[PATCH v2 6/9] coresight: Avoid enable programming clock duplicately
Anshuman Khandual
anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Thu May 1 23:38:55 PDT 2025
On 4/23/25 20:47, Leo Yan wrote:
> The programming clock is enabled by AMBA bus driver before a dynamic
> probe. As a result, a CoreSight driver may redundantly enable the same
> clock.
Are you sure AMBA bus driver always enables such clocks in all scenarios ?
Even if that is true - why cannot coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk() ensured
to be called only for the platform drivers cases via code re-organization,
rather than changing the coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk() helper itself.
>
> To avoid this, add a check for device type and skip enabling the
> programming clock for AMBA devices. The returned NULL pointer will be
> tolerated by the drivers.
>
> Fixes: 73d779a03a76 ("coresight: etm4x: Change etm4_platform_driver driver for MMIO devices")
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
> ---
> include/linux/coresight.h | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/coresight.h b/include/linux/coresight.h
> index b888f6ed59b2..26eb4a61b992 100644
> --- a/include/linux/coresight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/coresight.h
> @@ -476,15 +476,18 @@ static inline bool is_coresight_device(void __iomem *base)
> * Returns:
> *
> * clk - Clock is found and enabled
> + * NULL - Clock is not needed as it is managed by the AMBA bus driver
> * ERROR - Clock is found but failed to enable
> */
> static inline struct clk *coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk(struct device *dev)
> {
> - struct clk *pclk;
> + struct clk *pclk = NULL;
>
> - pclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(dev, "apb_pclk");
> - if (IS_ERR(pclk))
> - pclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(dev, "apb");
> + if (!dev_is_amba(dev)) {
> + pclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(dev, "apb_pclk");
> + if (IS_ERR(pclk))
> + pclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(dev, "apb");
> + }
>
> return pclk;
> }
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