[PATCH v7 0/5] pinctrl: mediatek: Enable module build support
From: Justin Yeh <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-23 03:58:41
Also in:
linux-gpio, linux-mediatek, lkml
This series lets the MediaTek pinctrl drivers be built as loadable
kernel modules. This is required for Android GKI + vendor_dlkm
deployments, where vendor-specific drivers must be kept separate from
the GKI vmlinux and loaded as modules from the vendor partition.
Enabling the individual SoC drivers as modules is a single logical step,
but it has a few prerequisites, so the series is:
1. Fix a pre-existing GPIO chip lifecycle bug. The gpio_chip lives in
device-managed memory but is registered with the non-managed
gpiochip_add_data(). While the drivers were built-in only this was
harmless, but once they can be unbound/rmmod'd, devm frees the
backing memory while the chip is still registered (use-after-free).
Switch to devm_gpiochip_add_data() in the shared probe/init paths.
2. Fix a pre-existing EINT resource leak on unbind. mtk_eint_do_init()
creates an IRQ domain, an interrupt mapping per EINT line and a
chained handler on the parent interrupt, none of which were ever
released. Once the drivers can be unbound/rmmod'd this leaves a
dangling IRQ domain, mappings whose chip data points at freed
memory, and a chained handler still firing into that freed data.
Tear them down with a device-managed action, matching the devm
lifecycle used for the gpio_chip.
3. Make the shared common code modular. The SoC drivers link against
pinctrl-mtk-common.c (v1), pinctrl-moore.c and pinctrl-mtmips.c,
whose Kconfig symbols were bool and which exported nothing. Without
this, selecting a SoC driver as =m forces the common symbol to =y
and the module fails to link against the unexported entry points.
Convert PINCTRL_MTK, PINCTRL_MTK_MOORE and PINCTRL_MTK_MTMIPS to
tristate, export the entry points, and add MODULE_LICENSE()/
MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). The already-modular v2 common code
additionally needs mtk_rmw() exported, since it is called directly
by SoC drivers such as mt7623. The shared symbols are exported in
the "MTK_PINCTRL" symbol namespace (EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL()), and
each SoC driver that uses them declares MODULE_IMPORT_NS().
4. Convert the MT7986 driver to a single initcall. It registers two
platform drivers (mt7986a/mt7986b) and used to call arch_initcall()
twice. A module has only one module_init(), so two arch_initcall()s
break the module build with a redefinition of
init_module()/__inittest(). Fold both drivers into one
platform_register_drivers() call from a single initcall. No
functional change when built-in.
5. Flip every SoC driver's Kconfig from bool to tristate and add the
module metadata. This also adds the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ...)
entries that several drivers were missing, so the resulting modules
carry the modalias information udev needs to autoload them on a
matching device.
The series builds cleanly under allmodconfig on arm64 (all SoC drivers
as =m).
Changes in v7:
- patch 2/5 (free EINT resources on unbind): add synchronize_irq() in
the teardown, after detaching the chained handler and before disposing
of the domain/mappings, so any in-flight handler has finished before
the data it references is freed, as suggested by AngeloGioacchino Del
Regno. Also add the missing #include <linux/interrupt.h> that
synchronize_irq() needs. Added his Reviewed-by.
- patch 5/5 (enable module build support): add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of,
...) to the SoC drivers that were missing it. AngeloGioacchino and
Chen-Yu Tsai both pointed this out; without it the module still
builds but is not autoloaded by udev on a matching device.
Review status: patches 1/5 and 4/5 carry Chen-Yu Tsai's Reviewed-by;
patch 2/5 carries AngeloGioacchino Del Regno's Reviewed-by; patch 5/5
carries AngeloGioacchino Del Regno's Reviewed-by (from the per-driver
patches reviewed in v4, preserved across the squash). Patch 3/5 has not
been reviewed yet.
Justin Yeh (5):
pinctrl: mediatek: use devm_gpiochip_add_data() for GPIO chip
pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
pinctrl: mediatek: allow common drivers to be built as modules
pinctrl: mediatek: mt7986: register both platform drivers from a
single initcall
pinctrl: mediatek: enable module build support for all SoC drivers
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig | 70 +++++++++----------
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/mtk-eint.c | 25 ++++++-
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c | 11 +--
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt2701.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt2712.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6397.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6795.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6797.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6878.c | 2 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6893.c | 2 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7620.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7621.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7622.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7623.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7629.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt76x8.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7981.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7986.c | 21 +++---
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7988.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8127.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8135.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8167.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8173.c | 5 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8183.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8186.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8188.c | 2 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8189.c | 2 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8192.c | 2 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8195.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8196.c | 2 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8365.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8516.c | 4 ++
.../pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common-v2.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c | 22 +++---
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c | 2 +-
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-rt2880.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-rt305x.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-rt3883.c | 4 ++
39 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
base-commit: bee763d5f341b99cf472afeb508d4988f62a6ca1
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