Re: [PATCH] PCI: rcar-gen2: Ensure the mandatory clock is enabled

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Gareth, Phil,

Thanks for your patch!

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:11 PM Gareth Williams
<gareth.williams.jx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> All SoC devices that use this driver have a module stop clock associated
> with it that we must ensure is enabled. All SoCs enabled this clock
> by default, so I guess no one noticed that the driver didn't enable it.

This is not really correct: the module clock has always been controlled
through the clock domain the device is part of, either through the
"power-domains" property in DT, or through the legacy clock domain
before that, combined with Runtime PM (see also commit fb178d8b2fab3f2a
("PCI: rcar: Add runtime PM support")).

Furthermore adding explicit clock management (with a mandatory clock)
makes it harder to use the device with virtualization and VFIO, and to
reuse the driver on other SoCs where no module clock may be present.
Using Runtime PM allows to abstract the presence of the module clock,
or whatever power saving feature that may be present (e.g. a power area),
which is an integration feature, and not a feature of the actual device.

So I don't think this change is needed or wanted.

NAKed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

> Note: This change was tested on RZN1 and R-Car M2 hardware. NULL is
> passed to devm_clk_get for backwards compatibility reasons with R-Car gen2
> devices which do not name the clock.
>
> DTS files for Renesas devices that use this driver have been checked to
> ensure they specify a clock and do not name that clock.

I understand RZ/N1 has the same PCI controller, and you're trying to add
support for it?  I think the solution there is to add clock domain support to
drivers/clk/renesas/r9a06g032-clocks.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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