[PATCH v13 3/6] clk: Make clk API return per-user struct clk instances

Tero Kristo t-kristo at ti.com
Tue Feb 3 00:46:51 PST 2015


On 02/03/2015 09:03 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 11:41 PM, Mike Turquette wrote:
>> Quoting Tero Kristo (2015-02-02 11:32:01)
>>> On 02/01/2015 11:24 PM, Mike Turquette wrote:
>>>> Quoting Tomeu Vizoso (2015-01-23 03:03:30)
>>>>> Moves clock state to struct clk_core, but takes care to change as little API as
>>>>> possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> struct clk_hw still has a pointer to a struct clk, which is the
>>>>> implementation's per-user clk instance, for backwards compatibility.
>>>>>
>>>>> The struct clk that clk_get_parent() returns isn't owned by the caller, but by
>>>>> the clock implementation, so the former shouldn't call clk_put() on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because some boards in mach-omap2 still register clocks statically, their clock
>>>>> registration had to be updated to take into account that the clock information
>>>>> is stored in struct clk_core now.
>>>>
>>>> Tero, Paul & Tony,
>>>>
>>>> Tomeu's patch unveils a problem with omap3_noncore_dpll_enable and
>>>> struct dpll_data, namely this snippet from
>>>> arch/arm/mach-omap2/dpll3xxx.c:
>>>>
>>>>           parent = __clk_get_parent(hw->clk);
>>>>
>>>>           if (__clk_get_rate(hw->clk) == __clk_get_rate(dd->clk_bypass)) {
>>>>                   WARN(parent != dd->clk_bypass,
>>>>                                   "here0, parent name is %s, bypass name is %s\n",
>>>>                                   __clk_get_name(parent), __clk_get_name(dd->clk_bypass));
>>>>                   r = _omap3_noncore_dpll_bypass(clk);
>>>>           } else {
>>>>                   WARN(parent != dd->clk_ref,
>>>>                                   "here1, parent name is %s, ref name is %s\n",
>>>>                                   __clk_get_name(parent), __clk_get_name(dd->clk_ref));
>>>>                   r = _omap3_noncore_dpll_lock(clk);
>>>>           }
>>>>
>>>> struct dpll_data has members clk_ref and clk_bypass which are struct clk
>>>> pointers. This was always a bit of a violation of the clk.h contract
>>>> since drivers are not supposed to deref struct clk pointers. Now that we
>>>> generate unique pointers for each call to clk_get (clk_ref & clk_bypass
>>>> are populated by of_clk_get in ti_clk_register_dpll) then the pointer
>>>> comparisons above will never be equal (even if they resolve down to the
>>>> same struct clk_core). I added the verbose traces to the WARNs above to
>>>> illustrate the point: the names are always the same but the pointers
>>>> differ.
>>>>
>>>> AFAICT this doesn't break anything, but booting on OMAP3+ results in
>>>> noisy WARNs.
>>>>
>>>> I think the correct fix is to replace clk_bypass and clk_ref pointers
>>>> with a simple integer parent_index. In fact we already have this index.
>>>> See how the pointers are populated in ti_clk_register_dpll:
>>>
>>> The problem is we still need to be able to get runtime parent clock
>>> rates (the parent rate may change also), so simple index value is not
>>> sufficient. We need a handle of some sort to the bypass/ref clocks. The
>>> DPLL code generally requires knowledge of the bypass + reference clock
>>> rates to work properly, as it calculates the M/N values based on these.
>>
>> We can maybe introduce something like of_clk_get_parent_rate, as we have
>> analogous stuff for getting parent names and indexes. Without
>> introducing a new helper you could probably just do:
>>
>> 	clk_ref = clk_get_parent_by_index(dpll_clk, 0);
>> 	ref_rate = clk_get_rate(clk_ref);
>>
>> 	clk_bypass = clk_get_parent_by_index(dpll_clk, 1);
>> 	bypass_rate = clk_get_rate(clk_bypass);
>>
>> Currently the semantics around this call are weird. It seems like it
>> would create a new struct clk pointer but it does not. So don't call
>> clk_put on clk_ref and clk_bypass yet. That might change in the future
>> as we iron out this brave new world that we all live in. Probably best
>> to leave a FIXME in there.
>>
>> Stephen & Tomeu, let me know if I got any of that wrong.
>
> I think you got it right, just wanted to mention that we can and
> probably should make the clk_get_parent_* calls in the consumer API to
> return per-user clk instances but that we need to make sure first that
> callers call clk_put afterwards.
>
> This should also allow us to remove the reference to struct clk from
> clk_hw, which is at best awkward.
>
> Regards,

