Re: [PATCH] clk: Add functions to save and restore clock/dpll context en-masse

From: Tero Kristo
Date: Thu May 04 2017 - 04:58:51 EST

On 03/05/17 21:52, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:42:49AM +0530, Keerthy wrote:
From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@xxxxxx>

The clock/dpll registers are in the WKUP power domain. Under both RTC-only
suspend and hibernation, these registers are lost. Hence save/restore
them accordingly.

This looks like a huge hammer, and I think this will cause problems for
some systems, especially where some clocks are on remote devices which
need to be controlled via I2C buses.

Actually, if you look at the generic part of the code, it is not called from anywhere right now, but it just implements the support for save/restore. Also, for external clocks, no save/restore is implemented, and you would need to handle those separately anyway. Consider an external clock that is fed from SoC internal source; basically you need to disable this clock before going to the deep idle state, and enable it only after everything has been restored. If you keep it enabled over a deep idle, its source clock will potentially die causing issues.


The generic part walks all root clocks in the system, and all children
of those clocks. If we have clocks on an I2C device, then we could
very well end up with a circular dependency - the I2C controller needs
its clocks restored in order for control of the clocks on the I2C device
to be accessible.

For generic external clocks, I would not expect any save/restore is required at all, except for the potentially required enable/disable calls which would need to be handled either by some driver or SoC specific PM core.

So, I think this needs more thought - clocks are not just about core SoC
clocks - and cracking this nut with such a big hammer is likely to cause
regressions all over the place.

This won't cause any regressions as it is not called by default from anywhere. A SoC needs to introduce the functionality for entering a deep idle state, and call the clk save/restore functionality from there.

-Tero