Re: [PATCH] hw/core/clock: remove assert in clock_propagate

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 17:30, Raphael Poggi
<raphael.poggi@lynxleap.co.uk> wrote:
>
> This commit allows childs clock to propagate their new frequency,
> for example, after setting a new multiplier/diviser.
>
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Poggi <raphael.poggi@lynxleap.co.uk>

Applied to target-arm.next, thanks. I rewrote the commit message
to document the conversation we had in the other email thread:

    hw/core/clock: allow clock_propagate on child clocks

    clock_propagate() has an assert that clk->source is NULL, i.e. that
    you are calling it on a clock which has no source clock.  This made
    sense in the original design where the only way for a clock's
    frequency to change if it had a source clock was when that source
    clock changed.  However, we subsequently added multiplier/divider
    support, but didn't look at what that meant for propagation.

    If a clock-management device changes the multiplier or divider value
    on a clock, it needs to propagate that change down to child clocks,
    even if the clock has a source clock set.  So the assertion is now
    incorrect.

    Remove the assertion.

-- PMM