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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:00:43 +0200
From: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
Robert Dolca <robert.dolca@...il.com>,
Robert Dolca <robert.dolca@...el.com>,
"linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
Denis CIOCCA <denis.ciocca@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IIO: Adds ACPI support for ST gyroscopes
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 04:37:39PM +0200, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Mika Westerberg
>> <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 02:04:35PM +0200, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Mika Westerberg
>> >> <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:12:16PM +0200, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>> >> >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Mika Westerberg
>> >> >> <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> >> >> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:25:05PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> >> >> >> I think we can do the same for ACPI GpioInts so that we introduce
>> >> >> >> acpi_gpio_irq_get() that translates from GpioInt to Linux IRQ
>> >> >> >> numberspace. Then we can do something like below in I2C core:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> if (client->irq <= 0) {
>> >> >> >> int irq = -ENOENT;
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> if (dev->of_node)
>> >> >> >> irq = of_irq_get(dev->of_node, 0);
>> >> >> >> else if (ACPI_COMPANION(dev))
>> >> >> >> irq = acpi_gpio_irq_get(ACPI_COMPANION(dev), 0);
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> if (irq == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>> >> >> >> return irq;
>> >> >> >> if (irq < 0)
>> >> >> >> irq = 0;
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> client->irq = irq;
>> >> >> >> }
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Now it has the drawback that the first GpioInt will not be available to
>> >> >> >> the driver anymore (as a GPIO since it is locked) but if DT already does
>> >> >> >> the same we should be fine.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Below patch should take care of this.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> One issue we noticed is that now the gpio request and set input
>> >> >> directions operations are not called anymore. Some gpio controller
>> >> >> drivers (dln2, adnp, lynx_point from quickly browsing the code) do not
>> >> >> explicitly enable the GPIO pin nor set direction to input when the
>> >> >> interrupt is enabled. Depending on hardware this may be an issue - it
>> >> >> is on dln2 for example.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Should the gpio controllers enable and set to input in irq_enable,
>> >> >> irq_bus_sync_unlock, etc.? Or should this be done in gpiolib?
>> >> >
>> >> > Good question.
>> >> >
>> >> > In general I think that it is assumed that the boot firmware configures
>> >> > the pin upfront. However, we have seen too many times that it actually
>> >> > doesn't happen or it is configured wrong.
>> >> >
>> >> > Perhaps we could do this in GPIO core, for example in
>> >> > gpiochip_irq_reqres/gpiochip_irq_map or so.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> That sounds good to me. We tested your patch with the patch below and
>> >> we can now directly use client->irq:
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
>> >> index 568aa2b..9865627 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
>> >> @@ -511,6 +511,19 @@ static const struct irq_domain_ops gpiochip_domain_ops = {
>> >> static int gpiochip_irq_reqres(struct irq_data *d)
>> >> {
>> >> struct gpio_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d);
>> >> + int ret;
>> >> +
>> >> + ret = gpiod_request(&chip->desc[d->hwirq], "IRQ");
>> >> + if (ret) {
>> >> + chip_err(chip, "unable to request %lu for IRQ\n", d->hwirq);
>> >> + return ret;
>> >> + }
>> >
>> > What if the driver has already requested the GPIO?
>> >
>>
>> Initially I implemented the above to take that into account, e.g. if
>> (test_and_set_bit(FLAG_REQUESTED, &desc->flags) ...
>>
>> But than I thought that we can't mess up with the GPIO anyway while
>> the interrupt is in use.
>
> That's right but then the above will fail also normal cases. For example
> if the driver gets the irq like:
>
> desc = devm_gpiod_get(dev, ..);
> gpiod_direction_input(desc);
> irq = gpiod_to_irq(desc);
>
> ret = request_irq(irq, ...)
>
> at this point we end up calling gpiochip_irq_reqres() which cannot
> request the GPIO again and fails.
>
Good point, let me add back that check then :)
>> One case I missed was if the user wants to read the GPIO while using
>> it as an interrupt which seems to be possible...
>
> While the GPIO is locked as IRQ it cannot be done as far as I can tell
> but you can work it around by calling free_irq() first.
>
AFAICS you can not set the direction to output but you can still read
values while the interrupt is active.
>>
>> >> +
>> >> + ret = gpiod_direction_input(&chip->desc[d->hwirq]);
>> >> + if (ret) {
>> >> + chip_err(chip, "unable to set HW IRQ %lu as input\n", d->hwirq);
>> >> + return ret;
>> >> + }
>> >>
>> >> if (gpiochip_lock_as_irq(chip, d->hwirq)) {
>> >> chip_err(chip,
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