Re: Locking in the clk API, part 2: clk_prepare/clk_unprepare

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Tue Feb 01 2011 - 10:54:08 EST


On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:24:58PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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;
> }
But you cannot call this in atomic context when you know the clock is
already prepared.

Best regards
Uwe

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