| Message ID | 1546954223-9738-2-git-send-email-t-kristo@ti.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Changes Requested, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | clk: keystone: a few TI sci-clk improvements | expand |
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:30:21PM +0200, Tero Kristo wrote: > By default, the available clock info is queried from firmware, which can > be quite a lengthy operation if there is a very large amount of clocks > available. Add option for parsing the used clocks from DT instead, and > only register these which can improve the boot time of the device quite > a lot. > > Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt > index 4e59dc6..c757ae1 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt > @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Required properties: > and clocks IDs for 66AK2G SoC are documented at > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TISCI#66AK2G02_Data > > +Optional properties: > +------------------- > +- ti,scan-clocks-from-dt: Scan clock tree info from DT. By default, > + clocks are queried from firmware, which can be rather slow operation, > + especially if there is a really large number of clocks available out > + of which only a handful are ever used by kernel. At first, I thought this was an either/or thing. Use firmware or use DT, but it is really only get the clocks used in the DT from firmware. Why wouldn't you just always do that? I can think of 3 cases: reparenting, debug and overlays. This breaks reparenting and overlays, right? Debug could be handled with some userspace trigger to get all the clocks. Why scan any of the clocks up front? Why not just create the clocks on demand? If an unknown clock id is requested, then create the clock and query the firmware at that point. That would avoid the DT scan too. Maybe there's some issues in the clk framework preventing that, but that's not really a DT problem. Rob
On 21/01/2019 23:04, Rob Herring wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:30:21PM +0200, Tero Kristo wrote: >> By default, the available clock info is queried from firmware, which can >> be quite a lengthy operation if there is a very large amount of clocks >> available. Add option for parsing the used clocks from DT instead, and >> only register these which can improve the boot time of the device quite >> a lot. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com> >> --- >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt | 7 +++++++ >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >> index 4e59dc6..c757ae1 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >> @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Required properties: >> and clocks IDs for 66AK2G SoC are documented at >> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TISCI#66AK2G02_Data >> >> +Optional properties: >> +------------------- >> +- ti,scan-clocks-from-dt: Scan clock tree info from DT. By default, >> + clocks are queried from firmware, which can be rather slow operation, >> + especially if there is a really large number of clocks available out >> + of which only a handful are ever used by kernel. > > At first, I thought this was an either/or thing. Use firmware or use DT, > but it is really only get the clocks used in the DT from firmware. > > Why wouldn't you just always do that? I can think of 3 cases: > reparenting, debug and overlays. This breaks reparenting and overlays, > right? Debug could be handled with some userspace trigger to get all the > clocks. Re-parenting this does not break, as the scan still checks every possible parent of a clock scanned. Overlays are broken for sure, as we don't know which overlays we would be applying, and what clocks would be in them. Debug is kind of broken as we only scan a small portion of the clocks. > > Why scan any of the clocks up front? Why not just create the clocks on > demand? If an unknown clock id is requested, then create the clock and > query the firmware at that point. That would avoid the DT scan too. > Maybe there's some issues in the clk framework preventing that, but > that's not really a DT problem. The very initial version I did a couple of years back, did scan the clocks based on need, and registered them dynamically. Stephen shot down this based on the assessment that there might be locking issues with the common clock framework with this approach leading into potential deadlock situations. -Tero -- Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki
On 22/01/2019 09:33, Tero Kristo wrote: > On 21/01/2019 23:04, Rob Herring wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:30:21PM +0200, Tero Kristo wrote: >>> By default, the available clock info is queried from firmware, which can >>> be quite a lengthy operation if there is a very large amount of clocks >>> available. Add option for parsing the used clocks from DT instead, and >>> only register these which can improve the boot time of the device quite >>> a lot. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com> >>> --- >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt | 7 +++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >>> index 4e59dc6..c757ae1 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt >>> @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Required properties: >>> and clocks IDs for 66AK2G SoC are documented at >>> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TISCI#66AK2G02_Data >>> +Optional properties: >>> +------------------- >>> +- ti,scan-clocks-from-dt: Scan clock tree info from DT. By default, >>> + clocks are queried from firmware, which can be rather slow operation, >>> + especially if there is a really large number of clocks available out >>> + of which only a handful are ever used by kernel. >> >> At first, I thought this was an either/or thing. Use firmware or use DT, >> but it is really only get the clocks used in the DT from firmware. >> >> Why wouldn't you just always do that? I can think of 3 cases: >> reparenting, debug and overlays. This breaks reparenting and overlays, >> right? Debug could be handled with some userspace trigger to get all the >> clocks. > > Re-parenting this does not break, as the scan still checks every > possible parent of a clock scanned. Overlays are broken for sure, as we > don't know which overlays we would be applying, and what clocks would be > in them. Debug is kind of broken as we only scan a small portion of the > clocks. > >> >> Why scan any of the clocks up front? Why not just create the clocks on >> demand? If an unknown clock id is requested, then create the clock and >> query the firmware at that point. That would avoid the DT scan too. >> Maybe there's some issues in the clk framework preventing that, but >> that's not really a DT problem. > > The very initial version I did a couple of years back, did scan the > clocks based on need, and registered them dynamically. Stephen shot down > this based on the assessment that there might be locking issues with the > common clock framework with this approach leading into potential > deadlock situations. So Rob, what is the final call on this binding? Ack/NAK? If NAK, shall I implement a kernel cmdline param to select the parsing method or what is preferred? Doing it build time with a simple Kconfig seems too limiting. -Tero -- Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki
