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    [ARM] OMAP2/3 clock: don't use a barrier after clk_disable() · de07fedd
    Paul Walmsley authored
    clk_disable() previously used an ARM barrier, wmb(), to try to ensure
    that the hardware write completed before continuing.  There are some
    problems with this approach.
    
    The first problem is that wmb() only ensures that the write leaves the
    ARM -- not that it actually reaches the endpoint device.  In this
    case, the endpoint device - either the PRM, CM, or SCM - is three
    interconnects away from the ARM, and the final interconnect is
    low-speed.  And the OCP interconnects will post the write, who knows
    how long that will take to complete.  So the wmb() is not really what
    we want.
    
    Worse, the wmb() is indiscriminate; it will cause the ARM to flush any
    other unrelated buffered writes and wait for the local interconnect to
    acknowledge them - potentially very expensive.
    
    This first problem could be fixed by doing a readback of the same PRM/CM/SCM
    register.  Since these devices use a single OCP thread, this will cause the
    MPU to wait for the write to complete.
    
    But the primary problem is a conceptual one: clk_disable() should not
    need any kind of barrier.  clk_enable() needs one since device driver
    code must not access a device until its clocks are known to be
    enabled.  But clk_disable() has no such restriction.
    
    Since blocking the MPU on a PRM/CM/SCM write can be a very
    high-latency operation - several hundred MPU cycles - it's worth
    avoiding this barrier if possible.
    
    linux-omap source commit is f4aacad2c0ed1055622d5c1e910befece24ef0e2.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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