1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index eb0152961d3c..237f23f68bfc 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -1350,7 +1350,6 @@ static unsigned long clk_core_get_rate(struct clk_core *clk)
 
         return rate;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_core_get_rate);
 
 /**
  * clk_get_rate - return the rate of clk
@@ -2171,6 +2170,32 @@ int clk_get_phase(struct clk *clk)
 }
 
 /**
+ * clk_is_match - check if two clk's point to the same hardware clock
+ * @p: clk compared against q
+ * @q: clk compared against p
+ *
+ * Returns true if the two struct clk pointers both point to the same hardware
+ * clock node. Put differently, returns true if struct clk *p and struct clk *q
+ * share the same struct clk_core object.
+ *
+ * Returns false otherwise. Note that two NULL clks are treated as matching.
+ */
+bool clk_is_match(const struct clk *p, const struct clk *q)
+{
+        /* trivial case: identical struct clk's or both NULL */
+        if (p == q)
+                return true;
+
+        /* true if clk->core pointers match. Avoid derefing garbage */
+        if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(p) && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(q))
+                if (p->core == q->core)
+                        return true;
+
+        return false;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clk_is_match);
+
+/**
  * __clk_init - initialize the data structures in a struct clk
  * @dev:        device initializing this clk, placeholder for now
  * @clk:        clk being initialized