Re: [RFC] clk: Remove cached cores in parent map during unregister

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Aug 21 2019 - 14:10:12 EST


Quoting Stephen Boyd (2019-07-29 15:46:51)
> Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2019-07-22 22:14:46)
> > As clocks are registered their parents are resolved and the parent_map
> > is updated to cache the clk_core objects of each existing parent.
> > But in the event of a clock being unregistered this cache will carry
> > dangling pointers if not invalidated, so do this for all children of the
> > clock being unregistered.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > This resolves the issue seen where the DSI PLL (and it's provided clocks) is
> > being registered and unregistered multiple times due to probe deferral.
> >
> > Marking it RFC because I don't fully understand the life of the clock yet.
>
> The concept sounds sane but the implementation is going to be not much
> fun. The problem is that a clk can be in many different parent caches,
> even ones for clks that aren't currently parented to it. We would need
> to walk the entire tree(s) and find anywhere that we've cached the
> clk_core pointer and invalidate it. Maybe we can speed that up a little
> bit by keeping a reference to the entry of each parent cache that is for
> the parent we're removing, essentially holding an inverse cache, but I'm
> not sure it will provide any benefit besides wasting space for this one
> operation that we shouldn't be doing very often if at all.
>
> It certainly sounds easier to iterate through the whole tree and just
> invalidate entries in all the caches under the prepare lock. We can
> optimize it later.

Here's an attempt at the simple approach. There's another problem where
the cached 'hw' member of the parent data is held around when we don't
know when the caller has destroyed it. Not much else we can do for that
though.

---8<---
diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index c0990703ce54..f42a803fb11a 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -3737,6 +3737,37 @@ static const struct clk_ops clk_nodrv_ops = {
.set_parent = clk_nodrv_set_parent,
};

+static void clk_core_evict_parent_cache_subtree(struct clk_core *root,
+ struct clk_core *target)
+{
+ int i;
+ struct clk_core *child;
+
+ if (!root)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < root->num_parents; i++)
+ if (root->parents[i].core == target)
+ root->parents[i].core = NULL;
+
+ hlist_for_each_entry(child, &root->children, child_node)
+ clk_core_evict_parent_cache_subtree(child, target);
+}
+
+/* Remove this clk from all parent caches */
+static void clk_core_evict_parent_cache(struct clk_core *core)
+{
+ struct hlist_head **lists;
+ struct clk_core *root;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&prepare_lock);
+
+ for (lists = all_lists; *lists; lists++)
+ hlist_for_each_entry(root, *lists, child_node)
+ clk_core_evict_parent_cache_subtree(root, core);
+
+}
+
/**
* clk_unregister - unregister a currently registered clock
* @clk: clock to unregister
@@ -3775,6 +3806,8 @@ void clk_unregister(struct clk *clk)
clk_core_set_parent_nolock(child, NULL);
}

+ clk_core_evict_parent_cache(clk->core);
+
hlist_del_init(&clk->core->child_node);

if (clk->core->prepare_count)