[RFC] clk: meson: t7: Intermittent boot instability and memory corruption on VIM4
Lucas Tanure <[email protected]>
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Hi, While testing mainline Linux on the Khadas VIM4 (Amlogic A311D2 / T7), I am hitting intermittent system instability, storage loss, and memory corruption during boot, unless I append clk_ignore_unused to the kernel command line. Because the failure is intermittent, I am running 100-reboot test campaigns to bisect the remaining clocks and isolate which clocks are critical and cannot be safely disabled. As testing takes significant time over serial console, I wanted to check if Amlogic or the maintainers could shed light on this: Are there specific T7 clocks or hardware domains that must remain critical/protected even without an explicit in-kernel consumer? Current clocks being disabled that don't kill the board on a test run: [ 0.380313] clk: Disabling unused clocks [ 0.380413] clk: Disabled unused clock: rtc_dualdiv [ 0.380718] clk: Disabled unused clock: rtc_duandiv_in [ 0.381377] clk: Unprepared unused clock: a73_div16 [ 0.381972] clk: Unprepared unused clock: cpu_div16 [ 0.382605] clk: Unprepared unused clock: f50m [ 0.383174] clk: Unprepared unused clock: fixed_pll_dco [ 0.383786] clk: Unprepared unused clock: hdmi_pll_osc [ 0.384416] clk: Unprepared unused clock: sys1_pll_osc [ 0.385056] clk: Unprepared unused clock: earc_osc [ 0.385652] clk: Unprepared unused clock: pcie_refclk_osc [ 0.386323] clk: Unprepared unused clock: eth_pll_osc [ 0.386961] clk: Unprepared unused clock: pcie_osc [ 0.387548] clk: Unprepared unused clock: mclk_pll_osc [ 0.388187] clk: Unprepared unused clock: usb_pll1_osc [ 0.388826] clk: Unprepared unused clock: usb_pll0_osc [ 0.389465] clk: Unprepared unused clock: tcon_pll_osc [ 0.390105] clk: Unprepared unused clock: top_pll_osc [ 0.390738] clk: Unprepared unused clock: aud_pll_osc [ 0.391361] clk: Unprepared unused clock: ddr_pll_osc I am not forcing any clock to be disabled; I am forcing all clocks to stay on and letting them be disabled if unused one by one. Any guidance or hints on required platform clocks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lucas Tanure