[PATCH 0/3] clk: bcm2835: critical clocks and parent selection

Tue May 10 03:32:26 PDT 2016

On 10.05.2016 03:01, Eric Anholt wrote:
> With the new patch 2 inserted between my previous pair, I think this
> should cover Martin's bugs with clock disabling.
>
> I tested patch 2 to be important on the downstream kernel: with the
> DPI panel support added there, I was losing ethernet (my only I/O)
> when the HDMI HSM hanging off of PLLD_PER got disabled due to
> EPROBE_DEFER.
>
> Eric Anholt (3):
>    clk: bcm2835: Mark the VPU clock as critical
>    clk: bcm2835: Mark GPIO clocks enabled at boot as critical.
>    clk: bcm2835: Skip PLLC clocks when deciding on a new clock parent
>
>   drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm2835.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
I gave it a try - with all 3 patches applied I get the following enabled 
clocks:
root at raspcm:~# grep -vE ^0 /sys/kernel/debug/clk/*/clk_enable_count
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/aux_uart/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/emmc/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/gp1/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/gp2/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/osc/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pllc/clk_enable_count:2
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pllc_core0/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pllc_per/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/vpu/clk_enable_count:2

At least on my compute module gp1/gp2 is enabled, but there is no rate
set - so why is it marked as critical for all devices?
So why apply patch2 for all possible devices?

Loading/unloading the amba_pl011 module does not crash the system,
but a simple stty -F /dev/ttyAMA0 does crash the system!

Here the sequence:
root at raspcm:~# dmesg -C
root at raspcm:~# modprobe amba_pl011
root at raspcm:~# dmesg -c
[  141.708453] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[  141.709158] 20201000.uart: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x20201000 (irq = 81, 
base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
root at raspcm:~# rmmod  amba_pl011
root at raspcm:~# dmesg -c
[  150.511248] Trying to free nonexistent resource 
<0000000020201000-0000000020201fff>
root at raspcm:~# modprobe amba_pl011
root at raspcm:~# dmesg -c
[  159.385002] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[  159.385714] 20201000.uart: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x20201000 (irq = 81, 
base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
root at raspcm:~# stty -F /dev/ttyAMA0
speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel
root at raspcm:~# Timeout, server raspcm not responding.

The reason behind this is that the firmware pre-configured uart clock
looks like this:
root at raspcm:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/uart/regdump
ctl = 0x00000296
div = 0x000a6aab
so it is configured to use plld_per (which itself is running, even if 
not enabled
in the kernel)

But as plld_per is not among the enabled clocks then plld_per
gets disabled as soon as the tty device is closed (by stty) and
this also disables plld...

Similar effect when using PCM/i2s and use speaker-test:
root at raspcm:~# dmesg -C
root at raspcm:~# modprobe snd-soc-bcm2835-i2s; modprobe snd-soc-pcm5102a; 
modprobe snd-soc-hifiberry-dac
root at raspcm:~# dmesg
[   81.968591] snd-hifiberry-dac sound: pcm5102a-hifi <-> 20203000.i2s 
mapping ok
root at raspcm:~# speaker-test -c 2 -r 44100 -F S16_LE -f 440 -t sine&
[1] 579
root at raspcm:~#
speaker-test 1.0.28

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 44100Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz
Rate set to 44100Hz (requested 44100Hz)
Buffer size range from 128 to 131072
Period size range from 64 to 65536
Using max buffer size 131072
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 32768
was set buffer_size = 131072
  0 - Front Left
  1 - Front Right

root at raspcm:~#
root at raspcm:~# grep -vE ^0 /sys/kernel/debug/clk/*/clk_enable_count
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/aux_uart/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/emmc/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/gp1/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/gp2/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/osc/clk_enable_count:2
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pcm/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pllc/clk_enable_count:2
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pllc_core0/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/pllc_per/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/plld/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/plld_per/clk_enable_count:1
/sys/kernel/debug/clk/vpu/clk_enable_count:2
root at raspcm:~# kill %1
root at raspcm:~# Time per period = 106.889502
Timeout, server raspcm not responding.

You see that plld gets now used and when I kill speaker-test
the machine crashes again.

So this patchset does not really solve any of the problems that
I have reported either.

That is why my patchset has taken the "HAND_OFF" approach
instead (which still just hides some of the issues), but at least
it does not crash the system on the use of plld and it allows
for custom parent and mash selection.

In reality it would require consumers of the corresponding
parent clocks in the kernel (arm, ...) and the knowledge which
clocks are really needed by the firmware - i.e plld.

Note that the sdram clock is using plld_core parent!
root at raspcm:~#  cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/sdram/regdump
ctl = 0x00004006
div = 0x00003000
root at raspcm:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/sdram/clk_rate
166533331

and also hsm (probably hardware security module):
root at raspcm:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/hsm/regdump
ctl = 0x000002d6
div = 0x000030e0
root at raspcm:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/hsm/clk_rate
163551916

So turning plld off stops sdram and hsm - at least that is my
interpretation.

This means we need to define a clock property in firmware or
we need a ram node making use of "mmio-sram" maybe?

Marking sdram as "critical" or "hand_off" could also solve that
for the moment (but it does not solve all the other hidden
clock dependencies of the firmware)

--- a/drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm2835.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm2835.c
@@ -1655,7 +1655,8 @@ static const struct bcm2835_clk_desc 
clk_desc_array[] = {
                 .ctl_reg = CM_SDCCTL,
                 .div_reg = CM_SDCDIV,
                 .int_bits = 6,
-               .frac_bits = 0),
+               .frac_bits = 0,
+               .flags = CLK_IS_CRITICAL),
         [BCM2835_CLOCK_V3D]     = REGISTER_VPU_CLK(
                 .name = "v3d",
                 .ctl_reg = CM_V3DCTL,

with this patch the system does no longer crash for the above
cases!

Still I would say that this should actually move to the dt to
correctly describe the HW.

Martin


