Hi! On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 15:37 +0100, Alexander Stein wrote: > From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > One of the reasons to do it is to save some CPU cycles on > > cpu_freq_get() > > under mutex. The second reason if the (false-positive) lockdep > > splat caused > > by the recursive feature of the "prepare_lock" (one clock instance > > is I2C > > peripheral clock and another is pcf85063 RTC as clock provider): > > > > ====================================================== > > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected > > 5.15.71+... #1 Tainted: G O > > Which kernel is this? Mainline or downstream vendor kernel? found and tested on downstream vendor kernel. [...] > > > What if the peripheral clock rate changes? I guess a notifier similar > to > 90ad2cbe88c2 ("i2c: imx: use clk notifier for rate changes") should > be added > as well. > Good point! Thank you for the hint! -- Alexander Sverdlin Siemens AG www.siemens.com