get, prepare, enable a clock not in DT?

Alexander Dahl
2024-08-16T14:34:54Z

Hello everyone,

while further investigating timeout issues with the at91 otpc
controller on sam9x60 [1] I came to the conclusion the main RC
oscillator on that SoC must be enabled for that driver to work.
(Verified that by poking single bits in registers through devmem
already.)

Fortunately the necessary clk is already registered from the SoC code
in drivers/clk/at91/sam9x60.c [2] and I can see the clock in sysfs clk
summary:

root@DistroKit:~ head -n4 /sys/kernel/debug/clk/clk_summary
enable prepare protect duty hardware connection
clock count count count rate accuracy phase cycle enable consumer id
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
main_rc_osc 0 0 0 12000000 50000000 0 50000 Y deviceless no_connection_id

That clock has no parent and is not found anywhere in devicetree, nor
is it handled by the two clock-producers on that platform, so
from within mchp_otpc_probe() I just tried this:

otpc->clk = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, "main_rc_osc");

However that returns with -ENOENT, so I assume I can not reference the
clock just by name? Same result with this:

otpc->clk = devm_clk_get_enabled(NULL, "main_rc_osc");

How do I get a pointer to that clk then to enable it? Docs [3] where
not as useful as I hoped for, neither was clk.h header docs. :-/

From what I understood from header docs reading 'device for clock
"consumer"' I must pass the device from which I call that clk_get() as
first parameter, so this would be the otpc device then, right? What's
that second parameter clock consumer id then? Are these terms
explained somewhere?

Greets
Alex

[1] <20240813-payable-ecology-8a9e739704bb@thorsis.com>
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10.4/source/drivers/clk/at91/sam9x60.c#L217
[3] https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/clk.html