Re: [PATCH 1/3] power: clock_ops.c: fixup clk prepare/unprepare count

[Ben Dooks]

On 12/01/14 22:04, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Saturday 11 January 2014 13:05:38 Ben Dooks wrote:
> > The drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c file is causing warnings from
> > the clock driver (as shown below) due to failing to do a clk_prepare()
> > call before enabling a clock. It also fails to check the balance of
> > prepare/unprepare as __pm_clk_remove() do clk_disable_unprepare() call.
> >
> > This bug has probably been in since commit b2476490e ("clk: introduce
> > the common clock framework") as the warning was part of the original
> > commit. It is strange that it has not been noticed (although this has
> > also been coupled with a failure for certain SH builds to not build the
> > necessary glue to use this method of controlling the clocks).
> >
> > In summary, this is probably needed in several stable branches but need
> > advice on which ones.
> >
> > On the Renesas Lager board, this causes numerous warnings of the following
> > and even worse the clock system will not enable clocks, causing drivers
> > that are in development to fail to work:
> >
> > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/clk/clk.c:883 __clk_enable+0x2c/0xa0()
>
> I've never noticed this on Lager, probably because Lager multiplatform doesn't
> make use of clock_ops.c as drivers/sh/pm_runtime.c (which you addressed in
> another patch that I've also replied to). I'm thus not sure we need to apply
> this as a fix and backport it to stable branches.

Yes, it seems that a lot of the lager drivers assume that this support
is there, and the work seems to have been sponsored by Renesas.

I think there must be people still building the old style of kernel
as there is still work going on for board-lager.c which leads me to
being a bit surprised that no-one had noticed this (as it isn't as
if it produces a pile of warnings on the console output).

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