[PATCH v3 08/10] clk: mediatek: clk-mt8195-topckgen: Drop univplls from mfg mux parents

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 4:29 PM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com> wrote:
>
> Il 30/09/22 07:59, MandyJH Liu (劉人僖) ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 12:11 +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> >> These PLLs are conflicting with GPU rates that can be generated by
> >> the GPU-dedicated MFGPLL and would require a special clock handler
> >> to be used, for very little and ignorable power consumption benefits.
> >> Also, we're in any case unable to set the rate of these PLLs to
> >> something else that is sensible for this task, so simply drop them:
> >> this will make the GPU to be clocked exclusively from MFGPLL for
> >> "fast" rates, while still achieving the right "safe" rate during
> >> PLL frequency locking.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <
> >> angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c | 9 ++++++---
> >>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
> >> b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
> >> index 4dde23bece66..8cbab5ca2e58 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt8195-topckgen.c
> >> @@ -298,11 +298,14 @@ static const char * const ipu_if_parents[] = {
> >>      "mmpll_d4"
> >>   };
> >>
> >> +/*
> >> + * MFG can be also parented to "univpll_d6" and "univpll_d7":
> >> + * these have been removed from the parents list to let us
> >> + * achieve GPU DVFS without any special clock handlers.
> >> + */
> >>   static const char * const mfg_parents[] = {
> >>      "clk26m",
> >> -    "mainpll_d5_d2",
> >> -    "univpll_d6",
> >> -    "univpll_d7"
> >> +    "mainpll_d5_d2"
> >>   };
> >>
> >>   static const char * const camtg_parents[] = {
> > There might be a problem here. Since the univpll_d6 and univpll_d7 are
> > available parents in hardware design and they can be selected other
> > than kernel stage, like bootloader, the clk tree listed in clk_summary
> > cannot show the real parent-child relationship in such case.
>
> I agree about that, but the clock framework will change the parent to
> the "best parent" in that case... this was done to avoid writing complicated
> custom clock ops just for that one.
>
> This issue is present only on MT8195, so it can be safely solved this way,
> at least for now.
>
> Should this become a thing on another couple SoCs, it'll then make sense
> to write custom clock ops just for the MFG.

Would CLK_SET_RATE_NO_REPARENT on the fast mux coupled with forcing
the clk tree to a state that we like (mfgpll->fast_mux->gate) work?

ChenYu