linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: mt9m114: add CONFIG_COMMON

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Message-ID: <ZXlsMAgkqkGb4kVI@kekkonen.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:32:48 +0000
From:   Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@...asonboard.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...asonboard.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: mt9m114: add CONFIG_COMMON_CLK dependency

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 08:09:03AM +0000, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 10:18:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > 
> > With clang-16, building without COMMON_CLK triggers a range check on
> > udelay() because of a constant division-by-zero calculation:
> > 
> > ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __bad_udelay
> > >>> referenced by mt9m114.c
> > >>>               drivers/media/i2c/mt9m114.o:(mt9m114_power_on) in archive vmlinux.a
> > 
> > Avoid this by adding a Kconfig dependency that avoids the broken build.
> 
> This sounds like an odd way to fix an issue with udelay(). On which arch
> does it happen? Wouldn't it be better to fix the udelay() problem in the
> source?
> 
> A quick check reveals there are about 2400 files using udelay.

After discussing with Tomi, I think the driver could be improved, too, by
adding checks for clock frequency and avoiding an obvious potential
division by zero if clk_get_rate() happens to return 0. Switching to
fsleep() would probably address the Clang 16 issue, but that doesn't seem
to be the primary cause here anyway.

-- 
Sakari Ailus