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[v3,2/2] clk: samsung: gs101: don't mark non-essential (UART) clocks critical

Message ID 20240710-gs101-non-essential-clocks-2-v3-2-5dcb8d040d1c@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series gs101 oriole: UART clock fixes | expand

Commit Message

André Draszik July 10, 2024, 1:29 p.m. UTC
The peric0_top1_ipclk_0 and peric0_top1_pclk_0 are the clocks going to
peric0/uart_usi, with pclk being the bus clock. Without pclk running,
any bus access will hang.
Unfortunately, in commit d97b6c902a40 ("arm64: dts: exynos: gs101:
update USI UART to use peric0 clocks") the gs101 DT ended up specifying
an incorrect pclk in the respective node and instead the two clocks
here were marked as critical.

Since then, the DT has been updated to use the correct clock in
commit 21e4e8807bfc ("arm64: dts: exynos: gs101: use correct clocks for
usi_uart") and the driver here should be corrected and the work-around
removed.

Note that this commit has the side-effect of causing earlycon to stop
to work sometime into the boot for two reasons:
    * peric0_top1_ipclk_0 requires its parent gout_cmu_peric0_ip to be
      running, but because earlycon doesn't deal with clocks that
      parent will be disabled when none of the other drivers that
      actually deal with clocks correctly require it to be running and
      the real serial driver (which does deal with clocks) hasn't taken
      over yet
    * hand-over between earlycon and serial driver appears to be
      fragile and clocks get enabled and disabled a few times, which
      also causes register access to hang while earlycon is still
      active
(A wordier explanation can also be found in [1])

Nonetheless we shouldn't keep these clocks running unconditionally just
for earlycon. Clocks should be disabled where possible. If earlycon is
required in the future, e.g. for debug, this commit can simply be
reverted (locally!).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d45de3b2bb6b48653842cf1f74e58889ed6783ae.camel@linaro.org/ [1]
Fixes: 893f133a040b ("clk: samsung: gs101: add support for cmu_peric0")
Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>

---
v3:
- add git commit SHA1s (Krzysztof)
- add link to wordier description of earlycon issue

v2:
- commit message typo fixed
- collect Reviewed-by: tags
---
 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Marek Szyprowski July 10, 2024, 2:35 p.m. UTC | #1
On 10.07.2024 15:29, André Draszik wrote:
> The peric0_top1_ipclk_0 and peric0_top1_pclk_0 are the clocks going to
> peric0/uart_usi, with pclk being the bus clock. Without pclk running,
> any bus access will hang.
> Unfortunately, in commit d97b6c902a40 ("arm64: dts: exynos: gs101:
> update USI UART to use peric0 clocks") the gs101 DT ended up specifying
> an incorrect pclk in the respective node and instead the two clocks
> here were marked as critical.
>
> Since then, the DT has been updated to use the correct clock in
> commit 21e4e8807bfc ("arm64: dts: exynos: gs101: use correct clocks for
> usi_uart") and the driver here should be corrected and the work-around
> removed.
>
> Note that this commit has the side-effect of causing earlycon to stop
> to work sometime into the boot for two reasons:
>      * peric0_top1_ipclk_0 requires its parent gout_cmu_peric0_ip to be
>        running, but because earlycon doesn't deal with clocks that
>        parent will be disabled when none of the other drivers that
>        actually deal with clocks correctly require it to be running and
>        the real serial driver (which does deal with clocks) hasn't taken
>        over yet
>      * hand-over between earlycon and serial driver appears to be
>        fragile and clocks get enabled and disabled a few times, which
>        also causes register access to hang while earlycon is still
>        active
> (A wordier explanation can also be found in [1])
>
> Nonetheless we shouldn't keep these clocks running unconditionally just
> for earlycon. Clocks should be disabled where possible. If earlycon is
> required in the future, e.g. for debug, this commit can simply be
> reverted (locally!).
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d45de3b2bb6b48653842cf1f74e58889ed6783ae.camel@linaro.org/ [1]
> Fixes: 893f133a040b ("clk: samsung: gs101: add support for cmu_peric0")
> Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>

Frankly speaking I'm not sure that anyone will find this comment and do 
local reverts before getting angry that earlycon doesn't work for his 
device and wasting his time.

I think that it would be much better to check if earlycon is specified 
in kernel's cmdline and if so, simply mark those problematic clocks 
critical in this driver. Make this code hidden under 
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON) to avoid polluting release builds. 
Any comments?

Best regards
André Draszik July 12, 2024, 5 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, 2024-07-10 at 16:35 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> I think that it would be much better to check if earlycon is specified 
> in kernel's cmdline and if so, simply mark those problematic clocks 
> critical in this driver. Make this code hidden under 
> IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON) to avoid polluting release builds. 
> Any comments?

Good idea, I've found that i.MX appears to suffer from a similar problem,
and I'm testing something similar now:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/clk/imx/clk.c#n157


Cheers,
Andre'
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c
index 85098c61c15e..9769c00b6ca8 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c
@@ -3946,20 +3946,18 @@  static const struct samsung_gate_clock peric0_gate_clks[] __initconst = {
 	     "gout_peric0_peric0_top0_pclk_9", "mout_peric0_bus_user",
 	     CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP0_IPCLKPORT_PCLK_9,
 	     21, 0, 0),
-	/* Disabling this clock makes the system hang. Mark the clock as critical. */
 	GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLK_0,
 	     "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_ipclk_0", "dout_peric0_usi0_uart",
 	     CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_IPCLK_0,
-	     21, CLK_IS_CRITICAL, 0),
+	     21, 0, 0),
 	GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLK_2,
 	     "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_ipclk_2", "dout_peric0_usi14_usi",
 	     CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_IPCLK_2,
 	     21, CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT, 0),
-	/* Disabling this clock makes the system hang. Mark the clock as critical. */
 	GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_PCLK_0,
 	     "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_pclk_0", "mout_peric0_bus_user",
 	     CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_PCLK_0,
-	     21, CLK_IS_CRITICAL, 0),
+	     21, 0, 0),
 	GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_PCLK_2,
 	     "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_pclk_2", "mout_peric0_bus_user",
 	     CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_PCLK_2,