Re: [PATCH v13 4/6] clk: Add rate constraints to clocks

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 - 12:50:24 EST


On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:46:46AM -0800, Mike Turquette wrote:
> This looks like mis-matched enable/disable calls. We now have unique
> struct clk pointers for every call to clk_get. I haven't yet looked
> through the hwmod code but I have a feeling that we're doing something
> like this:
>
> /* enable clock */
> my_clk = clk_get(...);
> clk_prepare_enable(my_clk);
> clk_put(my_clk);
>
> /* do some work */
> do_work();
>
> /* disable clock */
> my_clk = clk_get(...);
> clk_disable_unprepare(my_clk);
> clk_put(my_clk);
>
> The above pattern no longer works since my_clk will be two different
> unique pointers, but it really should be one stable pointer across the
> whole usage of the clk. E.g:

Yes, it has always been documented that shall be the case. Anyone doing
the above is basically broken.

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