Re: How to fix WARN from drivers/base/dd.c in next-20200401 if CONFIG_MODULES=y?

[John Stultz]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 4:47 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:27 PM John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 3:17 AM Yoshihiro Shimoda
> > <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I found an issue after applied the following patches:
> > > ---
> > > 64c775f driver core: Rename deferred_probe_timeout and make it global
> > > 0e9f8d0 driver core: Remove driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue()
> > > bec6c0e pinctrl: Remove use of driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue()
> > > e2cec7d driver core: Set deferred_probe_timeout to a longer default if CONFIG_MODULES is set
>
> Note that just setting deferred_probe_timeout = -1 like for the
> CONFIG_MODULES=n case doesn't help.

Yea. I can see why in that case, as we're checking
!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES) directly in
driver_deferred_probe_check_state.

I guess we could switch that to checking
(driver_deferred_probe_timeout == -1) which would have the same logic
and at least make it consistent if someone specifies -1 on the command
line (since now it will effectively have it EPROBE_DEFER forever in
that case). But also having a timeout=infinity could be useful if
folks don't want the deferring to time out.  Maybe in the !modules
case setting it to =0 would be the most clear.

But that's sort of a further cleanup. I'm still more worried about the
NFS failure below.


> > Hey,
> >   Terribly sorry for the trouble. So as Robin mentioned I have a patch
> > to remove the WARN messages, but I'm a bit more concerned about why
> > after the 30 second delay, the ethernet driver loads:
> >   [   36.218666] ravb e6800000.ethernet eth0: Base address at
> > 0xe6800000, 2e:09:0a:02:eb:2d, IRQ 117.
> > but NFS fails.
> >
> > Is it just that the 30 second delay is too long and NFS gives up?
>
> I added some debug code to mount_nfs_root(), which shows that the first
> 3 tries happen before ravb is instantiated, and the last 3 tries happen
> after.  So NFS root should work, if the network works.
>
> However, it seems the Ethernet PHY is never initialized, hence the link
> never becomes ready.  Dmesg before/after:
>
>      ravb e6800000.ethernet eth0: Base address at 0xe6800000,
> 2e:09:0a:02:ea:ff, IRQ 108.
>
> Good.
>
>      ...
>     -gpio_rcar e6052000.gpio: sense irq = 11, type = 8
>
> This is the GPIO the PHY IRQ is connected to.
> Note that that GPIO controller has been instantiated before.
>
>      ...
>     -Micrel KSZ9031 Gigabit PHY e6800000.ethernet-ffffffff:00:
> attached PHY driver [Micrel KSZ9031 Gigabit PHY]
> (mii_bus:phy_addr=e6800000.ethernet-ffffffff:00, irq=197)
>      ...
>     -ravb e6800000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
>
> Oops.
>
>     -Sending DHCP requests .., OK
>     -IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from ...
>      ...
>     +VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
>     +VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0): error -6
>
> > Does booting with deferred_probe_timeout=0 work?
>
> It does, as now everything using optional links (DMA and IOMMU) is now
> instantiated on first try.

Thanks so much for helping clarify this!

So it's at least good to hear that booting with
deferred_probe_timeout=0 is working!  But I'm bummed the NFS (or as
you pointed out in your later mail,  ip_auto_config) falls over
because the network isn't immediately there.

Looking a little closer at the ip_auto_config() code, I think the
issue may be that wait_for_device_probe() is effectively returning too
early, since the probe_defer_timeout is still active? I need to dig a
bit more on that code, on Monday, as I don't fully understand it yet.

If I can't find a way to address that, I think the best course will be
to set the driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to default to 0
regardless of the value of CONFIG_MODULES, so we don't cause any
apparent regression from previous behavior. That will also sort out
the less intuitive = -1 initialization in the non-modules case.

In any case, I'll try to have a patch to send out on Monday.

thanks
-john