Re: [PATCH 06/13] clk: amlogic: Add noglitch clock driver

Chuan Liu
2026-04-08T14:44:55Z

Hi Martin,
Thanks for review.

On 2/10/2026 5:51 AM, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
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> Hi Chuan Liu,
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 6:49 AM Chuan Liu via B4 Relay
> <devnull+chuan.liu.amlogic.com@kernel.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> + * To prevent glitches from propagating to clk_out and affecting the normal
>> + * operation of glitch-sensitive modules, the no-glitch clock must be configured
>> + * following the specified sequence:
>> + * - When the clock gate is disabled: configure it as a normal composite clock
>> + * (any glitches generated will be blocked by the gate and will not
>> + * propagate to clk_out).
> This part is easy and makes sense.
>
>> + * - When the clock gate is enabled: configure it according to the following
>> + * sequence to suppress glitches:
>> + * - Configure and enable the idle composite clock path of the
>> + * noglitch_mux with the target frequency/parent clock.
>> + * - Switch the noglitch_mux to the channel prepared in the previous step.
>> + * - Disable the clock of the original noglitch_mux channel.
>> + */
> From a previous discussion it seems that in reality things need to be
> handled more carefully as you previously mentioned that
> CLK_SET_RATE_GATE is not good enough (the description above is what
> CLK_SET_RATE_GATE already achieves).
> For the more careful handling Jerome suggested using the clock
> protection logic: [0]
> You wanted to try it out at some point: [1]
> Is the verdict that Jerome's suggestion did not work? Can you please
> share some details as to why it doesn't work.
>

In the actual use case, this switching operation completes within the
nanosecond range (with a minimum clock frequency of 24 MHz in typical
scenarios), which is why no issues were observed on our previous SoCs.

Thank you for the reminder, to be on the safe side, I will introduce
some explicit hardware delays in the future revision.

>
> Best regards,
> Martin
>
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-amlogic/1j1pnp5sg7.fsf@starbuckisacylon.baylibre.com/
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-amlogic/1639bb9d-9cb7-409f-bbf8-bfe4a5d1b8bc@amlogic.com/

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Best regards,
Chuan