[PATCH 0/2] clk: fix the need of booking clk_ignore_unused=true on embedded devs

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Currently, the only way to boot a Kernel with drivers built as modules on embedded 
devices like HiKey 970 is to pass clk_ignore_unused=true as a modprobe parameter.

There are two separate issues:

1. the clk's core calls clk_disable_unused() too early. By the time this
   function is called, only the builtin drivers were already probed/initialized.
   Drivers built as modules will only be probed afterwards.

   This cause a race condition and boot instability, as the clk core will try
   to disable clocks while the drivers built as modules are still being
   probed and initialized.

   I suspect that the same problem used to happen at the regulator's core,
   as there's a code that waits for 30 seconds before disabling unused
   regulators;

2. there are some gate clocks defined at HiKey 970 that should always be on,
   as otherwise the system will hang, or the filesystem I/O will stop.

Ps.: 
  I submitted already 3 or 4 versions of patches for HiKey 970 clock, but
  they're all unreliable, due to the race conditions at the clk core due to (1).
   
Patch 1 solves the issue with the clk core.
Patch 2 solves the HiKey 970 specific issues.

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
  clk: wait for extra time before disabling unused clocks
  clk: clk-hi3670: mark some clocks as CLK_IS_CRITICAL

 drivers/clk/clk.c                  | 51 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3670.c | 24 +++++++-------
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

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