[PATCH 01/13] clk: add new flag CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED

Brian Masney posted 13 patches 1 month, 1 week ago
[PATCH 01/13] clk: add new flag CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED
Posted by Brian Masney 1 month, 1 week ago
There are some clocks where the rounding is managed by the hardware, and
the determine_rate() clk ops is just a noop that simply returns 0. Add a
new flag for these type of clocks, and update the clk core so that the
determine_rate() clk op is not required when this flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>

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To: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
To: Abel Vesa <abelvesa@kernel.org>
To: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
To: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
To: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
To: Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
To: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
To: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>
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Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/clk/clk.c            | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/linux/clk-provider.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index fd418dc988b1c60c49e3ac9c0c44aa132dd5da28..0a522a0817411c7f7c6e9cffd6f024e672a331a8 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -1557,6 +1557,20 @@ static int __init clk_disable_unused(void)
 }
 late_initcall_sync(clk_disable_unused);
 
+/**
+ * clk_is_rounding_fw_managed - Check to see if clk rounding is handled by the
+ * firmware.
+ * @core: the clk to check
+ *
+ * Clks that have this flag enabled do not need to have a determine_rate() op
+ * set, and will always return success for any rounding operation since the
+ * firmware will deal with the rounding.
+ */
+static inline bool clk_is_rounding_fw_managed(struct clk_core *core)
+{
+	return core->flags & CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED;
+}
+
 static int clk_core_determine_round_nolock(struct clk_core *core,
 					   struct clk_rate_request *req)
 {
@@ -1589,6 +1603,8 @@ static int clk_core_determine_round_nolock(struct clk_core *core,
 		req->rate = core->rate;
 	} else if (core->ops->determine_rate) {
 		return core->ops->determine_rate(core->hw, req);
+	} else if (clk_is_rounding_fw_managed(core)) {
+		return 0;
 	} else {
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -1673,7 +1689,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_hw_forward_rate_request);
 
 static bool clk_core_can_round(struct clk_core * const core)
 {
-	return core->ops->determine_rate;
+	return core->ops->determine_rate || clk_is_rounding_fw_managed(core);
 }
 
 static int clk_core_round_rate_nolock(struct clk_core *core,
@@ -3528,6 +3544,7 @@ static const struct {
 	ENTRY(CLK_IS_CRITICAL),
 	ENTRY(CLK_OPS_PARENT_ENABLE),
 	ENTRY(CLK_DUTY_CYCLE_PARENT),
+	ENTRY(CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED),
 #undef ENTRY
 };
 
@@ -3906,7 +3923,7 @@ static int __clk_core_init(struct clk_core *core)
 
 	/* check that clk_ops are sane.  See Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst */
 	if (core->ops->set_rate && !core->ops->determine_rate &&
-	      core->ops->recalc_rate) {
+	      core->ops->recalc_rate && !clk_is_rounding_fw_managed(core)) {
 		pr_err("%s: %s must implement .determine_rate in addition to .recalc_rate\n",
 		       __func__, core->name);
 		ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -3920,7 +3937,8 @@ static int __clk_core_init(struct clk_core *core)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (core->ops->set_parent && !core->ops->determine_rate) {
+	if (core->ops->set_parent && !core->ops->determine_rate &&
+	    !clk_is_rounding_fw_managed(core)) {
 		pr_err("%s: %s must implement .set_parent & .determine_rate\n",
 			__func__, core->name);
 		ret = -EINVAL;
diff --git a/include/linux/clk-provider.h b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
index 1cda2c78dffaff037f0f16b0f11106b63b3a746f..187f8248a9c840c701cbbba99bb7cdeef7b654ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/clk-provider.h
+++ b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 #define CLK_OPS_PARENT_ENABLE	BIT(12)
 /* duty cycle call may be forwarded to the parent clock */
 #define CLK_DUTY_CYCLE_PARENT	BIT(13)
+/* clock rate rounding is managed by firmware, don't require determine_rate */
+#define CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED		BIT(14)
 
 struct clk;
 struct clk_hw;

-- 
2.53.0
Re: [PATCH 01/13] clk: add new flag CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED
Posted by Sudeep Holla 1 month ago
On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> There are some clocks where the rounding is managed by the hardware, and
> the determine_rate() clk ops is just a noop that simply returns 0. Add a
> new flag for these type of clocks, and update the clk core so that the
> determine_rate() clk op is not required when this flag is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
> 

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep
Re: [PATCH 01/13] clk: add new flag CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED
Posted by Brian Masney 1 month, 1 week ago
On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> There are some clocks where the rounding is managed by the hardware, and
> the determine_rate() clk ops is just a noop that simply returns 0. Add a
> new flag for these type of clocks, and update the clk core so that the
> determine_rate() clk op is not required when this flag is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
> 
...
> diff --git a/include/linux/clk-provider.h b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
> index 1cda2c78dffaff037f0f16b0f11106b63b3a746f..187f8248a9c840c701cbbba99bb7cdeef7b654ee 100644
> --- a/include/linux/clk-provider.h
> +++ b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
> @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
>  #define CLK_OPS_PARENT_ENABLE	BIT(12)
>  /* duty cycle call may be forwarded to the parent clock */
>  #define CLK_DUTY_CYCLE_PARENT	BIT(13)
> +/* clock rate rounding is managed by firmware, don't require determine_rate */
> +#define CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED		BIT(14)

Based on a conversation in the Renesas driver change, I think we should
rename this flag to CLK_ROUNDING_NOOP. Let me know if there are any
objections, or suggestions for a better name. I'll let let this sit out
there for about a week or so before sending a v2.

Brian
Re: [PATCH 01/13] clk: add new flag CLK_ROUNDING_FW_MANAGED
Posted by Geert Uytterhoeven 1 month, 1 week ago
Hi Brian,

Thanks for your patch!

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 at 19:17, Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com> wrote:
> There are some clocks where the rounding is managed by the hardware, and

s/hardware/firmware/

You got me totally confused, also/especially in the cover letter! ;-)

> the determine_rate() clk ops is just a noop that simply returns 0. Add a
> new flag for these type of clocks, and update the clk core so that the
> determine_rate() clk op is not required when this flag is set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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