Re: [PATCH v6 17/17] soc: qcom: llcc: Do not create EDAC platform device on SDM845

[Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:37:29PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 18/01/2023 16:09, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > The platforms based on SDM845 SoC locks the access to EDAC registers in the
> > bootloader. So probing the EDAC driver will result in a crash. Hence,
> > disable the creation of EDAC platform device on all SDM845 devices.
> > 
> > The issue has been observed on Lenovo Yoga C630 and DB845c.
> > 
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10
> > Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@kali.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/soc/qcom/llcc-qcom.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/llcc-qcom.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/llcc-qcom.c
> > index 7b7c5a38bac6..8d840702df50 100644
> > --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/llcc-qcom.c
> > +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/llcc-qcom.c
> > @@ -1012,11 +1012,18 @@ static int qcom_llcc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  
> >  	drv_data->ecc_irq = platform_get_irq_optional(pdev, 0);
> >  
> > -	llcc_edac = platform_device_register_data(&pdev->dev,
> > -					"qcom_llcc_edac", -1, drv_data,
> > -					sizeof(*drv_data));
> > -	if (IS_ERR(llcc_edac))
> > -		dev_err(dev, "Failed to register llcc edac driver\n");
> > +	/*
> > +	 * The platforms based on SDM845 SoC locks the access to EDAC registers
> > +	 * in bootloader. So probing the EDAC driver will result in a crash.
> > +	 * Hence, disable the creation of EDAC platform device on SDM845.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (!of_device_is_compatible(dev->of_node, "qcom,sdm845-llcc")) {
> 
> Don't spread of_device_is_compatible() in driver code. You have driver
> data for this.
> 

Yeah, but there is no ID to in the driver data to identify an SoC. I could add
one but is that really worth doing so? Is using of_device_is_compatible() in
drivers discouraged nowadays?

Thanks,
Mani

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 

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