[PATCHv2 9/9] ARM: dts: omap4: convert to use the new clkctrl clocks for the drivers

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Apr 3 07:16:09 PDT 2017


* Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [170330 00:36]:
> On 28/03/17 18:03, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [170327 22:46]:
> > > On 28/03/17 03:18, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > > * Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com> [170317 02:12]:
> > > > > Convert the drivers to use the new clkctrl clocks.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo at ti.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4.dtsi | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > > > >  1 file changed, 146 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4.dtsi
> > > > > index 3ecf616..c39304a 100644
> > > > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4.dtsi
> > > > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4.dtsi
> > > > > @@ -94,16 +94,22 @@
> > > > >  			compatible = "ti,omap4-mpu";
> > > > >  			ti,hwmods = "mpu";
> > > > >  			sram = <&ocmcram>;
> > > > > +			clocks = <&mpuss_clkctrl OMAP4_MPU_CLKCTRL 0>;
> > > > > +			clock-names = "clkctrl";
> > > > >  		};
> > > > 
> > > > Oh one more thing. I don't think we should add the clocks
> > > > here as they are now wrongly allocated to the device within
> > > > the interconnect target module. These clocks really belong
> > > > to each interconnect target module that we don't have in the
> > > > dts yet.
> > > > 
> > > > So we're better off adding the clockctrl clocks and then
> > > > changing the dts to use the interconnect target modules
> > > > with the clockctrl clocks.
> > > 
> > > The problem is, you can't just add the clkctrl clock nodes themselves alone,
> > > as this introduces the problem that any clocks with no users will get
> > > disabled => causes a boot time hang when all the device clocks get shut
> > > down.
> > 
> > Hmm yeah. I wonder how to work around that.. What if we first updated
> > the clocks in the hwmod code? Or updated the aliases?
> 
> Kind of a chicken-egg problem. You could maybe probe the "ti,clkctrl" driver
> manually to avoid the issue.
> 
> The core clocks get disabled when CCF notices they are not used. You can't
> really avoid that with updating aliases / updating the clocks in hwmod code.
> And, hwmod basically tries to still use the same registers through the
> legacy route, which leads to conflict.

Yeah OK. Using status = "disabled" won't help much there either as the
amount of patching is still pretty much the same.

> > > If you want to delay the usage of the clocks until you have interconnect
> > > target modules in place, you need to introduce the clock nodes also at that
> > > point, similar to what needs to be done now to squash patch #8 or #9.
> > 
> > I'd like to do this one device at a time without any large
> > flips as we have quite a few devices with special handling for
> > reset and idling in the hwmod code.
> 
> One thing that can be done also is to introduce the clkctrl clocks one at a
> time in the data file also, but this is going to be cumbersome, as you need
> to keep these three in sync:
> 
> - drivers/clk/ti/clk-44xx.c
> - arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_44xx_data.c
> - arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4.dtsi
> 
> ... and that per SoC of course.
> 
> With the interconnect driver introduction, you should be able to flip one
> device at a time from hwmod to interconnect. In this case, all the clocks
> are already there, and you just need to modify DT + hwmod data to do the
> flip.

Yes seems like that's what we should do then.

Regards,

Tony



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