Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Add clocksource support

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 12/16/25 21:03, Markus Schneider-Pargmann (TI.com) wrote:
> Add support for using the TI Dual-Mode Timer as a clocksource. The
> driver automatically picks the first timer that is marked as always-on
> on with the "ti,timer-alwon" property to be the clocksource.
>
> The timer can then be used for CPU independent time keeping.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Schneider-Pargmann (TI.com) <msp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

[ ... ]

> +static int omap_dm_timer_setup_clocksource(struct dmtimer *timer)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = &timer->pdev->dev;
> +	struct dmtimer_clocksource *clksrc;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	__omap_dm_timer_init_regs(timer);
> +
> +	timer->reserved = 1;
> +
> +	clksrc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*clksrc), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!clksrc)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

[ ... ]

> +	clksrc->timer = timer;
> +	timer->clksrc = clksrc;

This is a cyclic dependency which is not desired in general.

I suggest to have struct dmtimer_clocksource containing struct dmtimer timer

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