Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] clk: sifive: Add pcie_aux clock in prci driver for PCIe driver

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 11:23:31AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 03:24:19PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 06:59:35PM +0800, Greentime Hu wrote:
> > > We add pcie_aux clock in this patch so that pcie driver can use
> > > clk_prepare_enable() and clk_disable_unprepare() to enable and disable
> > > pcie_aux clock.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
> > > Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/clk/sifive/fu740-prci.c               | 11 +++++
> > >  drivers/clk/sifive/fu740-prci.h               |  2 +-
> > >  drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c              | 41 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.h              |  9 ++++
> > >  include/dt-bindings/clock/sifive-fu740-prci.h |  1 +
> > >  5 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/clk/sifive/fu740-prci.c b/drivers/clk/sifive/fu740-prci.c
> > > index 764d1097aa51..53f6e00a03b9 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/clk/sifive/fu740-prci.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/clk/sifive/fu740-prci.c
> > > @@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ static const struct clk_ops sifive_fu740_prci_hfpclkplldiv_clk_ops = {
> > >  	.recalc_rate = sifive_prci_hfpclkplldiv_recalc_rate,
> > 
> > <...>
> > 
> > > +/* PCIE AUX clock APIs for enable, disable. */
> > > +int sifive_prci_pcie_aux_clock_is_enabled(struct clk_hw *hw)
> > 
> > It should be bool
> 
> It's used via this function pointer:
> 
>   struct clk_ops {
>     int             (*is_enabled)(struct clk_hw *hw);
> 
> so I think "int" is actually appropriate here.

Ahh, sorry, I missed that assignment.

> 
> There are some weird/interesting bool vs int usages nearby, though:
> 
>   "bool __is_clk_gate_enabled()" goes to some trouble to convert
>   int to bool ("return (reg_val & bit_mask) != 0;"), and then
>   kona_peri_clk_is_enabled() converts the bool back to int ("return
>   is_clk_gate_enabled(bcm_clk->ccu, gate) ? 1 : 0;").
> 
>   "int lpc32xx_clk_gate_is_enabled()" actually returns a bool that is
>   implicitly converted to int.
> 
>   Many *_is_enabled() functions return !!(...) where !! is an
>   int-to-bool conversion that is arguably unnecessary and again
>   results in an implicit conversion to int.
> 
> I don't see any *problems* with any of these; it just seems like a
> little more mental effort to think about all the explicit and implicit
> conversions going on.

The code is written once but read many times and I can't agree with
your that examples given by you are not the *problems*. They clearly
says "the API is not great and easily can be improved".

Driver authors struggled to write bool-to-int conversion, it is very
optimistic view that they won't struggle to read code too.

Thanks