Locking in the clk API, part 2: clk_prepare/clk_unprepare

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:05:56PM +0900, Jassi Brar wrote:
> 2011/2/1 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> 
> .....
> 
> > Do you plan to handle the case that clk_enable is called while prepare
> > isn't completed (considering the special case "not called at all")?
> > Maybe BUG_ON(clk->ops->prepare && !clk->prepare_count)?
> Sounds better than the second option.
> 
> > Alternatively don't force the sleep in clk_prepare (e.g. by protecting
> > prepare_count by a spinlock (probably enable_lock)) and call clk_prepare
> > before calling clk->ops->enable?
> That might result in a driver working on some platforms(those have
> atomic clk_prepare)
> and not on others(those have sleeping).
The first option has the same result.  E.g. on some platforms
clk->ops->prepare might be NULL, on others it's not.

Uwe

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