Re: [PATCH 01/48] clk: at91: replace usleep() by udelay() calls

[Boris Brezillon]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:35:17 +0530
Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:24:09PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 11/06/2016 at 00:30:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :  
> 
> > > Does this have to be called that early? It seems wasteful to always
> > > call udelay() here, when these are functions that are normally
> > > allowed to sleep.  
> 
> > So I've tested it and something like that would work:
> > 
> > 	if (system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> > 		udelay(osc->startup_usec);
> > 	else
> > 		usleep_range(osc->startup_usec, osc->startup_usec + 1);
> > 
> > But I'm afraid it would be the first driver to actually do something
> > like that (however, it is already the only driver trying to sleep).   
> 
> tglx has suggested to modify clock core to handle a somewhat similar
> kind of scenario (probably should work here too) and avoid driver
> changes,
> 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1606061448010.28031@nanos

Oh, interesting. Definitely a better solution than this custom check.


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