[PATCH v1 1/7] clocksource/drivers/scx200: Add module owner

William McVicker willmcvicker at google.com
Tue Jun 3 10:48:44 PDT 2025


On 06/02/2025, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker at google.com>

Thanks,
Will

> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/scx200_hrt.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/scx200_hrt.c b/drivers/clocksource/scx200_hrt.c
> index c3536fffbe9a..5a99801a1657 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/scx200_hrt.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/scx200_hrt.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static struct clocksource cs_hrt = {
>  	.mask		= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
>  	.flags		= CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
>  	/* mult, shift are set based on mhz27 flag */
> +	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
>  };
>  
>  static int __init init_hrt_clocksource(void)
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 



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