[PATCH v3 0/3] add the reset controller to the Meson8b clkc

Neil Armstrong narmstrong at baylibre.com
Mon Jul 31 04:59:36 PDT 2017


On 07/31/2017 10:27 AM, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 23:13 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
>> This registers the known (soft) reset lines provided by the clock
>> controller's registers.
>>
>> This is the first preparation step for SMP and CPU hotplug support on
>> Meson8/Meson8b/Meson8m2. Booting the secondary cores on these SoCs
>> requires asserting and de-asserting a reset line (one for each CPU
>> core). These reset lines are provided by the clock controller.
>>
>> The reset controller part of the meson8b clock controller has to be
>> registered early (which I did through CLK_OF_DECLARE_DRIVER), because
>> the secondary cores are started *very* early in the boot process (and
>> meson8b_clkc_probe is invoked long after we need the reset controller
>> to be available for booting the secondary CPU cores).
>>
>> The user of the reset-controller (= the patches which enable SMP and
>> CPU hotplug support) will follow in the next days. I decided to split
>> this because the SMP series will probably consist of 6 patches alone
>> (and may need to go through two separate trees).
>>
>> Changes since v2 at [3]:
>> - move the reset line preprocessor defines into a separate file
>>   (affects patch #1 as this header file is part of the dt-binding)
>> - rename the reset line preprocessor macros from RESETID_ to
>>   CLKC_RESET_ to clearly indicate that these are provided by the
>>   clock controller (unlike the preprocessor macros for the reset
>>   lines in the standlone reset controller, which start with RESET_)
>> - updated patch #2 due to the changes mentioned above
>> - added Neil's Reviewed-by to all patches
>>
>> Changes since v1 at [0]:
>> - updated cover letter description as we are now registering more than
>>   four reset lines
>> - split patch #1 into a dt-binding and clk driver patch
>> - slightly reworded the dt-binding documentation so it's now clear that
>>   the reset identifiers are preprocessor macros in
>>   dt-bindings/clock/meson8b-clkc.h (v1 of this series didn't have these
>>   macros at all)
>> - patch #2 (previously part of patch #1) now registers all known reset
>>   lines (see [1] and [2] for the results of my detective work)
>> - patch #3 is untouched
>>
>>
>> [0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-July/004283.html
>> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-July/004330.html
>> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-July/004347.html
>> [3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-July/004352.html
>>
>>
>> Martin Blumenstingl (3):
>>   dt-bindings: clock: meson8b: describe the embedded reset controller
>>   clk: meson: meson8b: register the built-in reset controller
>>   ARM: dts: meson: mark the clock controller also as reset controller
>>
>>  .../bindings/clock/amlogic,meson8b-clkc.txt        |   9 +-
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8.dtsi                      |   1 +
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi                     |   1 +
>>  drivers/clk/meson/Kconfig                          |   1 +
>>  drivers/clk/meson/meson8b.c                        | 159 +++++++++++++++++++-
>> -
>>  drivers/clk/meson/meson8b.h                        |   9 +-
>>  .../dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson8b-clkc-reset.h |  27 ++++
>>  7 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson8b-clkc-reset.h
>>
> 
> Series looks good to me overall.
> 
> Acked-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com>
> 
> Just one thing, which is not an issue really, I wonder if the dt-bindings
> documentation and the bindings them-self should be in separate patches ? 
> 

Hi Martin,

Anyway it's OK for me, I've applied patches 1 & 2 on the clk-meson's next branches.

Kevin, patch 3 is all yours !

Thanks,
Neil



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