[Freedreno] PSA: ifc6410 / upstream kernel / clock status stuck at 'off' issues

[Jordan Crouse]

On 11/06/2014 10:58 AM, Rob Clark wrote:
> Just FYI, newer ifc6410 boards which are shipping with android 4.4
> bootloaders, seem to have an issue with upstream kernel.
>
> If you are seeing problems like:
>
> -------
> [    2.472644] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 51 at
> drivers/clk/qcom/clk-branch.c:97 clk_branch_wait+0xd0/0x120()
> [    2.472659] mdp_clk status stuck at 'off'
> [    2.472667] Modules linked in:
> [    2.472688] CPU: 3 PID: 51 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc1 #912
> [    2.472719] Workqueue: deferwq deferred_probe_work_func
> [    2.472784] [<c02160fc>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0211afc>]
> (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [    2.472824] [<c0211afc>] (show_stack) from [<c0909864>]
> (dump_stack+0x88/0x98)
> [    2.472859] [<c0909864>] (dump_stack) from [<c0249fa4>]
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x6c/0x88)
> [    2.472889] [<c0249fa4>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c0249ff0>]
> (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
> [    2.472917] [<c0249ff0>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c0792964>]
> (clk_branch_wait+0xd0/0x120)
> [    2.472952] [<c0792964>] (clk_branch_wait) from [<c0787f78>]
> (__clk_enable+0x5c/0x9c)
> [    2.472975] [<c0787f78>] (__clk_enable) from [<c0788464>]
> (clk_enable+0x18/0x2c)
> [    2.473013] [<c0788464>] (clk_enable) from [<c054121c>]
> (mdp4_enable+0xe4/0x110)
> [    2.473048] [<c054121c>] (mdp4_enable) from [<c0541270>]
> (mdp4_hw_init+0x28/0x344)
> [    2.473075] [<c0541270>] (mdp4_hw_init) from [<c0547e60>]
> (msm_load+0x1c8/0x34c)
> [    2.473108] [<c0547e60>] (msm_load) from [<c052596c>]
> (drm_dev_register+0xa8/0x104)
> [    2.473136] [<c052596c>] (drm_dev_register) from [<c0527824>]
> (drm_platform_init+0x44/0xdc)
> [    2.473166] [<c0527824>] (drm_platform_init) from [<c0566538>]
> (try_to_bring_up_master.part.3+0xc8/0x108)
> [    2.473190] [<c0566538>] (try_to_bring_up_master.part.3) from
> [<c0566620>] (component_master_add_with_match+0xa8/0x120)
> -------
>
> Then the solution for now is to downgrade to version 4.2 rpm fw:
>
>     fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
>
> with rpm.mbn from Bootloaders_4.2_880261_V1.0.zip on inforce techweb site.
>
> I've no idea what the root cause is, or why we don't see this on the
> downstream kernel (but I guess it is easier for someone with docs to
> debug).  But sooner or later others will hit the same issue so I
> figured I should send this known workaround to an archived mailing
> list so someone googling for the error has some chance to find it ;-)

Just so you know what is happening here this interesting combination
of error messages is a roundabout way of telling you that you tried
to enable a clock while the regulator was off.

Jordan
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