Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 7 authors, 2015-04-02

[PATCH 4/4] clk: dt: Introduce binding for always-on clock support

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From: Lee Jones <hidden>
Date: 2015-02-27 21:23:07
Also in: linux-devicetree, lkml
Subsystem: common clk framework, open firmware and flattened device tree bindings, the rest · Maintainers: Stephen Boyd, Brian Masney, Jerome Brunet, Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Linus Torvalds

Revision v1 of 4 in this series.

Revisions (4)
  1. v1 current
  2. v5 [diff vs current]
  3. v6 [diff vs current]
  4. v7 [diff vs current]
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <redacted>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt   | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
index 06fc6d5..ad17121 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,40 @@ For example:
   clocks by index. The names should reflect the clock output signal
   names for the device.
 
+clock-always-on:    Some hardware contains bunches of clocks which must never be
+		    turned off.  If drivers a) fail to obtain a reference to any
+		    of these or b) give up a previously obtained reference
+		    during suspend, the common clk framework will attempt to
+		    disable them and a platform can fail irrecoverably as a
+		    result.  Usually the only way to recover from these failures
+		    is to reboot.
+
+		    To avoid either of these two scenarios from catastrophically
+		    disabling an otherwise perfectly healthy running system,
+		    clocks can be identified as always-on using this property
+		    from inside a clocksource's node.  The CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
+		    flag will be applied to each clock instance named in this
+		    property, thus preventing them from being shut down by the
+		    framework.
+
+		    This property is not to be abused.  It is only to be used to
+		    protect platforms from being crippled by gated clocks, not
+		    as a convenience function to avoid using the framework
+		    correctly inside device drivers.
+
+For example:
+
+    oscillator {
+        #clock-cells = <1>;
+        clock-output-names = "ckil", "ckih";
+        clock-always-on = "ckil";
+    };
+
+- this node defines a device with two clock outputs, just as in the
+  example above.  The only difference being that 'ckil' is now
+  identified as an always-on clock, so the framework will know to
+  never attempt to gate it.
+
 clock-indices:	   If the identifying number for the clocks in the node
 		   is not linear from zero, then this allows the mapping of
 		   identifiers into the clock-output-names array.
-- 
1.9.1
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