mmc: Aggressive clock gating framework

This patch modifies the MMC core code to optionally call the set_ios()
operation on the driver with the clock frequency set to 0 (gate) after
a grace period of at least 8 MCLK cycles, then restore it (ungate)
before any new request. This gives the driver the option to shut down
the MCI clock to the MMC/SD card when the clock frequency is 0, i.e.
the core has stated that the MCI clock does not need to be generated.

It is inspired by existing clock gating code found in the OMAP and
Atmel drivers and brings this up to the host abstraction.  Gating is
performed before and after any MMC request.

This patchset implements this for the MMCI/PL180 MMC/SD host controller,
but it should be simple to switch OMAP/Atmel over to using this instead.

mmc_set_{gated,ungated}() add variable protection to the state holders
for the clock gating code.  This is particularly important when ordinary
.set_ios() calls would race with the .set_ios() call resulting from a
delayed gate operation.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Tested-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/Kconfig b/drivers/mmc/core/Kconfig
index bb22ffd76ef8..ef103871517f 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/Kconfig
@@ -16,3 +16,14 @@ config MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME
 
 	  This option sets a default which can be overridden by the
 	  module parameter "removable=0" or "removable=1".
+
+config MMC_CLKGATE
+	bool "MMC host clock gating (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  This will attempt to aggressively gate the clock to the MMC card.
+	  This is done to save power due to gating off the logic and bus
+	  noise when the MMC card is not in use. Your host driver has to
+	  support handling this in order for it to be of any use.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.