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Message-ID: <20251201072844.GA6785@francesco-nb>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:28:44 +0100
From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@...cini.it>
To: Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@...com>, broonie@...nel.org
Cc: a-dutta@...com, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, srk@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: cadence-quadspi: Fix cqspi_probe() error handling
 for runtime pm

Hello Siddharth, Mark,

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 08:53:53PM +0530, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote:
> Commit f1eb4e792bb1 ("spi: spi-cadence-quadspi: Enable pm runtime earlier
> to avoid imbalance") relocated code but missed updating the error handling
> path associated with it.
> 
> Prior to the relocation, runtime pm was enabled after the code-block
> associated with 'cqspi_request_mmap_dma()', due to which, the error
> handling for the same didn't require invoking 'pm_runtime_disable()'.
> 
> Post refactoring, runtime pm has been enabled before the code-block and
> when an error is encountered, jumping to 'probe_dma_failed' doesn't
> invoke 'pm_runtime_disable()'. This leads to a race condition wherein
> 'cqspi_runtime_suspend()' is invoked while the error handling path executes
> in parallel. The resulting error is the following:
> 
>   clk:103:0 already disabled
>   WARNING: drivers/clk/clk.c:1188 at clk_core_disable+0x80/0xa0, CPU#1: kworker/u8:0/12
>   [TRIMMED]
>   pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>   pc : clk_core_disable+0x80/0xa0
>   lr : clk_core_disable+0x80/0xa0
>   [TRIMMED]
>   Call trace:
>    clk_core_disable+0x80/0xa0 (P)
>    clk_core_disable_lock+0x88/0x10c
>    clk_disable+0x24/0x30
>    cqspi_probe+0xa3c/0xae8
>   [TRIMMED]
> 
> The error is due to the second invocation of 'clk_disable_unprepare()' on
> 'cqspi->clk' in the error handling within 'cqspi_probe()', with the first
> invocation being within 'cqspi_runtime_suspend()'.
> 
> Fix this by correcting the error handling.
> 
> Fixes: f1eb4e792bb1 ("spi: spi-cadence-quadspi: Enable pm runtime earlier to avoid imbalance")
> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@...com>

Our CI just hit this WARNING with 6.18 kernel, on verdin-am62. To me it's a
regression from v6.18, specifically from spi-fix-v6.18-rc7, we did not
had any such WARNING with the master build we did run last Friday.


[    8.648915] cadence-qspi fc40000.spi: No flash device declared
[    8.675671] cadence-qspi fc40000.spi: failed to setup flash parameters -19
[    8.693691] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    8.693719] clk:75:7 already disabled
[    8.693791] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 185 at /usr/src/kernel/drivers/clk/clk.c:1188 clk_core_disable+0xa0/0xb4
[    8.693822] Modules linked in: gf128mul(+) snd_soc_simple_card(+) snd_soc_simple_card_utils spi_cadence_quadspi(+) optee tee usb_conn_gpio gpio_keys display_connector roles dwc3_am62 rtc_ti_k3 ti_k3_r5_remoteproc k3_j72xx_bandgap ti_k3_m4_remoteproc ti_k3_common tidss sa2ul sha512 snd_soc_davinci_mcasp drm_display_helper libsha512 snd_soc_ti_udma sha256 sha1 cec snd_soc_ti_edma pruss omap_mailbox snd_soc_ti_sdma omap_hwspinlock authenc bluetooth ecdh_generic ecc ina2xx tpm_tis_i2c rfkill snd_soc_wm8904 libaes lm75 lontium_lt8912b crc_ccitt i3c ti_ads1015 tpm_tis_core industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf tps65219_pwrbutton tpm rng_core m_can_platform m_can tc358768 can_dev spi_omap2_mcspi pwm_tiehrpwm loop fuse ipv6 libsha1 autofs4
[    8.694064] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 185 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.18.0-0.0.0-devel #1 PREEMPT
[    8.694076] Hardware name: Toradex Verdin AM62 on Dahlia Board (DT)
[    8.694083] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    8.694091] pc : clk_core_disable+0xa0/0xb4
[    8.694100] lr : clk_core_disable+0xa0/0xb4
[    8.694108] sp : ffff800081023800
[    8.694112] x29: ffff800081023800 x28: ffffd3298dc06158 x27: ffff00000189d410
[    8.694127] x26: ffff00000189d410 x25: ffffd3298dc2e428 x24: ffff00000189d400
[    8.694141] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff000006202000 x21: 0000000000000000
[    8.694156] x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffff000001ad2200 x18: fffffffffffe7988
[    8.694169] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000006 x15: ffffd329953fe4b0
[    8.694183] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 64656c6261736964 x12: 2079646165726c61
[    8.694197] x11: 0000000000000058 x10: 0000000000000018 x9 : ffffd329953fe538
[    8.694211] x8 : 0000000000057fa8 x7 : 00000000000001ad x6 : 0000000000000001
[    8.694225] x5 : ffff00003fda46c8 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000027
[    8.694239] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff000003670000
[    8.694255] Call trace:
[    8.694261]  clk_core_disable+0xa0/0xb4 (P)
[    8.694272]  clk_disable+0x38/0x60
[    8.694283]  cqspi_probe+0x7c8/0xc5c [spi_cadence_quadspi]
[    8.694309]  platform_probe+0x5c/0xa4
[    8.694324]  really_probe+0xc0/0x38c
[    8.694334]  __driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x150
[    8.694344]  driver_probe_device+0x40/0x120
[    8.694353]  __driver_attach+0xc8/0x1e0
[    8.694362]  bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xdc
[    8.694371]  driver_attach+0x24/0x30
[    8.694380]  bus_add_driver+0x110/0x230
[    8.694389]  driver_register+0x68/0x130
[    8.694400]  __platform_driver_register+0x20/0x2c
[    8.694410]  cqspi_platform_driver_init+0x20/0x1000 [spi_cadence_quadspi]
[    8.694424]  do_one_initcall+0x60/0x1e0
[    8.694439]  do_init_module+0x54/0x240
[    8.694455]  load_module+0x17c0/0x1e60
[    8.694465]  init_module_from_file+0x88/0xc8
[    8.694477]  __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x268/0x360
[    8.694488]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x48/0xc8
[    8.694501]  do_el0_svc+0x9c/0xd8
[    8.694510]  el0_svc+0x3c/0x140
[    8.694524]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4
[    8.694533]  el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
[    8.694545] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[    8.694555] ------------[ cut here ]------------


Francesco


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