Tomasz / Mike,

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Doug Anderson [off-list ref] wrote:

Right now if you've got earlyprintk enabled on exynos5420-peach-pit
then you'll get a hang on boot.  Here's why:

1. The i2c-s3c2410 driver will probe at subsys_initcall.  It will
   enable its clock and disable it.  This is the clock "i2c2".
2. The act of disabling "i2c2" will disable its parents.  In this case
   the parent is "aclk66_peric".  There are no other children of
   "aclk66_peric" officially enabled, so "aclk66_peric" will be turned
   off (despite being CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED, but that's by design).
3. The next time you try to earlyprintk you'll do so without the UART
   clock enabled.  That's because the UART clocks are also children of
   "aclk66_peric".  You'll hang.

There's no good place to put a clock enable for earlyprintk, which is
handled by a bunch of assembly code.  The best we can do is to handle
this in the clock driver.

Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <redacted>
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Changes in v2:
- Use GATE_A and clk_get().  Save the clock for putting later.
- Return 0 from exynos5420_clk_late_init().

 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5420.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Are there other changes you'd like me to make to this?  It would be
really nice to get this in for 3.16 so the system doesn't just
mysteriously hang when you use earlyprintk.

-Doug