[PATCH 0/3] crypto: inside-secure: improve clock management

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at bootlin.com
Fri Mar 23 09:30:46 PDT 2018


Hi Herbert,
 
 On sam., mars 24 2018, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 05:48:39PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This short series fixes the way the clocks are used for the SafeXcel
>> EIP-197 controller embedded in the Marvell Armada 7K/8K SoCs. On these
>> SoCs a second one is needed in order to clock the registers. It was
>> not noticed until now because we relied on the bootloader and also
>> because the clock driver was wrong.
>> 
>> Thanks to this fix, it would be possible to fix the clock driver
>> without introducing a regression.
>> 
>> While I was working on the clocks I found a bug in the clock
>> management which was fixed with the first patch and should be applied
>> to v4.16.
>
> I haven't applied it to the crypto 4.16 tree because your other
> patches depend on it and I don't think the issue doesn't seem to
> be that severe.
>
> In future it would help if you can avoid such dependencies if you
> wish the patches to go in as soon as possible.

Yes sure. And I agree with you, the issue is not that severe, so it can
wait for 4.17.

>
>> The second patch is a small improvement which is aim for v4.17 as well
>> as the last patch.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Gregory
>> 
>> Gregory CLEMENT (3):
>>   crypto: inside-secure - fix clock management
>>   crypto: inside-secure - improve clock initialization
>>   crypto: inside-secure - fix clock resource by adding a register clock
>> 
>>  .../bindings/crypto/inside-secure-safexcel.txt     |  6 ++-
>>  drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c            | 47 +++++++++++++++-------
>>  drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.h            |  1 +
>>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> All applied.  Thanks.

Thanks

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