[PATCH v2 0/2] A proposal to add a gpio-locked fixed clock driver.

From: Vyacheslav Yurkov via B4 Relay

Date: Sun May 10 2026 - 14:07:07 EST


A gpio-locked fixed clock aggregates one or more input clocks and/or one
or more GPIOs. 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 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):
clk: Add gpio-locked clock driver
dt-bindings: Add GPIO locked fixed clock

.../bindings/clock/gpio-locked-fixed-clock.yaml | 77 ++++++
drivers/clk/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/clk/clk-gpio-locked.c | 306 +++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 384 insertions(+)
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base-commit: 917719c412c48687d4a176965d1fa35320ec457c
change-id: 20260318-feature-clock-guard-f20a2c35b965

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