Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: qcom: gcc-msm8996: Fix parent for CLKREF clocks

Bjorn Andersson
2019-12-20T02:34:33Z

On Wed 18 Dec 22:37 PST 2019, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2019-12-07 12:36:02)
> > The CLKREF clocks are all fed by the clock signal on the CXO2 pad on the
> > SoC. Update the definition of these clocks to allow this to be wired up
> > to the appropriate clock source.
> >
> > Retain "xo" as the global named parent to make the change a nop in the
> > event that DT doesn't carry the necessary clocks definition.
>
> Something seems wrong still.
>
> I wonder if we need to add the XO "active only" clk to the rpm clk
> driver(s) and mark it as CLK_IS_CRITICAL. In theory that is really the
> truth for most of the SoCs out there because it's the only crystal that
> needs to be on all the time when the CPU is active. The "normal" XO clk
> will then be on all the time unless deep idle is entered and nobody has
> turned that on via some clk_prepare() call. That's because we root all
> other clks through the "normal" XO clk that will be on in deep
> idle/suspend if someone needs it to be.
>

The patch doesn't attempt to address the fact that our representation of
XO is incomplete, only the fact that CXO2 isn't properly described.

Looking at the clock distribution, we do have RPM_SMD_BB_CLK1_A which
presumably is the clock you're referring to here - i.e. the clock
resource connected to CXO.

> Did the downstream code explicitly enable this ln_bb_clk in the phy
> drivers? I think it may have?
>

Yes, afaict all downstream drivers consuming a CLKREF also consumes
LN_BB and ensures that this is enabled. So we've been relying on UFS to
either not have probed yet or that UFS probed successfully for PCIe and
USB to be functional.

So either we need this patch to ensure that the requests propagates
down, or I need to patch up the PHY drivers to ensure that they also
vote for the PMIC clock - and I do prefer this patch.

Regards,
Bjorn