Re: [PATCH 03/17] base: fix order of OF initialization

From: Wesley Terpstra
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 14:40:01 EST


It was a while ago that I debugged this. I already reported this bug
to Benjamin Herrenschmidt (now in CC), and I believe he has a patch of
his own to fix the same issue.

As I understand it, of_core_init sets up the OF entries in
/sys/firmware/devicetree. During platform bringup, when the system
describes the cpu + cache hierarchy, it also makes an of_node symlink
into that directory. However, if it doesn't exist yet, you get the
warning.

# ls -l /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/of_node
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/of_node ->
../../../../firmware/devicetree/base/cpus/cpu@3

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> CC devicetree folks
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > From: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <wesley@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > This fixes: [ 0.010000] cpu cpu0: Error -2 creating of_node link
>> > ... which you get for every CPU on all architectures with a OF cpu/ node.
>
> I take it this means a /cpus node? Or the /cpus/cpu@* nodes?
>
> I'm not seeing this on arm64 when booting v4.12-rc4 with DT, so clearly
> this doesn't affect all such architectures.
>
> What path are these errors happening in?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
>> >
>> > This affects riscv, nios, etc.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/base/init.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/base/init.c b/drivers/base/init.c
>> > index 48c0e220acc0..0dcd17e561d0 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/base/init.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/base/init.c
>> > @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ void __init driver_init(void)
>> > /* These are also core pieces, but must come after the
>> > * core core pieces.
>> > */
>> > + of_core_init();
>> > platform_bus_init();
>> > cpu_dev_init();
>> > memory_dev_init();
>> > container_dev_init();
>> > - of_core_init();
>> > }
>> > --
>> > 2.13.0
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