It's not required to traverse the entire clk tree when the parents array
contains a NULL value. We already have the parent clk_core pointer, so
we can just compare the parent->name and parent_names[i] pointers.
This can be a substantial power improvement in cases where the parent
clk isn't known and that clk is never registered, because a mux having
an unregistered parent name may traverse the clk tree on every
clk_set_rate() call in clk_mux_determine_rate_flags(). This can happen
hundreds of times a second for CPU clks.
This patch is the combination of reverting commit 470b5e2f97 ("clk:
simplify clk_fetch_parent_index() function") and optimizing the
resulting code to never call __clk_lookup() because we already have the
clk_core pointer we're looking for. That optimization went unnoticed
even after commit da0f0b2c3a ("clk: Correct lookup logic in
clk_fetch_parent_index()") tried to optimize this path.
Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@chromium.org>
[sboyd@kernel.org: More description in commit text]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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