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Message-ID: <20190314141529.GA5576@apalos>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:15:29 +0200
From: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
To: Christian Neubert <christian.neubert.86@...il.com>
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
Mike Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
Miquèl Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: mvebu: armada-37xx-periph: Fix initialization for
cpu clocks
Hi,
> Hi,
>
> the cpu frequency scaling never worked right (only on the 4.4 kernel from
> marvell). If you use the 1000 MHz firmware you are running with just 800
> MHz (this is the case on my board with a current firmware).
>
> Just have a look what the kernel thinks it is running at (frequency).
Ok, probably my bad here. By 'worked fine' i mean that this didn't lead to any
freezes or panics. I know the actual frequency wasn't set properly
Regards
/Ilias
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
> Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org> schrieb am Do., 14. März
> 2019, 14:44:
>
> > Hello Christian,
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I assume you use the 1000 MHz firmware. This does also not work on my
> > Rev 7
> > > board. But I'm pretty sure this is not a problem of the patches, because
> > if
> > > I take a newer kernel (4.19.20/27) without the patches it also does not
> > > work. A kernel 4.19.17 does work for me. My opinion on that is that this
> > is
> > > another problem which does just occure now because now the cpu frequency
> > > scaling is working with the right frequencies.
> > I am not sure which firmware i am running, i did all my tests on 5.0.0 and
> > changing between governors worked fine without the patches
> >
> > Regards
> > /Ilias
> > >
> > > Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org> schrieb am Do., 14. März
> > > 2019, 13:15:
> > >
> > > > Hi Gregory,
> > > > > The clock parenting was not setup properly when DVFS was enabled. It
> > was
> > > > > expected that the same clock source was used with and without DVFS
> > which
> > > > > was not the case.
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch fixes this issue, allowing to make the cpufreq support
> > work
> > > > > when the CPU clocks source are not the default ones.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 92ce45fb875d ("cpufreq: Add DVFS support for Armada 37xx")
> > > > > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> > > > > Reported-by: Christian Neubert <christian.neubert.86@...il.com>
> > > > > Reported-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > > > > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > > b/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > > > index 1f1cff428d78..26ed3c18a239 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/clk/mvebu/armada-37xx-periph.c
> > > > > @@ -671,6 +671,17 @@ static int armada_3700_add_composite_clk(const
> > > > struct clk_periph_data *data,
> > > > > map = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_compatible(
> > > > > "marvell,armada-3700-nb-pm");
> > > > > pmcpu_clk->nb_pm_base = map;
> > > > > +
> > > > > + /*
> > > > > + * Use the same parent when DVFS is enabled that the
> > > > > + * default parent received at boot time. When this
> > > > > + * function is called, DVFS is not enabled yet, so we
> > > > > + * get the default parent and we can set the parent
> > > > > + * for DVFS.
> > > > > + */
> > > > > + if (clk_pm_cpu_set_parent(muxrate_hw,
> > > > > +
> > > > clk_pm_cpu_get_parent(muxrate_hw)))
> > > > > + dev_warn(dev, "Failed to setup default parent
> > > > clock for DVFS\n");
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > *hw = clk_hw_register_composite(dev, data->name,
> > > > data->parent_names,
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.20.1
> > > > >
> > > > Applied this and selected only
> > > >
> > > > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
> > > > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
> > > > CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=y
> > > >
> > > > After changing the governor from 'powersave' to 'performance' the board
> > > > completely froze (i even lost access to the serial port)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > /Ilias
> > > >
> >
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