linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: Fix removal of valid error case when checking speed

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Date:   Mon, 5 Apr 2021 10:21:01 -0700
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>, Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@...eaurora.org>,
        Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        YongQin Liu <yongqin.liu@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: Fix removal of valid error case when checking speed_bin

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:34 PM John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> Commit 7bf168c8fe8c  ("drm/msm: Fix speed-bin support not to
> access outside valid memory"), reworked the nvmem reading of
> "speed_bin", but in doing so dropped handling of the -ENOENT
> case which was previously documented as "fine".
>
> That change resulted in the db845c board display to fail to
> start, with the following error:
>
> adreno 5000000.gpu: [drm:a6xx_gpu_init] *ERROR* failed to read speed-bin (-2). Some OPPs may not be supported by hardware
>
> Thus, this patch simply re-adds the ENOENT handling so the lack
> of the speed_bin entry isn't fatal for display, and gets things
> working on db845c.

Hey Folks,
  Just wanted to re-ping you on this, as it resolves a regression
introduced in 5.12-rc5 and I'm not yet seeing this in -next. Would be
nice to have this in place before 5.12 final.

thanks
-john