RE: [PATCHv2 2/2] clk: imx6sx: Remove unexisting IMX6SX_CLK_ENET_AHB clock

[Aisheng Dong]

> From: Fabio Estevam [mailto:festevam@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 7:02 PM
> 
> Hi Kay-Liu,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:14 AM <liuk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Kay-Liu <liuk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The imx6sx's dts file defines five clocks for fec, the 'ahb'clock's
> > value is IMX6SX_CLK_ENET_AHB, but in the i.MX6SX Reference Manual
> > there is no such enet ahb clock, there is only one "enet clock" in the
> > CCM_CCGR3 register which is controlled by bits 5-4, the enet clock is
> > defined for the 'ipg' clock, this can cause problem.
> > The original phenomenon is using imx6-solox processor and Marvel
> > 88E6390 switch with linux OS, the kernel will hang during the startup
> > of the linux OS.
> > After analyzing the phenomenon, the reason of CPU hang is read/write
> > enet module's register when the enet clock is disabled. The kernel
> > code try to avoids the problem by resume enet clock before read/write
> > enet register.
> > But the enet module's clock config will cause a special environment
> > which can bypass the clock resume mechanism.
> > The CPU has only one enet clock, after kernel parses the dts file, the
> > two clock variables 'ipg' and 'ahb'
> > finnaly point to the same enet clock register. This will cause enet
> > clock be disabled after fec probe over.
> > Because the power saving module will affect the BUG, so there are two
> > situations for this problem:
> > 1)Turn off power saving
> > Turn off power saving means that the resume mechanism is disabled, so
> > after fec probe over if any one read/write enet module's register, the
> > CPU will hang because no one could resume the enet clock.
> > 2)Turn on power saving
> > Turn on power saving could resume enet clock before read/write enet
> > register by enable 'ipg' clk, this will cause 'ahb' variable state and
> > enet clock register value don't match.If any task read/write enet at a
> > high frequently, the kernel will keep resume state and never enter
> > suspend process, this means that the kernel will only modifies the
> > register value during the first resume.
> > But the kernel init will check unused clock variable in the late
> > initcall, the 'ahb' clock will be treated as unused, at this time, the
> > enet clock will be disabled bypass the resume mechanism, then the next
> > read/write enet module's register will cause the CPU hang.
> > Proposed solution is delete the 'ahb' clock's definition in the
> > clk-imx6sx.c, and modify fec deviceâs clocks in the dts file, point
> > âahbâ from IMX6SX_CLK_ENET_AHB to IMX6SX_CLK_ENET
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kay-Liu <liuk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This matches the mx6sx reference manual:
> 

Also copy Andy, the ENET owner, to comment.

Regards
Dong Aisheng