[PATCH 0/9] drm/msm: Avoid possible infinite probe deferral and speed booting

From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
	Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>, Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/9] drm/msm: Avoid possible infinite probe deferral and speed booting
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:02:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200710230224.2265647-1-dianders@chromium.org> (raw)

I found that if I ever had a little mistake in my kernel config,
or device tree, or graphics driver that my system would sit in a loop
at bootup trying again and again and again.  An example log was:

  msm ae00000.mdss: bound ae01000.mdp (ops 0xffffffe596e951f8)
  msm_dsi ae94000.dsi: ae94000.dsi supply gdsc not found, using dummy regulator
  msm_dsi_manager_register: failed to register mipi dsi host for DSI 0
  [drm:ti_sn_bridge_probe] *ERROR* could not find any panel node
  ...

I finally tracked it down where this was happening:
  - msm_pdev_probe() is called.
  - msm_pdev_probe() registers drivers.  Registering drivers kicks
    off processing of probe deferrals.
  - component_master_add_with_match() could return -EPROBE_DEFER.
    making msm_pdev_probe() return -EPROBE_DEFER.
  - When msm_pdev_probe() returned the processing of probe deferrals
    happens.
  - Loop back to the start.

It looks like we can fix this by marking "mdss" as a "simple-bus".
I have no idea if people consider this the right thing to do or a
hack.  Hopefully it's the right thing to do.  :-)

Once I do this I notice that my boot gets marginally faster (you
don't need to probe the sub devices over and over) and also if I
have a problem it doesn't loop forever (on my system it still
gets upset about some stuck clocks in that case, but at least I
can boot up).

Unless someone hates this, I'd expect:
- Get Rob H to say that the bindings are OK (if they are) and yell
  that these really need to be converted to yaml (they do).
- Get Sean or Rob C to land the bindings and driver patch.
- Get Andy or Bjorn to land the dts bits.

NOTES:
- The first patch could land either way.  It's just a cleanup.
- I tried to split the dts files into separate patches to ease
  backporting if desired.  Also because I can't actually test most
  of this hardware myself.

Douglas Anderson (9):
  drm/msm: Use the devm variant of of_platform_populate()
  dt-bindings: msm/dpu: Add simple-bus to dpu bindings
  dt-bindings: msm/mdp5: Add simple-bus to dpu bindings
  drm/msm: Avoid manually populating our children if "simple-bus" is
    there
  arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Add "simple-bus" to our mdss node
  arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: Add "simple-bus" to our mdss node
  arm64: dts: qcom: msm8916: Add "simple-bus" to our mdss node
  arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Add "simple-bus" to our mdss node
  ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974: Add "simple-bus" to our mdss node

 .../devicetree/bindings/display/msm/dpu.txt   |  4 ++-
 .../devicetree/bindings/display/msm/mdp5.txt  |  2 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-msm8974.dtsi           |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi         |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi         |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7180.dtsi          |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi          |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c                 | 34 ++++++++-----------
 8 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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