Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 13:36 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > No you can't sleep here. It needs to delay because this is inside
> > spinlock_irqsave.
> 
> Additionally you really don't want to delay for 10ms with interrupts
> off :-(
> 
> Sadly, it looks like the clk framework already calls you with spinlock
> irqsafe, which is a rather major suckage.
> 
> Stephen, why is that so ? That pretty much makes it impossible to
> do sleeping things, which prevents things like i2c based clock
> controllers etc...

I noticed we do have a few i2c based clock drivers... how are they ever
supposed to work ? i2c bus controllers are allowed to sleep and the i2c
core takes mutexes...

> I think the clk framework needs to be overhauled to use sleeping
> mutexes instead. Doing clock enable/disable at interrupt time is
> a bad idea anyway.
> 
> 
> In the meantime, Joel, you have little choice but do an mdelay
> though that really sucks.
> 
> > > +             /* Take IP out of reset */
> > > +             regmap_update_bits(gate->map, ASPEED_RESET_CTRL, rst, 0);
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(gate->lock, flags);
> > > +
> > > +     return 0;
> > > +}