Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add coupled regulators mechanism

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Maciej,

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:42 AM, Maciej Purski <m.purski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this patchset adds a new mechanism to the framework - regulators' coupling.
>
> On Odroid XU3/4 and other Exynos5422 based boards there is a case, that
> different devices on the board are supplied by different regulators
> with non-fixed voltages. If one of these devices temporarily requires
> higher voltage, there might occur a situation that the spread between
> devices' voltages is so high, that there is a risk of changing
> 'high' and 'low' states on the interconnection between devices powered
> by those regulators.
>
> Algorithmicaly the problem was solved by:
> Inderpal Singh <inderpal.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The discussion on that subject can be found here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/29/28
>
> Therefore this patchset is an attempt to apply the idea to regulators core
> as concluded in the discussion by Mark Brown and Doug Anderson.
>
> This feature is required to enable support for generic CPUfreq
> and devfreq drivers for the mentioned boards.
>
> Note on the locking model:
> When balancing voltage of a group of coupled regulators, we lock all
> of them for the whole operation. When voltage of an individual regulator
> is about to change, its suppliers are additionally locked.
>
> The current assumption is that an uncoupled regulator is a special case
> of a coupled one, so they should share a common voltage setting path.

This series breaks has reached linux-next 20180305 and it breaks
booting on imx6:

