[PATCH] ARM: OMAP: clocks: Delay clk inits atleast until slab is initialized

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Mar 19 14:04:52 EDT 2013


* Rajendra Nayak <rnayak at ti.com> [130319 03:43]:
> clk inits on OMAP happen quite early, even before slab is available.
> The dependency comes from the fact that the timer init code starts to
> use clocks and hwmod and we need clocks to be initialized by then.
> 
> There are various problems doing clk inits this early, one is,
> not being able to do dynamic clk registrations and hence the
> dependency on clk-private.h. The other is, inability to debug
> early kernel crashes without enabling DEBUG_LL and earlyprintk.
> 
> Doing early clk init also exposed another instance of a kernel
> panic due to a BUG() when CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enabled.
> More details on the issue reported can be found here,
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg85932.html

I suggest you paste the BUG info here to the commit too so it's clear
that this needs to go in as a fix. Also can you please describe how
this regression got introduced?

Other than that looks good to me as a fix for the -rc cycle. We could
add a struct for similar function pointers and SoC specific addresses,
but probably for the -rc cycle we should just keep this patch to the
minimum.

Regards,

Tony



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