Query on direction_output fn of PL061 GPIO driver.

[baruch@tkos.co.il (Baruch Siach)]

Hi Russel,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:57:46PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:53:21PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 05:10:41PM +0530, Viresh KUMAR wrote:
> > > On 4/13/2010 5:02 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > >> > In current implementation, firstly value of GPIO pin is modified and then its
> > > >> > direction is set to OUT. In our SOCs (ST SPEAr), this implementation doesn't
> > > >> > work correctly (we have pl061 in our soc). Suppose previously pin is in IN mode,
> > > >> > now writing val to it doesn't change anything because it is in IN mode and we
> > > >> > can write to a pin only when it is in OUT mode. Now if its direction is
> > > >> > changed to OUT then also its value will remain same and will not be changed to
> > > >> > what we wanted.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Am i missing something?
> > > > Probably not. This is a design bug in the PL061 hardware. Changing the 
> > > > direction before the value makes the output value of the GPIO undefined 
> > > > (apparently 0) for a short period of time. This is bad news for some 
> > > > applications.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > thanks for your prompt reply.
> > > Ok. so this may cause problem on the board. 
> > > Anyway if this is the issue, then writing value to val register has no effects.
> > > 
> > > > Anyway, the right thing to do here is to reverse do just that, since the 
> > > > current way of doing things is broken.
> > > 
> > > I didn't get it completely. If i got it correctly, maybe myself or you can just
> > > send a patch to reverse this, i.e. writing val and setting direction.
> > > Am i correct?
> > 
> > Correct. Please send a patch, and I'll ack it after review. Make sure to test 
> > the patch before sending. I don't have access to this hardware anymore.  
> > Estimating the length of the jitter on your platform (when switching direction 
> > and value) would be even better. Please explain the issue and the jitter 
> > problem in your commit log.
> 
> I've had this patch floating around for some time to resolve this issue;
> though I wasn't sure if it was just a bug in the Realview board I had.
> 
> GPIO: Fix PL061 GPIO direction_output to set output level
> 
> PL061 hardware does not allow setting the output level prior to
> changing the direction to output; we have to set the level after
> changing the direction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/pl061.c b/drivers/gpio/pl061.c
> index aa8e7cb..cac9c0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/pl061.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/pl061.c
> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static int pl061_direction_output(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned offset,
>  	gpiodir = readb(chip->base + GPIODIR);
>  	gpiodir |= 1 << offset;
>  	writeb(gpiodir, chip->base + GPIODIR);
> +	writeb(!!value << offset, chip->base + (1 << (offset + 2)));

IMO we should add a comment here explaining this strange duplicated writeb() 
call. A copy of the commit log above should be enough, I guess.

baruch

>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chip->lock, flags);
>  
>  	return 0;

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