Re: of_clk_add_(hw_)providers multipule times for one node?

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 08/10, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> 
> 
> 2016-08-09 8:37 GMT+09:00 Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>:
> > On 08/08, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >>
> >>
> >> 2016-08-05 6:25 GMT+09:00 Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>:
> >
> >>
> >> of_clk_add_provider() calls of_clk_del_provider()
> >> in its failure path.
> >>
> >> Notice of_clk_del_provider() unregister
> >> all the providers associated with the device node.
> >
> > Where is that? I see a break statement in the while loop after
> > the first matching np is found.
> 
> Ah, I missed the "break".
> 
> So, this works *almost* well.
> 
> I mean *almost* because the of_clk_mutex is released
> between of_clk_add_hw_provider() and of_clk_del_provider().
> 
> What if two providers are added concurrently.
> I know it never happens in use-cases we assume, though.

Agreed, that would be bad. We can definitely do better in that
case and properly delete the provider that we have already
registered without calling of_clk_del_provider() though. We have
everything in the local scope at the time.

> 
> 
> >>
> >> Some platform drivers call of_clk_del_provider() in a .remove callback,
> >> so the same problem could happen.
> >>
> >> Why does of_clk_del_provider() take (struct device_node *np) ?
> >> Shouldn't it take (struct of_clk_provider *cp)?
> >>
> >
> > Not sure. Probably someone thought they could hide the structure
> > from consumers and just return success or failure.
> 
> consumers?   or did you mean providers?
> I think consumers have no chance to call of_clk_del_provider().

Sorry, bad choice of words. I meant users of this
of_clk_add*_provider() API.

> 
> 
> > The best we can do is have the framework only return probe defer
> > if there isn't a provider registered. Once a provider is
> > registered, it needs to do the right thing and return the
> > appropriate error (invalid or probe defer for example) at the
> > right time.
> 
> Agreed.

Ok. I think I will merge my patch then to restore previous
behavior.

> 
> Lastly, we have two solutions so far.  Which do you think is better?
> 
> One solution is, as others suggested,
> CLK_OF_DECLARE() can allocate a bigger array than it needs,
> so that blank entries can be filled by a platfrom_driver later.
> 
> 
> The other way is,
> CLK_OF_DECLARE() and a platfrom_driver
> allocate separate of_clk_provider for each of them.
> 

I believe we have precedence for the former case, so there's some
momentum around that approach. It doesn't make me feel great
though because we have published the provider before all clks are
registered, and then we go back and modify the array in place
while consumers could potentially be using it. I suppose we're
saved because cpus access the pointer in the array and only see
the whole pointer and not half of the old one and half of the new
one?

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