On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 11:39 -0700, Wesley Terpstra wrote:
> It was a while ago that I debugged this. I already reported this bug
> to Benjamin Herrenschmidt (now in CC), and I believe he has a patch of
> his own to fix the same issue.
> 
> As I understand it, of_core_init sets up the OF entries in
> /sys/firmware/devicetree. During platform bringup, when the system
> describes the cpu + cache hierarchy, it also makes an of_node symlink
> into that directory. However, if it doesn't exist yet, you get the
> warning.

Ugh... yes I did a patch for that and I think it fell through the
cracks, I can't even find it anymore...

The patch quoted here is fine I think. Everything in the device model
can potentially use OF bits these days, it makes sense to have them
initialized earlier.

Cheers,
Ben.

> # ls -l /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/of_node
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Jan  1 00:00
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/of_node ->
> ../../../../firmware/devicetree/base/cpus/cpu@3
> 
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:07:20AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > CC devicetree folks
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > From: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <wes...@sifive.com>
> > > > 
> > > > This fixes: [    0.010000] cpu cpu0: Error -2 creating of_node link
> > > > ... which you get for every CPU on all architectures with a OF cpu/ 
> > > > node.
> > 
> > I take it this means a /cpus node? Or the /cpus/cpu@* nodes?
> > 
> > I'm not seeing this on arm64 when booting v4.12-rc4 with DT, so clearly
> > this doesn't affect all such architectures.
> > 
> > What path are these errors happening in?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark.
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > This affects riscv, nios, etc.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@dabbelt.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/base/init.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/base/init.c b/drivers/base/init.c
> > > > index 48c0e220acc0..0dcd17e561d0 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/base/init.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/base/init.c
> > > > @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ void __init driver_init(void)
> > > >         /* These are also core pieces, but must come after the
> > > >          * core core pieces.
> > > >          */
> > > > +       of_core_init();
> > > >         platform_bus_init();
> > > >         cpu_dev_init();
> > > >         memory_dev_init();
> > > >         container_dev_init();
> > > > -       of_core_init();
> > > >  }
> > > > --
> > > > 2.13.0
> > > 
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