[RFC PATCH 0/5] clk: bcm: kona: Add bus clock support and prerequisite clocks

Artur Weber posted 5 patches 10 months ago
.../devicetree/bindings/clock/brcm,kona-ccu.yaml   |  18 ++-
arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2166x-common.dtsi    |  28 +++--
drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm21664.c                     | 107 ++++++++++++++++--
drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona-setup.c                   | 116 +++++++++++++++++++
drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona.c                         | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona.h                         |  30 ++++-
include/dt-bindings/clock/bcm21664.h               |  19 +++-
7 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
[RFC PATCH 0/5] clk: bcm: kona: Add bus clock support and prerequisite clocks
Posted by Artur Weber 10 months ago
This patchset does the following:

- Introduce support for bus clocks. These are fairly similar to
  peripheral clocks, but only implement policy, gate and hyst.

- Introduce support for prerequisite clocks; this way we can
  make peripheral clocks automatically enable their corresponding
  bus clocks.

- Add matching bus clocks for BCM21664 peripheral clocks and update
  device tree bindings to match.

The prerequisite clock portion of this patchset is adapted from an
older attempt to add bus clocks[1], submitted by Alex Elder. I've
retained his authorship on that commit.

Notably, Alex's patchset moved clock initialization to the prepare
function. This seems to be incorrect; the prepare function gets called
before the enable function, but not before "set rate"/"set parent"
functions; thus, while clocks enabled fine, any configuration done
before they were first enabled was broken. I ignored that part of
the patchset and only kept the prerequisite clocks.

I would appreciate feedback on the prerequisite clock patch, hence
why this patchset is marked as RFC.

I wasn't able to find any other driver that does something like this,
so I'm not sure if it's correct (especially since I had to switch from
non-locking __clk_prepare and __clk_enable to the regular locking
versions, as the non-locking versions are no longer public - they
appear to have been replaced by clk_core counterparts, but those
functions are not exported anywhere AFAICT).

An alternative way to do this dependency would be to wrap every
component with a relevant bus clock in a "simple-pm-bus" node
with the bus clock in DT, but this seems rather unwieldy.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1402926007-4436-1-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org/

Signed-off-by: Artur Weber <aweber.kernel@gmail.com>
---
Alex Elder (1):
      clk: bcm281xx: implement prerequisite clocks

Artur Weber (4):
      dt-bindings: clock: brcm,kona-ccu: Add BCM21664 bus clocks
      clk: bcm: kona: Add support for bus clocks
      clk: bcm21664: Add matching bus clocks for peripheral clocks
      ARM: dts: bcm2166x-common: Add matching bus clocks for peripheral clocks

 .../devicetree/bindings/clock/brcm,kona-ccu.yaml   |  18 ++-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2166x-common.dtsi    |  28 +++--
 drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm21664.c                     | 107 ++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona-setup.c                   | 116 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona.c                         | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona.h                         |  30 ++++-
 include/dt-bindings/clock/bcm21664.h               |  19 +++-
 7 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: ffd294d346d185b70e28b1a28abe367bbfe53c04
change-id: 20250212-kona-bus-clock-4297eefae940

Best regards,
-- 
Artur Weber <aweber.kernel@gmail.com>
Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] clk: bcm: kona: Add bus clock support and prerequisite clocks
Posted by Alex Elder 9 months, 3 weeks ago
On 2/16/25 10:12 AM, Artur Weber wrote:
> This patchset does the following:
> 
> - Introduce support for bus clocks. These are fairly similar to
>    peripheral clocks, but only implement policy, gate and hyst.
> 
> - Introduce support for prerequisite clocks; this way we can
>    make peripheral clocks automatically enable their corresponding
>    bus clocks.
> 
> - Add matching bus clocks for BCM21664 peripheral clocks and update
>    device tree bindings to match.
> 
> The prerequisite clock portion of this patchset is adapted from an
> older attempt to add bus clocks[1], submitted by Alex Elder. I've
> retained his authorship on that commit.

That was a long time ago!

> Notably, Alex's patchset moved clock initialization to the prepare
> function. This seems to be incorrect; the prepare function gets called
> before the enable function, but not before "set rate"/"set parent"
> functions; thus, while clocks enabled fine, any configuration done
> before they were first enabled was broken. I ignored that part of
> the patchset and only kept the prerequisite clocks.

I think you're right.

> I would appreciate feedback on the prerequisite clock patch, hence
> why this patchset is marked as RFC.
> 
> I wasn't able to find any other driver that does something like this,
> so I'm not sure if it's correct (especially since I had to switch from
> non-locking __clk_prepare and __clk_enable to the regular locking
> versions, as the non-locking versions are no longer public - they
> appear to have been replaced by clk_core counterparts, but those
> functions are not exported anywhere AFAICT).
> 
> An alternative way to do this dependency would be to wrap every
> component with a relevant bus clock in a "simple-pm-bus" node
> with the bus clock in DT, but this seems rather unwieldy.

Yes I had the same thought, and ask about this on patch 3.  I
can't comment on whether this notion of a prerequisite (that
is not its parent) makes sense though.

I didn't look at patch 1 or patch 5.

					-Alex

> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1402926007-4436-1-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Artur Weber <aweber.kernel@gmail.com>
> ---
> Alex Elder (1):
>        clk: bcm281xx: implement prerequisite clocks
> 
> Artur Weber (4):
>        dt-bindings: clock: brcm,kona-ccu: Add BCM21664 bus clocks
>        clk: bcm: kona: Add support for bus clocks
>        clk: bcm21664: Add matching bus clocks for peripheral clocks
>        ARM: dts: bcm2166x-common: Add matching bus clocks for peripheral clocks
> 
>   .../devicetree/bindings/clock/brcm,kona-ccu.yaml   |  18 ++-
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2166x-common.dtsi    |  28 +++--
>   drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm21664.c                     | 107 ++++++++++++++++--
>   drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona-setup.c                   | 116 +++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona.c                         | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>   drivers/clk/bcm/clk-kona.h                         |  30 ++++-
>   include/dt-bindings/clock/bcm21664.h               |  19 +++-
>   7 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: ffd294d346d185b70e28b1a28abe367bbfe53c04
> change-id: 20250212-kona-bus-clock-4297eefae940
> 
> Best regards,