Re: [Patch v2 1/2] gpio: add GPIO hogging mechanism

Benoit Parrot
2014-12-02T00:22:55Z

Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com> wrote on Fri [2014-Nov-28 16:30:01 +0900]:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Benoit Parrot <bparrot@ti.com> wrote:
> > Based on Boris Brezillion's work this is a reworked patch
> > of his initial GPIO hogging mechanism.
> > This patch provides a way to initally configure specific GPIO
> > when the gpio controller is probed.
> >
> > The actual DT scanning to collect the GPIO specific data is performed
> > as part of the gpiochip_add().
> >
> > The purpose of this is to allows specific GPIOs to be configured
> > without any driver specific code.
> > This particularly useful because board design are getting
> > increasingly complex and given SoC pins can now have upward
> > of 10 mux values a lot of connections are now dependent on
> > external IO muxes to switch various modes and combination.
> >
> > Specific drivers should not necessarily need to be aware of
> > what accounts to a specific board implementation. This board level
> > "description" should be best kept as part of the dts file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benoit Parrot <bparrot@ti.com>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > * Refactor the gpio-hog mechanism as private functions meant to
> > be to invoked from of_gpiochip_add().
> >
> > drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 188 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
> > index 604dbe6..3caed76 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
> > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> > #include <linux/of_gpio.h>
> > #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > +#include <linux/gpio/machine.h>
> >
> > #include "gpiolib.h"
> >
> > @@ -111,6 +112,184 @@ int of_get_named_gpio_flags(struct device_node *np, const char *list_name,
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_named_gpio_flags);
> >
> > /**
> > + * of_get_gpio_hog() - Get a GPIO hog descriptor, names and flags for GPIO API
> > + * @np: device node to get GPIO from
> > + * @name: GPIO line name
> > + * @flags: a flags pointer to fill in
> > + *
> > + * Returns GPIO descriptor to use with Linux GPIO API, or one of the errno
> > + * value on the error condition.
> > + */
> > +
> > +static struct gpio_desc *of_get_gpio_hog(struct device_node *np,
> > + const char **name,
> > + enum gpio_lookup_flags *lflags,
> > + enum gpiod_flags *dflags)
> > +{
> > + struct device_node *chip_np;
> > + enum of_gpio_flags xlate_flags;
> > + struct gpio_desc *desc;
> > + struct gg_data gg_data = {
> > + .flags = &xlate_flags,
> > + .out_gpio = NULL,
> > + };
> > + u32 tmp;
> > + int i, in, outlo, outhi;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + if (!np)
> > + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>
> This function is being called from a perfectly mastered context in
> this file, so maybe we can avoid this check.

You are correct, I will change this.
>
> > +
> > + chip_np = np->parent;
> > + if (!chip_np) {
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (!lflags || !dflags) {
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
>
> Same for this one.
Agreed.
>
> > +
> > + *lflags = 0;
> > + *dflags = 0;
> > + in = 0;
> > + outlo = 0;
> > + outhi = 0;
> > +
> > + ret = of_property_read_u32(chip_np, "#gpio-cells", &tmp);
> > + if (ret) {
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(ret);
> > + goto out;
>
> Please use "return ERR_PTR(ret);" directly, since you do absolutely no
> cleanup in out:. Same remark everywhere it applies.

Agreed.

>
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (tmp > MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS) {
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > +
> > + gg_data.gpiospec.args_count = tmp;
> > + gg_data.gpiospec.np = chip_np;
> > + for (i = 0; i < tmp; i++) {
> > + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "gpios",
> > + &gg_data.gpiospec.args[i]);
> > + if (ret) {
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(ret);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + gpiochip_find(&gg_data, of_gpiochip_find_and_xlate);
>
> This seems to work but only supports one GPIO per hog node. It would
> be nice to be able to specify several GPIOs to which the same settings
> need to be applied.

This is on purpose following Linus Walleij's comment.

>
> > + if (!gg_data.out_gpio) {
> > + if (np->parent == np)
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> > + else
> > + desc = ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> > + goto out;
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (xlate_flags & OF_GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)
> > + *lflags |= GPIOF_ACTIVE_LOW;
> > +
> > + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "input")) {
> > + *dflags |= GPIOD_IN;
> > + in = 1;
> > + }
> > + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "output-low")) {
> > + *dflags |= GPIOD_OUT_LOW;
> > + outlo = 1;
> > + }
> > + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "output-high")) {
> > + *dflags |= GPIOD_OUT_HIGH;
> > + outhi = 1;
> > + }
>
> I thought we agreed that this should be a "direction =
> input|output-low|output-high" property?

Yes, miss that my bad.
I'll change it, so it will only look for a single "direction" node, and hopefully simplify this mess.

