Re: [PATCH 4/4] rtc: s3c: Fix RTC read on first boot

[Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 18:48, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/10/2021 16:17:24+0300, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > On first RTC boot it has the month register value set to 0.
> > Unconditional subtracting of 1 subsequently in s3c_rtc_gettime() leads
> > to the next error message in kernel log:
> >
> >     hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock
> >
> > That happens in s3c_rtc_probe() when trying to register the RTC, which
> > in turn tries to read and validate the time. Initialize RTC date/time
> > registers to valid values in probe function on the first boot to prevent
> > such errors.
> >
>
> No, never ever do that, the time is bogus and it has to stay this way,
> else userspace can't know whether the time on the RTC is the actual wall
> time or just some random value that you have set from the driver.
>

Thought about that, but that error message looked distracting and not
very helpful in understanding what's actually going on. Anyway, can
you please drop this patch from series (and maybe [PATCH 3/4] too) and
apply the rest?

> > Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c
> > index 238928e29fbc..c7e763bcf61f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c
> > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c
> > @@ -403,6 +403,28 @@ static int s3c_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +/* Set RTC with valid date/time values on first boot */
> > +static int s3c_rtc_init_time(struct s3c_rtc *info)
> > +{
> > +     struct rtc_time tm;
> > +     int ret;
> > +
> > +     ret = s3c_rtc_read_time(info, &tm);
> > +     if (ret)
> > +             return ret;
> > +
> > +     /* Only init RTC date/time on first boot */
> > +     if (tm.tm_mday > 0)
> > +             return 0;
> > +
> > +     /* Init date/time: 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 */
> > +     memset(&tm, 0, sizeof(struct rtc_time));
> > +     tm.tm_mday = 1; /* tm_mday min valid value is 1 */
> > +     tm.tm_mon = 1;  /* January in internal representation */
> > +
> > +     return s3c_rtc_write_time(info, &tm);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static int s3c_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  {
> >       struct s3c_rtc *info = NULL;
> > @@ -471,6 +493,10 @@ static int s3c_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >
> >       device_init_wakeup(&pdev->dev, 1);
> >
> > +     ret = s3c_rtc_init_time(info);
> > +     if (ret)
> > +             goto err_nortc;
> > +
> >       info->rtc = devm_rtc_allocate_device(&pdev->dev);
> >       if (IS_ERR(info->rtc)) {
> >               ret = PTR_ERR(info->rtc);
> > --
> > 2.30.2
> >
>
> --
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