Re: [PATCH 5/5] clk: qcom: hfpll: CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED

Stephen Boyd
2019-09-09T10:23:13Z

Quoting Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz (2019-08-26 09:45:10)
> When COMMON_CLK_DISABLED_UNUSED is set, in an effort to save power and
> to keep the software model of the clock in line with reality, the
> framework transverses the clock tree and disables those clocks that
> were enabled by the firmware but have not been enabled by any device
> driver.
>
> If CPUFREQ is enabled, early during the system boot, it might attempt
> to change the CPU frequency ("set_rate"). If the HFPLL is selected as
> a provider, it will then change the rate for this clock.
>
> As boot continues, clk_disable_unused_subtree will run. Since it wont
> find a valid counter (enable_count) for a clock that is actually
> enabled it will attempt to disable it which will cause the CPU to
> stop. Notice that in this driver, calls to check whether the clock is
> enabled are routed via the is_enabled callback which queries the
> hardware.
>
> The following commit, rather than marking the clock critical and
> forcing the clock to be always enabled, addresses the above scenario
> making sure the clock is not disabled but it continues to rely on the
> firmware to enable the clock.
>
> Co-developed-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> ---

Also this one. Seems fine to merge immediately vs the ones that do some
DT trickery.