Re: [PATCH] Revert "irqchip/mtk-sysirq: Convert to a platform driver"

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2020-08-20 09:07, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:56 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2020-08-19 19:51, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:52 AM Frank Wunderlich <wichtig@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> hi,
> > >>
> > >> does the fix you've linked to my revert [1] not work in your case?
> > >>
> > >> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11718481/
> > >
> > > Thanks for pointing it out Frank. Also, might want to avoid top
> > > posting in the future.
> > >
> > > Enric, Can you please try that other fix and see if that solves your
> > > issue?
> >
> > I think Enric was clear that the driver does probe correctly
> > (meaning that he has the fix in his tree). It is everything else
> > that breaks, because none of the drivers on the platform are
> > equipped to defer their own probing.
> >
> > I think we need to change this works right now, meaning that we can't
> > blindly change the behaviour of *built-in* drivers. I'll see if I can
> > come up with something quickly, but I'll otherwise take Enric patch.
>
> Sounds fair Marc.
>
> Btw, Enric, out of curiosity, can you try adding "fw_devlink=on" to
> your kernel command line to see if it helps? It basically ensures
> proper probe ordering without depending on the drivers. There are some
> corner cases where it still can't work properly (too much to explain
> for a late night email), but if the platforms don't have those corner
> cases it'll work perfectly.
>
> I'm fine with the revert if Marc isn't able to find a quick fix to the
> drivers, but this might also fix your problem right away.

I'm afraid there is no quick fix if we want to preserve the current
behavior with built-in drivers, and not having "fw_devlink=on" by
default makes it irrelevant for most people.

fw_devlink also prevents my test platforms from booting (my rk3399
doesn't find its PCI devices with it), while the same kernel boots
just fine without it. It could well be that the corner case is
likely to be more prevalent than you seem to expect.

I will probably end-up end-up queuing reverts for both mtk-sysirq,
mtk-cirq, and qcom-pdc (the first two can't be built as module with
mainline anyway, and I seem to remember that the latter caused some
controversy as well).

As an experiment, I have pushed out a branch[1] that implements
a "hybrid" probe, retaining the previous early probe mechanism when
the driver is built-in, and letting things rip when built as a
module (if you do that, you hopefully know what you are doing).
I'd welcome some testing on affected platforms (I don't have
anything I can run mainline on that'd be affected).

Thanks,

        M.

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=irq/hybrid-probe
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