linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arc: get rate from clk driver instead of reading device tree

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Message-ID: <d1db32ca-333e-e900-171e-3b0735cba2a2@synopsys.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:34:37 -0800
From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:     Vlad Zakharov <Vladislav.Zakharov@...opsys.com>,
        <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>
CC:     Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc: get rate from clk driver instead of reading device
 tree

On 02/22/2017 02:36 AM, Vlad Zakharov wrote:
> We were reading clock rate directly from device tree "clock-frequency"
> property of corresponding clock node in show_cpuinfo function.
> 
> Such approach is correct only in case cpu is always clocked by
> "fixed-clock". If we use clock driver that allows rate to be changed
> this won't work as rate may change during the time or even
> "clock-frequency" property may not be presented at all.
> 
> So this commit replaces reading device tree with getting rate from clock
> driver. This approach is much more flexible and will work for both fixed
> and mutable clocks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Zakharov <vzakhar@...opsys.com>
> ---
>  arch/arc/kernel/setup.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
> index 3093fa8..49b0804 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/root_dev.h>
> +#include <linux/clk.h>
>  #include <linux/clk-provider.h>
>  #include <linux/clocksource.h>
>  #include <linux/console.h>
> @@ -488,7 +489,8 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>  {
>  	char *str;
>  	int cpu_id = ptr_to_cpu(v);
> -	struct device_node *core_clk = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, "core_clk");
> +	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu_id);
> +	struct clk *cpu_clk = clk_get(cpu_dev, "core_clk");
>  	u32 freq = 0;
>  
>  	if (!cpu_online(cpu_id)) {
> @@ -502,7 +504,7 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>  
>  	seq_printf(m, arc_cpu_mumbojumbo(cpu_id, str, PAGE_SIZE));
>  
> -	of_property_read_u32(core_clk, "clock-frequency", &freq);
> +	freq = clk_get_rate(cpu_clk);
>  	if (freq)
>  		seq_printf(m, "CPU speed\t: %u.%02u Mhz\n",
>  			   freq / 1000000, (freq / 10000) % 100);

I'm not too familiar with clk API, do u need to clk_put() afterwards ? @Alexey can
u please check !