[PATCH 1/3] Add a common struct clk

[u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:59:21PM +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi Jassi,
> 
> >   Are you planning to revise the patch-set or just taking time to
> > resubmit as such?
> 
> I've reworked this patch to allow clocks that are enabled/disabled in atomic 
> contexts, it's here if you'd like a preview:
> 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=jk/dt/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=33220e119d3213282d4234fec7438baa6d04b5f0
> 
> I'm just waiting on some initial feedback, will post to l-a-k once that's in.
I assume the initial feedback should be provided from someone internal
to Canonical or Linaro?  Can you give an estimate when you can post it,
I really thing that's the way to go for simplifying the clock code on
imx which is on my todo list.

While reading quickly over the patch I wondered if there isn't a better
way to get that spinlock/mutex thingy implemented.

You currently have:

	struct clk {
	       const struct clk_ops    *ops;
	       unsigned int            enable_count;
	       int                     flags;
	       union {
	               struct mutex    mutex;
	               spinlock_t      spinlock;
	       } lock;
	};

What about using this one instead?:

	struct clk_base {
		/* merge that with ops?  Probably not */
		const struct clk_lock_ops *lock_ops;
		const struct clk_ops *ops;
		unsigned int enable_count;
	};

	struct clk {
		struct clk_base base;
		struct mutex lock;
	};

	struct clk_atomic {
		struct clk_base base;
		spinlock_t lock;
	};


with the obvious definition of struct clk_lock_ops and the two instances
for clk and clk_atomic etc. pp.

This way and when I prefer to use the sleeping variant only I don't need
to bother with spinlocks at all.

Just an idea ...

Uwe

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