Re: [PATCH v6] amba: Remove deferred device addition

[Saravana Kannan]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:34 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/9/22 17:42, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 3:30 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:19:35AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> >>> The uevents generated for an amba device need PID and CID information
> >>> that's available only when the amba device is powered on, clocked and
> >>> out of reset. So, if those resources aren't available, the information
> >>> can't be read to generate the uevents. To workaround this requirement,
> >>> if the resources weren't available, the device addition was deferred and
> >>> retried periodically.
> >>>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> This patch results in a large number of crashes in various qemu
> >> emulations. Crash and bisect logs below. Reverting this patch
> >> fixes the problem.
> >
> > Hey Guenter,
> >
> > Thanks for the report. I'm kinda surprised because I had a pl011 probe
> > successfully in my local testing.
> >
>
> Maybe it only happens with qemu emulations, or with certain configurations.

I tested on a qemu emulation too.

Can you give me more details on the qemu configuration so I could try
to reproduce it?

> > I'm wondering if you are having an interaction with some other changes I made.
> > Can you try pulling this series in and see if it helps?
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220727185012.3255200-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> >> Additional information: The decoded stack trace suggests that the
> >> "id" parameter of pl011_probe() may be NULL.
> >
> > That's strange! I'll take a closer look once you confirm that the
> > series above doesn't help.
> >
>
> That series does not make a difference.

Thanks for checking that.

-Saravana