[PATCH v5 0/2] A proposal to add a gpio-locked fixed clock driver.

From: Vyacheslav Yurkov via B4 Relay

Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 06:05:05 EST


A gpio-locked fixed clock represents an input clock, which state is
determined by a GPIO signal. It's similar to a gated-fixed-clock, but
GPIO direction is inverted. Consumers can use the output clock to wait
until all input clocks are locked and only then initialize / access
dependent peripherals.

The usage example for such a driver is when peripherals depend on PLLs in
a FPGA, which can't be directly accessed by the CPU, but need a GPIO pin
to check whether clock is actually usable. E.g. some of the IPs might not
have a proper split between registers and IP core, which means that if an
external clock and/or PLL lock is missing and one tries to access the
registers, the response never comes, thus the CPU stalls.

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Yurkov <uvv.mail@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Yurkov <V.Yurkov.EXT@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v5:
- Use existing DT binding with an additional property instead of adding
a new one
- The driver is simplified in a way that it represents the actual HW
desgin without additional unrelated constructs
- Aggregation is removed, now it's one clock input, one clock output
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260726-feature-clock-guard-v4-0-e9c8b372b71c@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v4:
- Removed driver specifics from DT binding
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260603-feature-clock-guard-v3-0-01cca0aa04a5@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v3:
- Removed unnecessary dt bindings
- Improved HW description and commit messages
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260510-feature-clock-guard-v2-0-6c25458d5340@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- Renamed to clk-gpio-locked to express intent.
- Provide enable() / is_enabled() operations so the clock behaves as
expected
- Fixed DTS errors / warnings
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260318-feature-clock-guard-v1-0-6137cb4084b7@xxxxxxxxxx

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Vyacheslav Yurkov (2):
dt-bindings: clock: gpio-gate-clock: Add a new compatible string
clk: Add gpio-locked fixed clock driver

.../devicetree/bindings/clock/gpio-gate-clock.yaml | 32 +++-
drivers/clk/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/clk/clk-gpio-locked.c | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 704340f1cd0dcef829eb62f5b48ae95a2ce17bdf
change-id: 20260318-feature-clock-guard-f20a2c35b965

Best regards,
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Vyacheslav Yurkov <V.Yurkov.EXT@xxxxxxxxxx>