linux-kernel - Re: Locking in the clk API

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Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:25:01 -0800
From:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
To:	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>
CC:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Locking in the clk API

On 01/11/2011 06:35 AM, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
>> Again, you are approaching it from the angle that an atomic clock is a
>> special requirement rather than the default behaviour.
>
> I'm not considering it a special requirement, but it's still a requirement
> (that the called function does not sleep).
>
> The problem with the inverse logic (clk_enable/clk_enable_sleepable) is that
> now you've made the caller need to know what kind of clock it has, or might
> have one day.

I think it's just a matter of how you interpret the name of the API in 
English. It doesn't make the decision making of the developer any easier.

Just having a _atomic suffix doesn't mean the driver developer doesn't 
need to know what type of clock it is. They are still making the 
assumption that the enable/disable for that clock can be done atomically 
-- namely an "atomic clock".

Similarly, when a driver developer calls the _sleepable APIs in their 
code, for all practical purposes, they are making an assumption that the 
enable/disable for that clock *needs to* (not may) sleep.

>   * For clk_enable/clk_enable_atomic, the decision is: is this call in an
>     atomic context?
>
>   * For clk_enable/clk_enable_sleepable, the decision is: might the clock code
>     have given us a sleeping clock?

Having said the above, I'm slightly leaning towards 
clk_enable/disable_atomic since it lines up with the 
.suspend/.suspend_noirq functions in pm_ops.

Also, since it's good to reduce the amount of work that needs to be done 
atomically, I think it would be good to make a developer explicitly 
state they need _atomic functions and make them think about if they 
really need to do that.

-Saravana

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