Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.16 02/52] clk: samsung: exynos850: Register clocks early

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 09:18:43PM +0200, Sam Protsenko wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 19:11, Krzysztof Kozlowski
><krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17/01/2022 17:58, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > From: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit bcda841f9bf2cddcf2f000cba96f2e27f6f2bdbf ]
>> >
>> > Some clocks must be registered before init calls. For example MCT clock
>> > (from CMU_PERI) is needed for MCT timer driver, which is registered
>> > with TIMER_OF_DECLARE(). By the time we get to core_initcall() used for
>> > clk-exynos850 platform driver init, it's already too late. Inability to
>> > get "mct" clock in MCT driver leads to kernel panic, as functions
>> > registered with *_OF_DECLARE() can't do deferred calls. MCT timer driver
>> > can't be fixed either, as it's acting as a clock source and it's
>> > essential to register it in start_kernel() -> time_init().
>> >
>> > Let's register CMU_PERI clocks early, using CLK_OF_DECLARE(). CMU_TOP
>> > generates clocks needed for CMU_PERI, but it's already registered early.
>> >
>> > While at it, let's cleanup the code a bit, by extracting everything
>> > related to CMU initialization and registration to the separate function.
>> >
>> > Similar issue was discussed at [1] and addressed in commit 1f7db7bbf031
>> > ("clk: renesas: cpg-mssr: Add early clock support"), as well as in
>> > drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt2712.c.
>> >
>> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-renesas-soc/patch/20180829132954.64862-2-chris.brandt@renesas.com/
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
>> > Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
>> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211122144206.23134-1-semen.protsenko@linaro.org
>> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos850.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
>> >  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>> >
>>
>> I propose to skip this one.
>>
>> Backporting it to v5.16 does not hurt but also does not bring any
>> benefits for the upstream kernel users. There is no support for
>> mentioned Exynos850 in v5.16.
>>
>> It could have only meaning for some downstream, out-of-tree kernels
>> which apply Exynos850 support on top of v5.16, but then they can just
>> take this patch as well.
>>
>
>Agreed. DTS patches will be merged only in v5.17, hopefully. Till that
>time the whole clock driver is floating with no users. That's
>historical thing -- I didn't have "Ack" to submit board dts at the
>time, and SoC dts couldn't be applied without users (board dts). So I
>focused on driver work, isolated. Not much sense to backport something
>without having real users.

Dropped, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha