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From:   Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Date:   Sun, 7 Nov 2021 20:51:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/12] watchdog: s3c2410: Support separate source clock
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 at 18:09, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/21 7:55 AM, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 12:15, Krzysztof Kozlowski
> > <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 31/10/2021 13:22, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> >>> Right now all devices supported in the driver have the single clock: it
> >>> acts simultaneously as a bus clock (providing register interface
> >>> clocking) and source clock (driving watchdog counter). Some newer Exynos
> >>> chips, like Exynos850, have two separate clocks for that. In that case
> >>> two clocks will be passed to the driver from the resource provider, e.g.
> >>> Device Tree. Provide necessary infrastructure to support that case:
> >>>    - use source clock's rate for all timer related calculations
> >>>    - use bus clock to gate/ungate the register interface
> >>>
> >>> All devices that use the single clock are kept intact: if only one clock
> >>> is passed from Device Tree, it will be used for both purposes as before.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
> >>> ---
> >>> Changes in v2:
> >>>    - Reworded commit message to be more formal
> >>>    - Used separate "has_src_clk" trait to tell if source clock is present
> >>>    - Renamed clock variables to match their purpose
> >>>    - Removed caching source clock rate, obtaining it in place each time instead
> >>>    - Renamed err labels for more consistency
> >>>
> >>>   drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >>>   1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> >>> index fdb1a1e9bd04..c733917c5470 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> >>> @@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ struct s3c2410_wdt_variant {
> >>>
> >>>   struct s3c2410_wdt {
> >>>        struct device           *dev;
> >>> -     struct clk              *clock;
> >>> +     struct clk              *bus_clk; /* for register interface (PCLK) */
> >>> +     struct clk              *src_clk; /* for WDT counter */
> >>> +     bool                    has_src_clk;
> >>
> >> Why do you need the has_src_clk value? If clk_get() fails, just store
> >> there NULL and clk API will handle it.
> >>
> >
> > I've added that 'has_src_clk' field for somewhat different reason.
> >
> > 1. As we discussed earlier, in case when src_clk is not present, I do
> > 'src_clk = bus_clk' in v2. This way I don't have to check if src_clk
> > is NULL every time and use bus_clk to get rate. If I set src_clk =
> > NULL, I'll have to add selector code, which wouldn't be so elegant,
> > and contradicts what we've discussed.
> > 2. On the other hand, I don't want to enable bus_clk twice in case
> > when src_clk is not present, that just doesn't feel right (user would
> > see incorrect refcount value in DebugFS, etc). And if "clk_src =
> > bus_clk', and I haven't enabled it second time, then I shouldn't try
> > to disable it second time, right?
> >
> > The only way I can see to accomplish (1) and (2) together, is to use
> > that 'has_src_clk' flag. For me it still looks better than enabling
> > bus_clk twice, or checking if clk_src is NULL every time we need to
> > get clock rate. Please let me know if you still have a strong opinion
> > on this one.
> >
>
> This is odd. Why do you need to get the clock rate more than once,
> instead of getting it once and storing it locally ? If the clock rate
> can change, the watchdog timeout would be unpredictable.
>

For this particular driver it seems to be needed though. The driver
tracks CPU freq change and tries to adjust timeout w.r.t. new clock
frequency, as implemented in s3c2410wdt_cpufreq_*() functions. I don't
really want to touch that functionality in my series, my goal here is
to add Exynos850 support in the first place. But yeah, I did some
analysis, and it seems like 25 out of 35 watchdog drivers (that call
clk_get_rate()) just store the rate in probe.

> Guenter