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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] clocksource: Add standalone MMIO ARM arch timer driver
Date: Thu,  7 Aug 2025 17:02:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250807160243.1970533-1-maz@kernel.org> (raw)

For the past 10 years, both Mark and I have been lamenting about the
sorry state of the badly named "arch_timer" driver, and about the way
the MMIO part is intricately weaved into the system-register part.

The time has finally come to have a stab at it.

This small series simply creates a new timer driver for the MMIO arch
timer, and only that. It is an actual driver, and not some kludge that
has to run super early (that's what the per-CPU timers are for). This
allows, in turn, a pretty large cleanup of the per-CPU driver, though
there is more to come -- one thing at a time.

As an added bonus, we get a clocksource, which the original code
didn't provide. Just in case it might be useful. The end-result is far
more readable, and about 100 lines smaller.

Patches on top of 6.16.

Marc Zyngier (4):
  ACPI: GTDT: Generate platform devices for MMIO timers
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add standalone MMIO driver
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Switch over to standalone
    driver
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Add MMIO clocksource

 MAINTAINERS                               |   1 +
 drivers/acpi/arm64/gtdt.c                 |  29 +-
 drivers/clocksource/Makefile              |   1 +
 drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c      | 686 ++--------------------
 drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c | 439 ++++++++++++++
 include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h      |   5 -
 6 files changed, 531 insertions(+), 630 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c

-- 
2.39.2


             reply	other threads:[~2025-08-07 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-07 16:02 Marc Zyngier [this message]
2025-08-07 16:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: GTDT: Generate platform devices for MMIO timers Marc Zyngier
2025-10-30  8:10   ` Pavan Kondeti
2025-10-30 10:33     ` Marc Zyngier
2025-08-07 16:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add standalone MMIO driver Marc Zyngier
2025-08-14 10:13   ` Steven Price
2025-08-14 10:49     ` Marc Zyngier
2025-08-14 11:14       ` Marc Zyngier
2025-08-14 12:23         ` Steven Price
2025-08-14 12:42           ` Marc Zyngier
2025-08-14 14:02       ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-08-07 16:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Switch over to standalone driver Marc Zyngier
2025-08-07 16:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Add MMIO clocksource Marc Zyngier
2025-08-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] clocksource: Add standalone MMIO ARM arch timer driver Sudeep Holla
2025-08-13 11:35   ` Alexandru Elisei
2025-08-13 11:49     ` Marc Zyngier
2025-08-13 12:03       ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-08-13 12:32     ` Sudeep Holla

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