[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: Fix of_clk_get() call in a non sleeping context

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Thomas,
 
 On mar., mars 08 2016, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Greg,
>
> On Tue,  8 Mar 2016 15:18:53 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> of_clk_get() is called armada_xp_smp_prepare_cpus() function.
>
> Hum? Your code is changing things to have of_clk_get() called by
> armada_xp_smp_prepare_cpus(). I think you wanted to say:
>
> "of_clk_get() is currently called in get_cpu_clk(), which it turns is
> called by set_secondary_cpu_clock() during armada_xp_boot_secondary().
> However, this callback is called in a context...

right!

>
>> This
>> callback can be called in a context where it should not sleep as pointed
>> when enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP. However of_clk_get() can sleep.
>> 
>> This patch solved this issue by moving the of_clk_get() during
>> initialization by gathering the list of reference on the clock, and only
>> access to this list later.
>
> I think this doesn't solve the problem completely, because
> set_secondary_cpu_clock() is still calling clk_prepare_enable(), and
> the prepare step of a clock is theoretically allowed to sleep. In
> practice, it doesn't sleep in our specific case, but still
> clk_prepare_enable() is not good in an atomic context.

OK, so let's only use clk_enable() which can't sleep. On mvebu SoCs
there is no prepare/unprepare operation for the clock, so trying to use
clk_prepare_enable() is useless. Especially for this code which is not
for a random IP but especially for the Armada XP SoC.

If in the future the same logic can be used for a new mvebu SoC which
need the prepare/unprepare feature, then we will see how to deal with
it, but I really doubt that it will happen.


>
> So I believe the whole approach of setting the CPU clock frequency in
> armada_xp_boot_secondary() is wrong, and we should basically revert my
> commit b9b1de0f4da37dac76d812a27d6065eba02dc05b, and instead find a
> different solution for the resume from suspend case.
>
>> 
>> Fixes: f6cec7cd0777 ("ARM: mvebu: remove device tree parsing for cpu
>> nodes")
>
> I don't think it fixes this commit. The one it really fixes is most
> probably b9b1de0f4da37dac76d812a27d6065eba02dc05b.

Yes to be honest I pick the closer commit on which this fix could apply
without any conflict.

Thanks for your feedback, I will send a v2 taking into account your
remarks.

Ggregory


>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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