Re: [PATCH 5/5] clk: samsung: gs101: don't mark non-essential clocks as critical

[Sam Protsenko]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 6:37 PM André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The peric0_top1_ipclk_0 and peric0_top1_pclk_0 are the clocks going to
> peric0/uart_usi, with pclk being the bus clock. Without pclk running,
> any bus access will hang.

Empty line is missing here?

> Unfortunately, in commit d97b6c902a40 ("arm64: dts: exynos: gs101:
> update USI UART to use peric0 clocks") the gs101 DT ended up specifying
> an incorrect pclkk in the respective node and instead the two clocks
> here were marked as critical.
>
> We have fixed the gs101 DT and can therefore drop this incorrect
> work-around here, the uart driver will claim these clocks as needed.
>
> Note that this commit has the side-effect of causing earlycon to stop
> to work sometime into the boot for two reasons:
>     * peric0_top1_ipclk_0 requires its parent gout_cmu_peric0_ip to be
>       running, but because earlycon doesn't deal with clocks that
>       parent will be disabled when none of the other drivers that
>       actually deal with clocks correctly require it to be running and
>       the real serial driver (which does deal with clocks) hasn't taken
>       over yet

That's weird. Doesn't your bootloader setup serial clocks properly?
AFAIU, earlycon should rely on everything already configured in
bootloader.

>     * hand-over between earlycon and serial driver appears to be
>       fragile and clocks get enabled and disabled a few times, which
>       also causes register access to hang while earlycon is still
>       active
> Nonetheless we shouldn't keep these clocks running unconditionally just
> for earlycon. Clocks should be disabled where possible. If earlycon is
> required in the future, e.g. for debug, this commit can simply be
> reverted (locally!).

That sounds... not ideal. The ability to enable earlycon just by
adding some string to bootargs can be very useful for developers.
Maybe just make those clocks CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED, if that keeps earlycon
functional? With corresponding comments of course.

>
> Fixes: 893f133a040b ("clk: samsung: gs101: add support for cmu_peric0")
> Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c
> index 61bb0dcf84ee..5c338ac9231c 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-gs101.c
> @@ -2982,20 +2982,18 @@ static const struct samsung_gate_clock peric0_gate_clks[] __initconst = {
>              "gout_peric0_peric0_top0_pclk_9", "mout_peric0_bus_user",
>              CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP0_IPCLKPORT_PCLK_9,
>              21, 0, 0),
> -       /* Disabling this clock makes the system hang. Mark the clock as critical. */
>         GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLK_0,
>              "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_ipclk_0", "dout_peric0_usi0_uart",
>              CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_IPCLK_0,
> -            21, CLK_IS_CRITICAL, 0),
> +            21, 0, 0),
>         GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLK_2,
>              "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_ipclk_2", "dout_peric0_usi14_usi",
>              CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_IPCLK_2,
>              21, 0, 0),
> -       /* Disabling this clock makes the system hang. Mark the clock as critical. */
>         GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_PCLK_0,
>              "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_pclk_0", "mout_peric0_bus_user",
>              CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_PCLK_0,
> -            21, CLK_IS_CRITICAL, 0),
> +            21, 0, 0),
>         GATE(CLK_GOUT_PERIC0_PERIC0_TOP1_PCLK_2,
>              "gout_peric0_peric0_top1_pclk_2", "mout_peric0_bus_user",
>              CLK_CON_GAT_GOUT_BLK_PERIC0_UID_PERIC0_TOP1_IPCLKPORT_PCLK_2,
> --
> 2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog
>