Bug in clk_mux_set_parent for CLK_MUX_INDEX_BIT muxes ?

Tero Kristo t-kristo at ti.com
Wed Nov 19 06:24:09 PST 2014


On 11/19/2014 03:49 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/18/2014 01:30 PM, Tero Kristo wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I've just send a fix for the generic version of this code, I'm sorry
> but I do not have the time to also fix the TI code.

Yep thats fine, I was mainly thinking if you want easy credit for that, 
I'll post a patch against that separately.

Thanks, Tero.




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