[PATCH 5/9] ARM: dts: exynos: move exynos-bus nodes out of soc in Exynos4412

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Fri Feb 3 03:51:25 PST 2023


On 03.02.2023 12:46, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 03/02/2023 12:45, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> On 29.01.2023 11:42, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 25/01/2023 10:45, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> The soc node is supposed to have only device nodes with MMIO addresses,
>>>> as reported by dtc W=1:
>>>>
>>>>     exynos4412.dtsi:407.20-413.5:
>>>>       Warning (simple_bus_reg): /soc/bus-acp: missing or empty reg/ranges property
>>>>
>>>> and dtbs_check:
>>>>
>>>>     exynos4412-i9300.dtb: soc: bus-acp:
>>>>       {'compatible': ['samsung,exynos-bus'], 'clocks': [[7, 456]], 'clock-names': ['bus'], 'operating-points-v2': [[132]], 'status': ['okay'], 'devfreq': [[117]]} should not be valid under {'type': 'object'}
>>>>
>>>> Move the bus nodes and their OPP tables out of SoC to fix this.
>>>> Re-order them alphabetically while moving and put some of the OPP tables
>>>> in device nodes (if they are not shared).
>>>>
>>> Applied.
>> I don't have a good news. It looks that this change is responsible for
>> breaking boards that were rock-stable so far, like Odroid U3. I didn't
>> manage to analyze what exactly causes the issue, but it looks that the
>> exynos-bus devfreq driver somehow depends on the order of the nodes:
>>
>> (before)
>>
>> # dmesg | grep exynos-bus
>> [    6.415266] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-dmc
>> (100000 KHz ~ 400000 KHz)
>> [    6.422717] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-acp
>> (100000 KHz ~ 267000 KHz)
>> [    6.454323] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-c2c
>> (100000 KHz ~ 400000 KHz)
>> [    6.489944] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-leftbus
>> (100000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.493990] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-rightbus
>> (100000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.494612] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-display
>> (160000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.494932] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-fsys
>> (100000 KHz ~ 134000 KHz)
>> [    6.495246] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-peri (
>> 50000 KHz ~ 100000 KHz)
>> [    6.495577] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: soc:bus-mfc
>> (100000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>>
>> (after)
>>
>> # dmesg | grep exynos-bus
>>
>> [    6.082032] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-dmc (100000
>> KHz ~ 400000 KHz)
>> [    6.122726] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-leftbus
>> (100000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.146705] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-mfc (100000
>> KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.181632] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-peri ( 50000
>> KHz ~ 100000 KHz)
>> [    6.204770] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-rightbus
>> (100000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.211087] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-acp (100000
>> KHz ~ 267000 KHz)
>> [    6.216936] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-c2c (100000
>> KHz ~ 400000 KHz)
>> [    6.225748] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-display
>> (160000 KHz ~ 200000 KHz)
>> [    6.242978] exynos-bus: new bus device registered: bus-fsys (100000
>> KHz ~ 134000 KHz)
>>
>> This is definitely a driver bug, but so far it worked fine, so this is a
>> regression that need to be addressed somehow...
>
> Thanks for checking, but what is exactly the bug? The devices registered
> - just with different name.

The bug is that the board fails to boot from time to time, freezing 
after registering PPMU counters...

Best regards

-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland




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