Re: [PATCH] clk: aspeed: Support HPLL strapping on ast2400

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Jul 11 2018 - 12:34:55 EST


Quoting Joel Stanley (2018-07-10 22:53:52)
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 7 July 2018 at 03:55, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Quoting Joel Stanley (2018-06-28 16:15:40)
> >> The HPLL can be configured through a register (SCU24), however some
> >> platforms chose to configure it through the strapping settings and do
> >> not use the register. This was not noticed as the logic for bit 18 in
> >> SCU24 was confused: set means programmed, but the driver read it as set
> >> means strapped.
> >>
> >> This gives us the correct HPLL value on Palmetto systems, from which
> >> most of the peripheral clocks are generated.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 5eda5d79e4be ("clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs")
> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.15
> >> Reviewed-by: CÃdric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >
> > Do you want this merged for -rc5? It sounds like on some systems this is
> > a problem, but I don't know if these systems are supposed to work yet or
> > not, so priority of this fix is not easy for me to understand.
> >
>
> Sure, some more background:
>
> We did not notice this until we attempted to use the clock for the mtd
> driver. However, this clock is used for the kernel clocksource, so eg.
> sleep 1 takes two seconds to complete. This affects all of the systems
> I have access to.
>
> I suggest we merge for4.18, and keep the cc: stable so it can be
> backported to the stable trees.
>

Ok. Thanks! Applied to clk-fixes.