Re: [Patch v5 5/8] firmware: qcom: scm: Convert to streaming DMA APIS

[Kevin Hilman]

Andy Gross <andy.gross@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 04:02:06PM -0500, Andy Gross wrote:
>> On 23 May 2016 at 14:26, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Andy,
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Andy Gross <andy.gross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> This patch converts the Qualcomm SCM driver to use the streaming DMA APIs
>> >> for communication buffers.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > This patch has landed in linux-next in the form of commit a551c3dbd689
>> > (firmware: qcom: scm: Convert to streaming DMA APIS), and kernelci.org
>> > found some boot breakage in next-20160523 on apq8064[1] which was
>> > bisected down to this commit.
>> >
>> > I reverted this commit on top of next-20160523 and it no longer
>> > builds, so I didn't validate if things boot again with this patch
>> > reverted.
>> 
>> Ouch I missed this failure.  I'll investigate and get it fixed.
>
> So the root cause was the fact that the DFAB clock required by the SCM is an RPM
> clock.  That support isn't present yet in the kernel, so SCM probe fails.
>
> The core clock is really only accessed so that we can bump the clock on it up to
> the max for performance.  As such, I'll make it optional in the platform code.
>
> This does bring up the issue of probe defer causing issues with the spm driver,
> as it calls set_warm_boot_addr.  That may have to be addressed, but is probably
> a problem best fixed in the spm.

Nice, thanks for the explanation.

Is there a patch somewhere you'd like me to test? or were you able to
dust off an 8064 platform for testing?

Kevin