linux-kernel - Re: Locking in the clk API, part 2: clk_prepare/clk

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Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:24:58 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@...gle.com>,
	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: Locking in the clk API, part 2: clk_prepare/clk_unprepare

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:18:46PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> yeah, didn't thought about multiple consumers, so (as Jeremy suggested)
> the right thing is to sleep until CLK_BUSY is cleared.

A simpler way to write this is:

int clk_prepare(struct clk *clk)
{
	int ret = 0;

	mutex_lock(&clk->mutex);
	if (clk->prepared == 0)
		ret = clk->ops->prepare(clk);
	if (ret == 0)
		clk->prepared++;
	mutex_unlock(&clk->mutex);

	return ret;
}

I think we want to take a common mutex not only for clk_prepare(), but
also for clk_set_rate().  If prepare() is waiting for a PLL to lock,
we don't want a set_rate() interfering with that.

I'd also be tempted at this stage to build-in a no-op dummy clock,
that being the NULL clk:

int clk_prepare(struct clk *clk)
{
	int ret = 0;

	if (clk) {
		mutex_lock(&clk->mutex);
		if (clk->prepared == 0)
			ret = clk->ops->prepare(clk);
		if (ret == 0)
			clk->prepared++;
		mutex_unlock(&clk->mutex);
	}

	return ret;
}

as we have various platforms defining a dummy struct clk as a way of
satisfying various driver requirements.  These dummy clocks are exactly
that - they're complete no-ops.
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