300b618 ]---
> 
> Fixes: a0858f937960 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Convert the driver to
> timer-of")
> Fixes: e3af677607d9 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Add support for system
> timer")
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c
> b/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c
> index eb10321f8517..d40c77a65b08 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c
> @@ -276,8 +276,12 @@ static int __init mtk_syst_init(struct device_node *node)
>  	to.of_irq.handler = mtk_syst_handler;
> 
>  	ret = timer_of_init(node, &to);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			return ret;
> +
>  		goto err;
> +	}
> 
>  	clockevents_config_and_register(&to.clkevt, timer_of_rate(&to),
>  					TIMER_SYNC_TICKS, 0xffffffff);
> @@ -301,8 +305,12 @@ static int __init mtk_gpt_init(struct device_node *node)
>  	to.of_irq.handler = mtk_gpt_interrupt;
> 
>  	ret = timer_of_init(node, &to);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			return ret;
> +
>  		goto err;
> +	}
> 
>  	/* Configure clock source */
>  	mtk_gpt_setup(&to, TIMER_CLK_SRC, GPT_CTRL_OP_FREERUN);

I tried this patch, but it didn't work. I think *_OF_DECLARE() is not
compatible with EPROBE_DEFER.

I also found the similar discussion about this issue:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10580345/


Ryder






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