linux-kernel - Re: [Update x3][PATCH 7/9] PM / Runtime: Generic clock manipulation rountines for runtime PM (v6)

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Date:	Tue, 03 May 2011 10:00:58 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
CC:	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@...gle.com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	lethal@...ux-sh.org, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Update x3][PATCH 7/9] PM / Runtime: Generic clock manipulation
 rountines for runtime PM (v6)

On 04/29/2011 03:04 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> +
> +/**
> + * enable_clock - Enable a device clock.
> + * @dev: Device whose clock is to be enabled.
> + * @con_id: Connection ID of the clock.
> + */
> +static void enable_clock(struct device *dev, const char *con_id)
> +{
> +	struct clk *clk;
> +
> +	clk = clk_get(dev, con_id);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
> +		clk_enable(clk);
> +		clk_put(clk);
> +		dev_info(dev, "Runtime PM disabled, clock forced on.\n");
> +	}
> +}

This doesn't make much sense to me. You're getting a clock and then
enabling it and then putting the clock? How can you be so sure that
clk_put() won't one day do some kind of lower power mode on the clock
when clk_put() is called on it? I don't think anyone does anything
today, but I don't think its safe to assume that clk_put() won't try to
forcibly shut off the clock once all clk_get() callers have clk_put().

Perhaps we should document the meaning of clk_enable() followed by
clk_put() somewhere instead?

> +
> +/**
> + * disable_clock - Disable a device clock.
> + * @dev: Device whose clock is to be disabled.
> + * @con_id: Connection ID of the clock.
> + */
> +static void disable_clock(struct device *dev, const char *con_id)
> +{
> +	struct clk *clk;
> +
> +	clk = clk_get(dev, con_id);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
> +		clk_disable(clk);
> +		clk_put(clk);
> +		dev_info(dev, "Runtime PM disabled, clock forced off.\n");
> +	}
> +}

This might not be as bad, but it looks like a similar problem.

> -
> -static int platform_bus_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
> -			       unsigned long action, void *data)
> -{
> -	struct device *dev = data;
> -	struct clk *clk;
> -
> -	dev_dbg(dev, "platform_bus_notify() %ld !\n", action);
> -
> -	switch (action) {
> -	case BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER:
> -		clk = clk_get(dev, NULL);
> -		if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
> -			clk_enable(clk);
> -			clk_put(clk);
> -			dev_info(dev, "runtime pm disabled, clock forced on\n");
> -		}
> -		break;
> -	case BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER:
> -		clk = clk_get(dev, NULL);
> -		if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
> -			clk_disable(clk);
> -			clk_put(clk);
> -			dev_info(dev, "runtime pm disabled, clock forced off\n");
> -		}

Ah ok I see that it's coming from here.

BTW, whatever is in linux-next is failing to compile:

drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c:391: error: 'con_id' undeclared (first
use in this function)
drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c:391: error: (Each undeclared identifier
is reported only once
drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c:391: error: for each function it appears in.)

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