Subject: [PATCH RFC] of: add a basic memory driver

From: [email-masked] (Rob Herring)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:40:48 -0500

On 09/10/2013 08:43 PM, Emilio L?pez wrote:
> This driver's only job is to claim and ensure that the necessary clock
> for memory operation on a DT-enabled machine remains enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emilio L?pez <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently facing an issue with the clock setup: a critical but
> unclaimed clock gets disabled as a side effect of disabling one of its
> children. The clock setup looks something like this:
> 
>       PLL
>        |
>  ------------
>  |          |
> DDR       Others
>             |
>           periph

This would be more accurate:

       PLL
        |
 ----------------
 |              |
DDR Ctrlr     Others
 |
DDR

So having a DDR controller node with a clock is the right way to do
this. There are other possible needs for describing the DDR controller
such as low power modes and ECC.

Rob

> 
> The PLL clock is marked with the CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flag, so on a normal
> boot it remains on, even after the unused clocks cleanup code runs. The
> problem occurs when someone enables "periph" and then, later on, disables
> it: the framework starts disabling clocks upwards on the tree, 
> eventually switching the PLL off (and that kills the machine, as the memory
> clock is shut down).
> 
> There's two possible solutions I can think of:
>  1) add some extra checks on the framework to not turn off clocks marked
>     with such a flag on the non-explicit case (ie, when I'm disabling
>     some other clock)
>  2) create an actual user of the DDR clock, that way it won't get
>     disabled simply because it's being used.
> 
> I considered 1) and implemented it, but the result was not pretty. This 
> patch is my take on 2). Please let me know what you think; all feedback
> is welcome :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Emilio
> 
>  drivers/of/Kconfig     |  6 ++++++
>  drivers/of/Makefile    |  1 +
>  drivers/of/of_memory.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/of/of_memory.c
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/Kconfig b/drivers/of/Kconfig
> index 9d2009a..f6c5e20 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/of/Kconfig
> @@ -80,4 +80,10 @@ config OF_RESERVED_MEM
>  	help
>  	  Initialization code for DMA reserved memory
>  
> +config OF_MEMORY
> +	depends on COMMON_CLK
> +	def_bool y
> +	help
> +	  Simple memory initialization
> +
>  endmenu # OF
> diff --git a/drivers/of/Makefile b/drivers/of/Makefile
> index ed9660a..15f0167 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/of/Makefile
> @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_OF_PCI)	+= of_pci.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_OF_PCI_IRQ)  += of_pci_irq.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_OF_MTD)	+= of_mtd.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_OF_RESERVED_MEM) += of_reserved_mem.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_OF_MEMORY) += of_memory.o
> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_memory.c b/drivers/of/of_memory.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..a833f7a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/of/of_memory.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +/*
> + * Simple memory driver
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/clk.h>
> +
> +static int __init of_memory_enable(void)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *np;
> +	struct clk *clk;
> +
> +	np = of_find_node_by_path("/memory");
> +	if (!np) {
> +		pr_err("no /memory on DT!\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
> +		clk_prepare_enable(clk);
> +		clk_put(clk);
> +	}
> +
> +	of_node_put(np);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +device_initcall(of_memory_enable);
>