[PATCH] arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8195: Set DSU PMU status to fail

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Tue Oct 3 02:24:38 PDT 2023


Il 20/07/23 22:07, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado ha scritto:
> The DSU PMU allows monitoring performance events in the DSU cluster,
> which is done by configuring and reading back values from the DSU PMU
> system registers. However, for write-access to be allowed by ELs lower
> than EL3, the EL3 firmware needs to update the setting on the ACTLR3_EL3
> register, as it is disallowed by default.
> 
> That configuration is not done on the firmware used by the MT8195 SoC,
> as a consequence, booting a MT8195-based machine like
> mt8195-cherry-tomato-r2 with CONFIG_ARM_DSU_PMU enabled hangs the kernel
> just as it writes to the CLUSTERPMOVSCLR_EL1 register, since the
> instruction faults to EL3, and BL31 apparently just re-runs the
> instruction over and over.
> 
> Mark the DSU PMU node in the Devicetree with status "fail", as the
> machine doesn't have a suitable firmware to make use of it from the
> kernel, and allowing its driver to probe would hang the kernel.
> 
> Fixes: 37f2582883be ("arm64: dts: Add mediatek SoC mt8195 and evaluation board")
> Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado at collabora.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>





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