[PATCH v3 1/8] clk: rockchip: change pll rate without a clk-notifier

[dianders@chromium.org (Doug Anderson)]

Heiko,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
> From: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
>
> The Rockchip PLL code switches into slow mode (AKA bypass more AKA
> 24MHz mode) before actually changing the PLL.  This keeps anyone from
> using the PLL while it's changing.  However, in all known Rockchip
> SoCs nobody should ever see the 24MHz when changing the PLL supplying
> the armclk because we should reparent children to an alternate
> (faster than 24MHz) PLL.
>
> One problem is that the code to switch to an alternate parent was
> running in PRE_RATE_CHANGE.  ...and the code to switch to slow mode
> was _also_ running in PRE_RATE_CHANGE.  That meant there was no real
> guarantee that we would switch to an alternate parent before switching
> to 24MHz mode.
>
> Let's move the switch to "slow mode" straight into
> rockchip_rk3066_pll_set_rate().  That means we're guaranteed that the
> 24MHz is really a last-resort.
>
> Note that without this change on real systems we were the code to
> switch to an alternate parent at 24MHz.  In some older versions of
> that code we'd appy a (temporary) / 5 to the 24MHz causing us to run
> at 4.8MHz.  That wasn't enough to service USB interrupts in some cases
> and could lead to a system hang.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/rockchip/clk-pll.c | 63 +++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

Thanks for adding my patch to your series (with the proper commit
message)!  I think you need your SoB on the patch too.  Andrew Morton
pointed to the docs in another patch I was involved in.  Specifically,
you were "on the patch delivery".  See Documentation/SubmittingPatches
section 12 (and 13).

-Doug