Bug in clk_mux_set_parent for CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT muxes ?

Tero Kristo t-kristo at ti.com
Tue Nov 18 04:30:34 PST 2014


On 11/17/2014 08:57 PM, Mike Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Hans de Goede (2014-11-16 04:34:46)
>> Hi,
>>
>> While looking at what I believe is a bug in the sunxi gmac clk code
>> (more on that later), I believe I've also found a bug in
>>
>> clk_mux_set_parent for the CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT case.
>>
>> AFAIK if CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT is set, then each bit turns
>> on / off a single parent, so theoretically multiple
>> parents could be enabled at the same time, but in practice
>> only one bit should ever be 1. So to select parent 0, set
>> the register (*) to 0x01, to select parent 1 set it 0x02,
>> parent 2, 0x04, parent 3, 0x08, etc.
>>
>> Correct ?
>>
>> Assuming I got that right, then this bit of code in
>> clk_mux_set_parent is wrong:
>>
>>                  if (mux->flags & CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT)
>>                          index = (1 << ffs(index));
>>
>> For an input index of 0, ffs returns 0, so we set the register
>> to 0x01, ok.
>>
>> For an input index of 1, ffs returns 1, so we set the register
>> to 0x02, ok.
>>
>> For an input index of 2, ffs returns 2, so we set the register
>> to 0x04, ok.
>>
>> For an input index of 3, ffs returns 1, so we set the register
>> to 0x02, not good!
>>
>> I believe this code should simply be:
>>
>>                  if (mux->flags & CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT)
>>                          index = 1 << index;
>>
>> I guess we've been getting away by this because the input index
>> so far has never gotten above 2.
>
> Good catch. I've Cc'd Tero Kristo from TI as the TI SoCs are the only
> other user of CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT.
>
>>
>> If I'm right about this, I can whip up a patch to fix this. Note
>> I don't really have hardware to properly exercise this code-path
>> AFAIK.
>
> Please do. I think your change is reasonable and Tero can scream if
> something breaks for him.

TI SoC:s use a copy pasted version of the mux clock (with some 
additional tweaks), but we never set the CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT flag, so we 
have been safe from this bug. Feel free to send a patch against the TI 
clock driver also if you want, I can ack that one. If not, I can craft a 
quick patch for this myself.

-Tero



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