[PATCH v2 2/5] clk: amlogic: Improve the issue of PLL lock failures

Jerome Brunet jbrunet at baylibre.com
Thu Oct 30 01:41:07 PDT 2025


On Thu 30 Oct 2025 at 13:24, Chuan Liu via B4 Relay <devnull+chuan.liu.amlogic.com at kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Chuan Liu <chuan.liu at amlogic.com>
>
> Due to factors such as temperature and process variations, the
> internal circuits of the PLL may require a longer time to reach a
> steady state, which can result in occasional lock failures on some
> SoCs under low-temperature conditions.
>
> After enabling the PLL and releasing its reset, a 20 us delay is
> added at each step to provide enough time for the internal PLL
> circuit to stabilize, thus reducing the probability of PLL lock
> failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuan Liu <chuan.liu at amlogic.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c
> index 629f6af18ea1..f81ebf6cc981 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c
> @@ -368,11 +368,16 @@ static int meson_clk_pll_enable(struct clk_hw *hw)
>  
>  	/* Enable the pll */
>  	meson_parm_write(clk->map, &pll->en, 1);

New line

> +	/* Wait for Bandgap and LDO to power up and stabilize */
> +	udelay(20);
>  
>  	/* Take the pll out reset */
>  	if (MESON_PARM_APPLICABLE(&pll->rst))
>  		meson_parm_write(clk->map, &pll->rst, 0);
>  
> +	/* Wait for PLL loop stabilization */
> +	udelay(20);
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Compared with the previous SoCs, self-adaption current module
>  	 * is newly added for A1, keep the new power-on sequence to enable the

-- 
Jerome



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