Re: [PATCH 1/4] clk: Remove WARN_ON NULL parent in clk_core_init_rate_req()

Stephen Boyd
2022-10-28T00:06:46Z

Quoting Maxime Ripard (2022-10-18 06:52:56)
> If a clock has CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT, but core->parent is NULL (most
> likely because it's orphan), callers of clk_core_init_rate_req() will
> blindly call this function leading to a very verbose warning.
>
> Since it's a fairly common situation, let's just remove the WARN_ON but
> keep the check that prevents us from dereferencing the pointer.
>
> Interestingly, it fixes a regression on the Mediatek MT8195 where the
> GPU would stall during a clk_set_rate for its main clock. We couldn't
> come up with a proper explanation since the condition is essentially the
> same.
>
> It was then assumed that it could be timing related since printing the
> warning stacktrace takes a while, but we couldn't replicate the failure
> by using fairly large (10ms) mdelays.
>
> Fixes: 262ca38f4b6e ("clk: Stop forwarding clk_rate_requests to the parent")
> Reported-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
> ---

Applied to clk-fixes