Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: aspeed: Force to disable the function's signal

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On 19.01.23 02:54, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 at 22:48, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2022, at 07:26, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:18 PM Billy Tsai <billy_tsai@aspeedtech.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When the driver want to disable the signal of the function, it doesn't
>>>> need to query the state of the mux function's signal on a pin. The
>>>> condition below will miss the disable of the signal:
> 
>>> I can't see the verdict for this patch? Will there be a new
>>> version, or are we in the middle of a discussion?
>>> I'd really like Andrew's ACK on the result before merging.
>>
>> Apologies, it's been a bit of A Week :)
>>
>> Given the approach has been discussed with the IP designer and solves a bug I'm okay for it to be merged. If we run into issues it is easy enough to back it out.
> 
> As foreseen by Andrew, this caused a regression. On the Romulus
> machine the device tree contains a gpio hog for GPIO S7. With the
> patch applied:
> 
> [    0.384796] aspeed-g5-pinctrl 1e6e2080.pinctrl: request pin 151
> (AA20) for 1e780000.gpio:943
> [    0.385009] Muxing pin 151 for GPIO
> [    0.385081] Disabling signal VPOB9 for VPO
> [    0.402291] aspeed-g5-pinctrl 1e6e2080.pinctrl: Failed to acquire
> regmap for IP block 1
> [    0.402521] aspeed-g5-pinctrl 1e6e2080.pinctrl: request() failed for pin 151
> 
> The code path is aspeed-gpio -> pinmux-g5 -> regmap -> clk, and the
> of_clock code returns an error as it doesn't have a valid struct
> clk_hw pointer. The regmap call happens because pinmux wants to check
> the GFX node (IP block 1) to query bits there.
> 
> For reference, reverting the patch gives us this trace:
> 
> [    0.393160] Muxing pin 151 for GPIO
> [    0.393267] Disabling signal VPOB9 for VPO
> [    0.393383] Want SCU8C[0x00000080]=0x1, got 0x0 from 0x00000000
> [    0.393552] Disabling signal VPOB9 for VPOOFF1
> [    0.393681] Want SCU8C[0x00000080]=0x1, got 0x0 from 0x00000000
> [    0.393835] Disabling signal VPOB9 for VPOOFF2
> [    0.393965] Want SCU8C[0x00000080]=0x1, got 0x0 from 0x00000000
> [    0.394097] Enabling signal GPIOS7 for GPIOS7
> [    0.394217] Muxed pin 151 as GPIOS7
> [    0.394411] gpio-943 (seq_cont): hogged as output/low
> 
> This can be reproduced in qemu without userspace:
> 
> qemu-system-arm -M romulus-bmc -nographic -kernel arch/arm/boot/zImage
> -dtb arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-opp-romulus.dtb -no-reboot
> 
> Billy, do you have any suggestions?

Thanks for the report. To be sure the issue doesn't fall through the
cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, the Linux kernel regression
tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced cf517fef601b
#regzbot title pinctrl: aspeed-g5-pinctrl 1e6e2080.pinctrl: Failed to
acquire regmap for IP block 1
#regzbot ignore-activity

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