[PATCH v3 0/4] rtc: pcf85063: Update interrupt support
From: A. Sverdlin
Date: Fri Aug 28 2026 - 12:50:16 EST
From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Add hardware-backed UIE (1 Hz update interrupt) support to the pcf85063
driver. The PCF85063A/RV8263 have no dedicated update-interrupt source,
so chrony and similar tools that rely on RTC_UIE_ON fall back to the
kernel's software polling emulation. This series repurposes the chip's
countdown timer (TCF = 1 Hz, T = 1) to generate a periodic interrupt on
the INT pin, serving UIE entirely in hardware.
Patches 2-3 are preparatory: they fix an AIE race in the interrupt
handler and a lost-alarm-flag race in the clkout helpers.
Patch 1 fixes a pre-existing use-after-free in the clkout clock provider
on unbind, found during review by Sashiko.
Changelog:
v3:
- split into 3 preparatory patches and the final new feature patch
- replaced racy regmap_write() with regmap_update_bits() in IRQ handler
- the timer flag (TF) is write-0-to-clear, so every read-modify-write of
CTRL2 preserves it by writing it back as 1
v2:
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260820112437.3715237-1-alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Alexander Sverdlin (4):
rtc: pcf85063: use devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider() for clkout
rtc: pcf85063: do not clear AIE in the interrupt handler
rtc: pcf85063: preserve the alarm flag in clkout register updates
rtc: pcf85063: add 1 Hz update interrupt (UIE) support
drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf85063.c | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 118 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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