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From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:26:22 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] PM: domains: Delete usage of driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc:     Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 5:11 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 2:10 AM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> [220623 08:17]:
> > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 12:01 AM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > * Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> [220622 19:05]:
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 9:59 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> > > > > > This issue is no directly related fw_devlink. It is a side effect of
> > > > > > removing driver_deferred_probe_check_state(). We no longer return
> > > > > > -EPROBE_DEFER at the end of driver_deferred_probe_check_state().
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, I understand the issue. But driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
> > > > > was deleted because fw_devlink=on should have short circuited the
> > > > > probe attempt with an  -EPROBE_DEFER before reaching the bus/driver
> > > > > probe function and hitting this -ENOENT failure. That's why I was
> > > > > asking the other questions.
> > > >
> > > > OK. So where is the -EPROBE_DEFER supposed to happen without
> > > > driver_deferred_probe_check_state() then?
> > >
> > > device_links_check_suppliers() call inside really_probe() would short
> > > circuit and return an -EPROBE_DEFER if the device links are created as
> > > expected.
> >
> > OK
> >
> > > > Hmm so I'm not seeing any supplier for the top level ocp device in
> > > > the booting case without your patches. I see the suppliers for the
> > > > ocp child device instances only.
> > >
> > > Hmmm... this is strange (that the device link isn't there), but this
> > > is what I suspected.
> >
> > Yup, maybe it's because of the supplier being a device in the child
> > interconnect for the ocp.
>
> Ugh... yeah, this is why the normal (not SYNC_STATE_ONLY) device link
> isn't being created.
>
> So the aggregated view is something like (I had to set tabs = 4 space
> to fit it within 80 cols):
>
>     ocp: ocp {         <========================= Consumer
>         compatible = "simple-pm-bus";
>         power-domains = <&prm_per>; <=========== Supplier ref
>
>                 l4_wkup: interconnect@44c00000 {
>             compatible = "ti,am33xx-l4-wkup", "simple-pm-bus";
>
>             segment@200000 {  /* 0x44e00000 */
>                 compatible = "simple-pm-bus";
>
>                 target-module@0 { /* 0x44e00000, ap 8 58.0 */
>                     compatible = "ti,sysc-omap4", "ti,sysc";
>
>                     prcm: prcm@0 {
>                         compatible = "ti,am3-prcm", "simple-bus";
>
>                         prm_per: prm@c00 { <========= Actual Supplier
>                             compatible = "ti,am3-prm-inst", "ti,omap-prm-inst";
>                         };
>                     };
>                 };
>             };
>         };
>     };
>
> The power-domain supplier is the great-great-great-grand-child of the
> consumer. It's not clear to me how this is valid. What does it even
> mean?
>
> Rob, is this considered a valid DT?

Valid DT for broken h/w.

So the domain must be default on and then simple-pm-bus is going to
hold a reference to the domain preventing it from ever getting powered
off and things seem to work. Except what happens during suspend?

Rob