[PATCH 4/4] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Switch AXP20x driver from module to built-in

[Kevin Hilman]

Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 09:07:12AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:14:00AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> writes:
>> > 
>> > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:45:17PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:44 AM, Maxime Ripard
>> > >> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > >> > Hi Kevin,
>> > >> >
>> > >> > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > >> >> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
>> > >> >> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Maxime Ripard
>> > >> >> > <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> > >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:09:31PM +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
>> > >> >> >>> The AXP20X regulator support is currently built as a module, which means
>> > >> >> >>> it's not available until the root fs has been mounted, but the boot loader
>> > >> >> >>> might not have enabled the required regulators, so build their drivers
>> > >> >> >>> into the kernel.
>> > >> >> >>>
>> > >> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask at formelder.dk>
>> > >> >> >>
>> > >> >> >> Queued for 4.12.
>> > >> >> >
>> > >> >> > Hello, kernelci.org is reporting boot failures on sun5i-r8-chip in
>> > >> >> > linux-next[1]  for a few days and with a variety of defconfigs. I
>> > >> >> > bisected it[2] down to this patch.
>> > >> >> >
>> > >> >> > I verified that reverting this patch on top of next-20170310 makes my
>> > >> >> > chip board boot again.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> FYI... this board is still broken in linux-next (and now in mainline),
>> > >> >> and reverting $SUBJECT patch still makes it work.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Is nobody else using mainline on this board?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I thought about that during the weekend, and it might just be a
>> > >> > symptom.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The CHIP has brown out issues, especially when you enable the WiFi
>> > >> > chip, which should happen around the time of the failure when the PMIC
>> > >> > regulator support is compiled as a module.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > We mitigate that in upstream's U-Boot by enabling the two regulators
>> > >> > for the WiFi chip in U-boot, which levels a bit the current over the
>> > >> > boot.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > You have a few ways to prevent that from happening. Having a better
>> > >> > power supply / cable will help, I'm not sure how reasonable that is.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Another thing that can work is, if your USB plugs can take it, to
>> > >> > increase the overcurrent trigger in the PMIC, ideally in U-Boot.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The last, and probably cleaner one, would be to just power it through
>> > >> > the 5v input on its header, and not the USB. There's not current
>> > >> > limitation there, so it shouldn't cause any problems anymore.
>> > >> 
>> > >> I'm now powering the board via the header (5V to the CHG-IN pin) and
>> > >> it doesn't change anything.  Still fails in the same way, and
>> > >> reverting $SUBJECT defconfig patch makes it work again.
>> > >
>> > > I tried it today with sunxi_defconfig that has AXP20X_REGULATOR
>> > > built-in as well. It can boot fine on my CHIP here.
>> > 
>> > What about multi_v7_defconfig?
>> 
>> It seems to work in our farm.
>> 
>> It's lagging behind at the moment, so it hasn't been published yet,
>> but here is the last multi_v7 boot.
>> http://code.bulix.org/a43kkf-147625?raw
>
> A bit of an update for that. It turned out that our farm also had this
> issue. We tried to power it through the 5V plug, and it didn't change
> anything.
>
> After wasting way too much time on this, we started digging into it
> today with Chen-Yu.
>
> We found out after enabling DEBUG_DRIVER that the last line was always
> a cpufreq rate change. Removing the handle on the CPU regulator wasn't
> changing anything, which left us with the other option: the clocks.
>
> It turns out that in 4.12 we also switched to a new clock framework
> for the sun5i family. A few printk down the line, the clock
> calculation were not propagated to the PLL, resulting in a CPU crash.
>
> Now, you might ask why it was crashing in multi_v7, and not in
> sunxi_defconfig. The default governor in multi_v7 is ondemand, the one
> in sunxi is performance, and therefore it never changes the CPU clock
> rate.
>
> And I guess reverting the regulator option patch just prevented the
> cpufreq-dt from probing since it was missing the CPU regulator
> described in DT.
>
> I'll send a patch addressing this, cc'd to stable.

Yay, thanks spending the extra time to dig into it.

Kevin