This series adds support to build the Arm64 Exynos MCT driver as a module.
This is only possible on Arm64 SoCs since they can use the Arm architected
timer as the clocksource. Once the Exynos MCT module is loaded and the
device probes, the MCT is used as the wakeup source for the arch_timer to
ensure the device can wakeup from the "c2" idle state.
These patches are originally from the downstream Pixel 6 (gs101) kernel
found at [1] and have been adapted for upstream. Not only has the Exynos MCT
driver been shipping as a module in the field with Android, but I've also
tested this series with the upstream kernel on my Pixel 6 Pro.
In addition, I verified that the Exynos MCT module cannot be unloaded on my
Pixel 6. This is due to /sys/module/exynos_mct/refcnt > 0. So if you try,
you'll get this:
root@google-gs:~# rmmod exynos_mct
rmmod: ERROR: Module exynos_mct is in use
root@google-gs:~# cat /sys/module/exynos_mct/refcnt
9
Thanks,
Will
Note1, instructions to build and flash a Pixel 6 device with the upstream
kernel can be found at [2].
Note2, this series is based off of krzk/for-next commit a15edf91668b ("Merge
branch 'next/dt64' into for-next") with [3] on top.
[1] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/gs/+log/refs/heads/android-gs-raviole-5.10-android12-d1
[2] https://git.codelinaro.org/linaro/googlelt/pixelscripts/-/blob/clo/main/README.md?ref_type=heads
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250602151853.1942521-1-daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Donghoon Yu <hoony.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hosung Kim <hosung0.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Youngmin Nam <youngmin.nam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Changes in v3:
- Rebased on top of Daniel's timer modularization prep series [3] and
krzk/for-next commit a15edf91668b ("Merge branch 'next/dt64' into
for-next")
- Added owner references to Exynos MCT clocksource and clockevent objects.
- Dropped #ifdef MODULE conditional section in favor of just using
module_platform_driver() which will properly handle setting up the
of_device_id table based on if the driver is built-in or a module.
- Update commit message for patch 2 based on John's feedback.
- Dropped DT change from v2 as it was picked up by Krzysztof for CPU Idle.
Changes in v2:
- Re-worked patch v1 5 based on Rob Herring's review to use the compatible
data for retrieving the mct_init function pointer.
- Updated the Kconfig logic to disallow building the Exynos MCT driver as
a module for ARM32 configurations based on Krzysztof Kozlowski's findings.
- Added comments and clarified commit messages in patches 1 and 2 based on
reviews from John Stultz and Youngmin Nam.
- Fixed an issue found during testing that resulted in the device getting
stuck on boot. This is included in v2 as patch 5.
- Collected *-by tags
- Rebased to the latest linux-next/master.
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Donghoon Yu (1):
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Add module support
Hosung Kim (1):
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Set local timer interrupts as percpu
Will McVicker (4):
of/irq: Export of_irq_count for modules
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Don't register as a sched_clock on
arm64
clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Fix uninitialized irq name warning
arm64: exynos: Drop select CLKSRC_EXYNOS_MCT
arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 -
drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 3 +-
drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/of/irq.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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