[PATCH 2/2] clk: imx: imx7d: remove clks_init_on array
From: sboyd@kernel.org (Stephen Boyd)
Date: 2018-10-12 19:48:05
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Quoting Anson Huang (2018-10-08 01:34:59)
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On 08/31/2018 03:29 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:quoted
Quoting Peng Fan (2018-08-12 18:15:41)quoted
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-----Original Message----- From: Anson Huang Sent: 2018?8?8? 12:39 To: shawnguo at kernel.org; s.hauer at pengutronix.de; kernel at pengutronix.de; Fabio Estevam [off-list ref]; mturquette at baylibre.com; sboyd at kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; linux-clk at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org Cc: dl-linux-imx <redacted> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] clk: imx: imx7d: remove clks_init_on array Clock framework will enable those clocks registered with CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag, so no need to have clks_init_on array during clockinitialization now. Will it be more flexible to parse dts saying "critical-clocks = <xxx>" or "init-on-arrary=<xxx>" and enable those clocks?Parsing the clocks arrays from dtb is another way of enabling critical clocks, but for current i.MX6/7 platforms, we implement it in same way as most of other SoCs, currently I did NOT see any necessity of putting them in dtb, just adding flag during clock registering is more simple, if there is any special requirement for different clocks set to be enabled, then we can add support to enablethe method of parsing critical-clocks from dtb. Just my two cents.quoted
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Thinking about OP-TEE want to use one device, but it's clocks are registered by Linux, because there is no module in Linux side use it, it will shutdown the clock, which cause OP-TEE could not access thedevice.quoted
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Then people have to modify clk code to add CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag to make sure the clocks are not shutdown by Linux. However adding a new property in clk node and let driver code parse the dts, there is no need to modify clk driver code when OP-TEE needsanother device clock.quoted
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If OP-TEE needs linux to keep things on then why can't the OP-TEE driver in Linux probe, acquire clocks, and keep the clks enabledforever?quoted
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Sounds reasonable, but how could this be done without introducing platform-specific stuff in the OP-TEE driver?Why is that a goal?I do NOT think we should consider such case in this patch series, whatever OP-TEE needs for its own feature, it should do necessary operationseither in its driver or somewhere else by adding new patch.quoted
Why can't we add clks to the op-tee node in DT's /firmware container? Then any clks in there can be turned on forever and left enabled by the linux driver?I did NOT run op-tee with Linux-next kernel before, can you advise more?
Neither have I, so I can't advise more.
And I think if op-tee has such requirement, can we have another patch to cover it?
Yes.
I believe all other i.MX platforms also have same requirements if considering op-tee support, so I think it should be another topic, what do you think?
I'm going to drop these patches from my review queue. Please resend them and please include the op-tee patches too.