Hi, Daniel

> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] clocksource: timer-of: Support getting clock
> frequency from DT
> 
> 
> Hi Anson,
> 
> thanks for taking care of adding the clock-frequency handling in the timer-of.

Sure.

> 
> On 28/06/2019 05:30, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Anson Huang <[email protected]>
> >
> > More and more platforms use platform driver model for clock driver, so
> > the clock driver is NOT ready during timer initialization phase, it
> > will cause timer initialization failed.
> >
> > To support those platforms with upper scenario, introducing a new flag
> > TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY which is mutually exclusive with
> > TIMER_OF_CLOCK flag to support getting timer clock frequency from DT,
> > then of_clk operations can be skipped.
> >
> > User needs to select either TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY or
> TIMER_OF_CLOCK
> > flag if want to use timer-of driver to initialize the clock rate, and
> > the corresponding clock name or property name needs to be specified.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > New patch:
> >     - Add new flag of TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY, mutually exclusive
> with TIMER_OF_CLOCK, to support
> >       getting clock frequency from DT directly;
> >     - Add prop_name to of_timer_clk structure, if using
> TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY flag, user needs
> >       to pass the property name for timer-of driver to get clock frequency
> from DT, this is to avoid
> >       the couple of timer-of driver and DT, so timer-of driver does NOT
> use a fixed property name.
> > ---
> >  drivers/clocksource/timer-of.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/clocksource/timer-of.h |  8 +++++---
> >  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.c
> > b/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.c index 8054228..c91a8b6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.c
> > @@ -161,6 +161,21 @@ static __init int timer_of_base_init(struct
> device_node *np,
> >     return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +static __init int timer_of_clk_frequency_init(struct device_node *np,
> > +                                         struct of_timer_clk *of_clk) {
> > +   int ret;
> > +   u32 rate;
> > +
> > +   ret = of_property_read_u32(np, of_clk->prop_name, &rate);
> > +   if (!ret) {
> > +           of_clk->rate = rate;
> > +           of_clk->period = DIV_ROUND_UP(rate, HZ);
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> >  int __init timer_of_init(struct device_node *np, struct timer_of *to)
> > {
> >     int ret = -EINVAL;
> > @@ -178,6 +193,11 @@ int __init timer_of_init(struct device_node *np,
> struct timer_of *to)
> >             if (ret)
> >                     goto out_fail;
> >             flags |= TIMER_OF_CLOCK;
> > +   } else if (to->flags & TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY) {
> > +           ret = timer_of_clk_frequency_init(np, &to->of_clk);
> > +           if (ret)
> > +                   goto out_fail;
> > +           flags |= TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY;
> >     }
> 
> /* Pre-condition */
> 
> if (to->flags & (TIMER_OF_CLOCK | TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY))
>       return -EINVAL;
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> if (to->flags & TIMER_OF_CLOCK) {
> }
> 
> if (to->flags & TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY) { }
> 

Ah, make sense, they are exclusive, will add it in next version.

> >     if (to->flags & TIMER_OF_IRQ) {
> > @@ -201,6 +221,9 @@ int __init timer_of_init(struct device_node *np,
> struct timer_of *to)
> >     if (flags & TIMER_OF_CLOCK)
> >             timer_of_clk_exit(&to->of_clk);
> >
> > +   if (flags & TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY)
> > +           to->of_clk.rate = 0;
> > +
> >     if (flags & TIMER_OF_BASE)
> >             timer_of_base_exit(&to->of_base);
> >     return ret;
> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.h
> > b/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.h index a5478f3..f1a083e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.h
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-of.h
> > @@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
> >
> >  #include <linux/clockchips.h>
> >
> > -#define TIMER_OF_BASE      0x1
> > -#define TIMER_OF_CLOCK     0x2
> > -#define TIMER_OF_IRQ       0x4
> > +#define TIMER_OF_BASE                      0x1
> > +#define TIMER_OF_CLOCK                     0x2
> > +#define TIMER_OF_IRQ                       0x4
> > +#define TIMER_OF_CLOCK_FREQUENCY   0x8
> >
> >  struct of_timer_irq {
> >     int irq;
> > @@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ struct of_timer_base {  struct of_timer_clk {
> >     struct clk *clk;
> >     const char *name;
> > +   const char *prop_name;
> 
> For the moment, keep it hardcoded with "clock-frequency" directly in the
> function.

OK, then I will NOT add any dt-binding for this property. The reason to use 
prop_name
instead of hardcode is I don't want to create a binding doc just for this 
property.

Thanks,
Anson. 

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