Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] clk: clkdev/of_clk - add managed lookup and provider registrations

[Matti Vaittinen]

Hello Stephen & All,

I created v5 where I fixed obvious issues. I'll send it in few minutes.
Please note following topics:

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:50:22PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:54:10AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Matti Vaittinen (2018-11-13 03:55:58)
> > >  
> > > -int devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(struct device *dev,
> > > +static int __devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(struct device *dev,
> > >                         struct clk_hw *(*get)(struct of_phandle_args *clkspec,
> > >                                               void *data),
> > > -                       void *data)
> > > +                       struct device_node *of_node, void *data)
> > >  {
> > > -       struct device_node **ptr, *np;
> > > +       struct device_node **ptr;
> > >         int ret;
> > >  
> > >         ptr = devres_alloc(devm_of_clk_release_provider, sizeof(*ptr),
> > > @@ -3906,10 +3906,9 @@ int devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(struct device *dev,
> > >         if (!ptr)
> > >                 return -ENOMEM;
> > >  
> > > -       np = dev->of_node;
> > > -       ret = of_clk_add_hw_provider(np, get, data);
> > > +       *ptr = of_node;
> > > +       ret = of_clk_add_hw_provider(of_node, get, data);
> > >         if (!ret) {
> > > -               *ptr = np;
> > 
> > Why is this moved outside of the if condition?
> I completely removed the local variable np and just unconditionally set
> the allocated devres to point at the node (if allocation succeeded). We
> could of course only do this if the provider registration succeeded and
> save one assignment - but I guess I intended to remove the curly braces
> and thus decided to go for one liner after if. But apparently I didn't
> remove the braces O_o. Well, I can put the assignment inside the
> condition if you prefer that.
> 
> > In fact, why isn't just
> > the first line in this hunk deleted and passed to this function as
> > struct device_node *np?
> 
> I am sorry but I don't quite follow your suggestion here. Do you mean we
> could just pass the struct device_node *np in devres_add()? I thought
> the pointer passed to devress_add() should be allocated using
> devres_alloc. Can you please elaborate what you mean?

I could not really spot what to fix in patched code (see below).

static int __devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(struct device *dev,
			struct clk_hw *(*get)(struct of_phandle_args *clkspec,
					      void *data),
			struct device_node *of_node, void *data)
{
	struct device_node **ptr;
	int ret;

	ptr = devres_alloc(devm_of_clk_release_provider, sizeof(*ptr),
			   GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!ptr)
		return -ENOMEM;

	*ptr = of_node;
	ret = of_clk_add_hw_provider(of_node, get, data);
	if (!ret)
		devres_add(dev, ptr);
	else
		devres_free(ptr);

	return ret;
}

As far as I understand we need to allocate the ptr using devres_alloc.
We also need to pass this ptr to of_clk_add_hw_provider - and we must
assign our node to the *ptr. (I removed the extra braces - this change
is laso included in v5 but I don't see how we should improve). Can you
please explain me if you still wish to me change this further?

> > > +int devm_of_clk_add_parent_hw_provider(struct device *dev,
> > > +                       struct clk_hw *(*get)(struct of_phandle_args *clkspec,
> > > +                                             void *data),
> > > +                       void *data)
> > > +{
> > > +       return __devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(dev, get, dev->parent->of_node,
> > 
> > I'm wondering if we can somehow auto-detect this in
> > devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider() by looking for #clock-cells in the node.
> > If it isn't there, then we go to the parent node and look for a
> > #clock-cells property there in the DT node for that device. Does that
> > make sense? Then there isn't any new API and we can attach the lifetime
> > of the devm registration to the presence of the property indicating this
> > is a clk controller or not.
> 
> Huh. I don't know why but building this kind of logic in core is a bit
> scary to me. I guess I can try implementing something like this - but I
> am not really a fan of this. (Accidentally) omit the #clock-cells from
> node and we go to parent node - I am a novice on this area but this
> sounds like a potential hazard to me. I believe the driver should know
> if it's properties should be in own or parent node - and if they are
> not, then there should be no guessing but error. The lifetime is topic
> where I would like to get information from you who know the kernel
> better than I do =) But I guess the parent node is there at least as
> long as the child device is alive. So for me the life time of
> get-callback is more crucial - but as I said, I don't understand the
> kernel in details so you probably know it better than me. But please let
> me know your final take on this and I will follow the guidance =)

I did not put the 'auto-detection' for provider node in the patch v5 as
it really gives me bad vibes :) Maybe it is just my pessimistic nature
but I do expect that problems will arise when we accidentally end up in
parent node when this is not the purpose. I would rather keep this
simple by adding one specific API function more - and keeping the
existing API specific as well. But I can do v5 if you insist on having
this auto-detection.

-- 
Matti Vaittinen
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