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Message-ID: <20150302083652.GE31325@x1>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 08:36:52 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@...aro.org>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
kernel@...inux.com, Devicetree List <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] clk: Provide always-on clock support
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On 28 February 2015 at 02:44, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
> > Lots of platforms contain clocks which if turned off would prove fatal.
> > The only way to recover from these catastrophic failures is to restart
> > the board(s). Now, when a clock is registered with the framework it is
> > compared against a list of provided always-on clock names which must be
> > kept ungated. If it matches, we enable the existing CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
> > flag, which will prevent the common clk framework from attempting to
> > gate it during the clk_disable_unused() procedure.
> >
> If a clock is critical on a certain board, it could be got+enabled
> during early boot so there is always a user.
I tried this. There was push-back from the DT maintainers.
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-February/324417.html
> To be able to do that from DT, maybe add a new, say, CLK_ALWAYS_ON
> flag could be made to initialize the clock with one phantom user
> already. Or just reuse the CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED?
How is that different to what this set is doing?
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