Re: [PATCH 0/6] backport patches to improve clocks management for stmmac driver

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:53:53AM +0800, Meng Li wrote:

From: Meng Li <redacted>

In stable kernel v5.10, when run below command to remove ethernet driver on
stratix10 platform, there will be warning trace as below:

$ cd /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver/
$ echo ff800000.ethernet > unbind

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 386 at drivers/clk/clk.c:810 clk_core_unprepare+0x114/0x274
Modules linked in: sch_fq_codel
CPU: 3 PID: 386 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W         5.10.74-yocto-standard #1
Hardware name: SoCFPGA Stratix 10 SoCDK (DT)
pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : clk_core_unprepare+0x114/0x274
lr : clk_core_unprepare+0x114/0x274
sp : ffff800011bdbb10
clk_core_unprepare+0x114/0x274
 clk_unprepare+0x38/0x50
 stmmac_remove_config_dt+0x40/0x80
 stmmac_pltfr_remove+0x64/0x80
 platform_drv_remove+0x38/0x60
 ... ..
 el0_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0
 el0_sync+0x180/0x1c0
This issue is introduced by introducing upstream commit 8f269102baf7
("net: stmmac: disable clocks in stmmac_remove_config_dt()")

But in latest mainline kernel, there is no this issue. Because commit
5ec55823438e("net: stmmac: add clocks management for gmac driver") and its
folowing fixing commits improved clocks management for stmmac driver.
Therefore, backport them to stable kernel v5.10.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h