Copying devicetree maintainers.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 09:39:38PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 09:14:11PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 02:05:07PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Test that clks registered with 'struct clk_parent_data' work as
> > > intended and can find their parents.
> > >
> >
> > When testing this on arm64, I see the error below. The error is only
> > seen if I boot through efi, i.e., with "-bios QEMU_EFI-aarch64.fd"
> > qemu parameter.
> >
> > Any idea what might cause the problem ?
> >
> I noticed that the new overlay tests fail as well, also with "path '/' not
> found".
>
> [Maybe] answering my own question: I think the problem may be that there
> is no devicetree file and thus no devicetree root when booting through
> efi (in other words, of_root is NULL). Would it make sense to skip the
> tests in that case ?
>
The problem is that of_root is not initialized in arm64 boots if ACPI
is enabled.
>From arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c:setup_arch():
if (acpi_disabled)
unflatten_device_tree(); // initializes of_root
ACPI is enabled if the system boots from EFI. This also affects
CONFIG_OF_KUNIT_TEST, which explicitly checks if of_root exists and
fails the test if it doesn't.
I think those tests need to add a check for this condition, or affected
machines won't be able to run those unit tests. The obvious solution would
be to check if of_root is set, but then the associated test case in
CONFIG_OF_KUNIT_TEST would not make sense.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Guenter
