Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] clk: rockchip: rk3399: make CPU clocks critical

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Wed Sep 08 2021 - 15:44:37 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 11:14 AM Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The CPU clocks don't currently have any owner (e.g., cpufreq-dt doesn't
> enable() them -- and even if it did, it's not early enough compared to
> other consumers -- nor does arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c), and instead are
> simply assumed to be "on" all the time.
>
> They are also parents of a few other clocks which haven't been
> previously exposed for other devices to consume. If we want to expose
> those clocks, then the common clock framework may eventually choose to
> disable their parents (including the CPU PLLs) -- which is no fun for
> anyone.
>
> Thus, mark the CPU clocks as critical, to prevent them from being
> disabled implicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - New, split from the patch that requires this change
>
> drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-rk3399.c | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>