Re: [RFCv1 5/5] arm64/ARM: configs: Change CONFIG_PWM_MESON from m to y

[Neil Armstrong]

Hi Anand,

On 21/10/2019 16:11, Anand Moon wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 23:40, Martin Blumenstingl
> <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anand,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:04 PM Anand Moon <linux.amoon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> Next step it to try narrow down the clock causing the issue.
>>>> Remove clk_ignore_unused from the command line and add CLK_INGORE_UNUSED
>>>> to the flag of some clocks your clock controller (g12a I think) until
>>>>
>>>> The peripheral clock gates already have this flag (something we should
>>>> fix someday) so don't bother looking there.
>>>>
>>>> Most likely the source of the pwm is getting disabled between the
>>>> late_init call and the probe of the PWM module. Since the pwm is already
>>>> active (w/o a driver), gating the clock source shuts dowm the power to
>>>> the cores.
>>>>
>>>> Looking a the possible inputs in pwm driver, I'd bet on fdiv4.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had give this above steps a try but with little success.
>>> I am still looking into this much close.
>> it's not clear to me if you have only tested with the PWM and/or
>> FCLK_DIV4 clocks. can you please describe what you have tested so far?
>>
> Sorry for delayed response.
> 
> I had just looked into clk related to SD_EMMC_A/B/C,
> with adding CLK_IGNORE/CRITICAL.
> Also looked into clk_summary for eMMC and microSD card,
> to identify the root cause, but I failed to move ahead.
> 
>> for reference - my way of debugging this in the past was:
>> 1. add some printks to clk_disable_unused_subtree (right after the
>> clk_core_is_enabled check) to see which clocks are being disabled
>> 2. add CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED or CLK_IS_CRITICAL to the clocks which are
>> being disabled based on the information from step #1
>> 3. (at some point I had a working kernel with lots of clocks with
>> CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED/CLK_IS_CRITICAL)
>> 4. start dropping the CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED/CLK_IS_CRITICAL flags again
>> until you have traced it down to the clocks that are the actual issue
>> (so far I always had only one clock which caused issues, but it may be
>> multiple)
>> 5. investigate (and/or ask on the mailing list, Amlogic developers are
>> reading the mails here as well) for the few clocks from step #4
>>
> 
> Thanks for you valuable suggestion. I have your patch to debug this
> [0]  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9725921/mbox/
> 
> So from the fist step I could identify that all the clk were getting closed
> after some core cpu clk was failing. Here is the log.
> 
> step1: [1] https://pastebin.com/p13F9HGG
> 
> so I marked these clk as CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED and finally
> I made it to boot using microSD card.
> 
> After this just I converted these CLK to CLK_IS_CRITICAL
> as mostly these are used the CPU clk for now.
> Here is boot log successful for as of now.
> 
> Finally: [2]  https://pastebin.com/qB6pMyGQ
> 
> I know clk maintainer are against marking flags as *CLK_IS_CRITICAL*
> But this is just the step to move ahead.

Thanks for the extensive debug.

> 
> Attach is my local clk and dts patch.Just for testing.
> [3] clk_critical.patch


Could you test with only the following changes:
diff --git a/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c b/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c
index ea4c791f106d..f49f5463363e 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static struct clk_regmap g12a_fclk_div2 = {
                        &g12a_fclk_div2_div.hw
                },
                .num_parents = 1,
+               .flags = CLK_IS_CRITICAL,
        },
 };

@@ -672,7 +673,7 @@ static struct clk_regmap g12b_cpub_clk = {
                        &g12a_sys_pll.hw
                },
                .num_parents = 2,
-               .flags = CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT,
+               .flags = CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT | CLK_IS_CRITICAL,
        },
 };

> 
> Plz share your thought on this.
> 
>>> Well I am not the expert in clk or bus configuration.
>>> but after looking into the datasheet of for clk configuration
>>> I found some bus are not configured correctly.
>> did you find any reason which indicates that the problem is related to a bus?
>> the issues I had were due to clocks not being assigned to their
>> consumers in .dts - that can be anything (from a bus to something
>> different).
>>
> 
> Yes I feel each core bus should be independent
> as each clk PLL controls these bus.
> 
> for example datasheet: *6-5 Clock Connections*
> 
> What I feel currently missing with bus are
> clock gating (enable/disable of features).
> clock-controller
> reset-controller
> 
> Here is the current overview of bus topology
> using latest u-boot (dm tree).
> 
> [4] https://pastebin.com/MZ25bgiP
> 
> Bet Regards
> -Anand
>