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SubjectRe: Locking in the clk API, part 2: clk_prepare/clk_unprepare
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:54:49AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Alternatively don't force the sleep in clk_prepare (e.g. by protecting
> prepare_count by a spinlock (probably enable_lock)) and call clk_prepare
> before calling clk->ops->enable?

That's a completely bad idea. I assume you haven't thought about this
very much.

There's two ways I can think of doing what you're suggesting:

int clk_prepare(struct clk *clk)
{
unsigned long flags;
int ret = 0;

might_sleep();

spin_lock_irqsave(&clk->enable_lock, flags);
if (clk->prepare_count++ == 0)
ret = clk->ops->prepare(clk);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clk->enable_clock, flags);

return ret;
}

The problem is that clk->ops->prepare() is called in a non-sleepable
context. So this breaks the whole idea of clk_prepare(), and so isn't
a solution.

The other solution is:

int clk_prepare(struct clk *clk)
{
unsigned long flags;
int ret = 0;
bool first;

might_sleep();

spin_lock_irqsave(clk->enable_lock, flags);
first = clk->prepare_count++ == 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(clk->enable_clock, flags);

if (first)
ret = clk->ops->prepare(clk);

return ret;
}

The problem with this is that you now don't have any sane locking on
the prepare callback, and the circumstances under which it's called
are very indefinite. For example, consider a preempt-enabled system:

thread 1 thread 2 prepare_count
clk_prepare 0
clk->prepare_count++ 1
<thread switch>
clk_prepare 1
clk->prepare_count++ 2
clk_prepare returns 2

clk_enable 2
<explodes as clock is not prepared>
<thread switch>
clk->ops->prepare(clk)

So really, what you're suggesting is completely broken.
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