[PATCH v3 015/105] drm/vc4: hvs: Boost the core clock during modeset

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 5:52 AM Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 09:33:44AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:49 AM Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech> wrote:
> > >
> > > In order to prevent timeouts and stalls in the pipeline, the core clock
> > > needs to be maxed at 500MHz during a modeset on the BCM2711.
> >
> > Like, the whole system's core clock?
>
> Yep, unfortunately...
>
> > How is it reasonable for some device driver to crank the system's core
> > clock up and back down to some fixed-in-the-driver frequency? Sounds
> > like you need some sort of opp thing here.
>
> That frequency is the minimum rate of that clock. However, since other
> devices have similar requirements (unicam in particular) with different
> minimum requirements, we will switch to setting a minimum rate instead
> of enforcing a particular rate, so that patch would be essentially
> s/clk_set_rate/clk_set_min_rate/.

clk_set_min_rate makes a lot more sense to me.  r-b with that obvious
change. Thanks!