[PATCH v4 3/8] clk: samsung: add infrastructure to register cpu clocks

Doug Anderson dianders at chromium.org
Thu May 15 13:26:11 PDT 2014


Heiko,

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Heiko Stübner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2014, 12:36:45 schrieb Doug Anderson:
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Heiko Stübner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2014, 11:18:44 schrieb Doug Anderson:
>> >> Thomas,
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Thomas Abraham <ta.omasab at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> >> > From: Thomas Abraham <thomas.ab at samsung.com>
>> >> > +static int exynos4210_armclk_pre_rate_change(struct clk_notifier_data
>> >> > *ndata, +                       struct exynos_cpuclk *armclk, void
>> >> > __iomem *base) +{
>> >> > +       struct exynos4210_armclk_data *armclk_data = armclk->data;
>> >> > +       unsigned long alt_prate = clk_get_rate(armclk->alt_parent);
>> >> > +       unsigned long alt_div, div0, div1, tdiv0, mux_reg;
>> >> > +       unsigned long cur_armclk_rate, timeout;
>> >> > +       unsigned long flags;
>> >> > +
>> >> > +       /* find out the divider values to use for clock data */
>> >> > +       while (armclk_data->prate != ndata->new_rate) {
>> >> > +               if (armclk_data->prate == 0)
>> >> > +                       return -EINVAL;
>> >> > +               armclk_data++;
>> >> > +       }
>> >> > +
>> >> > +       div0 = armclk_data->div0;
>> >> > +       div1 = armclk_data->div1;
>> >> > +       if (readl(base + SRC_CPU) & EXYNOS4210_MUX_HPM_MASK) {
>> >> > +               div1 = readl(base + DIV_CPU1) &
>> >> > EXYNOS4210_DIV1_HPM_MASK;
>> >> > +               div1 |= ((armclk_data->div1) &
>> >> > ~EXYNOS4210_DIV1_HPM_MASK);
>> >> > +       }
>> >> > +
>> >> > +       /*
>> >> > +        * if the new and old parent clock speed is less than the clock
>> >> > speed +        * of the alternate parent, then it should be ensured
>> >> > that
>> >> > at no point +        * the armclk speed is more than the old_prate
>> >> > until
>> >> > the dividers are +        * set.
>> >> > +        */
>> >> > +       tdiv0 = readl(base + DIV_CPU0);
>> >> > +       cur_armclk_rate = ndata->old_rate / EXYNOS4210_ARM_DIV1(tdiv0)
>> >> > /
>> >> > +                               EXYNOS4210_ARM_DIV2(tdiv0);
>> >> > +       if (alt_prate > cur_armclk_rate) {
>> >> > +               alt_div = _calc_div(alt_prate, cur_armclk_rate);
>> >> > +               _exynos4210_set_armclk_div(base, alt_div);
>> >> > +               div0 |= alt_div;
>> >>
>> >> Don't you need to up the voltage here, too?  ...I haven't reviewed
>> >> this whole patch (so perhaps it's elsewhere in the patch or in the
>> >> series), but I stumbled upon this while trying to solve a different
>> >> problem and figured I'd check...
>> >
>> > setting the voltage should be done by the cpufreq driver like cpufreq-cpu0
>> > - whose usage this series intents to allow.
>> >
>> > As I've hijacked Thomas' concept for my current rockchip clock work, I've
>> > already seen this working nicely :-) .
>>
>> I guess I should have been more clear.  I was talking more
>> specifically about upping the voltage as part of the mux switch in the
>> case that alt_prate > cur_armclk_rate.
>
> from earlier discussions I remember Thomas and me talked about setting a
> divider to make sure that alt_prate <= cur_armclk_rate, so the voltage can
> stay at its current level. I haven't looked deeply into this revision, but the
> last one did exactly this.

Ah-ha, that's a reasonable solution to this problem.  I was familiar
with the old code and know that it used to set the CPUD ratio here, so
I assumed that was what Thomas's code did.  ...but you're right, his
code is setting the divider here.  I didn't double-check all of his
code / calculations, but he's certainly tweaking the right bits.

Nice!


>> ...if you're switching from 200MHz to 300MHz and the alt_prate is
>> 800MHz, you need to account for that fact.  The code here accounts for
>> the fact in setting the "armclk_div", but (I don't think) it accounts
>> for the fact that 800MHz will need a higher voltage.
>>
>> As per a separate discussion, a clean solution might be to move the
>> mux switching to the core of CPU_FREQ.  That would have the side
>> effect of also making it very easy to send notifications.
>
> I'll just wait until you all decide what the best solution is :-), but
> personally I like the concept of keeping the clock logic inside the clock
> driver, especially as this is not limited to setting the mux but also adapting
> tightly bound child clocks and this all may not fit into a generic
> implementation of a cpufreq driver.

Yup, I didn't think of the solution you guys came up with.  Your
solution handles things nicely.

Thanks!

-Doug



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