Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Drop aggre{1,2}_noc QOS clocks on Herobrine

From: Brian Norris

Date: Thu Sep 11 2025 - 15:00:11 EST


Hi Konrad,

On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 02:02:15PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 8/26/25 12:55 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Ever since these two commits
> >
> > fbd908bb8bc0 ("interconnect: qcom: sc7280: enable QoS configuration")
> > 2b5004956aff ("arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Add clocks for QOS configuration")
> >
> > Herobrine systems fail to boot due to crashes like the following:
> >
> > [ 0.243171] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt
> > [ 0.243173] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.11.0 #1 c5464041cff584ced692726af2c4400fa2bde1db
> > [ 0.243178] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. sc7280 CRD platform (rev5+) (DT)
> > [ 0.243180] Call trace:
> > [ 0.243182] dump_backtrace+0x104/0x128
> > [ 0.243194] show_stack+0x24/0x38
> > [ 0.243202] __dump_stack+0x28/0x38
> > [ 0.243208] dump_stack_lvl+0x28/0xb8
> > [ 0.243211] dump_stack+0x18/0x30
> > [ 0.243215] panic+0x134/0x340
> > [ 0.243219] nmi_panic+0x48/0x98
> > [ 0.243227] arm64_serror_panic+0x6c/0x80
> > [ 0.243245] arm64_is_fatal_ras_serror+0xd8/0xe0
> > [ 0.243261] do_serror+0x5c/0xa8
> > [ 0.243265] el1h_64_error_handler+0x34/0x48
> > [ 0.243272] el1h_64_error+0x7c/0x80
> > [ 0.243285] regmap_mmio_read+0x5c/0xc0
> > [ 0.243289] _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x78/0xf8
> > [ 0.243296] regmap_update_bits_base+0xec/0x3a8
> > [ 0.243300] qcom_icc_rpmh_probe+0x2d4/0x490
> > [ 0.243308] platform_probe+0xb4/0xe0
> > [...]
> >
> > Specifically, they fail in qcom_icc_set_qos() when trying to write the
> > QoS settings for qhm_qup1. Several of the previous nodes (qhm_qspi,
> > qhm_qup0, ...) seem to configure without crashing.
> >
> > We suspect that the TZ firmware on these devices does not expose QoS
> > regions to Linux. The right solution here might involve deleting both
> > 'clocks' and 'reg', but 'reg' would cause more problems. Linux is
> > already OK with a missing 'clocks', since pre-2b5004956aff DTBs need to
> > be supported, so we go with an easier solution.
>
> Just to make sure I'm reading this right - the clocks enable just fine,
> but it's the writes to the QoS settings that trigger the hang?

Yes.

> Any chance skipping qhm_qup1 specifically makes things better?

Yes, it seems so. Or specifically, this diff:

--- a/drivers/interconnect/qcom/sc7280.c
+++ b/drivers/interconnect/qcom/sc7280.c
@@ -52,12 +52,6 @@ static struct qcom_icc_node qhm_qup1 = {
.id = SC7280_MASTER_QUP_1,
.channels = 1,
.buswidth = 4,
- .qosbox = &(const struct qcom_icc_qosbox) {
- .num_ports = 1,
- .port_offsets = { 0x8000 },
- .prio = 2,
- .urg_fwd = 0,
- },
.num_links = 1,
.links = { SC7280_SLAVE_A1NOC_SNOC },
};

> Could you please share your exact software version (which I assume is really
> just the version of TF-A in this case) so I can try and reproduce it?

I'm not much of an expert on the makeup of QCOM firmware, but reading my
firmware logs, that'd be:

coreboot-v1.9308_26_0.0.22-32067-g641732a20a

and

BL31: v2.8(debug):v2.8-776-g0223d1576

IIUC, the latter points to TF-A hash:

0223d15764ed Merge "feat(docs): allow verbose build" into integration

Brian