[PATCH v2 4/4] clk: dt: Introduce always-on clock domain documentation

[robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/clock/clk-domain.txt       | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clk-domain.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clk-domain.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clk-domain.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b86772f5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clk-domain.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +Always-on Clock Domain
> +
> +Some hardware is contains bunches of clocks which must never be
> +turned off.  If drivers a) fail to obtain a reference to any of
> +these or b) give up a previously obtained reference during suspend,
> +the common clk framework will attempt to disable them and the
> +hardware can fail irrecoverably.  Usually, the only way to recover
> +from these failures is to restart.

How is (b) not a bug?

While I think we need something here, I worry that this will be abused
to be a list of clocks you have not gotten around to managing. We
cannot be changing the DT every time the kernel starts managing a
clock. I think this should operate more as always on until claimed.
But then you get into drivers having to be aware that the clock
started enabled.

Also, I feel like we are using DT to work around kernel policy (of
turning off clocks). If the policy was to leave on clocks, then we
would be trying to put a list of clocks to disable in DT.

Rob

> +
> +To avoid either of these two scenarios from catastrophically
> +disabling an otherwise perfectly healthy running system, we have
> +implemented a clock domain where clocks are consumed and references
> +are taken, thus preventing them from being shut down by the
> +framework.
> +
> +We use the generic clock bindings found in:
> +  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible : Must be "always-on-clk-domain"
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +clk-domain {
> +       compatible = "always-on-clk-domain";
> +       clocks = <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_EXT2F_A9>,
> +                <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_COMPO_DVP>,
> +                <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_MMC_1>,
> +                <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_ICN_SBC>,
> +                <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_ICN_LMI>,
> +                <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_ICN_CPU>,
> +                <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_TX_ICN_DMU>,
> +                <&clk_s_a0_flexgen CLK_IC_LMI0>,
> +                <&clk_m_a9>;
> +};
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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