[    0.269646] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.0: Linked as a consumer
to 20dc000.gpc
[    0.270348]
[    0.270363] ============================================
[    0.270373] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[    0.270385] 4.16.0-rc3-next-20180305 #156 Not tainted
[    0.270397] --------------------------------------------
[    0.270408] swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock:
[    0.270419]  (&rdev->mutex){+.+.}, at: [<c04d80c4>]
regulator_lock_supply+0x24/0x44
[    0.270460]
[    0.270460] but task is already holding lock:
[    0.270471]  (&rdev->mutex){+.+.}, at: [<c04dc6e4>]
regulator_enable+0x78/0x298
[    0.270502]
[    0.270502] other info that might help us debug this:
[    0.270513]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[    0.270513]
[    0.270523]        CPU0
[    0.270532]        ----
[    0.270540]   lock(&rdev->mutex);
[    0.270555]   lock(&rdev->mutex);
[    0.270572]
[    0.270572]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[    0.270572]
[    0.270585]  May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[    0.270585]
[    0.270598] 3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
[    0.270606]  #0:  (&dev->mutex){....}, at: [<c057f368>]
__driver_attach+0x58/0xcc
[    0.270642]  #1:  (&dev->mutex){....}, at: [<c057f378>]
__driver_attach+0x68/0xcc
[    0.270672]  #2:  (&rdev->mutex){+.+.}, at: [<c04dc6e4>]
regulator_enable+0x78/0x298
[    0.270701]
[    0.270701] stack backtrace:
[    0.270719] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
4.16.0-rc3-next-20180305 #156
[    0.270731] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree)
[    0.270741] Backtrace:
[    0.270767] [<c010d154>] (dump_backtrace) from [<c010d414>]
(show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
[    0.270783]  r7:00000000 r6:60000093 r5:00000000 r4:c1078360
[    0.270805] [<c010d3fc>] (show_stack) from [<c0a4724c>]
(dump_stack+0xb4/0xe8)
[    0.270830] [<c0a47198>] (dump_stack) from [<c0174f4c>]
(__lock_acquire+0x13a4/0x199c)
[    0.270848]  r9:c17d75fc r8:c11ae35c r7:c17c73b0 r6:ec060000
r5:ec060570 r4:c11ae35c
[    0.270867] [<c0173ba8>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c0175d68>]
(lock_acquire+0x70/0x90)
[    0.270883]  r10:00000000 r9:ec195800 r8:00000001 r7:00000001
r6:60000013 r5:00000000
[    0.270893]  r4:ffffe000
[    0.270914] [<c0175cf8>] (lock_acquire) from [<c0a60760>]
(__mutex_lock+0x64/0x978)
[    0.270929]  r8:00000001 r7:00000001 r6:00000000 r5:00000000 r4:ec00b89c
[    0.270947] [<c0a606fc>] (__mutex_lock) from [<c0a61098>]
(mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x2c)
[    0.270963]  r10:00000000 r9:ec195800 r8:00000001 r7:00000001
r6:ec195800 r5:00000000
[    0.270975]  r4:ec00b800
[    0.270992] [<c0a61074>] (mutex_lock_nested) from [<c04d80c4>]
(regulator_lock_supply+0x24/0x44)
[    0.271013] [<c04d80a0>] (regulator_lock_supply) from [<c04da9b0>]
(regulator_balance_voltage+0x298/0x584)
[    0.271024]  r5:000b1008 r4:ec195800
[    0.271042] [<c04da718>] (regulator_balance_voltage) from
[<c04dc748>] (regulator_enable+0xdc/0x298)
[    0.271059]  r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:00000001 r7:00000001
r6:ec195800 r5:ec195824
[    0.271069]  r4:00000001
[    0.271086] [<c04dc66c>] (regulator_enable) from [<c04d6dd8>]
(imx6_pm_domain_power_on+0x30/0x1b4)
[    0.271102]  r9:00000000 r8:c102d114 r7:c1008908 r6:c102d114
r5:ec3d7a00 r4:ec3d7a00
[    0.271119] [<c04d6da8>] (imx6_pm_domain_power_on) from
[<c04d6d18>] (imx_pgc_power_domain_probe+0x64/0xf4)
[    0.271135]  r8:c102d114 r7:ec49c810 r6:c102d114 r5:ec49c800 r4:ec3d7a00
[    0.271153] [<c04d6cb4>] (imx_pgc_power_domain_probe) from
[<c0580ef0>] (platform_drv_probe+0x54/0xb8)
[    0.271168]  r7:fffffdfb r6:c102d114 r5:ec49c810 r4:ec49c810
[    0.271189] [<c0580e9c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c057f288>]
(driver_probe_device+0x2b0/0x338)
[    0.271204]  r7:c17e234c r6:00000000 r5:c17e2348 r4:ec49c810
[    0.271222] [<c057efd8>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c057f3d8>]
(__driver_attach+0xc8/0xcc)
[    0.271237]  r10:c0f00630 r9:00000000 r8:c1008908 r7:c1008908
r6:ec49c844 r5:c102d114
[    0.271248]  r4:ec49c810 r3:00000000
[    0.271267] [<c057f310>] (__driver_attach) from [<c057d348>]
(bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0xbc)
[    0.271280]  r7:c1008908 r6:c057f310 r5:c102d114 r4:00000000
[    0.271298] [<c057d2dc>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c057eb64>]
(driver_attach+0x20/0x28)
[    0.271314]  r7:00000000 r6:c103b0a8 r5:ec479b00 r4:c102d114
[    0.271332] [<c057eb44>] (driver_attach) from [<c057e588>]
(bus_add_driver+0x18c/0x214)
[    0.271351] [<c057e3fc>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c057fdbc>]
(driver_register+0x80/0x100)
[    0.271366]  r7:c0e125e4 r6:c0f63850 r5:c0f41c18 r4:c102d114
[    0.271383] [<c057fd3c>] (driver_register) from [<c0580e44>]
(__platform_driver_register+0x38/0x4c)
[    0.271396]  r5:c0f41c18 r4:ffffe000
[    0.271418] [<c0580e0c>] (__platform_driver_register) from
[<c0f41c30>] (imx_pgc_power_domain_driver_init+0x18/0x20)
[    0.271438] [<c0f41c18>] (imx_pgc_power_domain_driver_init) from
[<c0102764>] (do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1a0)
[    0.271464] [<c0102714>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0f00f04>]
(kernel_init_freeable+0x118/0x1d0)
[    0.271481]  r9:c0f63858 r8:000000f2 r7:c0e125e4 r6:c0f63850
r5:c1079f80 r4:c0f77ab4
[    0.271508] [<c0f00dec>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0a5c6f0>]
(kernel_init+0x10/0x118)
[    0.271524]  r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:00000000 r7:00000000
r6:00000000 r5:c0a5c6e0
[    0.271533]  r4:00000000
[    0.271552] [<c0a5c6e0>] (kernel_init) from [<c01010b4>]
(ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20)
[    0.271564] Exception stack(0xec069fb0 to 0xec069ff8)
[    0.271579] 9fa0:                                     00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
[    0.271594] 9fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000
[    0.271609] 9fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
[    0.271621]  r5:c0a5c6e0 r4:00000000
[    0.271723] imx-pgc-pd imx-pgc-power-domain.1: Linked as a consumer
to 20dc000.gpc
[    0.273566] 2020000.serial: ttymxc0 at MMIO 0x2020000 (irq = 26,
base_baud = 5000000) is a IMX
[    1.660948] console [ttymxc0] enabled
[    1.666242] 21ec000.serial: ttymxc2 at MMIO 0x21ec000 (irq = 65,
base_baud = 5000000) is a IMX
[    1.683484] etnaviv etnaviv: bound 130000.gpu (ops gpu_ops)
[    1.689464] etnaviv etnaviv: bound 134000.gpu (ops gpu_ops)

If I revert this series I am able to boot again.