Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] dt-bindings: clk: qcom: Add bindings for CPU clock for msm8996

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>]

Quoting Loic Poulain (2020-07-03 01:49:43)
> From: Ilia Lin <ilialin@codeaurora.org>
> 
> Each of the CPU clusters (Power and Perf) on msm8996 are
> clocked via 2 PLLs, a primary and alternate. There are also
> 2 Mux'es, a primary and secondary all connected together
> as shown below
> 
>                              +-------+
>               XO             |       |
>           +------------------>0      |
>                              |       |
>                    PLL/2     | SMUX  +----+
>                      +------->1      |    |
>                      |       |       |    |
>                      |       +-------+    |    +-------+
>                      |                    +---->0      |
>                      |                         |       |
> +---------------+    |             +----------->1      | CPU clk
> |Primary PLL    +----+ PLL_EARLY   |           |       +------>
> |               +------+-----------+    +------>2 PMUX |
> +---------------+      |                |      |       |
>                        |   +------+     |   +-->3      |
>                        +--^+  ACD +-----+   |  +-------+
> +---------------+          +------+         |
> |Alt PLL        |                           |
> |               +---------------------------+
> +---------------+         PLL_EARLY
> 
> The primary PLL is what drives the CPU clk, except for times
> when we are reprogramming the PLL itself (for rate changes) when
> we temporarily switch to an alternate PLL. A subsequent patch adds
> support to switch between primary and alternate PLL during rate
> changes.
> 
> The primary PLL operates on a single VCO range, between 600MHz
> and 3GHz. However the CPUs do support OPPs with frequencies
> between 300MHz and 600MHz. In order to support running the CPUs
> at those frequencies we end up having to lock the PLL at twice
> the rate and drive the CPU clk via the PLL/2 output and SMUX.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilia Lin <ilialin@codeaurora.org>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> ---

Applied to clk-next