[PATCH v1 5/7] clocksource/drivers/stm: Add module owner

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Mon Jun 2 08:18:49 PDT 2025


The conversion to modules requires a correct handling of the module
refcount in order to prevent to unload it if it is in use. That is
especially true with the clockevents where there is no function to
unregister them.

The core time framework correctly handles the module refcount with the
different clocksource and clockevents if the module owner is set.

Add the module owner to make sure the core framework will prevent
stupid things happening when the driver will be converted into a
module.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/clocksource/timer-nxp-stm.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-nxp-stm.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-nxp-stm.c
index d7ccf9001729..bbc40623728f 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-nxp-stm.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-nxp-stm.c
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static int __init nxp_stm_clocksource_init(struct device *dev, struct stm_timer
 	stm_timer->cs.resume = nxp_stm_clocksource_resume;
 	stm_timer->cs.mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32);
 	stm_timer->cs.flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS;
+	stm_timer->cs.owner = THIS_MODULE;
 
 	ret = clocksource_register_hz(&stm_timer->cs, stm_timer->rate);
 	if (ret)
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ static int __init nxp_stm_clockevent_per_cpu_init(struct device *dev, struct stm
 	stm_timer->ced.cpumask = cpumask_of(cpu);
 	stm_timer->ced.rating = 460;
 	stm_timer->ced.irq = irq;
+	stm_timer->ced.owner = THIS_MODULE;
 
 	per_cpu(stm_timers, cpu) = stm_timer;
 
-- 
2.43.0




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