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SubjectRe: Locking in the clk API
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Hi Paul,

> This looks like a complete disaster, and is also completely inconsistent
> with how the API is being used by the vast majority of users today.

I've been basing this on the mxc clock code, which acquires a mutex for all
clk_enable()s. This may not be representative of the majority of clock usage.

From a quick search there are a few other cases of non-atomic clock usage:

tcc: clk_enable() acquires a global clocks_mutex
tegra: has a clk_enable_cansleep()
davinci: clk_set_parent() aquires a global clocks_mutex

Excluding the davinci code (we won't worry about set_parent for now...), if we
can port mxc and tcc to a sleepable clk_enable, perhaps we could just go with
purely atomic operations.

We'd still need some method of using sleeping clocks though. How about making
clk_enable() BUG if the clock is not atomic, and add clk_enable_cansleep() for
the cases where clk->ops.enable may sleep.

Do we need something similar for other parts of the API? (clk_set_rate?)

Cheers,


Jeremy


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