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* [PATCH] clk: imx8qxp-lpcg: Warn against devm_platform_ioremap_resource
@ 2019-12-09 20:56 Leonard Crestez
  2019-12-10  6:07 ` Peng Fan
  2019-12-11  8:06 ` Shawn Guo
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Leonard Crestez @ 2019-12-09 20:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Boyd, Shawn Guo, Dong Aisheng
  Cc: Peng Fan, Michael Turquette, Yangtao Li, Anson Huang,
	Fabio Estevam, Rob Herring, Mark Rutland, linux-clk, kernel,
	linux-imx

On imx8 the LPCG nodes map entire subsystems and overlap peripherals,
this means that using devm_platform_ioremap_resource will cause many
devices to fail to probe including serial ports.

Well-meaning but boot-breaking patches were posted multiple times so add
a comment explaining this issue.

Suggested-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
---
 drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8qxp-lpcg.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8qxp-lpcg.c b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8qxp-lpcg.c
index c0aff7ca6374..04c8ee35e14c 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8qxp-lpcg.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8qxp-lpcg.c
@@ -171,10 +171,21 @@ static int imx8qxp_lpcg_clk_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	ss_lpcg = of_device_get_match_data(dev);
 	if (!ss_lpcg)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * Please don't replace this with devm_platform_ioremap_resource.
+	 *
+	 * devm_platform_ioremap_resource calls devm_ioremap_resource which
+	 * differs from devm_ioremap by also calling devm_request_mem_region
+	 * and preventing other mappings in the same area.
+	 *
+	 * On imx8 the LPCG nodes map entire subsystems and overlap
+	 * peripherals, this means that using devm_platform_ioremap_resource
+	 * will cause many devices to fail to probe including serial ports.
+	 */
 	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
 	if (!res)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	base = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, resource_size(res));
 	if (!base)
-- 
2.17.1


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