Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:10:47 +0100
From:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
CC:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] pinctrl: mvebu: restructure resource allocation

On 02/13/14 17:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:41:02 +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>>> Thanks again for working on this! I have boot tested this successfully
>>> on an Armada XP platform, and it seems to behave normally, the debugfs
>>> pinctrl contents make sense.
>>
>> I guess this is a Tested-by ?
>
> Yes. My tests were admittedly fairly light, but I believe good enough :)

Ok.

>>> I am not sure what you mean here in terms of the ordering for the
>>> patches. I'm attaching several patches, and the first three patches
>>> adapt your patch series to also cover 375 and 38x, assuming the pinctrl
>>> support for 375 and 38x is merged before your patch series.
>>
>> Right. If 375/38x pinctrl goes in first (what I expect), I'd have to add
>> corresponding patches. You already sent them, I'll pick them up.
>
> Ok, cool. Hopefully we can sort out the merging of those two patch
> series for 3.15 with Linus Walleij.

That is the plan - or rather get his Acked-by as we are lucky to have
pinctrl/mvebu and touching nothing else.

>>> I must say I dislike quite a bit this unnamed mpp controls mechanism.
>>> Why isn't the name statically defined in the source code by the
>>> MPP_MODE macro, which already takes as first argument the pin number?
>>
>> Honestly, the unnamed mpp control thing is a bit odd. But if you tell
>> me how to create ~60 statically defined one pin groups out of a
>> single-line macro, we can change that easily.
>>
>> Back when that unnamed mpp control thing was invented, I must have been
>> to lazy to write e.g.
>>
>> MPP_FUNC_CTRL(0, 0, "mpp0", armada_xp_mpp_ctrl),
>> MPP_FUNC_CTRL(1, 1, "mpp1", armada_xp_mpp_ctrl),
>> MPP_FUNC_CTRL(2, 2, "mpp2", armada_xp_mpp_ctrl),
>> ...
>> MPP_FUNC_CTRL(66, 66, "mpp66", armada_xp_mpp_ctrl),
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> MPP_FUNC_CTRL(0, 66, NULL, armada_xp_mpp_ctrl),
>>
>> and generate the 66 names dynamically.
>
> Right. But what I meant is that we already have a place where we have
> one macro call for each pin: when defining the MPP modes. So I was
> thinking of simplifying the whole stuff by "merging" the notion of MPP
> control with the notion of MPP mode. This way, when you do:
>
> 	MPP_MODE(0,
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...),
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...)),
> 	MPP_MODE(1,
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...),
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...)),
> 	MPP_MODE(2,
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...),
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...)),
> [...]
> 	MPP_MODE(65,
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...),
> 		   MPP_FUNCTION(...)),
>
> You can take this opportunity to generate:
>
> 	{ "mpp0", ... },
> 	{ "mpp1", ... },
> 	{ "mpp2", ... },
> 	...
> 	{ "mpp65", ... },

Ah, ok, I see. Yes that should be doable. We should definitely consider
this for later, i.e. leave it now as is and rework later.

>>> This is definitely good, but I'm wondering why the core cannot provide
>>> helper functions for the generic case where we have 4 bits per pin in
>>> contiguous registers. This would avoid duplicating the helper function
>>> six times (you have four in your patch series, and we'll need two more
>>> for A375 and A38x).
>>
>> I thought about it too, but we would need a soc specific callback
>> anyway as you'll have to pass the base address somehow (and that is now
>> known by soc specific stub only). My quick rule of thumb was that the
>> amount of code replication would be almost the same.
>
> In pinctrl-mvebu.h, we could have:
>
> static inline int default_mpp_ctrl_get(void __iomem *base, unsigned int pid, unsigned long *config)
> {
>          unsigned off = (pid / MVEBU_MPPS_PER_REG) * MVEBU_MPP_BITS;
>          unsigned shift = (pid % MVEBU_MPPS_PER_REG) * MVEBU_MPP_BITS;
>
>          *config = (readl(base + off) >> shift) & MVEBU_MPP_MASK;
>
>          return 0;
> }
>
> static inline int default_mpp_ctrl_set(void __iomem *base, unsigned int pid, unsigned long config)
> {
>          unsigned off = (pid / MVEBU_MPPS_PER_REG) * MVEBU_MPP_BITS;
>          unsigned shift = (pid % MVEBU_MPPS_PER_REG) * MVEBU_MPP_BITS;
>          unsigned long reg;
>
>          reg = readl(base + off) & ~(MVEBU_MPP_MASK << shift);
>          writel(reg | (config << shift), base + off);
>
>          return 0;
> }
>
> which would slightly reduce the per-SoC code to:
>
> static int armada_370_mpp_ctrl_get(unsigned pid, unsigned long *config)
> {
> 	return default_mpp_ctrl_get(mpp_base, pid, config);
> }
>
> static int armada_370_mpp_ctrl_set(unsigned pid, unsigned long config)
> {
> 	return default_mpp_ctrl_set(mpp_base, pid, config);
> }
>
> but we admittedly cannot completely remove the per-SoC function, since
> the mpp_base is now only known to each per-SoC driver.

I guess I'll squash the above in for v4.. doesn't look that bad.

Sebastian

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