Hi,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2026 at 07:11:30AM +0000, Arun Iyengar via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Arun Iyengar <aiyengar1990@gmail.com>
> 
> When a power domain clock is not available yet,
> rockchip_pm_add_one_domain() records the reason with dev_err_probe() and
> returns -EPROBE_DEFER, but its callers rockchip_pm_domain_probe() and
> rockchip_pm_add_subdomain() still print it with dev_err():
> 
>   rockchip-pm-domain ...: failed to handle node power-domain: -517
> 
> once per probe attempt, and twice for a nested domain. On an RK3588
> board whose NPU domain clock appears late this is more than 20 error
> lines before the domain finally probes.
> 
> Only rockchip_pm_add_one_domain() can return -EPROBE_DEFER here, and it
> already records the deferral reason, so skip the message in the callers
> for -EPROBE_DEFER and keep it for real errors. dev_err_probe() is not
> used in the callers because it would replace the reason recorded for
> /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred ("failed to get clk at index 1") with
> the less specific "failed to handle node power-domain".
> 
> Fixes: 7c696693a4f5 ("soc: rockchip: power-domain: Add power domain driver")
> Fixes: 6be05b5ec161 ("soc: rockchip: power-domain: add support for sub-power domains")
> Signed-off-by: Arun Iyengar <aiyengar1990@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c | 15 +++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c b/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c
> index d7df19e10000..70ebe5696b39 100644
> --- a/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c
> +++ b/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c
> @@ -1050,8 +1050,9 @@ static int rockchip_pm_add_subdomain(struct rockchip_pmu *pmu,
>  
>  		error = rockchip_pm_add_one_domain(pmu, np);
>  		if (error) {
> -			dev_err(pmu->dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> -				np, error);
> +			if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +				dev_err(pmu->dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> +					np, error);
>  			return error;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -1144,15 +1145,17 @@ static int rockchip_pm_domain_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	for_each_available_child_of_node_scoped(np, node) {
>  		error = rockchip_pm_add_one_domain(pmu, node);
>  		if (error) {
> -			dev_err(dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> -				node, error);
> +			if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +				dev_err(dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> +					node, error);
>  			goto err_out;
>  		}
>  
>  		error = rockchip_pm_add_subdomain(pmu, node);
>  		if (error < 0) {
> -			dev_err(dev, "failed to handle subdomain node %pOFn: %d\n",
> -				node, error);
> +			if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +				dev_err(dev, "failed to handle subdomain node %pOFn: %d\n",
> +					node, error);
>  			goto err_out;
>  		}
>  	}

I suggest to fully drop those dev_err() and instead ensure that
rockchip_pm_add_subdomain() has dev_err_probe() in all relevant
error paths. Note that -ENOMEM should also be quiet, so its almost
done already.

-- Sebastian