Hello,
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:09:08 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> While converting the init function to return an error, the wrong clock
> was get. This lead to wrong clock rate and slow down the kernel. For
> example, before the patch a typical boot was around 15s after it was 1
> minute slower.
>
> Fixes: 12549e27c63c ("clocksource/drivers/time-armada-370-xp: Convert init
> function to return error")
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/clocksource/time-armada-370-xp.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/time-armada-370-xp.c
> b/drivers/clocksource/time-armada-370-xp.c
> index 719b478d136e..3c39e6f45971 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/time-armada-370-xp.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/time-armada-370-xp.c
> @@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ static int __init armada_xp_timer_init(struct device_node
> *np)
> struct clk *clk = of_clk_get_by_name(np, "fixed");
> int ret;
>
> - clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
I think to avoid this mistake, we should rewrite the code as:
struct *clk;
int ret;
clk = of_clk_get_by_name(np, "fixed");
if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
...
Indeed, I find confusing a block that starts with error checking, and
it's probably what lead to this of_clk_get() being added here.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
