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Message-ID: <20150617123816.GB12295@odux.rfo.atmel.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:38:16 +0200
From: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
CC: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
<nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: change function behavior for per pin
muxing controllers
Hi Stephen,
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:58:05AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 09:04 AM, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> >When having a controller which allows per pin muxing, declaring with
> >which groups a function can be used is a useless constraint since groups
> >are something virtual.
>
> This isn't true.
>
> Irrespective of whether a particular piece of pinmux HW can control the mux
> function for each pin individually, or only in groups, it's quite likely
> that each function can only be selected onto a subset of those pins or
> groups. Requiring the pinctrl driver to inform the core which set of
> pins/groups particular functions can be selected onto seems quite
> reasonable.
>
> In my opinion at least, for HW that can select the mux function at the
> per-pin level, the only sensible set of groups is one group per pin with
> each group containing a single pin. Any other use of groups is a
> SW/user-level construct, and is something unrelated to why the pinctrl
> subsystem supports groups. If we want to represent those groups in pinctrl,
> there should be two separate sets of groups; one to represent the actual HW
> capabilities, and one to represent the SW/user-level convenience
> abstractions.
Groups that I would like to use are not something related to the user or
software. It's an hardware reality but they would be more flexibles.
Usually the muxing is done by selecting a function (which seems to be
device related: usart, spi, etc.), then you select on which pins you
want this function.
In my case, I can't select a function only by choosing a mux. It is a
combination of the mux and the pin on which it is applied. So my
functions will be GPIO, A, B, C, etc. If I use function A on pin 12, I
will have my i2c clock signal but I can have this signal on pin 58 if I
use function C. Do you understand what I mean? It's not very easy to
explain... So here is a real example:
--------------------------------------------------
| | pio peripheral |
--------------------------------------------------
| signal | dir | func | signal | dir | ioset |
--------------------------------------------------
| PA8 | I/O | A | SDMMC0_DAT6 | I/O | 1 |
| | | B | QSPI1_IO1 | I/O | 1 |
| | | D | TCLK5 | I | 1 |
| | | E | FLEXCOM2_IO2 | I/O | 1 |
| | | F | NWE/NANDWE | O | 2 |
--------------------------------------------------
| PD28 | I/O | A | SPI1_NPCS0 | I/O | 3 |
| | | B | TDI | I/O | 3 |
| | | C | FLEXCOM2_IO2 | I | 2 |
--------------------------------------------------
You are right that having a group per pin is a solution.
If I follow your proposal (tell me if I'm wrong):
- I will have 128 groups since I have 128 pins.
- I will have functions GPIO, A, B, C, D, E, F.
- I have to give the groups which can achieve a function so I will have
128 groups for each function. It means 128 x 7 = 896 groups.
Does it seems to be something reasonable and intelligible? From my point
of view no. And what about the sysfs readability?
With my current implementation, I have something quite understandable
for the user if he needs to check the pinmuxing:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/ahb\:apb\:pinctrl@...38000/pinmux-pins
pin 17 (PA17): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED)
pin 18 (PA18): b0000000.sdio-host (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function E group sdmmc1_0
pin 19 (PA19): b0000000.sdio-host (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function E group sdmmc1_0
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/pinctrl-maps
Pinctrl maps:
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type MUX_GROUP (2)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
group sdmmc1_0
function E
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type CONFIGS_PIN (3)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
pin PA28
config 00010003
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type CONFIGS_PIN (3)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
pin PA18
config 00010003
Doing as you propose, I assume the result should be:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/ahb\:apb\:pinctrl@...38000/pinmux-pins
pin 17 (PA17): (MUX UNCLAIMED) (GPIO UNCLAIMED)
pin 18 (PA18): b0000000.sdio-host (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function E group PA18
pin 19 (PA19): b0000000.sdio-host (GPIO UNCLAIMED) function E group PA19
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/pinctrl-maps
Pinctrl maps:
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type MUX_GROUP (2)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
group PA28
function E
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type CONFIGS_PIN (3)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
pin PA28
config 00010003
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type MUX_GROUP (2)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
group PA18
function E
device b0000000.sdio-host
state default
type CONFIGS_PIN (3)
controlling device ahb:apb:pinctrl@...38000
pin PA18
config 00010003
I think it is more difficult to understand what is done here.
I have sent patches months ago trying to improve things by having
something more flexible. I don't think I introduce too big changes.
The only answers I got were from people thinking that pinctrl framework
conception is not good to fit all kind of controllers. I re-sent the
patch series to gain more expose and have no answer...
I wanted to use as much as possible the generic stuff we have in order
to not add a new "custom" implementation. If it is such a big deal to
do these changes because you (or other people) think that we can use
it as is to describe our pinmux/pinconf configuration then I can
switch to a custom implementation too and not use the pinconf generic
dt_node_to_map. I think this solution is not encouraged by Linus who
prefers to cling the generic infrastructure, isn'it? This is exactly
why I took this approach.
FYI: some context about these patches:
The RFC I send long time ago:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-gpio/msg05198.html
My second attempt:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.gpio/7767
It is not the first time, there are discussions about it. Sascha sent a
patch which fits part of my needs:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-January/318452.html
And it seems some controllers use this approach:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-January/318452.html
Regards
Ludovic
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