Re: [PATCH] clk: mvebu: armada-37xx-periph: Fix initialization for cpu clocks

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hello Christian,
> Hi,
> 
> I assume you use the 1000 MHz firmware. This does also not work on my Rev 7
> board. But I'm pretty sure this is not a problem of the patches, because if
> I take a newer kernel (4.19.20/27) without the patches it also does not
> work. A kernel 4.19.17 does work for me. My opinion on that is that this is
> another problem which does just occure now because now the cpu frequency
> scaling is working with the right frequencies.
I am not sure which firmware i am running, i did all my tests on 5.0.0 and
changing between governors worked fine without the patches

Regards
/Ilias
> 
> Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Do., 14. März
> 2019, 13:15:
> 
> > Hi Gregory,
> > > The clock parenting was not setup properly when DVFS was enabled. It was
> > > expected that the same clock source was used with and without DVFS which
> > > was not the case.
> > >
> > > This patch fixes this issue, allowing to make the cpufreq support work
> > > when the CPU clocks source are not the default ones.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 92ce45fb875d ("cpufreq: Add DVFS support for Armada 37xx")
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Christian Neubert <christian.neubert.86@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > b/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > index 1f1cff428d78..26ed3c18a239 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > @@ -671,6 +671,17 @@ static int armada_3700_add_composite_clk(const
> > struct clk_periph_data *data,
> > >               map = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible(
> > >                               "marvell,armada-3700-nb-pm");
> > >               pmcpu_clk->nb_pm_base = map;
> > > +
> > > +             /*
> > > +              * Use the same parent when DVFS is enabled that the
> > > +              * default parent received at boot time. When this
> > > +              * function is called, DVFS is not enabled yet, so we
> > > +              * get the default parent and we can set the parent
> > > +              * for DVFS.
> > > +              */
> > > +             if (clk_pm_cpu_set_parent(muxrate_hw,
> > > +
> >  clk_pm_cpu_get_parent(muxrate_hw)))
> > > +                     dev_warn(dev, "Failed to setup default parent
> > clock for DVFS\n");
> > >       }
> > >
> > >       *hw = clk_hw_register_composite(dev, data->name,
> > data->parent_names,
> > > --
> > > 2.20.1
> > >
> > Applied this and selected only
> >
> > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
> > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
> > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y
> >
> > After changing the governor from 'powersave' to 'performance' the board
> > completely froze (i even lost access to the serial port)
> >
> > Cheers
> > /Ilias
> >