On 01/02, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
On 02/01/18 19:01, Stephen Boyd wrote:
On 12/31, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
On 30/12/17 16:36, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
FWIW, we had this problem some years ago with the Tegra CPU clock
- then it was determined that a simpler solution was to have the
determine_rate callback support unsigned long rates - so clock drivers that need to return rates higher than 2^31 can instead implement the determine_rate callback. That is what's currently implemented.
Mikko
Granted we could work around it but, having both zero and less than zero indicate error means you can't support larger than LONG_MAX which is I think worth fixing.
Ok. But can you implement the determine_rate op instead of the round_rate op for your clk?
Don't know .
Please try.
It's not a work-around, it's the preferred solution. That would allow rates larger than 2^31 for the clk without pushing through a change to all the drivers to express zero as "error" and non-zero as the rounded rate.
I'm not entirely opposed to this approach, because we probably don't care to pass the particular error value from a clk provider to a clk consumer about what the error is.
Which was my thought. The return value of clk_ops->round_rate() appears not to get pushed up the stack, which is what the last patch in this series deals with.
[PATCH 33/33] clk: change handling of round_rate() such that only zero is an error
Hmm? clk_core_determine_round_nolock() returns 'rate' if rate < 0 from the round_rate op. clk_core_round_rate_nolock() returns that value to clk_round_rate() which returns it to the consumer.
It's actually what we proposed as the solution for clk_round_rate() to return values larger than LONG_MAX to consumers. But doing that consumer API change or this provider side change is going to require us to evaluate all the consumers of these clks to make sure they don't check for some error value that's less than zero. This series does half the work,
Do you mean users of clk_rounda_rate() ? I have a set of patches for that but wanted to separate that from clk_ops->round_rate() so as not to send ~70 patches out to LKML at once - even if they are in two blocks.
Ok. What have you done to the consumers of clk_round_rate()? Made them treat 0 as an error instead of less than zero? The documentation in clk.h needs to be updated. See this patch from Paul Wamsley[1] for one proposed patch that went nowhere. Also include Russell King please. It was also proposed to change the function signature of clk_round_rate() to return unsigned long, but that didn't go anywhere either.
If so, I can publish that set too for reference.
AFAICT on clk_ops->round_rate the last patch #33 ought to cover the usage of the return value of clk_ops->round_rate().
Have I missed something ?
Hopefully not!
by changing the provider side, while ignoring the consumer side and any potential fallout of the less than zero to zero return value change.
Can you look at #33 ? I'm not sure if you saw that one.
Yeah I looked at it. From what I can tell it makes clk_round_rate() return 0 now instead of whatever negative value the clk_ops::round_rate function returns.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1311251603310.23090@tamien