[PATCH 6/6 v6] cpufreq, highbank: add support for highbank cpufreq

[Mike Turquette]

Quoting Mark Langsdorf (2012-11-28 08:18:35)
> On 11/28/2012 10:01 AM, Mike Turquette wrote:
> > Quoting Shawn Guo (2012-11-28 07:17:44)
> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:58:02PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:16:12AM -0600, Mark Langsdorf wrote:
> >>>> I'd
> >>>> have to move most of the logic of hb_set_target() into
> >>>> clk_highbank.c:clk_pll_set_rate() and then add extra logic for when
> >>>> cpufreq is not enabled/loaded.
> >>>
> >>> You only need to move hb_voltage_change() into cpu clock's .set_rate()
> >>> hook with no need of checking if cpufreq is enabled or not.
> >>>
> >> Need to also check whether frequency or voltage should be changed first
> >> in .set_rate() though.
> >>
> >> Shawn
> >>
> > 
> > The notifiers in the clk framework might be a better place for this than
> > just simply hacking the logic into the .set_rate callback.
> 
> Unless the clk notifiers are different than the cpufreq notifiers, they
> don't handle returning error conditions very well. And given that the
> voltage change operation can fail (though it almost always succeeds on a
> retry) I need to be able to handle and detect that error condition.
> 

The notifier handler can handle the case where the transition fails (and
needs to be retried).

Also you should check out the clk notifiers.  I think they handle
failure decently.  If a notifer returns an error code then everything
unrolls and the clk_set_rate operation aborts.

Regards,
Mike

> > I haven't looked at the definition of hb_voltage_change but does the
> > call graph make any clk api calls?  Are you talking over i2c to a
> > regulator?  If so then you'll probably hit the same reentrancy problem I
> > hit when trying to make a general solution.
> 
> I'm talking over a pl320 Interprocessor Communication Mailbox to a
> separate core running it's own RTOS. The RTOS might speak i2c to a
> regulator but it's a black box to me.
> 
> hb_voltage_change() doesn't make any clk api calls. It changes the
> voltages, and then hb_set_target() makes clk api calls to change the
> frequency.
> 
> --Mark Langsdorf
> Calxeda, Inc.