On 03/23/2012 04:28 PM, Turquette, Mike wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Saravana Kannanskannan@codeaurora.org wrote:
On 03/23/2012 03:32 PM, Turquette, Mike wrote:
.recalc_rate serves two purposes: first it recalculates the rate after the rate has changed and you pass in a new parent_rate argument. The second purpose is to "speculate" a rate change. You can pass in any rate for the parent_rate parameter when you call .recalc_rates. This is what __speculate_rates does before the rate changes. For clk_set_parent we call,
__clk_speculate_rates(clk, parent->rate);
Where parent above is the *new* parent. So this will let us propagate pre-rate change notifiers with the new rate.
Your .recalc_rate callback doesn't need to differentiate between the two calls to .recalc_rate. It should just take in the parent_rate value and do the calculation required of it.
Yeah, this is generally true. But, in this specific case, the clock is a mux that can literally measure the real rate. I would like the rate of this mux clock to be the real measured rate and not just the parent rate.
That's pretty cool hardware. Do you find that software-only tracking doesn't match up with sampling the frequency in hardware? If software tracking of the rate changes is correct then you could just skip using this hardware feature.
We use this HW for automated testing of the SW. It's very handy. So, I definitely need to support it.
I could actually measure the current rate and return that for recalc_rate(), but then the reported rate change during the pre-change notification would be wrong. Having the "msg" will let us at least fake the rate correctly for pre change notifiers.
In previous series I had separate .recalc_rate and .speculate_rate callbacks. I merged them since they were almost identical. I'd prefer not to reintroduce them since it creates a burden on others to support seperate callbacks, and passing in the message is one way to solve that... I'll think on this a bit more.
For this specific clock, I don't think anyone is really going to care if the pre rate change notification is correct. So, I will just go with reporting the wrong rate during pre-change for now.
But it does increase the total testing time quite a bit as I have to measure the real rate during pre and post change and measurement is relatively slow. It actually does add up into minutes when the whole test suite is run. So, would be nice to have this fixed eventually but it's not urgent for this measure clock.
How does a child (or grand child) clock (not a driver using the clock) reject a rate change if it know it can't handle that freq from the parent? I won't claim to know this part of the code thoroughly, but I can't find an easy way to do this.
Technically you could subscribe a notifier to your grand-child clock, even if there is no driver for it. The same code that implements your platform's clock operations could register the notifier handler.
You can see how this works in clk_propagate_rate_change. That usage is certainly targeted more at drivers but could be made to work for your case. Let me know what you think; this is an interesting issue.
I think notifications should be left to drivers. Notifications are too heavy handed for enforcing requirements of the clock tree. Also, clk_hw to clk might no longer be a 1-1 mapping in the future. It's quite possible that each clk_get() would get a different struct clk based on the caller to keep track of their constraints separately. So, clock drivers shouldn't ever use them to identify a clock.
Reason for rejection could be things like the counter (for division, etc) has an upper limit on how fast it can run.
Are you hitting this in practice today?
Such HW limitations are real. But we don't use clk_set_parent() in our drivers often.
The clock framework shouldn't be a perfect piece of code that can validate every possible combination imaginable. Some burden falls on the code calling the clk api (especially if that code is platform code) to make sure that it doesn't do stupid things.
We can't expect a normal driver to know that the clk_set_parent() shouldn't be called when the parent is at a particular rate since there are clock HW limitations. The clock framework doesn't need to validate everything, but it should give the clock driver the option of rejecting invalid requests.
Btw, I think this earlier comment from me is wrong.
Nevermind, my brain isn't working today. I can just do that different ordering in ops->set_parent().
I think there is still a problem with not being able to differentiate between pre-change recalc and post-change recalc. This applies for any set parent and set rate on a clock that has children.
Consider this simple example: * Divider clock B is fed from clock A. * Clock B can never output > 120 MHz due to downstream HW/clock limitations. * Clock A is running at 200 MHz * Clock B divider is set to 2.
Now, say the rate of clock A is changing from 200 MHz to 300 MHz (due to set rate or set parent). In this case, the clock B divider should be set to 3 pre-rate change to guarantee that the output of clock B is never > 120 MHz. So the rate of clock B will go from 100 MHz (200/2) to 66 MHz (200/3) to 100 MHz (300/3) and everything is good.
Assume we somehow managed to do the above. So, now clock A is at 300 MHz, clock B divider is at 3 and the clock B output is 100 MHz.
Now, say the rate of clock A changes from 300 MHz to 100 MHz. In this case the clock B divider should only be changed post rate change. If we do it pre rate change, then the output will go from 100 MHz (300/3) to 150 MHz (300/1) to 100 MHz (100/1). We went past the 120 MHz limit of clock B's output rate.
If we do this post rate change, we can do this without exceeding the max output limit of clock B. It will go from 100 MHz (300/3) to 33 MHz (100/3) to 100 MHz (100/1). We never went past the 120 MHz limit.
So, at least for this reason above, I think we need to pass a pre/post parameter to the recalc ops.
While we are at it, we should probably just add a failure option for recalc to make it easy to reject unacceptable rate changes. To keep the clock framework code simpler, you could decide to allow errors only for the pre-change recalc calls. That way, the error case roll back code won't be crazy.
Do you have a real use case for this? Due to the way that we match the parent pointer with the cached clk->parents member it would be painful to support NULL parents as valid.
I don't have a real use case for MSM. We just have a ground_clock.
I'm electing to ignore the issue until we have a real use-case for it.
Sounds reasonable.
Thanks, Saravana