Re: [PATCH 2/3] bus: ti-sysc: Fix timer handling with drop pm_runtime_irq_safe()

From: H. Nikolaus Schaller
Date: Sat Jan 26 2019 - 14:38:00 EST



> Am 26.01.2019 um 19:41 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:57:16 -0800
> Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Commit 84badc5ec5fc ("ARM: dts: omap4: Move l4 child devices to probe
>> them with ti-sysc") started producing a warning for pwm-omap-dmtimer:
>>
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 77 at drivers/bus/omap_l3_noc.c:147
>> l3_interrupt_handler+0x2f8/0x388
>> 44000000.ocp:L3 Custom Error: MASTER MPU TARGET L4PER2 (Idle):
>> Data Access in Supervisor mode during Functional access
>> ...
>> __pm_runtime_idle
>> omap_dm_timer_disable
>> pwm_omap_dmtimer_start
>> pwm_omap_dmtimer_enable
>> pwm_apply_state
>> pwm_vibrator_start
>> pwm_vibrator_play_work
>>
>> This is because the timer that pwm-omap-dmtimer is using is now being
>> probed with ti-sysc interconnect target module instead of omap_device
>> and the ti-sysc quirk for SYSC_QUIRK_LEGACY_IDLE is not fully
>> compatible with what omap_device has been doing.
>>
>> We could fix this by reverting the timer changes and have the timer
>> probe again with omap_device. Or we could add more quirk handling to
>> ti-sysc driver. But as these options don't work nicely as longer term
>> solutions, let's just make timers probe with ti-sysc without any
>> quirks.
>>
>> To do this, all we need to do is remove quirks for timers for ti-sysc,
>> and drop the bogus pm_runtime_irq_safe() flag for timer-ti-dm.
>>
>> We should not use pm_runtime_irq_safe() anyways for drivers as it will
>> take a permanent use count on the parent device blocking the parent
>> devices from idling and has been forcing ti-sysc driver to use a
>> quirk flag.
>>
>> Note that we will move the timer data to DEBUG section later on in
>> clean-up patches.
>>
> together with 1/3 it fixes things on pyra.
>
> Tested-By: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>