Raspberry Pi 4B: Failed to create device link with soc:firmware:gpio

[Saravana Kannan]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:57 AM Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Saravana,
>
> Am 01.03.23 um 08:49 schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 11:14 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/25/2023 5:58 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2/25/2023 4:01 PM, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 7:38 AM Florian Fainelli
> >>>> <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Saravana,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Using v6.2-10217-ga93e884edf61v my Raspberry Pi 4B issues the following
> >>>>> for the "extended GPIO" provider:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [    5.969855] uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: Failed to create device link
> >>>>> with soc:firmware:gpio
> >>>> Outside of this error, is it actually breaking anything?
> >>> There is just this warning, there does not appear to be a functional issue.
> >>>
> >>>> Also, can you
> >>>> pull in this patch and tell me what it says? I want to know what the
> >>>> flags are.
> >>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230225064148.274376-1-saravanak@google.com/
> >> Pulling in this patch results in the following being printed:
> >>
> >> [   14.866835] uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: Failed to create device link
> >> (0x180) with soc:firmware:gpio
> > I spent at least 2 hours looking at the logs and the DT files and I'm
> > still kinda lost.
> >
> > The 0x180 means it's a DL_FLAG_INFERRED | DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY.
> > That's just fw_devlink trying to create a "proxy" link where an
> > ancestor of a consumer (can be several levels above consumer) creates
> > a SYNC_STATE_ONLY link to the supplier while we wait for the consumer
> > device to get added. This prevents sync_state() from being called too
> > early on the supplier.
> >
> > There are so many includes in the dts/dtsi files that my head is
> > spinning. I finally found out where the soc:firmware:gpio device was
> > coming from (after confusing myself with gpio at 7e200000 for a bit) and
> > where fe201000.serial was coming from. I still couldn't figure out how
> > the address got mapped to fe201000 in fe201000.serial -- that
> > generally means the parent has some address offset, but I don't see
> > that in DT (but it is not important for this discussion, so we can
> > ignore that).
> This is uart0 which is at first defined in bcm283x.dtsi. On the
> Raspberry Pi 4 this UART is connected to the Bluetooth IC. On Linux
> probing of the serial communication via DT is done via serial device bus
> (see bcm283x-rpi-wifi-bt.dtsi).

Sigh... this is the connection I needed.

> > Anyway, I see no supplier-consumer link between serial at 7e201000 (or
> > any of its zero descendants) and soc:firmware:gpio (which is the node
> > expgpio:). So I'm very confused why we might even try to create this
> > sync state only device link between these two.
> >
> > There are actually two times where we try to create such a link:
> >
> > First attempt that actually succeeds -- but I have no idea why we even do this:
> > [    0.100047] device:
> > 'platform:soc:firmware:gpio--amba:fe201000.serial': device_add
> > [    0.100232] amba fe201000.serial: Linked as a sync state only
> > consumer to soc:firmware:gpio
>
> I assume the link is established by raspberry,firmware-gpio which
> provides the necessary BT shutdown-gpios defined in bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dts.
> Seems to me that the problem is, that necessary underlying firmware
> driver is probed "too late":
>
> [ 15.456506] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware
> from 2020-02-12T12:36:21
>
> Hope this helps a little bit

Definitely! Thanks!

Florian, don't bother with the rest of my debug request. I think I
know what's going on. I'll come back if I need more help.

-Saravana

>
> > the "amba" prefix tells us a driver hasn't been bound to fe201000.serial yet.
> >
> > Second attempt is the one that fails.
> > [   15.516166] uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: Failed to create device
> > link (0x180) with soc:firmware:gpio
> > The uart-pl011 tells us that the driver has bound to fe201000.serial.
> >
> > And it fails because of this sensible check I had put up a while ago
> > inside device_link_add():
> >          /*
> >           * SYNC_STATE_ONLY links are useless once a consumer device
> > has probed.
> >           * So, only create it if the consumer hasn't probed yet.
> >           */
> >          if (flags & DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY &&
> >              consumer->links.status != DL_DEV_NO_DRIVER &&
> >              consumer->links.status != DL_DEV_PROBING) {
> >                  link = NULL;
> >                  goto out;
> >          }
> >
> > So the real question is still to figure out why fw_devlink is trying
> > to create this device link.
> >
> > So to debug this further the following would help a lot:
> > 1. Pull the dtb from the device and then decompile it and provide me
> > the result. This way, I can be sure I'm not missing something and
> > don't have to dig through all the includes -- I forgot the exact
> > commands for it, but it's been shared in LKML before. Let me know if
> > you need me to dig this up.
> >
> > 2. I think a stack backtrace when these two device link attempts are
> > made might help me figure out why they are being created. To get these
> > backtraces, can you do the following please?
> > a. Put a WARN_ON() inside device_add() for when the device name matches:
> > platform:soc:firmware:gpio--amba:fe201000.serial
> > b. Put a WARN_ON(1) where we print "Failed to create device link..."
> >
> > Feel free to dig more into 2a and 2b if you find that the stack trace
> > doesn't tell much -- one problem with the stack trace is that it
> > doesn't show the params being passed to
> > __fw_devlink_link_to_consumers() and __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers()
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Saravana
> >
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