Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] clk: meson: fix mpll jitter

[Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>]

On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 14:31 +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> This patchset is a squash of these previous patchsets [0], [1] without
> modification, beside a re-ordering of the changes to facilitate backports
> 
> We are observing a lot of jitter on the MPLL outputs of the g12a.
> No such jitter is seen on gx family. On the axg family, only MPLL2
> seems affected. This was not a problem so far since this MPLL output
> is not used.
> 
> The jitter can be as high as +/- 4%.
> 
> This is a problem for audio application. This may cause distortion on
> i2s and completely break SPDIF.
> 
> After exchanging with Amlogic, it seems we have activated (by mistake)
> the 'spread spectrum' feature.
> 
> The 3 first patches properly set the bit responsible for the spread
> spectrum in the mpll driver and add the required correction in the
> related clock controllers.
> 
> When the g12a support has been initially submitted, the MPLL appeared
> (overall) fine. At the time, the board I used was flashed with Amlogic
> vendor u-boot. Since then, I moved to an early version on mainline
> u-boot, which is likely to initialize the clock differently.
> 
> While debugging audio support, I noticed that MPLL based clocks were way
> above target. It appeared the fractional part of the divider was not
> working.
> 
> To work properly, the MPLLs each needs an initial setting in addition to
> a common one. No one likes those register sequences but sometimes, like
> here for PLL clocks, there is no way around it.
> 
> The last 4 patches add the possibility to set initial register sequence
> for the ee clock controller and the MPLL driver. It is then used to enable
> the fractional part of the g12a MPLL.
> 
> As agreed with the clock maintainers, I'll submit a series to CCF to
> remove the .init() callbacks and introduce register()/deregister()
> callbacks later on (pinky swear).
> 
> Jerome Brunet (7):
>   clk: meson: mpll: properly handle spread spectrum
>   clk: meson: gxbb: no spread spectrum on mpll0
>   clk: meson: axg: spread spectrum is on mpll2
>   clk: meson: mpll: add init callback and regs
>   clk: meson: g12a: add mpll register init sequences
>   clk: meson: eeclk: add init regs
>   clk: meson: g12a: add controller register init
> 
>  drivers/clk/meson/axg.c         | 10 ++++-----
>  drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.c    | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/clk/meson/clk-mpll.h    |  3 +++
>  drivers/clk/meson/g12a.c        | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/clk/meson/gxbb.c        |  5 -----
>  drivers/clk/meson/meson-eeclk.c |  3 +++
>  drivers/clk/meson/meson-eeclk.h |  2 ++
>  7 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 

series applied to v5.3/drivers



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