Subject: Re: [PowerPC] [PASEMI] Issue with the identification of ATA drives after the of/irq updates 2024-05-29

From: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:41:42 +0100

On Wed, 03 Jul 2024 04:27:37 +0100,
Christian Zigotzky <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Marc,
> 
> On 02.07.24 18:54, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:21:55 +0100,
> > Christian Zigotzky <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> There is an issue with the identification of ATA drives with our
> >> P.A. Semi Nemo boards [1] after the
> >> commit "of/irq: Factor out parsing of interrupt-map parent
> >> phandle+args from of_irq_parse_raw()" [2].
> > [snip]
> > 
> > My earlier request for valuable debug information still stands. But
> > while you're at it, can you please give the following hack a go?
> > 
> > 	M.
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/of/irq.c
> > +++ b/drivers/of/irq.c
> > @@ -282,8 +282,10 @@ int of_irq_parse_raw(const __be32 *addr, struct of_phandle_args *out_irq)
> >     			oldimap = imap;
> >   			imap = of_irq_parse_imap_parent(oldimap, imaplen, out_irq);
> > -			if (!imap)
> > -				goto fail;
> > +			if (!imap) {
> > +				match = 0;
> > +				break;
> > +			}
> >     			match &= of_device_is_available(out_irq->np);
> >   			if (match)
> > 
> > This may not be the final workaround even if it solves your boot
> > problem, but will at least give us a hint at what is going wrong.
> > 
> > I have the fuzzy feeling that we may be able to lob this broken system
> > as part of the of_irq_imap_abusers[] array, which would solve things
> > pretty "neatly".
> > 
> > 	M.
> > 
> I saw that you may already have a solution. Do you still need the test
> with this patch?

Both this patch and the other one, together with Rob's request to run
the current state with of/irq.c in DEBUG mode are useful.

	M.

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