Re: [PATCH] clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 03:45:15AM -0700, Ron Economos wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:09:14PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:47:55AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > Report an error when an attempt to register a clkdev entry results in a
> > > truncated string so the problem can be easily spotted.
> > >
> > > Reported by: Duanqiang Wen <duanqiangwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > With this patch in the mainline kernel, I get
> >
> > 10000000.clock-controller:corepll: device ID is greater than 24
> > sifive-clk-prci 10000000.clock-controller: Failed to register clkdev for
> corepll: -12
> > sifive-clk-prci 10000000.clock-controller: could not register clocks: -12
> > sifive-clk-prci 10000000.clock-controller: probe with driver
> sifive-clk-prci failed with error -12
> > ...
> > platform 10060000.gpio: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier
> 10000000.clock-controller not ready
> > platform 10010000.serial: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier
> 10000000.clock-controller not ready
> > platform 10011000.serial: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier
> 10000000.clock-controller not ready
> > platform 10040000.spi: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier
> 10000000.clock-controller not ready
> > platform 10050000.spi: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier
> 10000000.clock-controller not ready
> > platform 10090000.ethernet: deferred probe pending: platform: supplier
> 10000000.clock-controller not ready
> >
> > when trying to boot sifive_u in qemu.
> >
> > Apparently, "10000000.clock-controller" is too long. Any suggestion on
> > how to solve the problem ? I guess using dev_name(dev) as dev_id parameter
> > for clk_hw_register_clkdev() is not or no longer a good idea.
> > What else should be used instead ?
> 
> This issue causes a complete boot failure on real hardware (SiFive
> Unmatched). The boot only gets as far as "Starting kernel ..." with no other
> indication of what's going on.
> 
> Guenter's suggested patch solves the issue.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> b/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> index 25b8e1a80ddc..20cc8f42d9eb 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static int __prci_register_clocks(struct device *dev,
> struct __prci_data *pd,
>                          return r;
>                  }
> 
> -               r = clk_hw_register_clkdev(&pic->hw, pic->name,
> dev_name(dev));
> +               r = clk_hw_register_clkdev(&pic->hw, pic->name, "prci");

How about just changing this to:

		r = clk_hw_register(dev, &pic->hw);

?

Since, if the device name is over-sized and thus truncated in the clk
lookup array that clkdev maintains, *nothing* will be able to match
the entry. Hence, I suspect all those clkdev registrations are
completely redundant for this driver (and do nothing other than
waste memory!)

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