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From: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-sun4i: Partially convert to a platform driver
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:23:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e0a75a8-2c3d-478a-9e16-f6252cae3367@sifive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d68fd8a7-8889-472e-86db-b62855eebfba@linaro.org>

On 2024-03-13 10:29 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 12/03/2024 20:25, Samuel Holland wrote:
>> Commit 8ec99b033147 ("irqchip/sifive-plic: Convert PLIC driver into a
>> platform driver") broke the MMIO timer on the Allwinner D1 SoC because
>> the IRQ domain is no longer available when timer_probe() is called:
>>
>>    [    0.000000] irq: no irq domain found for interrupt-controller@10000000 !
>>    [    0.000000] Failed to map interrupt for /soc/timer@2050000
>>    [    0.000000] Failed to initialize '/soc/timer@2050000': -22
>>
>> Fix this by wrapping the timer initialization in a platform driver.
>> builtin_platform_driver_probe() must be used because the driver uses
>> timer_of_init(), which is marked as __init. Only convert the sun8i
>> variants of the hardware, because some older SoCs still need the timer
>> probed early for sched_clock().
>>
>> Fixes: 8ec99b033147 ("irqchip/sifive-plic: Convert PLIC driver into a platform
>> driver")
>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
> 
> Why EPROBE_DEFER in thermal-of can not fix the issue?
> 
> I mean can't we check if of_irq_get_byname() returns EPROBE_DEFER and then
> return this value?

EPROBE_DEFER would not help either before or after this patch.

Before this patch, the driver uses TIMER_OF_DECLARE, which means the timer gets
initialized from the loop in timer_probe(). That function does not retry if the
initialization function returns EPROBE_DEFER. And timer_probe() is only meant to
be called once, before any platform drivers are registered.

It does not help after this patch either, because __platform_driver_probe() also
requires the probe to succeed the first time. This is needed to ensure the probe
function runs before __init memory is discarded. (To support deferred probing in
timer-of, none of the functions could be marked as __init.)

But that is okay, because if both the irqchip and the timer use platform
drivers, fw_devlink ensures they are probed in the right order. So this patch
reliably allows the timer to probe successfully.

Regards,
Samuel


      reply	other threads:[~2024-03-13 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-12 19:25 [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-sun4i: Partially convert to a platform driver Samuel Holland
2024-03-13 11:11 ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-03-13 14:43 ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-03-13 16:06   ` Samuel Holland
2024-03-13 15:29 ` Daniel Lezcano
2024-03-13 16:23   ` Samuel Holland [this message]

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