>
> > + if ((in + outlo + outhi) > 1) {
> > + pr_warn("%s: GPIO %s: more than one direction/value selected, assuming: %s.\n",
> > + __func__, np->name,
> > + (outhi)?"output-high":(outlo)?"output-low":"input");
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "open-drain-line"))
> > + *lflags |= GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN;
> > + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "open-source-line"))
> > + *lflags |= GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE;
>
> These properties are not documented in your DT bindings.

Yeah I'll remove those as they might as well be covered under the "xlate_flags" instead
similar to GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW or whenever it gets propagated.

>
> > + if (name && of_property_read_string(np, "line-name", name))
> > + *name = np->name;
> > +
> > + desc = gg_data.out_gpio;
> > +
> > +out:
> > + return desc;
> > +}
> > +
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * do_gpio_hog - Given node is a GPIO hog configuration, handle it
> > + * @np: device node to get GPIO from
> > + *
> > + * This is only used by of_gpiochip_add to request/set GPIO initial
> > + * configuration.
> > + */
> > +static int do_gpio_hog(struct device_node *np)
> > +{
> > + struct gpio_desc *desc = NULL;
> > + int err;
> > + const char *name;
> > + enum gpio_lookup_flags lflags;
> > + enum gpiod_flags dflags;
> > +
> > + desc = of_get_gpio_hog(np, &name, &lflags, &dflags);
> > + if (!desc)
> > + return -ENOTSUPP;
> > + else if (IS_ERR(desc))
> > + return PTR_ERR(desc);
> > +
> > + err = gpiod_request(desc, name);
>
> Using this function means that a GPIO chip module cannot be unloaded
> if it uses GPIO hogs. Is it the intended behavior? If not, please use
> gpiochip_request_own_desc() instead, and make sure to call
> gpiochip_free_own_desc() for each hog when the driver is unloaded.

So I guess we could add a undo_gpio_hog() function and hook it up under of_gpiochip_remove().
Now instead of maintaining a seperate structure just to keep track of hogged descriptor,
would it be acceptable to add a new "gpio_desc.flags" value in gpiolib.h says:

#define FLAG_GPIO_IS_HOGGED 10

And key on that at removal time instead of creating a list and having to maintain that?

>
> > + if (err < 0)
> > + return err;
> > +
> > + if (lflags & GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW)
> > + set_bit(FLAG_ACTIVE_LOW, &desc->flags);
> > + if (lflags & GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN)
> > + set_bit(FLAG_OPEN_DRAIN, &desc->flags);
> > + if (lflags & GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE)
> > + set_bit(FLAG_OPEN_SOURCE, &desc->flags);
> > +
> > + /* No particular flag request, not really hogging then... */
> > + if (!(dflags & GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_DIR_SET)) {
> > + pr_warn("%s: GPIO %s: no hogging direction specified, bailing out\n",
> > + __func__, name);
> > + err = -EINVAL;
> > + goto free_gpio;
> > + }
> > +
> > + /* Process flags */
> > + if (dflags & GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_DIR_OUT)
> > + err = gpiod_direction_output(desc,
> > + dflags & GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_DIR_VAL);
> > + else
> > + err = gpiod_direction_input(desc);
> > +
> > + if (err < 0) {
> > + pr_warn("%s: GPIO %s setting direction/value failed\n",
> > + __func__, name);
> > + goto free_gpio;
> > + }
>
> I would suggest to factorize this code that is similar to the one
> found in __gpiod_get_index(). Do all the DT parsing in a function that
> just returns a descriptor and the

I would tend to agree.
But as Linus suggested I was trying to contain the changes to gpiolib_of.c only.
>
> > +
> > + pr_debug("%s: gpio-hog: GPIO:%d (%s) as %s%s\n", __func__,
> > + desc_to_gpio(desc), name,
> > + (dflags&GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_DIR_OUT) ? "output" : "input",
> > + (dflags&GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_DIR_OUT) ?
> > + (dflags&GPIOD_FLAGS_BIT_DIR_VAL) ? "/high" : "/low":"");
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > +free_gpio:
> > + gpiod_put(desc);
> > + return err;
> > +}
>
> I think most of this function should be moved into gpiolib.c. Add a
> function there that takes the descriptor, lflags and dflags and that
> sets the GPIO up, possibly adding it to a list of hogs so we can unset
> the hogs when unloading the module. That way we have a hogging
> mechanism that is not dependent on device tree and can be used by
> other GPIO binders, such as ACPI.
>

That's fine with as long as everyone agrees.

> There is still some work needed but it looks much better than the
> first version. Please make sure to also keep Maxime, Pantelis and Jiri
> in the loop since they expressed interest in your first version.

Regards,
Benoit