Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] clk: vc5: Fix 5P49V6901 outputs disabling when enabling FOD

[Luca Ceresoli]

Hi Serge,

thank you for your patch!

On 10/06/22 09:21, Serge Semin wrote:
> We have discovered random glitches during the system boot up procedure.
> The problem investigation led us to the weird outcomes: when none of the
> Renesas 5P49V6901 ports are explicitly enabled by the kernel driver, the
> glitches disappeared. It was a mystery since the SoC external clock
> domains were fed with different 5P49V6901 outputs. The driver code didn't
> seem like bogus either. We almost despaired to find out a root cause when
> the solution was found for a more modern revision of the chip. It turned
> out the 5P49V6901 clock generator stopped its output for a short period of
> time during the VC5_OUT_DIV_CONTROL register writing. The same problem has
> was found for the 5P49V6965 revision of the chip and the was successfully
> fixed in commit fc336ae622df ("clk: vc5: fix output disabling when
> enabling a FOD") by enabling the "bypass_sync" flag hidden inside "Unused
> Factory Reserved Register". Even though the 5P49V6901 registers
> description and programming guide doesn't provide any intel regarding that
> flag, setting it up anyway in the officially unused register completely
> eliminated the denoted glitches. Thus let's activate the functionality
> submitted in commit fc336ae622df ("clk: vc5: fix output disabling when
> enabling a FOD") for the Renesas 5P49V6901 chip too in order to remove
> the ports implicit inter-dependency.

Sadly, you have been through the same troubles I had on the 6965.

> Fixes: dbf6b16f5683 ("clk: vc5: Add support for IDT VersaClock 5P49V6901")
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

(not sure which address is appropriate as I sent patches to update to
the Bootlin one and they are being applied one y one on the various
maintainers branches)

-- 
Luca