Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Propose critical clocks

From: Marco Felsch
Date: Wed Oct 05 2022 - 04:24:14 EST


Hi Stephen, Michael,

I know it is a busy time right now, but maybe you have a few minutes for
this RFC. I know it is incomplete, but the interessting part is there
and it would fix a real issue we encountered on the imx8mm-evk's.

Regards,
Marco

On 22-09-13, Marco Felsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this proposal is to mark clocks as critical. It is somehow inspired by
> the regulator-always-on property. Since sometimes we can end in circular
> dependcies if we wanna solve the dependcies for a specific clock
> provider.
>
> The property is generic so it can be used by every hw clock provider. So
> it can be seen as generic implementation to [1].
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/20220913092136.1706263-1-peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Marco Felsch (2):
> clk: add support for critical always-on clocks
> arm64: dts: imx8mm-evk: mark 32k pmic clock as always-on
>
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mm-evk.dtsi | 1 +
> drivers/clk/clk.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
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> 2.30.2
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