Re: [PATCH 3/3] clk: keystone: Add sci-clk driver support

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Aug 31 2016 - 18:31:14 EST


On 08/31, Tero Kristo wrote:
> On 24/08/16 11:34, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >On 08/19, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >>diff --git a/drivers/clk/keystone/sci-clk.c b/drivers/clk/keystone/sci-clk.c
> >>new file mode 100644
> >>index 000000000000..6c43e097e6d6
> >>--- /dev/null
> >>+++ b/drivers/clk/keystone/sci-clk.c
> >>@@ -0,0 +1,539 @@
> >>+ return (int)new_rate;
> >
> >determine rate should return a negative number on failure and 0
> >on success. The actual rate that was found should go into
> >req->rate. This looks broken.
>
> Yea it seems broken, I wonder how we haven't seen any issues with
> this in testing.... Apparently positive return values from this are
> interpreted as success. Having a quick look at clk.c seems to
> confirm this.
>
> Anyway, will fix.

True, perhaps we should fix that so we don't use a long to hold
the int return value either.

> >>+ *
> >>+ * Gets a handle to an existing TI SCI clock, or builds a new clock
> >>+ * entry and registers it with the common clock framework. Called from
> >>+ * the common clock framework, when a corresponding of_clk_get call is
> >>+ * executed, or recursively from itself when parsing parent clocks.
> >>+ * Returns a pointer to the clock struct, or ERR_PTR value in failure.
> >>+ */
> >
> >Please move this driver to clk_hw_register() and friends. This on
> >the fly clk generation is scary considering how we hold locks
> >while the provider is asked to give us the pointer, so allocating
> >and registering clks (basically reentering the CCF again) could
> >lead to a locking nightmare. Best to avoid that.
>
> Ok, so just converting the driver to use provider->get_hw should be
> enough? This seems to be a relatively new API in the CCF. Will look
> at that.

Hopefully it will simplify things greatly.

>
> >>+ }
> >>+
> >>+ snprintf(name, 20, "%s:%d:%d", dev_name(provider->dev), sci_clk->dev_id,
> >>+ sci_clk->clk_id);
> >
> >I hope we don't make dev_name() longer than 20 characters
>
> Shall I just increase the size of the buffer and add a length check?
> Using kmalloc or something here seems overkill, as the name gets
> copied by CCF anyway.

There's kasprintf() which would always make it long enough. I
don't know if it really matters though.

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