[PATCH V3] clk: imx: Fix reparenting of UARTs not associated with sdout

[Adam Ford]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:24 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> On 21-01-21 10:56:17, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 06:14:21PM +0200, Abel Vesa wrote:
> > > On 21-01-20 16:50:01, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Abel Vesa wrote:
> > > > > On 21-01-20 16:13:05, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Abel,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 04:44:54PM +0200, Abel Vesa wrote:
> > > > > > > On 21-01-18 08:00:43, Adam Ford wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa at nxp.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > TBH, I'm against the idea of having to call consumer API from a clock provider driver.
> > > > > > > > > I'm still investigating a way of moving the uart clock control calls in drivers/serial/imx,
> > > > > > > > > where they belong.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > That makes sense.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Just a thought. The uart clock used for console remains on from u-boot,
> > > > > > > so maybe it's enough to just add the CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flag to all the
> > > > > > > uart root clocks and remove the prepare/enable calls for uart clocks
> > > > > > > for good. I don't really have a way to test it right now, but maybe
> > > > > > > you could give it a try.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That would mean that UART clocks will never be disabled, regardless of
> > > > > > whether they are used for console or not. That doesn't sound very
> > > > > > appealing.
> > > > >
> > > > > AFAIK, the only uart clock that is enabled by u-boot is the one used for
> > > > > the console. Later on, when the serial driver probes, it will enable it itself.
> > > > >
> > > > > Unless I'm missing something, this is exactly what we need.
> > > >
> > > > It might enable it, but with CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED the clock won't be
> > > > disabled again when a port is closed after usage
> > >
> > > OK, tell me what I'm getting wrong in the following scenario:
> > >
> > > U-boot leaves the console uart clock enabled. All the other ones are disabled.
> > >
> > > Kernel i.MX clk driver registers the uart clocks with flag CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED.
> >
> > I was wrong at that point. I originally thought the kernel will never
> > disable these clocks, but in fact it only leaves them enabled during the
> > clk_disable_unused call.
> >
> > However, when CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED becomes relevant it's too late already.
> > I just chatted with Lucas and he told me what the original problem was
> > that his patch solved.
> >
> > The problem comes when an unrelated device and the earlycon UART have
> > the same parent clocks. The parent clock is enabled, but it's reference
> > count is zero. Now when the unrelated device probes and toggles its
> > clocks then the shared parent clock will be disabled due to the
> > reference count being zero. Next time earlycon prints a character the
> > system hangs because the UART gates are still enabled, but their parent
> > clocks no longer are.
> >
>
> Hmm, that is indeed a problem. That's why I think there should be some
> kind of NOCACHE flag for almost all the types of clocks. For example,
> in this case, it makes sense for the core to check the bit in the register
> and then disable the parent based on that instead of relying on the refcount.
> Anyway, that's something that needs to be added in the CCF.
>
> > Overall I think Lucas' patches are still valid and relevant and with
> > Adams patches we even no longer have to enable all UART clocks, but
> > only the ones which are actually needed.
>
> Yeah, for now, I think we can go with Adam's patches. But longterm, I would
> like to remove the special case of the uart clocks we have right now in all
> the i.MX clock drivers.
>

Is the patch I submitted good enough for someone's acked-by or
reviewed-by, or are there changes I need to implement?

adam

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> > Sascha
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