Re: [PATCH 2/2] clk: Add support for rate table based dividers

From: Saravana Kannan
Date: Thu May 31 2012 - 00:05:31 EST


On 05/21/2012 09:45 PM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
Hi Ben,

On Monday 21 May 2012 03:17 PM, Ben Dooks wrote:
On 17/05/12 11:22, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
Some divider clks do not have any obvious relationship
between the divider and the value programmed in the
register. For instance, say a value of 1 could signify divide
by 6 and a value of 2 could signify divide by 4 etc.
Also there are dividers where not all values possible
based on the bitfield width are valid. For instance
a 3 bit wide bitfield can be used to program a value
from 0 to 7. However its possible that only 0 to 4
are valid values.

All these cases need the platform code to pass a simple
table of divider/value tuple, so the framework knows
the exact value to be written based on the divider
calculation and can also do better error checking.

This patch adds support for such rate table based
dividers.

I was considering the idea that you simply pass a
pointer to a set of routines and a data pointer to
the clk-divider code so that any new cases don't
require changing the drivers/clk/clk-divider.c

I don;t know if I understand your comment completely.
Are you suggesting the get min/max etc be function pointers
passed by platform code (and implemented in platform code?)
so clk-divider does not need an update every time a new divider
type is added?
The idea of extending clk-divider was so its useful for more
than just OMAP, so the code in clk-divider can be reused across
multiple platforms. Did I understand your comment right?

regards,
Rajendra


This would make the get max / min / special just
a function call through a struct.

Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/clk/clk-divider.c | 67
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/clk-private.h | 3 +-
include/linux/clk-provider.h | 10 +++++-
3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
index e548c43..e4911ee 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk-divider.c
@@ -32,30 +32,69 @@
#define div_mask(d) ((1<< (d->width)) - 1)
#define is_power_of_two(i) !(i& ~i)

+static unsigned int _get_table_maxdiv(const struct clk_div_table
*table)
+{
+ unsigned int maxdiv;
+ const struct clk_div_table *clkt;
+
+ for (clkt = table; clkt->div; clkt++)
+ if (clkt->div> maxdiv)
+ maxdiv = clkt->div;
+ return maxdiv;
+}
+
static unsigned int _get_maxdiv(struct clk_divider *divider)
{
if (divider->flags& CLK_DIVIDER_ONE_BASED)
return div_mask(divider);
if (divider->flags& CLK_DIVIDER_POWER_OF_TWO)
return 1<< div_mask(divider);

Where are these flags defined? I don't see it in any of the patches in the series. Is my search foo not up to par today?

I think what Ben is saying is that you provider a way (using function or data/table pointers in clk_divider) that will allow the clk provider to define a "divider" to "register value" mapping. Say you decide to do that using a function pointer, then you would implement the following in clk-divider.c.

div_to_reg_one_based
div_to_reg_pow_two

The actual clock-provider code will pick one of these or implement their own mapping function. That way, clk-divider won't have to change for any other convoluted variants of clk divider to register value mapping.

-Saravana

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