[PATCH] ARM: imx: fix shared gate clock

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at freescale.com
Mon Jul 7 06:56:37 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:49:00AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com> wrote:
> > Let's say clock A and B are two gate clocks that share the same register
> > bit in hardware.  Therefore they are registered as shared gate clocks
> > with imx_clk_gate2_shared().
> >
> > In a scenario that only clock A is enabled by clk_enable(A) while B is
> > not used, the shared gate will be unexpectedly disabled in hardware.
> > It happens because clk_enable(A) increments the share_count from 0 to 1,
> > while clock B is unused to clock core, and therefore the core function
> > will just disable B by calling clk->ops->disable() directly.  The
> > consequence of that call is share_count is decremented to 0 and the gate
> > is disabled in hardware, even though clock A is still in use.
> >
> > The patch fixes the issue by initializing the share_count per hardware
> > state and returns enable state per share_count from .is_enabled() hook,
> > in case it's a shared gate.
> >
> > While at it, add a check in clk_gate2_disable() to ensure it's never
> > called with a zero share_count.
> >
> > Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> > Fixes: f9f28cdf2167 ("ARM: imx: add shared gate clock support")
> > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
> > ---
> > Fabio,
> >
> > Per my testing, it fixes the shared gate clock issue you reported.
> > But I'd like to get your confirmation before I ask arm-soc folks to
> > apply it for 3.16-rc.
> 
> I can get audio working now and I have also inspected CCGR5 register
> and it looks correct now:
> 
> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>

Thanks, Fabio.

Arnd, Olof,

Can you please apply this patch for 3.16?

Shawn



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