RE: [PATCH v5 4/4] drivers: clk: Add ZynqMP clock driver

[Jolly Shah <JOLLYS@xilinx.com>]

Hi Stephen,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Boyd [mailto:sboyd@kernel.org]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] drivers: clk: Add ZynqMP clock driver
> 
> Quoting Jolly Shah (2018-09-28 15:18:00)
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/zynqmp/clkc.c b/drivers/clk/zynqmp/clkc.c new
> > file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b07d77
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/zynqmp/clkc.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,716 @@
> [...]
> > + * @type:      Clock type: CLK_TYPE_OUTPUT or CLK_TYPE_EXTERNAL
> > + *
> > + * Return: 0 on success else error code  */ static int
> > +zynqmp_get_clock_type(u32 clk_id, u32 *type) {
> > +       int ret;
> > +
> > +       ret = zynqmp_is_valid_clock(clk_id);
> > +       if (ret == 1) {
> > +               *type = clock[clk_id].type;
> > +               return 0;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       return ret == 0 ? -EINVAL : ret; }
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * zynqmp_pm_clock_get_num_clocks() - Get number of clocks in system
> > + * @nclocks:   Number of clocks in system/board.
> > + *
> > + * Call firmware API to get number of clocks.
> > + *
> > + * Return: 0 on success else error code.
> > + */
> > +static int zynqmp_pm_clock_get_num_clocks(u32 *nclocks) {
> > +       struct zynqmp_pm_query_data qdata = {0};
> > +       __le32 ret_payload[PAYLOAD_ARG_CNT];
> 
> I asked about endianess but this isn't the right fix. Just marking something as
> __le32 but then not using that type and just passing it to some function that
> takes a u32 pointer doesn't work. So is the firmware side always little endian? If
> so, maybe the ioctls can do the byte swap and then the kernel API can be native
> CPU endian while the firmware layer can be aware that things may need
> swapping. I'm suggesting that this type is just u32 and then the eemi_ops
> functions accept u32 and do the swapping themselves.
> 
> If you put back u32 here and elsewhere in this patch you can have my
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> 
> The fix to the underlying ops for endian correctness can come later, so don't feel
> like it needs to be fixed right now.

Thanks for clarification. It makes perfect sense. I pushed v6 with suggested change and your review tag. 
I will send an incremental patch for endianness correction.

Thanks,
Jolly Shah