Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts

[Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>]

Hi Michael,

Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2023, 13:51:53 CET schrieb Michael Walle:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 2023-01-05 13:21, schrieb Alexander Stein:
> > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2023, 13:11:37 CET schrieb Michael Walle:
> >> thanks for debugging. I'm not yet sure what is going wrong, so
> >> I have some more questions below.
> >> 
> >> >> This causes the following errors on existing boards (imx8mq-tqma8mq-
> >> >> mba8mx.dtb):
> >> >> root@tqma8-common:~# uname -r
> >> >> 6.2.0-rc2-next-20230105
> >> >> 
> >> >> > OF: /soc@0: could not get #nvmem-cell-cells for /soc@0/bus@30000000/
> >> >> 
> >> >> efuse@30350000/soc-uid@4
> >> >> 
> >> >> > OF: /soc@0/bus@30800000/ethernet@30be0000: could not get
> >> >> > #nvmem-cell-cells
> >> >> 
> >> >> for /soc@0/bus@30000000/efuse@30350000/mac-address@90
> >> >> 
> >> >> These are caused because '#nvmem-cell-cells = <0>;' is not explicitly
> >> >> set in
> >> >> DT.
> >> >> 
> >> >> > TI DP83867 30be0000.ethernet-1:0e: error -EINVAL: failed to get
> >> >> > nvmem
> >> >> > cell
> >> >> 
> >> >> io_impedance_ctrl
> >> >> 
> >> >> > TI DP83867: probe of 30be0000.ethernet-1:0e failed with error -22
> >> >> 
> >> >> These are caused because of_nvmem_cell_get() now returns -EINVAL
> >> >> instead of -
> >> >> ENODEV if the requested nvmem cell is not available.
> >> 
> >> What do you mean with not available? Not yet available because of
> >> probe
> >> order?
> > 
> > Ah, I was talking about there is no nvmem cell being used in my PHY
> > node, e.g.
> > no 'nvmem-cells' nor 'nvmem-cell-names' (set to 'io_impedance_ctrl').
> > That's
> > why of_property_match_string returns -EINVAL.
> 
> Ahh I see. You mean ENOENT instead of ENODEV, right?

Yeah you are right here, ENOENT is the one missing.

> >> > Should we just assume #nvmem-cell-cells = <0> by default? I guess it's
> >> > a safe assumption.
> >> 
> >> Actually, that's what patch 2/21 is for.
> >> 
> >> Alexander, did you verify that the EINVAL is returned by
> >> of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args()?
> > 
> > Yep.
> > 
> > --8<--
> > diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> > index 1b61c8bf0de4..f2a85a31d039 100644
> > --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> > @@ -1339,9 +1339,11 @@ struct nvmem_cell *of_nvmem_cell_get(struct
> > device_node
> > *np, const char *id)
> > 
> >         if (id)
> >         
> >                 index = of_property_match_string(np,
> > 
> > "nvmem-cell-names", id);
> > 
> > +       pr_info("%s: index: %d\n", __func__, index);
> > 
> >         ret = of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args(np, "nvmem-cells",
> >         
> >                                                   "#nvmem-cell-cells",
> >                                                   index, &cell_spec);
> > 
> > +       pr_info("%s: of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args: %d\n",
> > __func__,
> > ret);
> > 
> >         if (ret)
> >         
> >                 return ERR_PTR(ret);
> > 
> > --8<--
> > 
> > Results in:
> >> [    1.861896] of_nvmem_cell_get: index: -22
> >> [    1.865934] of_nvmem_cell_get: of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args:
> >> -22
> >> [    1.872595] TI DP83867 30be0000.ethernet-1:0e: error -EINVAL:
> >> failed to
> > 
> > get nvmem cell io_impedance_ctrl
> > 
> >> [    2.402575] TI DP83867: probe of 30be0000.ethernet-1:0e failed with
> >> error
> > 
> > -22
> > 
> > So, the index is wrong in the first place, but this was no problem
> > until now.
> 
> Thanks, could you try the following patch:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index 1b61c8bf0de4..1085abfcd9b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -1336,8 +1336,11 @@ struct nvmem_cell *of_nvmem_cell_get(struct
> device_node *np, const char *id)
>          int ret;
> 
>          /* if cell name exists, find index to the name */
> -       if (id)
> +       if (id) {
>                  index = of_property_match_string(np, "nvmem-cell-names",
> id);
> +               if (index < 0)
> +                       return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> +       }
> 
>          ret = of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args(np, "nvmem-cells",
>                                                    "#nvmem-cell-cells",
> 
> Before patch 6/21, the -EINVAL was passed as index to of_parse_phandle()
> which then returned NULL, which caused the nvmem core to return ENOENT.
> I have a vague memory, that I made sure, that
> of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args() will also propagate the
> wrong index to its return code. But now, it won't be converted
> to ENOENT.

Yes, this does the trick. Thanks

Best regards,
Alexander