[PATCH v3 0/2] clk: improve handling of orphan clocks

[Kevin Hilman]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 07:33:54AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:35:50PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> >> On 05/08/15 03:02, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:03:57PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> >> >> On 05/07/15 08:17, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> >> >>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> >> >>>> On 05/01/15 15:07, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> >> >>>>> Am Freitag, 1. Mai 2015, 13:52:47 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> Instead I guess we could hook it less deep into clk_get_sys, like in the
>> >> >>>>>>> following patch?
>> >> >>>>>> It looks like it will work at least, but still I'd prefer to keep the
>> >> >>>>>> orphan check contained to clk.c. How about this compile tested only patch?
>> >> >>>>> I gave this a spin on my rk3288-firefly board. It still boots, the clock tree
>> >> >>>>> looks the same and it also still defers nicely in the scenario I needed it
>> >> >>>>> for. The implementation also looks nice - and of course much more compact than
>> >> >>>>> my check in two places :-) . I don't know if you want to put this as follow-up
>> >> >>>>> on top or fold it into the original orphan-check, so in any case
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>> >> >>>>> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>> >> >>>> Thanks. I'm leaning towards tossing your patch 2/2 and replacing it with
>> >> >>>> my patch and a note that it's based on an earlier patch from you.
>> >> >>> It appears this has landed in linux-next in the form of 882667c1fcf1
>> >> >>> clk: prevent orphan clocks from being used.  A bunch of boot failures
>> >> >>> for sunxi in today's linux-next[1] were bisected down to that patch.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I confirmed that reverting that commit on top of next/master gets
>> >> >>> sunxi booting again.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >> Thanks for the report. I've removed the two clk orphan patches from
>> >> >> clk-next. Would it be possible to try with next-20150507 and
>> >> >> clk_ignore_unused on the command line?
>> >> > This makes it work, but it's not really an option.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Hmm.. I thought it didn't fix it for Kevin. Confused.
>> >
>> > I'm too, but it does fix things here.
>>
>> To be more precise on what I tested.  I used next-20150507 and tested on
>> 4 different sunxi platforms.  First test was "normal" commandline,
>> second was with clk_ignore_unused appended:
>>
>>   - cubie: fail, fail
>>   - cubie2: fail, fail
>>   - bananpi: fail, pass
>>   - cubietruck: fail, pass
>>
>> So it seems to have some effect, but by itself, doesn't fix the issue.
>
> It's very odd, I actually tried with a cubie2 here...
>
> I'm booting on an initramfs and not MMC though, but I can't see how
> that can be related to our issue...

I'm booting an initramfs too.

Kevin