Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: imx: do not sleep if IRQ's are still disabled

[Stefan Agner]

On 2016-06-09 13:08, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Dong Aisheng wrote:
>> Then it may need introduce a lot changes and increase many new core APIs.
>> Is that a problem?
> 
> No. That's all better than each driver having broken workarounds. It's a
> common problem so it wants to be addressed at the core level. There you have a
> central point to do this and you can still catch abusers which call stuff from
> the wrong context. The hacks in the drivers don't allow that because they look
> at the context, i.e. irq disabled, instead of checking the system state.

IMHO, the hacky part of my patch was how I detected whether to use sleep
or delay. That said I am ok with API extension too, I guess it is fairly
common use case... I found at least 6 clock prepare functions with sleep
in it (and some udelays, all between 1-100).

Your proposed solution uses "early_boot_or_suspend_resume" which I did
not found as a convenient function in the wild :-)

How would you implement that?

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Stefan