Re: [PATCH] clk: qcom: gcc-ipq5018: mark 'gpll0_main' clock as critical

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 9/18/26 11:27 AM, Gabor Juhos wrote:
> On IPQ5018, the APCS core clock feeds the CPUs. It can use
> different clocks as its parent, but during system boot it
> utilizes GPLL0.
> 
> Under some cicumstances, the 'gpll0_main' clock is getting
> disabled during kernel start which results in a system hang
> then the hardware watchdog restarts the board after a while.
> 
> This can happen when a driver gets a clock in its probe function,
> then releases it either directly or by devres cleanup on probe
> failure.
> 
> For example, since v6.18 the kernel often fails to boot on the
> TP-Link Archer AX55 v1 board by using the in-tree dts. In the
> failing configuration, the 'ipq-cmn-pll' driver is built into
> the kernel and the problem is caused by the pm_runtim_put()
> call in the ipq_cmn_pll_clk_probe() function. Due to this call,
> runtime pm disables the 'gcc_cmn_blk_ahb_clk' clock asynchronously
> which results in disabling 'gpll0_main' as well.
> 
> Mark the clock as critical in order to avoid such hangs.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: e3fdbef1bab8 ("clk: qcom: Add Global Clock controller (GCC) driver for IPQ5018")
> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@gmail.com>
> ---
> Note:
> There is a patch [1] awaiting upstream which intends to solve the
> problem in the case of the 'ipq-cmn-pll' driver. However the same
> hang can be reproduced with several other drivers by triggering a
> probe failure in them.
> 
> The actual patch aims to solve the root cause.

This is a good workaround. Ideally, we would resolve why this
happens in the first place.

At a glance, we have the CPUs consuming
&apcs_glb APCS_ALIAS0_CORE_CLK

which takes XO/GPLL0/A53PLL as parents.

GPLL0 is a child of GPLL0_MAIN, so this should never be gated in
practice. devlink and probe deferrals should make sure you always
get a valid clock handle for the cpufreq driver..

In any case:

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>

Konrad