Quoting Tero Kristo (2019-02-05 00:25:40) > On 22/01/2019 09:33, Tero Kristo wrote: > > On 21/01/2019 23:04, Rob Herring wrote: > >> At first, I thought this was an either/or thing. Use firmware or use DT, > >> but it is really only get the clocks used in the DT from firmware. > >> > >> Why wouldn't you just always do that? I can think of 3 cases: > >> reparenting, debug and overlays. This breaks reparenting and overlays, > >> right? Debug could be handled with some userspace trigger to get all the > >> clocks. > > > > Re-parenting this does not break, as the scan still checks every > > possible parent of a clock scanned. Overlays are broken for sure, as we > > don't know which overlays we would be applying, and what clocks would be > > in them. Debug is kind of broken as we only scan a small portion of the > > clocks. > > > >> > >> Why scan any of the clocks up front? Why not just create the clocks on > >> demand? If an unknown clock id is requested, then create the clock and > >> query the firmware at that point. That would avoid the DT scan too. > >> Maybe there's some issues in the clk framework preventing that, but > >> that's not really a DT problem. > > > > The very initial version I did a couple of years back, did scan the > > clocks based on need, and registered them dynamically. Stephen shot down > > this based on the assessment that there might be locking issues with the > > common clock framework with this approach leading into potential > > deadlock situations. It's an interesting idea to limit the scope of clks that are registered to only the leaf and whatever up to the root of the tree is involved in the working set of the kernel. > > So Rob, what is the final call on this binding? Ack/NAK? If NAK, shall I > implement a kernel cmdline param to select the parsing method or what is > preferred? Doing it build time with a simple Kconfig seems too limiting. > Is the problem a performance problem where probing the firmware for all the clks is costly and time intensive? So instead of doing that we're describing some of the details in DT? Why can't we describe the clk tree in C code with some data structure that indicates parent child linkages? This is how every other SoC is doing this so far.
On 06/02/2019 19:47, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Quoting Tero Kristo (2019-02-05 00:25:40) >> On 22/01/2019 09:33, Tero Kristo wrote: >>> On 21/01/2019 23:04, Rob Herring wrote: >>>> At first, I thought this was an either/or thing. Use firmware or use DT, >>>> but it is really only get the clocks used in the DT from firmware. >>>> >>>> Why wouldn't you just always do that? I can think of 3 cases: >>>> reparenting, debug and overlays. This breaks reparenting and overlays, >>>> right? Debug could be handled with some userspace trigger to get all the >>>> clocks. >>> >>> Re-parenting this does not break, as the scan still checks every >>> possible parent of a clock scanned. Overlays are broken for sure, as we >>> don't know which overlays we would be applying, and what clocks would be >>> in them. Debug is kind of broken as we only scan a small portion of the >>> clocks. >>> >>>> >>>> Why scan any of the clocks up front? Why not just create the clocks on >>>> demand? If an unknown clock id is requested, then create the clock and >>>> query the firmware at that point. That would avoid the DT scan too. >>>> Maybe there's some issues in the clk framework preventing that, but >>>> that's not really a DT problem. >>> >>> The very initial version I did a couple of years back, did scan the >>> clocks based on need, and registered them dynamically. Stephen shot down >>> this based on the assessment that there might be locking issues with the >>> common clock framework with this approach leading into potential >>> deadlock situations. > > It's an interesting idea to limit the scope of clks that are registered > to only the leaf and whatever up to the root of the tree is involved in > the working set of the kernel. > >> >> So Rob, what is the final call on this binding? Ack/NAK? If NAK, shall I >> implement a kernel cmdline param to select the parsing method or what is >> preferred? Doing it build time with a simple Kconfig seems too limiting. >> > > Is the problem a performance problem where probing the firmware for all > the clks is costly and time intensive? Yes this is pretty expensive, as there can be quite a large amount of clocks on a SoC, and each clock must be probed separately. > So instead of doing that we're > describing some of the details in DT? Why can't we describe the clk tree > in C code with some data structure that indicates parent child linkages? > This is how every other SoC is doing this so far. We can obviously do that also, however it is "neat" that we can probe the available clocks from the device, and don't need to hardcode anything kernel side... and neither maintain the clock data. If we want to go the hardcoded way, I can create tools to autogenerate the kernel side clock data from the clock dump of a running system though, and use the built-in clock data if it is available, retaining the existing probe method basically for new devices. -Tero -- Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt index 4e59dc6..c757ae1 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Required properties: and clocks IDs for 66AK2G SoC are documented at http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TISCI#66AK2G02_Data +Optional properties: +------------------- +- ti,scan-clocks-from-dt: Scan clock tree info from DT. By default, + clocks are queried from firmware, which can be rather slow operation, + especially if there is a really large number of clocks available out + of which only a handful are ever used by kernel. + Examples: --------
By default, the available clock info is queried from firmware, which can be quite a lengthy operation if there is a very large amount of clocks available. Add option for parsing the used clocks from DT instead, and only register these which can improve the boot time of the device quite a lot. Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/ti,sci-clk.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)