From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8814C433E7 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E3D22200 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730226AbgJSJRy (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:17:54 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:53092 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729941AbgJSJRy (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:17:54 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6174A30E; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus (unknown [10.57.13.246]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7EA003F66E; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:17:48 +0100 From: Sudeep Holla To: Viresh Kumar Cc: ulf.hansson@linaro.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Kevin Hilman , Pavel Machek , Len Brown , Sudeep Holla , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Viresh Kumar , Nishanth Menon , Stephen Boyd , Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Vincent Guittot , nks@flawful.org, georgi.djakov@linaro.org, Stephan Gerhold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] opp: Allow dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() to return -EPROBE_DEFER Message-ID: <20201019091723.GA12087@bogus> References: <24ff92dd1b0ee1b802b45698520f2937418f8094.1598260050.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> <20201015180555.gacdzkofpibkdn2e@bogus> <20201016042434.org6ibdqsqbzcdww@vireshk-i7> <20201016060021.sotk72u4hioctg7o@bogus> <20201016111222.lvakbmjhlrocpogt@bogus> <20201019045827.kl6qnx6gidhzjkrs@vireshk-i7> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201019045827.kl6qnx6gidhzjkrs@vireshk-i7> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:28:27AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 16-10-20, 12:12, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 07:00:21AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:54:34AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > > > On 15-10-20, 19:05, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > > > OK, this breaks with SCMI which doesn't provide clocks but manage OPPs > > > > > directly. Before this change clk_get(dev..) was allowed to fail and > > > > > --EPROBE_DEFER was not an error. > > > > > > > > I think the change in itself is fine. We should be returning from > > > > there if we get EPROBE_DEFER. The question is rather why are you > > > > getting EPROBE_DEFER here ? > > > > > > > > > > Ah OK, I didn't spend too much time, saw -EPROBE_DEFER, just reverted > > > this patch and it worked. I need to check it in detail yet. > > > > > > > You confused me earlier. As I said there will be no clock provider > > registered for SCMI CPU/Dev DVFS. > > opp_table->clk = clk_get(dev, NULL); > > will always return -EPROBE_DEFER as there is no clock provider for dev. > > But this change now propagates that error to caller of dev_pm_opp_add > > which means we can't add opp to a device if there are no clock providers. > > This breaks for DVFS which don't operate separately with clocks and > > regulators. > > The CPUs DT node shouldn't have a clock property in such a case and I > would expect an error instead of EPROBE_DEFER then. Isn't it ? Ideally yes, but for legacy reasons clocks property has been used for providing OPP/DVFS handle too. While we can change and add new property for that, it will still break old bindings. -- Regards, Sudeep