Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] opp: Allow dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() to return -EPROBE_DEFER

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 02:39:32PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> From: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
> 
> The OPP core manages various resources, e.g. clocks or interconnect paths.
> These resources are looked up when the OPP table is allocated once
> dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() is called the first time (either directly
> or indirectly through one of the many helper functions).
> 
> At this point, the resources may not be available yet, i.e. looking them
> up will result in -EPROBE_DEFER. Unfortunately, dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table()
> is currently unable to propagate this error code since it only returns
> the allocated OPP table or NULL.
> 
> This means that all consumers of the OPP core are required to make sure
> that all necessary resources are available. Usually this happens by
> requesting them, checking the result and releasing them immediately after.
> 
> For example, we have added "dev_pm_opp_of_find_icc_paths(dev, NULL)" to
> several drivers now just to make sure the interconnect providers are
> ready before the OPP table is allocated. If this call is missing,
> the OPP core will only warn about this and then attempt to continue
> without interconnect. This will eventually fail horribly, e.g.:
> 
>     cpu cpu0: _allocate_opp_table: Error finding interconnect paths: -517
>     ... later ...
>     of: _read_bw: Mismatch between opp-peak-kBps and paths (1 0)
>     cpu cpu0: _opp_add_static_v2: opp key field not found
>     cpu cpu0: _of_add_opp_table_v2: Failed to add OPP, -22
> 
> This example happens when trying to use interconnects for a CPU OPP
> table together with qcom-cpufreq-nvmem.c. qcom-cpufreq-nvmem calls
> dev_pm_opp_set_supported_hw(), which ends up allocating the OPP table
> early. To fix the problem with the current approach we would need to add
> yet another call to dev_pm_opp_of_find_icc_paths(dev, NULL).
> But actually qcom-cpufreq-nvmem.c has nothing to do with interconnects...
> 
> This commit attempts to make this more robust by allowing
> dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() to return an error pointer. Fixing all
> the usages is trivial because the function is usually used indirectly
> through another helper (e.g. dev_pm_opp_set_supported_hw() above).
> These other helpers already return an error pointer.
> 
> The example above then works correctly because set_supported_hw() will
> return -EPROBE_DEFER, and qcom-cpufreq-nvmem.c already propagates that
> error. It should also be possible to remove the remaining usages of
> "dev_pm_opp_of_find_icc_paths(dev, NULL)" from other drivers as well.
> 
> Note that this commit currently only handles -EPROBE_DEFER for the
> clock/interconnects within _allocate_opp_table(). Other errors are just
> ignored as before. Eventually those should be propagated as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
> [ Viresh: skip checking return value of dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() for
> 	  EPROBE_DEFER in domain.c, fix NULL return value and reorder
> 	  code a bit in core.c, and update exynos-asv.c ]
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
> Stephan, I have made some changes to the code. Please try it again and
> lemme know if it works fine.
> 
>  drivers/base/power/domain.c      | 14 +++++----
>  drivers/opp/core.c               | 53 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  drivers/opp/of.c                 |  8 ++---
>  drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-asv.c |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

For Samsung:
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof