[PATCH v3 0/2] clk: improve handling of orphan clocks

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Thu May 7 14:03:57 PDT 2015


On 05/07/15 08:17, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> On 05/01/15 15:07, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>>> Am Freitag, 1. Mai 2015, 13:52:47 schrieb Stephen Boyd:
>>>
>>>>> Instead I guess we could hook it less deep into clk_get_sys, like in the
>>>>> following patch?
>>>> It looks like it will work at least, but still I'd prefer to keep the
>>>> orphan check contained to clk.c. How about this compile tested only patch?
>>> I gave this a spin on my rk3288-firefly board. It still boots, the clock tree
>>> looks the same and it also still defers nicely in the scenario I needed it
>>> for. The implementation also looks nice - and of course much more compact than
>>> my check in two places :-) . I don't know if you want to put this as follow-up
>>> on top or fold it into the original orphan-check, so in any case
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>>> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>> Thanks. I'm leaning towards tossing your patch 2/2 and replacing it with
>> my patch and a note that it's based on an earlier patch from you.
> It appears this has landed in linux-next in the form of 882667c1fcf1
> clk: prevent orphan clocks from being used.  A bunch of boot failures
> for sunxi in today's linux-next[1] were bisected down to that patch.
>
> I confirmed that reverting that commit on top of next/master gets
> sunxi booting again.
>
>

Thanks for the report. I've removed the two clk orphan patches from
clk-next. Would it be possible to try with next-20150507 and
clk_ignore_unused on the command line? Also we can try to see if
critical clocks aren't being forced on by applying this patch and
looking for clk_get() failures

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diff --git a/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c b/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c
index 7e1e2bd189b6..d88585b680bb 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c
@@ -1347,6 +1347,9 @@ static void __init sunxi_init_clocks(const char *clocks[], int nclocks)
 
 		if (!IS_ERR(clk))
 			clk_prepare_enable(clk);
+		else
+			pr_err("Failed to enable critical clock %s\n",
+					clocks[i]);
 	}
 }
 

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