Hi Sylwester,

Thank you for the patch.

On Tuesday 29 October 2013 20:51:04 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> The clock core code is going to be modified so clk_get() takes
> reference on the clock provider module. Until the potential circular
> reference issue is properly addressed, we pass NULL as as the first
> argument to clk_register(), in order to disallow sub-devices taking
> a reference on the ISP module back trough clk_get(). This should
> prevent locking the modules in memory.
> 
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>

Do you plan to push this to mainline as part of this patch series ? I don't 
have pending patches for the omap3isp that would conflict with this patch, so 
that would be fine with me.

> ---
> This patch has been "compile tested" only.
> 
> ---
>  drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c
> b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c index df3a0ec..286027a 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c
> @@ -290,9 +290,11 @@ static int isp_xclk_init(struct isp_device *isp)
>       struct clk_init_data init;
>       unsigned int i;
> 
> +     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(isp->xclks); ++i)
> +             isp->xclks[i].clk = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
>       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(isp->xclks); ++i) {
>               struct isp_xclk *xclk = &isp->xclks[i];
> -             struct clk *clk;
> 
>               xclk->isp = isp;
>               xclk->id = i == 0 ? ISP_XCLK_A : ISP_XCLK_B;
> @@ -305,10 +307,15 @@ static int isp_xclk_init(struct isp_device *isp)
>               init.num_parents = 1;
> 
>               xclk->hw.init = &init;
> -
> -             clk = devm_clk_register(isp->dev, &xclk->hw);
> -             if (IS_ERR(clk))
> -                     return PTR_ERR(clk);
> +             /*
> +              * The first argument is NULL in order to avoid circular
> +              * reference, as this driver takes reference on the
> +              * sensor subdevice modules and the sensors would take
> +              * reference on this module through clk_get().
> +              */
> +             xclk->clk = clk_register(NULL, &xclk->hw);
> +             if (IS_ERR(xclk->clk))
> +                     return PTR_ERR(xclk->clk);
> 
>               if (pdata->xclks[i].con_id == NULL &&
>                   pdata->xclks[i].dev_id == NULL)
> @@ -320,7 +327,7 @@ static int isp_xclk_init(struct isp_device *isp)
> 
>               xclk->lookup->con_id = pdata->xclks[i].con_id;
>               xclk->lookup->dev_id = pdata->xclks[i].dev_id;
> -             xclk->lookup->clk = clk;
> +             xclk->lookup->clk = xclk->clk;
> 
>               clkdev_add(xclk->lookup);
>       }
> @@ -335,6 +342,9 @@ static void isp_xclk_cleanup(struct isp_device *isp)
>       for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(isp->xclks); ++i) {
>               struct isp_xclk *xclk = &isp->xclks[i];
> 
> +             if (!IS_ERR(xclk->clk))
> +                     clk_unregister(xclk->clk);
> +
>               if (xclk->lookup)
>                       clkdev_drop(xclk->lookup);
>       }
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.h
> b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.h index cd3eff4..1498f2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.h
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.h
> @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ struct isp_xclk {
>       struct isp_device *isp;
>       struct clk_hw hw;
>       struct clk_lookup *lookup;
> +     struct clk *clk;
>       enum isp_xclk_id id;
> 
>       spinlock_t lock;        /* Protects enabled and divider */

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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