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From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] clk: mxs: add clock support for imx28
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:17:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120425071747.GX20478@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335023840-1394-4-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org>

Hi Shawn,

I realized that you have no register lock which means that you rely on
the locking of the clock framework. This may not be sufficient, see the
following example:

> +	mxs_clk_div("ssp0_div", "ssp0_sel", SSP0, 0, 9, 29);
> +	clk = mxs_clk_gate("ssp0", "ssp0_div", SSP0, 31);

You have both a divider and a gate in the same register here. The gate
implements clk_enable which is protected by a spinlock in the clock
framework. The divider implements clk_set_rate which is protected by a
mutex in the clock framework. This means that during a read-modify-write
operation for a rate change the clk_enable call can come in between.

Ok, here we have two clocks which are both handled by a single driver,
so there probably won't be any real problems, but do you want to rely on
this?

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-21 15:57 [PATCH 0/8] common clk support for mxs Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/8] clk: mxs: add mxs specific clocks Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 2/8] clk: mxs: add clock support for imx23 Shawn Guo
2012-04-23 23:07   ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-23 23:51     ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-23 23:59       ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-24  1:10         ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-24  1:16           ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-24  7:28             ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 3/8] clk: mxs: add clock support for imx28 Shawn Guo
2012-04-23 23:22   ` Turquette, Mike
2012-04-25  7:17   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-04-25  8:02     ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-25  8:05       ` Sascha Hauer
2012-04-25  8:48         ` Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 4/8] ARM: mxs: request clock for timer Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 5/8] ARM: mxs: change the lookup name for fec phy clock Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 6/8] ARM: mxs: switch to common clk framework Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: mxs: remove old clock support Shawn Guo
2012-04-21 15:57 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: mxs: remove now unused timer_clk argument from mxs_timer_init Shawn Guo
2012-04-23 23:40 ` [PATCH 0/8] common clk support for mxs Turquette, Mike
2012-04-23 23:54   ` Shawn Guo

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