Re: [RFC] ACPI: Add GPIO-signaled event simulator.

Mika Westerberg
2014-08-18T09:41:13Z

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:28:09AM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> On 12.08.2014 12:01, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 02:36:02PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Tomasz Nowicki
> >><tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>>GPIO signaled events is quite new thing in Linux kernel.
> >>>AFAIK, there are not many board which can take advantage of it.
> >>>However, GPIO events are very useful feature during work on ACPI
> >>>subsystems.
> >>
> >>Overall this seems like a pretty nice debug feature.
> >>
> >>>This commit emulates GPIO h/w behaviour and consists on read/write
> >>>operation to debugfs file. GPIO device instance is still required in DSDT
> >>>table along with _AEI resources and event methods.
> >>>
> >>>Reading from file provides pin to GPIO device map e.g. :
> >>>$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/gpio_event
> >>>GPIO device name: /__SB.GPI0
> >>>Available GPIO pin map:
> >>>/__SB.GPI0 <-> pin 0x100
> >>>
> >>>Based on that, user can trigger method corresponding to device pin number:
> >>>$ echo "/__SB.GPI0 0x100" > /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/gpio_event
> >>
> >>I need input from Rafael and Mika as to whether this is a
> >>good interface.
> >
> >Maybe it would make sense to move this into drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c
> >and hide it behind some Kconfig entry?
> >
> >Since you already need to have DSDT/SSDT table for this to provide the
> >GPIO device, _AEI and the event methods, I would rather make it so that
> >acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupt() will add debugfs entry for each GPIO
> >it finds in _AEI, like:
> >
> >/sys/kernel/debug/acpi/events/<GPIO DEVICE>/n
> >
> >And you could trigger it by writing '1' or something like that to that
> >file.
> >
>
> Thanks for comments. The idea of available gpio events list under
> /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/events/<GPIO DEVICE>/n is worth adding.
>
> However, acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupt() would be called if we would have
> real GPIO H/W and related driver. Initial idea of this patch was to avoid
> that restriction. So there are two cases:
> 1. If we have GPIO chip, it is already described in DSDT/SSDT and using this
> patch, user could trigger events by software too.

Yes, this is what I would be interested in.

> 2. None of GPIO chip, so we need to add GPIO/_AEI etc. descrition to
> DSDT/SSDT and pretend we have GPIO chip on board.

OK.