[PATCH] i2c: lpi2c: cache peripheral clock rate

Sverdlin, Alexander alexander.sverdlin at siemens.com
Thu Mar 9 06:54:56 PST 2023


Hi!

On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 15:37 +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
>  From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin at siemens.com>
> > 
> > One of the reasons to do it is to save some CPU cycles on
> > cpu_freq_get()
> > under mutex. The second reason if the (false-positive) lockdep
> > splat caused
> > by the recursive feature of the "prepare_lock" (one clock instance
> > is I2C
> > peripheral clock and another is pcf85063 RTC as clock provider):
> > 
> > ======================================================
> > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> > 5.15.71+... #1 Tainted: G           O
> 
> Which kernel is this? Mainline or downstream vendor kernel?

found and tested on downstream vendor kernel.

[...]

> 
> 
> What if the peripheral clock rate changes? I guess a notifier similar
> to 
> 90ad2cbe88c2 ("i2c: imx: use clk notifier for rate changes") should
> be added 
> as well.
> 

Good point! Thank you for the hint!

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Alexander Sverdlin
Siemens AG
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