linux-kernel - Re: New underflow of regulator enable count warnings in v5.0-rc1

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Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:27:06 -0800
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
Cc:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New underflow of regulator enable count warnings in v5.0-rc1

* Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org> [190129 17:18]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:48:13AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Looks like commit 5451781dadf8 ("regulator: core: Only count load for
> > enabled consumers") started showing new warnings with v5.0-rc cycle:
> > 
> > regulator-dummy: Underflow of regulator enable count
> > 
> > I'm seeing this at least with my pwm-vibra test case:
> > 
> > # rumble-test /dev/input/by-path/platform-vibrator-event 0xffff
> > pwm-vibrator vibrator: vibrator supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
> > input: pwm-vibrator as /devices/platform/vibrator/input/input4
> > regulator-dummy: Underflow of regulator enable count
> > Upload rumble effect... id=0
> > regulator-dummy: Underflow of regulator enable count
> > 
> > Are these bogus warnings for dummy regulator or do we have
> > real unpaired regulator calls or somewhere?
> 
> There are real unpaired regulator calls in the pwm-vibrator driver,
> that I did not notice when I wrote the driver :(. Good news is, that
> Paweł Chmiel and Jonathan Bakker are already working on fixing my mess:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1032759/

OK good to hear.

> On Droid 4 it's a dummy regulator, since I did not know what
> regulator is being used to supply the vibrator. Probably directly
> from the battery.

Yeah no idea.. Hmm maybe it's actually using the VVIB on the pmic?

Regards,

Tony