Re: [PATCH] of/platform: Fix no irq domain found errors when populating interrupts

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:38:09PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Currently we get the following kind of errors if we try to use interrupt
> phandles to irqchips that have not yet initialized:
> 
> irq: no irq domain found for /ocp/pinmux@48002030 !
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/of/platform.c:171 of_device_alloc+0x144/0x184()
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.12.0-00038-g42a9708 #1012
> (show_stack+0x14/0x1c)
> (dump_stack+0x6c/0xa0)
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x84)
> (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
> (of_device_alloc+0x144/0x184)
> (of_platform_device_create_pdata+0x44/0x9c)
> (of_platform_bus_create+0xd0/0x170)
> (of_platform_bus_create+0x12c/0x170)
> (of_platform_populate+0x60/0x98)
> 
> This is because we're wrongly trying to populate resources that are not yet
> available. It's perfectly valid to create irqchips dynamically, so let's
> fix up the issue by populating the interrupt resources at the driver probe
> time instead.
> 
> Note that at least currently we cannot dynamically allocate the resources as bus
> specific code may add legacy resources with platform_device_add_resources()
> before the driver probe. At least omap_device_alloc() currently relies on
> num_resources to determine if legacy resources should be added. Some of these
> will clear automatically when mach-omap2 boots with DT only, but there are
> probably other places too where platform_device_add_resources() modifies
> things before driver probe.
> 
> This patch was discussed quite a bit earlier, but so far it seems we don't
> have any better options to fix the problem. For the earlier discussion,
> please see:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/22/520
> 
> The addition of of_platform_probe() is based on patches posted earlier by
> Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

So what happens if a device driver probe function:

- creates a new platform device
- copies the resources from the original to the new device
- copies the of_node from the original to the new device
- registers the new device

Yes, it's broken (because it can result in the same driver being re-probed
by the new device) but we *do* have stuff in the kernel tree which does
this.

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