On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org> wrote:
> We used to return early in case policy isn't found, but now we went > and took the lock.. Aha! > Hmm... Remember I told you last time that I have another way of fixing > it up, probably we need that now.. > > I wanted to add another variable to reflect if a cpufreq_driver is registered > or not, and if not then return early from these routines.. > > I will get that in now, please see if you can give it a try.. OK standing by. > But I am still surprised how are we reaching this place before your cpufreq > driver gets registered.. I have no idea really. The funny thing is that Russell has a similar platform (Assabet) and he's not seeing the issue. It appears on this h3600 iPAQ only. So here is the backtrace: [<c01db010>] (lock_policy_rwsem_read+0x0/0x3c) from [<c01dc6c8>] (cpufreq_get+0x34/0x68) [<c01dc694>] (cpufreq_get+0x0/0x68) from [<c01d2c94>] (sa1100_pcmcia_set_timing+0x18/0x28) r5:00000000 r4:c182d008 [<c01d2c7c>] (sa1100_pcmcia_set_timing+0x0/0x28) from [<c01d27ec>] (soc_pcmcia_add_one+0x100/0x220) r4:c182d008 [<c01d26ec>] (soc_pcmcia_add_one+0x0/0x220) from [<c01d2d30>] (sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_add_one+0x8c/0xa4) [<c01d2ca4>] (sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_add_one+0x0/0xa4) from [<c01d2de4>] (sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_probe+0x9c/0xf8) r8:00000002 r7:c182d000 r6:c182d000 r5:00000000 r4:c182d008 [<c01d2d48>] (sa11xx_drv_pcmcia_probe+0x0/0xf8) from [<c01d3184>] (pcmcia_h3600_init+0x1c/0x24) [<c01d3168>] (pcmcia_h3600_init+0x0/0x24) from [<c01d2f70>] (sa11x0_drv_pcmcia_probe+0x14/0x18) [<c01d2f5c>] (sa11x0_drv_pcmcia_probe+0x0/0x18) from [<c019ec70>] (platform_drv_probe+0x20/0x24) [<c019ec50>] (platform_drv_probe+0x0/0x24) from [<c019d638>] (really_probe+0x108/0x1c4) [<c019d530>] (really_probe+0x0/0x1c4) from [<c019d724>] (driver_probe_device+0x30/0x34) r8:00000000 r7:c019d970 r6:c05c81f0 r5:c05bb6b0 r4:c05bb67c [<c019d6f4>] (driver_probe_device+0x0/0x34) from [<c019d9f8>] (__driver_attach+0x88/0x8c) [<c019d970>] (__driver_attach+0x0/0x8c) from [<c019bea0>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0x98) r6:c05c81f0 r5:c1833e40 r4:00000000 [<c019be2c>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x0/0x98) from [<c019d410>] (driver_attach+0x20/0x28) r7:00000000 r6:c05c6c58 r5:c05c81f0 r4:c18c5900 [<c019d3f0>] (driver_attach+0x0/0x28) from [<c019cc6c>] (bus_add_driver+0xe0/0x19c) [<c019cb8c>] (bus_add_driver+0x0/0x19c) from [<c019dfe4>] (driver_register+0x60/0x104) r7:c036b6ac r6:00000006 r5:00000000 r4:c05c81f0 [<c019df84>] (driver_register+0x0/0x104) from [<c019ef64>] (__platform_driver_register+0x50/0x64) r5:00000000 r4:c1832000 [<c019ef14>] (__platform_driver_register+0x0/0x64) from [<c036b6c4>] (sa11x0_pcmcia_init+0x18/0x20) [<c036b6ac>] (sa11x0_pcmcia_init+0x0/0x20) from [<c00085a4>] (do_one_initcall+0x9c/0xfc) [<c0008508>] (do_one_initcall+0x0/0xfc) from [<c0355590>] (do_initcall_level+0x80/0xb0) r7:c036fbec r6:00000006 r5:00000005 r4:c0372d9c [<c0355510>] (do_initcall_level+0x0/0xb0) from [<c03555e4>] (do_initcalls+0x24/0x30) r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:c0297820 r4:00000006 [<c03555c0>] (do_initcalls+0x0/0x30) from [<c03556bc>] (do_basic_setup+0x28/0x2c) r4:00000000 [<c0355694>] (do_basic_setup+0x0/0x2c) from [<c0355a98>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x4c/0xdc) [<c0355a4c>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x0/0xdc) from [<c0297830>] (kernel_init+0x10/0xf0) r4:00000000 [<c0297820>] (kernel_init+0x0/0xf0) from [<c000f950>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24) r4:00000000 Code: e59f0014 eb02f800 e3a00000 e89da800 (e7f001f2) sa11x0_pcmcia_init() which starts this chain of events is called as an fs_initcall(), see drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_generic.c if I comment out this one, I get the same thing in the frambuffer driver instead, which is at module_init(). I don't have a trace so it's not like I know exactly what happened before this point, but the dmesg up to here reads: Linux version 3.11.0-rc4-00024-g6eed940 (linus@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.2.1) #41 Fri Sep 20 10:50:04 CEST 2013 CPU: StrongARM-1110 [6901b118] revision 8 (ARMv4), cr=c000717f CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache Machine: Compaq iPAQ H3600 Ignoring tag cmdline (using the default kernel command line) Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128 Kernel command line: console=ttySA0,115200n8 PID hash table entries: 128 (order: -3, 512 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Memory: 26412K/32768K available (2643K kernel code, 118K rwdata, 736K rodata, 2411K init, 76K bss, 6356K reserved) Virtual kernel memory layout: vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB) fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB) vmalloc : 0xc2800000 - 0xff000000 ( 968 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc2000000 ( 32 MB) modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB) .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0354f18 (3380 kB) .init : 0xc0355000 - 0xc05affb4 (2412 kB) .data : 0xc05b0000 - 0xc05cd840 ( 119 kB) .bss : 0xc05cd840 - 0xc05e0a68 ( 77 kB) SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:49 49 sched_clock: 32 bits at 3686kHz, resolution 271ns, wraps every 1165084ms Console: colour dummy device 80x30 console [ttySA0] enabled Calibrating delay loop... 136.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=683008) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok Setting up static identity map for 0xc029a910 - 0xc029a968 NET: Registered protocol family 16 DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 Switched to clocksource oscr Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/