Re: [STLinux Kernel] [PATCH v3 7/8] rtc: st: add new driver for ST's LPC RTC

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Peter Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > ST's Low Power Controller (LPC) controls two devices; watchdog and RTC.
> > Only one of the devices can be used at any one time.  This is enforced
> > by the correlating MFD driver.  This portion of the driver-set controls
> > the Real Time Clock.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->lock, flags);
> > +
> > +	writel(1, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_WDT_OFF);
> > +
> > +	writel(msb, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_LPA_MSB_OFF);
> > +	writel(lsb, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_LPA_LSB_OFF);
> > +	writel(1, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_LPA_START_OFF);
> > +
> > +	writel(0, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_WDT_OFF);
> 
> I think all the writel IO accessors in this driver can be replaced
> with the *_relaxed variant. This will avoid the overhead of taking a
> spinlock in the l2 outer cache part of writel.

Yes, there is no technical reason why we can't use the relaxed
variants.  Will fix.

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
> > +static int st_rtc_suspend(struct device *dev)
> > +{
> > +	struct st_rtc *rtc = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > +
> > +	if (device_may_wakeup(dev))
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	writel(1, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_WDT_OFF);
> > +	writel(0, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_LPA_START_OFF);
> > +	writel(0, rtc->ioaddr + LPC_WDT_OFF);
> 
> Is there a reason for not disabling the IP clock in suspend / resume functions?

There is.  It will stop the alarm timer, which is undesirable.

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