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From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: Warn and add workaround on misuse of .parent_data with .name only
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:40:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5b71c243022d341022b4f172060268b.sboyd@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230131160829.23369-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com>

Quoting Christian Marangi (2023-01-31 08:08:28)
> By a simple mistake in a .parent_names to .parent_data conversion it was
> found that clk core assume fw_name is always provided with a parent_data
> struct for each parent and never fallback to .name to get parent name even
> if declared.

It sounds like you have clk_parent_data and the .index member is 0? Can
you show an example structure? I'm guessing it is like this:

	struct clk_parent_data pdata = { .name = "global_name" };

> 
> This is caused by clk_core_get that only checks for parent .fw_name and
> doesn't handle .name.

clk_core_get() is not supposed to operate on the .name member. It is a
firmware based lookup with clkdev as a fallback because clkdev is a
psudeo-firmware interface to assign a name to a clk when some device
pointer is used in conjunction with it.

> 
> While it's sane to request the dev to correctly do the conversion and
> add both .fw_name and .name in a parent_data struct, it's not sane to
> silently drop parents without a warning.

I suppose we can do

	WARN(parent->index >= 0 && !parent_data[i].fw_name && parent_data[i].name, ...);

or maybe better would be to make the clk registration fail if there's a
.name field and the index is non-negative and the fw_name is NULL.

Can you grep the code and see if anyone is assigning a .name without a
.fw_name or .index?

> 
> Fix this in 2 ways. Add a kernel warning when a wrong implementation is
> used and copy .name in .fw_name in parent map populate function to
> handle clk problems and malfunctions.

We shouldn't be copying .name to .fw_name. They're different things.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-11  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-31 16:08 [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: Warn and add workaround on misuse of .parent_data with .name only Christian Marangi
2023-01-31 16:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] clk: gate: Add missing fw_name for clk_gate_register_test_parent_data_legacy Christian Marangi
2023-02-11  0:52   ` Stephen Boyd
2023-02-10 18:39     ` Christian Marangi
2023-02-11  0:40 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2023-02-10 18:34   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: Warn and add workaround on misuse of .parent_data with .name only Christian Marangi
2023-02-15 18:54     ` Stephen Boyd
2023-02-15 23:33       ` Christian Marangi

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