Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] clk: rockchip: rk3399: make CPU clocks critical

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 01:01:36 EST


On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 3:44 AM Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:14 AM Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The CPU clocks don't currently have any owner (e.g., cpufreq-dt doesn't
> > enable() them -- and even if it did, it's not early enough compared to
> > other consumers -- nor does arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c), and instead are
> > simply assumed to be "on" all the time.
> >
> > They are also parents of a few other clocks which haven't been
> > previously exposed for other devices to consume. If we want to expose
> > those clocks, then the common clock framework may eventually choose to
> > disable their parents (including the CPU PLLs) -- which is no fun for
> > anyone.
> >
> > Thus, mark the CPU clocks as critical, to prevent them from being
> > disabled implicitly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - New, split from the patch that requires this change
> >
> > drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3399.c | 11 +++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>