Re: [PATCH v2] clk: tegra: Use readl_relaxed_poll_timeout_atomic in tegra210_clock_init

From: Nicolin Chen
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 20:19:19 EST


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:42:24AM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > > Below is the call trace of tegra210_init_pllu() function:
> > > > start_kernel()
> > > > -> time_init()
> > > > --> of_clk_init()
> > > > ---> tegra210_clock_init()
> > > > ----> tegra210_pll_init()
> > > > -----> tegra210_init_pllu()
>
> > I'm wondering why we're not seeing a splat for this. Usually the kernel
> > will warn if you sleep during atomic context. Does this mean we're just
> > not hitting that case?
>
> Yes.
>
> > readx_poll_timeout() has a might_sleep_if(), and
> > therefore it should always cause the splat.
>
> That's true as long as CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled locally.
>
> > Any ideas why this has gone unnoticed for all this time?
>
> We can see in the tegra210_init_pllu() function that it'll not call
> tegra210_enable_pllu() if pllu is already enabled (by bootloader).
>
> You can verify it by adding an irqs_disabled() in this routine. The
> function is called during system-boot and suspend-n-resume. And both

A correction: using mainline kernel, only system-boot as the commit log
describes.

> cases should be irqs_disabled().
>
> Thanks
> Nicolin