From: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] clk: add clk_hw_recalc_rate() to trigger HW clk rate recalculation
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:32:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260317173255.5531-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com> (raw)
There is currently a latent problem with HW clk that only expose a
.recalc_rate OP and doesn't have a .set_rate() and also have the
CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE flag set. In such case the rate in clk core is
parsed only (and set) only at init and when the full clk_set_rate()
is called. In every other case .recalc_rate() is never called.
It's also possible that an HW clk of this type, initially report 0 as rate
as the register are still not configured and the HW clk effectively doesn't
return any rate.
This gets especially problematic when a clock provider use such clk as a
parent and require the rate for parent selection for the final rate
calculation.
In such case, since the HW clk rate is never updated after init, it's still
0 and cause problems with any other HW clk that use .determine_rate() or
.round_rate() and search for the closest rate using clk_hw_get_rate() on
the parents.
This doesn't happen if the full clk_get_rate() is used instead as it will
check if CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE is set and recalculate the rate accordingly.
Updating the clk_hw_get_rate() to align to what clk_get_rate() does is not
possible as it should be lockless and might cause problems in any user of
clk_hw_get_rate().
A more safe approach is the introduction of a direct function that triggers
the HW clk rate recalculation, clk_hw_recalc_rate().
Any driver that implement an HW clk that entirely depends on some register
to configure the rate (that are externally configured) and have only
.recalc_rate() and set CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE (aka the case where the HW clk
rate actually change and depends on the external register configuration)
will have to call clk_hw_recalc_rate() on the HW clk after changing the
register configuration to sync the CCF with the new rate for the HW clk.
Example:
- All register zero -> HW clk rate = 0
- PCS configure USXGMII mode -> HW clk rate = 0
- PCS call clk_hw_recalc_rate() -> HW clk rate = 312MHz
- Port goes UP
- PCS/MAC scale the PHY port clock correctly by having
the correct reference clock as parent (instead of 0)
Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
---
drivers/clk/clk.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/clk-provider.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index 47093cda9df3..35e0cf627c24 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -1977,6 +1977,29 @@ static unsigned long clk_core_get_rate_recalc(struct clk_core *core)
return clk_core_get_rate_nolock(core);
}
+/**
+ * clk_hw_recalc_rate - trigger rate recalculation for clk_hw
+ * @hw: clk_hw associated with the clk to recalculate for
+ *
+ * Use clk_hw_recalc_rate() for the hw clk where the rate
+ * entirely depend on register configuration and doesn't have
+ * a .set_rate() OP. In such case, after modifying the register
+ * that would change the rate for the hw clk, call
+ * clk_hw_recalc_rate() to sync the CCF with the new clk rate.
+ */
+void clk_hw_recalc_rate(const struct clk_hw *hw)
+{
+ struct clk_core *core = hw->core;
+
+ if (!core || !(core->flags & CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE))
+ return;
+
+ clk_prepare_lock();
+ __clk_recalc_rates(core, false, 0);
+ clk_prepare_unlock();
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_hw_recalc_rate);
+
/**
* clk_get_rate - return the rate of clk
* @clk: the clk whose rate is being returned
diff --git a/include/linux/clk-provider.h b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
index 630705a47129..f2865d7876c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/clk-provider.h
+++ b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
@@ -1407,6 +1407,7 @@ int clk_hw_get_parent_index(struct clk_hw *hw);
int clk_hw_set_parent(struct clk_hw *hw, struct clk_hw *new_parent);
unsigned int __clk_get_enable_count(struct clk *clk);
unsigned long clk_hw_get_rate(const struct clk_hw *hw);
+void clk_hw_recalc_rate(const struct clk_hw *hw);
unsigned long clk_hw_get_flags(const struct clk_hw *hw);
#define clk_hw_can_set_rate_parent(hw) \
(clk_hw_get_flags((hw)) & CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT)
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-17 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-17 17:32 Christian Marangi [this message]
2026-03-17 22:09 ` [PATCH] clk: add clk_hw_recalc_rate() to trigger HW clk rate recalculation Brian Masney
2026-03-17 22:17 ` Christian Marangi
2026-03-17 22:23 ` Brian Masney
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