Re: boot stuck at starting kernel, due to __genpd_dev_pm_attach?

[Colin Foster]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 05:43:19PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 5:28 PM Colin Foster
> <colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 08:23:07PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > > You might have already gotten this report, but I tried running v6.0-rc1
> > > > on my BeagleBone Black and it gets stuck right after "Starting kernel
> > > > ..." from U-Boot.
> > > >
> > > > A bisect pointed me to commit 5a46079a9645 ("PM: domains: Delete usage
> > > > of driver_deferred_probe_check_state()").
> > > >
> > > > I don't have much more detail than that, other than I'm using the
> > > > in-tree am335x-boneblack.dts device tree and I believe I had tested with
> > > > the multi-v7-defconfig for this verification. I'm happy to test anything
> > > > that might offer more information.
> > >
> > > Well, standart next step is reverting 5a46079a9645 on top of v6.0-rc1,
> > > and if it starts working, either you get fix in your inbox, or you ask
> > > Linus to revert :-).
> >
> > I was able to revert 5a46079a9645 and 9cbffc7a5956 and successfully boot
> > v6.0-rc1 on the Beaglebone Black.
> >
> > I still don't know whether the root cause is the patch, or perhaps an
> > invalid boneblack DTS. I'll try and dig to get more info about what
> > might be failing. But I do think anyone using a Beaglebone will have
> > this issue, and I also think I'm not the only using the BBB.
> >
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> Thanks for the report. There have been other reports like this. This
> commit in question is probably the cause. I have two series going.
> 
> One [1] is to revert these patches. Probably more suited for 5.19.xxx releases.
> 
> The other [2] is to actually fix the issues you are seeing without
> reverting these patches (long term we do want to keep the patch that's
> causing the issue for you -- not going into the details here). Can you
> give this series[2] a shot and tell me if it fixes the issue? You
> might need to pull in this additional diff on top of [2] (I'll roll it
> into v2 of the series once I get some tests on this)

Hi Saravana,

I can confirm that series [2] fixes the boot issues I was having with
6.0-rc1 on the Beaglebone Black. I did not need to apply the diff you
posted below.

Thanks!

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index 2f012e826986..866755d8ad95 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -2068,7 +2068,11 @@ static int fw_devlink_create_devlink(struct device *con,
>                 device_links_write_unlock();
>         }
> 
> -       sup_dev = get_dev_from_fwnode(sup_handle);
> +       if (sup_handle->flags & FWNODE_FLAG_NOT_DEVICE)
> +               sup_dev = fwnode_get_next_parent_dev(sup_handle);
> +       else
> +               sup_dev = get_dev_from_fwnode(sup_handle);
> +
>         if (sup_dev) {
>                 /*
>                  * If it's one of those drivers that don't actually bind to
> 
> Thanks,
> Saravana
> 
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220727185012.3255200-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220810060040.321697-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx/