Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] clk: divider: Switch from .round_rate to .determine_rate by default | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 2021 14:43:29 -0700 |
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On 7/1/21 1:57 PM, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:25 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > [...] >> [ 0.000000] [<c07be330>] (clk_core_determine_round_nolock) from [<c07c5480>] (clk_core_set_rate_nolock+0x184/0x294) >> [ 0.000000] [<c07c5480>] (clk_core_set_rate_nolock) from [<c07c55c0>] (clk_set_rate+0x30/0x64) >> [ 0.000000] [<c07c55c0>] (clk_set_rate) from [<c163c310>] (imx6ul_clocks_init+0x2798/0x2a44) >> [ 0.000000] [<c163c310>] (imx6ul_clocks_init) from [<c162a4e4>] (of_clk_init+0x180/0x26c) >> [ 0.000000] [<c162a4e4>] (of_clk_init) from [<c1604d34>] (time_init+0x20/0x30) >> [ 0.000000] [<c1604d34>] (time_init) from [<c1600e0c>] (start_kernel+0x4c8/0x6cc) >> [ 0.000000] [<c1600e0c>] (start_kernel) from [<00000000>] (0x0) >> [ 0.000000] Code: bad PC value >> [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 7009a0f298fd39e9 ]--- >> [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! >> >> Bisct points to this patch as culprit. Reverting it fixes the problem. > sorry for breaking imx6 - and at the same time: thanks for reporting this! > > Do you have some additional information about this crash (which clock > this relates to, file and line number, etc.)? > I am struggling to understand the cause of this NULL dereference > My patch doesn't change the clk_core_determine_round_nolock() > implementation and the new determine_rate code-path (inside that > function) doesn't seem to be more fragile in terms of NULL values > compared to the round_rate code-path. > Instead I think it's more likely that the problem is somewhere within > clk_divider_determine_rate() (or in any helper function it uses), but > that doesn't show up in the trace > > I don't have any imx6 board myself and so far I am unable to reproduce > this crash on any hardware I have. > However, if it's a problem in my clk-divider.c changes then I'd like > to find the cause (ASAP) because possibly more SoCs may be broken... >
I don't have such a board either. The problem shows up in my qemu boot tests. See https://kerneltests.org/builders/qemu-arm-v7-next/builds/38/steps/qemubuildcommand/logs/stdio for an example. The problem reproduces with qemu's mcimx6ul-evk and sabrelite emulations.
Guenter
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