Re: [PATCH v1 5/9] coresight: Avoid enable programming clock duplicately

[Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:18:56PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 3/27/25 17:07, 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.
> > 
> > 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@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;
> >  }
> 
> coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk() mostly gets called in the platform driver
> probe paths but they are also present in some AMBA probe paths. Hence why
> cannot the callers in AMBA probe paths get fixed instead ?

With this approach, clocking operations are different in static probe
and dynamic probe.  This causes complexity for CoreSight drivers.

After consideration, we decided to use a central place for clock
initialization.  Patch 09 follows the idea to encapsulate pclk and atclk
operations in the coresight_get_enable_clocks() function.

> Besides return
> value never gets checked for NULL, which would have to be changed as well
> if coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk() starts returning NULL values for AMBA
> devices.
> 
> 	drvdata->pclk = coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk(&pdev->dev);
> 	if (IS_ERR(drvdata->pclk))
> 		return -ENODEV;

I confirmed CoreSight drivers have used this condition, so it is safe
to return NULL pointer from coresight_get_enable_apb_pclk().

Thanks,
Leo