For the DPLL code it should just be fine to be able to get the current 
parent index (not parent clock handle), and read a parent clock rate 
based on an arbitrary index (not just the current one.) I don't think 
there is any other need for having the clk_ref / clk_bypass clock 
handles around.

-Tero

>
> Tomeu
>
>>>
>>> Shall I change the DPLL code to check against clk_hw pointers or what is
>>> the preferred approach here? The patch at the end does this and fixes
>>> the dpll related warnings.
>>
>> Yes, for now that is fine, but feels a bit hacky to me. I don't know
>> honestly, let me sleep on it. Anyways for 3.20 that is perfectly fine
>> but we might want to switch to something like the scheme above.
>>
>>>
>>> Btw, the rate constraints patch broke boot for me completely, but sounds
>>> like you reverted it already.
>>
>> Fixed with Stephen's patch from last week. Thanks for dealing with all
>> the breakage so promptly. It has helped a lot!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>>>
>>> -Tero
>>>
>>> --------------------
>>>
>>> Author: Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com>
>>> Date:   Mon Feb 2 17:19:17 2015 +0200
>>>
>>>       ARM: OMAP3+: clock: dpll: fix logic for comparing parent clocks
>>>
>>>       DPLL code uses reference and bypass clock pointers for determining
>>> runtime
>>>       properties for these clocks, like parent clock rates.
>>>
>>>       As clock API now returns per-user clock structs, using a global handle
>>>       in the clock driver code does not work properly anymore. Fix this by
>>>       using the clk_hw instead, and comparing this against the parents.
>>>
>>>       Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com>
>>>       Fixes: 59cf3fcf9baf ("clk: Make clk API return per-user struct clk
>>> instances")
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/dpll3xxx.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/dpll3xxx.c
>>> index c2da2a0..49752d7 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/dpll3xxx.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/dpll3xxx.c
>>> @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ int omap3_noncore_dpll_enable(struct clk_hw *hw)
>>>          struct clk_hw_omap *clk = to_clk_hw_omap(hw);
>>>          int r;
>>>          struct dpll_data *dd;
>>> -       struct clk *parent;
>>> +       struct clk_hw *parent;
>>>
>>>          dd = clk->dpll_data;
>>>          if (!dd)
>>> @@ -427,13 +427,13 @@ int omap3_noncore_dpll_enable(struct clk_hw *hw)
>>>                  }
>>>          }
>>>
>>> -       parent = __clk_get_parent(hw->clk);
>>> +       parent = __clk_get_hw(__clk_get_parent(hw->clk));
>>>
>>>          if (__clk_get_rate(hw->clk) == __clk_get_rate(dd->clk_bypass)) {
>>> -               WARN_ON(parent != dd->clk_bypass);
>>> +               WARN_ON(parent != __clk_get_hw(dd->clk_bypass));
>>>                  r = _omap3_noncore_dpll_bypass(clk);
>>>          } else {
>>> -               WARN_ON(parent != dd->clk_ref);
>>> +               WARN_ON(parent != __clk_get_hw(dd->clk_ref));
>>>                  r = _omap3_noncore_dpll_lock(clk);
>>>          }
>>>
>>> @@ -549,7 +549,8 @@ int omap3_noncore_dpll_set_rate(struct clk_hw *hw,
>>> unsigned long rate,
>>>          if (!dd)
>>>                  return -EINVAL;
>>>
>>> -       if (__clk_get_parent(hw->clk) != dd->clk_ref)
>>> +       if (__clk_get_hw(__clk_get_parent(hw->clk)) !=
>>> +           __clk_get_hw(dd->clk_ref))
>>>                  return -EINVAL;
>>>
>>>          if (dd->last_rounded_rate == 0)
>>>
>>>
>




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