Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 4 authors, 2011-11-11
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Re: [PATCH V2 01/14] clk: add helper functions clk_prepare_enable and clk_disable_unprepare

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2011-11-11 10:27:27
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-i2c, linux-mmc, linux-serial

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:15:56AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 05:05:47PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
quoted
{
	int ret;

	ret = clk_prepare(clk);
	if (ret)
		return ret;
	ret = clk_enable(clk);
	if (ret)
		clk_unprepare(clk);
	return ret;
Yes, looks good.
While this looks like a nice easy solution for converting existing
drivers, I'd suggest thinking about this a little more...

I would suggest some thought is given to the placement of clk_enable()
and clk_disable() when adding clk_prepare(), especially if your existing
clk_enable() function can only be called from non-atomic contexts.

Obviously, the transition path needs to be along these lines:

1. add clk_prepare() to drivers
2. implement clk_prepare() and make clk_enable() callable from non-atomic
   contexts
3. move clk_enable() in drivers to places it can be called from non-atomic
   contexts to achieve greater power savings (maybe via the runtime pm)

and where a driver is shared between different sub-architectures which
have non-atomic clk_enable()s, (3) can only happen when all those sub-
architectures have been updated to step (2).
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