Re: [PATCH] clk: rk3308: make ddrphy4x clock critical

["Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>]

Am Dienstag, 27. Juli 2021, 03:08:10 CEST schrieb Stephen Boyd:
> Quoting Yunhao Tian (2021-07-21 05:48:16)
> > Currently, no driver support for DDR memory controller (DMC) is present,
> > as a result, no driver is explicitly consuming the ddrphy clock. This means
> > that VPLL1 (parent of ddr clock) will be shutdown if we enable
> > and then disable any child clock of VPLL1 (e.g. SCLK_I2S0_8CH_TX).
> > If VPLL1 is disabled, the whole system will freeze, because the DDR
> > controller will lose its clock. So, it's necessary to prevent VPLL1 from
> > shutting down, by marking the ddrphy4x CLK_IS_CRITICAL.
> > 
> > This bug was discovered when I was porting rockchip_i2s_tdm driver to
> > mainline kernel from Rockchip 4.4 kernel. I guess that other Rockchip
> > SoCs without DMC driver may need the same patch. If this applies to
> > other devices, please let us know.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yunhao Tian <t123yh@outlook.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3308.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3308.c b/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3308.c
> > index 2c3bd0c749f2..6be077166330 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3308.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3308.c
> > @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ static struct rockchip_clk_branch rk3308_clk_branches[] __initdata = {
> >         COMPOSITE(SCLK_DDRCLK, "clk_ddrphy4x_src", mux_dpll_vpll0_vpll1_p, CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED,
> >                         RK3308_CLKSEL_CON(1), 6, 2, MFLAGS, 0, 3, DFLAGS,
> >                         RK3308_CLKGATE_CON(0), 10, GFLAGS),
> > -       GATE(0, "clk_ddrphy4x", "clk_ddrphy4x_src", CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED,
> > +       GATE(0, "clk_ddrphy4x", "clk_ddrphy4x_src", CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED | CLK_IS_CRITICAL,
> 
> Is it not enabled by default?

All gates are enabled by default, but this gate shares a common parent
tree down to a pll, so if another leaf-user is disabling their part, this
untracked clock would get disabled as well.

On that note, I remember a sort of CLK_HANDOFF was planned way back
in the past, meaning clock is critical until a driver picks it up, after this the
driver is responsible for it. Did that get any momentum?

Heiko