[PATCH] clk: samsung: Fix Exynos 5420 pinctrl setup and clock disable failure due to domain being gated

Kevin Hilman khilman at kernel.org
Mon Dec 15 14:26:18 PST 2014


Kevin Hilman <khilman at kernel.org> writes:

> Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com> writes:
>
>> On 09/12/14 13:59, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On pią, 2014-12-05 at 15:15 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>> > Audio subsystem clocks are located in separate block. On Exynos 5420 if
>>>> > clock for this block (from main clock domain) 'mau_epll' is gated then
>>>> > any read or write to audss registers will block.
>>>> > 
>>>> > This kind of boot hang was observed on Arndale Octa and Peach Pi/Pit
>>>> > after introducing runtime PM to pl330 DMA driver. After that commit the
>>>> > 'mau_epll' was gated, because the "amba" clock was disabled and there
>>>> > were no more users of mau_epll.
>>>> > 
>>>> > The system hang on one of steps:
>>>> > 1. Disabling unused clocks from audss block.
>>>> > 2. During audss GPIO setup (just before probing i2s0 because
>>>> >    samsung_pinmux_setup() tried to access memory from audss block which was
>>>> >    gated.
>>>> > 
>>>> > Add a workaround for this by enabling the 'mau_epll' clock in probe.
>>>> > 
>>>> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
>>>> > ---
>>>> >  drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-audss.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>> >  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> Sorry for pinging so quick but merge window is open and it looks like
>>> booting Exynos542x boards will be broken (because pl330 will no longer
>>> hold adma clock enabled so whole audss domain will be gated).
>>> 
>>> This is a non-intrusive workaround for that issue, as wanted by
>>> Sylwester:
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/5/223
>>> 
>>> Any comments on this?
>>
>> The patch looks OK to me, it would be good though if someone else
>> has confirmed it fixes the bug. I don't have any clock patches queued
>> at the moment. Perhaps you could apply it directly, Mike ?
>
> I confirm it fixes the boot hang in linux-next (next-20141210) on my
> exynos5800-peach-pi and exynos5420-arndale-octa.  Tested both
> exynos_defconfig and multi_v7_defconfig.
>
> Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at linaro.org>

What's the status of this patch?  linux-next is still broken for several
Exynos5 platforms without this fix.

Kevin



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