[PATCH V4 1/3] PM / Domains: Initial PM clock support for genpd

Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson at linaro.org
Thu Dec 4 07:00:02 PST 2014


On 2 December 2014 at 02:09, Kevin Hilman <khilman at kernel.org> wrote:
> Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> writes:
>
>> It's quite common for PM domains to use PM clocks. Typically from SOC
>> specific code, the per device PM clock list is created and
>> pm_clk_suspend|resume() are invoked to handle clock gating/ungating.
>>
>> A step towards consolidation is to integrate PM clock support into
>> genpd, which is what this patch does.
>>
>> In this initial step, the calls to the pm_clk_suspend|resume() are
>> handled within genpd, but the per device PM clock list still needs to
>> be created from SOC specific code. It seems reasonable to have gendp to
>> handle that as well, but that left to future patches to address.
>>
>> It's not every users of genpd that are keen on using PM clocks, thus we
>> need to provide this a configuration option for genpd. Therefore let's
>> add flag field in the genpd struct to keep this information and define
>> a new GENDP_FLAG_PM_CLK bit for it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
>> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
>
> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at linaro.org>
>
> Are you also planning to add a way to enable this option from DT?

I am thinking of that, yes. Though I wanted the discussion around how
to deal with creating the PM clock lists while using PM domains to
settle first.

Kind regards
Uffe



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