[PATCH v3 3/6] clk: imx: imx8mp: Add audiomix block control

[Marek Vasut]

On 8/11/22 17:03, Abel Vesa wrote:
> On 22-08-11 16:30:20, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 8/11/22 16:20, Abel Vesa wrote:
>>> On 22-08-04 11:31:33, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 8/4/22 11:13, Peng Fan wrote:
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] clk: imx: imx8mp: Add audiomix block control
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/28/22 09:44, Abel Vesa wrote:
>>>>>>> On 22-06-27 18:23:33, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 6/27/22 17:35, Abel Vesa wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 22-06-25 03:32:32, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Unlike the other block control IPs in i.MX8M, the audiomix is
>>>>>>>>>> mostly a series of clock gates and muxes. Model it as a large
>>>>>>>>>> static table of gates and muxes with one exception, which is the
>>>>>>>>>> PLL14xx . The PLL14xx SAI PLL has to be registered separately.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Again, there is a chance that the blk-ctrl driver might disable the
>>>>>>>>> PD from under this.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can you elaborate a bit more on this ? How/why do you think so ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At some point, the PDs from the Audiomix IP block will be added to the
>>>>>>> drivers/soc/imx/imx8mp-blk-ctrl.c. Then, you'll have 2 drivers with
>>>>>>> the same address range and the imx8mp-blk-ctrl also has runtime PM
>>>>>> enabled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why would the PDs be added into the block control driver?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The audiomix is purely a clock mux driver, not really a block control driver
>>>>>> providing PDs of its own.
>>>>>
>>>>> I recalled that with with blk-ctrl working as clock provider, there is dead lock
>>>>> issue, if the blk-ctrl node has a power-domain entry. Not very sure.
>>>>
>>>> How can I verify that ? Lockdep ?
>>>>
>>>> I run this series for months and haven't seen a lock up or splat.
>>>
>>> Audiomix (and every mix actually) has a PD. Once you add the PD, you'll
>>> end up with an ABBA deadlock between genpd lock and clock prepare lock.
>>
>> Unlike the other mix drivers, this is a pure clock driver, not a power
>> domain driver. The PD is already available to this clock driver, see:
>> [PATCH v3 5/6] arm64: dts: imx8mp: Add SAI, SDMA, AudioMIX
> 
> When you will enable the runtime PM for this driver, the deadlock is
> going to happen and it will be in some scenario like:
>      clk_disable_unused_subtree
>        -> clk_prepare (takes prepare lock) (for a clock from your driver)
> 	-> runtime pm (takes genpd lock)
> 	  -> clk_prepare (tries to take prepare lock again) (for the clock of the PD)

Since you seem to have a test case, can you share the test case, 
verbatim, so I can reproduce it locally ?

I seem to be asking for that repeatedly and I am not getting any clear 
answer.

>> Can you please elaborate on the deadlock problem ?
>> Because really, I just don't see it.
>>
>> Were you able to reproduce the deadlock with this driver ?

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