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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:34:29 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: shmobile: mstp: Fix the is_enabled() operation
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On Thursday 13 March 2014 11:54:44 Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 13/03/14 11:50, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 March 2014 12:27:43 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >>> The MSTP[SC]R registers have clock stop bits, not clock enable bits. The
> >>> bit value should thus be inverted in the is_enabled() operation.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> >>> <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> 
> >>>   drivers/clk/shmobile/clk-mstp.c | 2 +-
> >>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>> 
> >>> Geert, I believe this patch should fix the problem we've noticed with
> >>> clk_disable_unused() not disabling unused clocks. Could you please test
> >>> it
> >>> ?
> >> 
> >> Yes, now it disables the hardware clock bits for all clocks that are not
> >> in use according to CCF:
> >> 
> >> MSTP tmu0 OFF
> >> MSTP i2c0 OFF
> >> MSTP i2c1 OFF
> >> MSTP i2c2 OFF
> >> MSTP i2c3 OFF
> >> MSTP i2c4 OFF
> >> MSTP i2c5 OFF
> >> MSTP ether OFF
> >> MSTP msiof1 OFF
> >> MSTP msiof2 OFF
> >> MSTP msiof0 OFF
> >> MSTP qspi_mod OFF
> >> 
> >> and booting stops...
> > 
> > In a way, that's good, the results are consistent. I propose delaying this
> > patch a bit though :-)
> > 
> > The tmu0 clock is supposed to be off, as we don't instantiate the device
> > for r8a779[01].
> > 
> > The i2c driver acquires the device clock explicitly but doesn't
> > enable/disable it.
> 
> It expects runtime-pm
> 
> > The msiof and rspi drivers seem to enable/disable clocks explicitly, so
> > they should probably work. However the rspi driver seems to be missing
> > clk_prepare/clk_unprepare calls. Do you plan to fix that ?
> 
> If you are manually managing the clocks, then the clk_prepare_enable and
> the unprepare counterpart are probably what you want to use as long as
> you are not going to be called from a non-sleepable context.
> 
> > The sh-eth driver doesn't perform any clock management.
> 
> It again expects the runtime-pm to manage it.
> 
> > The question is, how should we fix it in the short term ? Should we target
> > runtime PM clock management straight away, or should we add manual clock
> > handling to drivers as a first step ?
> 
> The drivers/sh was supposed to enable the use of the runtime pm as
> that is what the non-multiplatorm SHMOBILE stuff was using.
> 
> This sort of thing is why I do not like the current implicit clock
> management as it is so difficult to diagnose what is going on and there
> is no error feedback if it is not present :(

I hear your concern. We should try to add proper feedback to the runtime PM 
clock management code.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart