[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: clockdomain: disabling unused clks

Mike Turquette mturquette at ti.com
Thu Nov 8 20:17:38 EST 2012


Quoting Paul Walmsley (2012-11-08 16:58:21)
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Mike Turquette wrote:
> 
> > The OMAP port to the common clk framework[1] resulted in spurious WARNs
> > while disable unused clocks.  This is due to _clkdm_clk_hwmod_disable
> > catching clkdm->usecount's with a value of zero.  Even less desirable it
> > would not allow the clkdm_clk_disable function pointer to get called due
> > to an early return of -ERANGE.
> > 
> > This patch adds a check for such a corner case by skipping the WARN and
> > early return in the event that clkdm->usecount and clk->enable_usecount
> > are both zero.  Presumably this could only happen during the check for
> > unused clocks at boot-time.
> > 
> > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/88824
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette at ti.com>
> 
> I don't think this is going to work, as it currently stands.  The code 
> will just bypass the warning and the error return.  The clockdomain 
> usecount still will be decremented, which is going to cause problems since 
> the usecount will be inaccurate.
> 

You're right.  In my rush I glossed over the clkdm decrement part.  In
light of the suspend/resume issues I'm not sure this approach is really
valid.  I think getting to the bottom of those issues will give the
final word.

Regards,
Mike

> 
> - Paul



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