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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:44:14 +0200
From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To: walter.chang@...iatek.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
"Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
Cc: wsd_upstream@...iatek.com, stanley.chu@...iatek.com,
Chun-hung.Wu@...iatek.com, Freddy.Hsin@...iatek.com,
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linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Support timer drivers as loadable modules
As I already said, I'm not very comfortable with these changes and the
potential impact it can have on the overall time framework.
I will pick the series if Thomas gives its Acked-by
Thanks
On 17/05/2023 04:25, walter.chang@...iatek.com wrote:
> From: Walter Chang <walter.chang@...iatek.com>
>
> This set of patches aims to make SoC related timer drivers, such as
> timer-mediatek.c become loadable modules for the Generic Kernel Image
> (GKI).
>
> This driver registers an always-on timer as tick_broadcast_device on
> MediaTek SoCs. If the system does not load this module at startup,
> system will also boot normally by using built-in `bc_hrtimer` instead.
> Besides, the previous experiment [1] indicates that the SYST/GPT, in
> combination with a loadable module, is fully operational.
>
> The first three patches export functions and remove __init markings to
> support loadable timer modules.
>
> The fourth patch makes timer-mediatek.c become loadable module for GKI.
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/32777456f8e0f98e4cd5b950f421d21f71b149cf.camel@mediatek.com/#t
>
> [v5]
> - Add Signed-off-by tags in all patches
> - Add Acked-by tags and Reviewed-by tags
>
> [v4]
> - Fix review comments pointed by Angelo
>
> [v3]
> - Rebase on linux-next
>
> [v2]
> - Convert timer-mediatek.c driver to loadable module
>
> Chun-Hung Wu (4):
> time/sched_clock: Export sched_clock_register()
> clocksource/drivers/mmio: Export clocksource_mmio_init()
> clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Remove __init markings
> clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Make timer-mediatek become
> loadable module
>
> drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/clocksource/mmio.c | 8 ++++---
> drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/clocksource/timer-of.c | 23 +++++++++----------
> drivers/clocksource/timer-of.h | 6 ++---
> kernel/time/sched_clock.c | 4 ++--
> 6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
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