Re: [PATCH 14/15] dt-bindings: arm-gic: Drop 'clock-names' from binding document

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Grygorii,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 02:05 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 18/03/16 10:52, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 18/03/16 09:13, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> Commit afbbd2338176 ("irqchip/gic: Document optional Clock and Power
>>>>>>> Domain properties") documented optional clock and power-dmoain properties
>>>>>>> for the ARM GIC. Currently, there are no users of these and for the
>>>>>>> Tegra210 Audio GIC (based upon the GIC-400) there are two clocks, a
>>>>>>> functional clock and interface clock, that need to be enabled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reason that there are no users for this is twofold:
>>>>>>    1. The GIC driver doesn't have Runtime PM support yet,
>>>>>>    2. There was no clean way to prevent the GIC's clock from being disabled.
>>>>>> Due to this, adding the clocks to the DTSes would mean that they will be
>>>>>> disabled during boot up as unused clocks, leading to a system lock-up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had hoped your series would fix part 1. I gave it a try on r8a7791/koelsch,
>>>>>> but unfortunately it seems the platform driver only supports non-root
>>>>>> controllers, while the r8a7791 GIC is the primary one...
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you try making the following change ...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! I gave it a try, but no difference.
>>>
>>> I assume you added the appropriate compatible flag? Any more details you
>>
>> Doh... bad assumption... Silly me.
>>
>>> can share about why it is not working? Is it not registered early enough?
>>
>> With
>>
>> +       { .compatible = "arm,gic-400", },
>>
>> the kernel no longer crashes due to accessing the GIC registers while the
>> GIC module clock is disabled.
>>
>> However, the system doesn't boot completely, and time outs on SPI transfers
>> make me believe interrupts are not working.
>> Both with and without "the following change".
>>
>
> Is my assumption correct that you are trying to enable RPM for primary GIC controller?

That's correct.

> If yes it may help to take a look on clocksource drivers which use early_platform_device/driver
> sh_cmt.c sh_mtu2.c sh_tmu.c
>
> The primary interrupt controller is initialized very early init_IRQ->irqchip_init->of_irq_init()
> (IRQCHIP_DECLARE) and, at least as i can see from st_xxx code, the same case is valid for
> clocksource devices and it was solved using early_platform_device/drive staff.

The GIC now depends on the clock driver, which may be a real platform driver,
not initialized from CLK_OF_DECLARE().

Or do you mean to make the clock driver an early platform driver?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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