Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
---
.../devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
index 06fc6d5..daf3323 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,44 @@ For example:
clocks by index. The names should reflect the clock output signal
names for the device.
+clock-always-on: Some hardware contains bunches of clocks which must never
be
+ turned off. If drivers a) fail to obtain a reference to any
+ of these or b) give up a previously obtained reference
+ during suspend, the common clk framework will attempt to
+ disable them and a platform can fail irrecoverably as a
+ result. Usually the only way to recover from these failures
+ is to reboot.
+
+ To avoid either of these two scenarios from catastrophically
+ disabling an otherwise perfectly healthy running system,
+ clocks can be identified as always-on using this property
+ from inside a clocksource's node.
+
+ This property is not to be abused. It is only to be used to
+ protect platforms from being crippled by gated clocks, not
+ as a convenience function to avoid using the framework
+ correctly inside device drivers.
+
+ Expected values are hardware clock indices. If the
+ clock-indices property (see below) is used, then supplied
+ values must correspond to one of the listed identifiers.
+ Using the clock-indices example below, hardware clock <2>
+ is missing, therefore it is considered invalid to then
+ list clock <2> as an always-on clock.
+
+For example:
+
+ oscillator {
+ #clock-cells = <1>;
+ clock-output-names = "ckil", "ckih";
+ clock-always-on = <0>, <1>;
+ };
+
+- this node defines a device with two clock outputs, just as in the
+ example above. The only difference being that 'ckil' and 'ckih'
+ are now identified as an always-on clocks, so the framework will
+ know to never attempt to gate them.
+
clock-indices: If the identifying number for the clocks in the node
is not linear from zero, then this allows the mapping of
identifiers into the clock-output-names array.
--
1.9.1
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