[PATCH v3 2/3] clk: divider: Switch from .round_rate to .determine_rate by default
Marek Szyprowski
m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Fri Jul 2 05:46:11 PDT 2021
Hi
On 02.07.2021 11:19, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:02 AM Stephen Boyd <sboyd at kernel.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> My guess is that we have drivers copying the clk_ops from the
>> divider_ops structure and so they are copying over round_rate but not
>> determine_rate.
> I just learned something new - thanks for investigating this as well!
>
> $ git grep "clk_divider_ops\.round_rate" drivers/
> drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm2835.c: return clk_divider_ops.round_rate(hw,
> rate, parent_rate);
I confirm that this issue appears also on Raspberry Pi 3b+ board. I was
about to write a bug report, but you were faster. The funny thing is
that is so nondeterministic, that automated bisecting failed to catch it.
> drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c: return clk_divider_ops.round_rate(hw,
> rate, prate);
> drivers/clk/clk-stm32h7.c: return clk_divider_ops.round_rate(hw,
> rate, prate);
> drivers/clk/clk-stm32mp1.c: req->rate =
> clk_divider_ops.round_rate(hw, req->rate, &best_parent_rate);
> drivers/clk/imx/clk-divider-gate.c: return
> clk_divider_ops.round_rate(hw, rate, prate);
> $ git grep "clk_divider_ro_ops\.round_rate" drivers/
> $
>
> Changing these over to use clk_divider_ops.determine_rate doesn't seem too hard.
> The part that I am not sure about is how to organize the patches.
> 1) amend the changes to all relevant drivers (from above) to this patch
> 2) multiple patches:
> - adding .determine_rate to the default divider ops (but not removing
> .round_rate)
> - a single patch for each relevant driver (from above)
> - removing .round_rate from the default divider ops
>
> Another approach is to first create clk_divider_determine_rate() (as
> done here) and export it.
> Then I could have one individual patch for each relevant driver (from
> above) to use:
> .determine_rate = clk_divider_determine_rate,
> Then finally I could remove clk_divider_round_rate() and switch over
> the default divider ops to .determine_rate as well.
>
> Which way do you prefer?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
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