On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:27:57AM -0800, Mike Turquette wrote:
Quoting Shawn Guo (2015-02-25 06:53:31)
Since commit 035a61c314eb ("clk: Make clk API return per-user struct clk instances"), clk API users can no longer check if two struct clk pointers are pointing to the same hardware clock, i.e. struct clk_hw, by simply comparing two pointers. That's because with the per-user clk change, a brand new struct clk is created whenever clients try to look up the clock by calling clk_get() or sister functions like clk_get_sys() and of_clk_get(). This changes the original behavior where the struct clk is only created for once when clock driver registers the clock to CCF in the first place. The net change here is before commit 035a61c314eb the struct clk pointer is unique for given hardware clock, while after the commit the pointers returned by clk lookup calls become different for the same hardware clock.
A number of client drivers detecting if two struct clk pointers point to the same one hardware clock by comparing the pointers are broken now. As a stop-gap solution, this patch adds a helper function clk_is_match() to test if two struct clk pointers point to the same hardware clock, so that these client drivers can use to fix the regression.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo shawn.guo@linaro.org
Hi Shawn,
Thanks for the patch. I wrote a similar one last night but did not finish fixing up the drivers (and thus did not post it). I prefer my implementation below, and I'm happy to merge your driver fixes with it.
Regards, Mike
From: Michael Turquette mturquette@linaro.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:11:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] clk: introduce clk_is_match
Some drivers compare struct clk pointers as a means of knowing if the two pointers reference the same clock hardware. This behavior is dubious (drivers must not dereference struct clk), but did not cause any regressions until the per-user struct clk patch was merged. Now the test for matching clk's will always fail with per-user struct clk's.
clk_is_match is introduced to fix the regression and prevent drivers from comparing the pointers manually.
small observaton, clk_is_same() is linguistically nicer.