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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-18 03:07:20 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-18 03:07:20 +0100
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parentMAINTAINERS: Remove reference to non-existing file (diff)
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Merge tag 'gpio-v5.11-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio
Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij: "This is the bulk of the GPIO changes for the v5.11 kernel cycle: Core changes: - Retired the old set-up function for GPIO IRQ chips. All chips now use the template struct gpio_irq_chip and pass that to the core to be set up alongside the gpio_chip. We can finally get rid of the old cruft. - Some refactoring and clean up of the core code. - Support edge event timestamps to be stamped using REALTIME (wall clock) timestamps. We have found solid use cases for this, so we support it. New drivers: - MStar MSC313 GPIO driver. - HiSilicon GPIO driver. Driver improvements: - The PCA953x driver now also supports the NXP PCAL9554B/C chips. - The mockup driver can now be probed from the device tree which is pretty useful for virtual prototyping of devices. - The Rcar driver now supports .get_multiple() - The MXC driver dropped some legacy and became a pure device tree client. - The Exar driver was moved over to the IDA interface for enumerating, and also switched over to using regmap for register access" * tag 'gpio-v5.11-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (87 commits) MAINTAINERS: Remove reference to non-existing file gpio: hisi: Do not require ACPI for COMPILE_TEST MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for HiSilicon GPIO driver gpio: gpio-hisi: Add HiSilicon GPIO support gpio: cs5535: Simplify the return expression of cs5535_gpio_probe() gpiolib: irq hooks: fix recursion in gpiochip_irq_unmask dt-bindings: mt7621-gpio: convert bindings to YAML format gpiolib: cdev: Flag invalid GPIOs as used gpio: put virtual gpio device into their own submenu drivers: gpio: amd8111: use SPDX-License-Identifier drivers: gpio: amd8111: prefer dev_err()/dev_info() over raw printk drivers: gpio: bt8xx: prefer dev_err()/dev_warn() over of raw printk gpio: Add TODO item for debugfs interface gpio: just plain warning when nonexisting gpio requested tools: gpio: add option to report wall-clock time to gpio-event-mon tools: gpio: add support for reporting realtime event clock to lsgpio gpiolib: cdev: allow edge event timestamps to be configured as REALTIME gpio: msc313: MStar MSC313 GPIO driver dt-bindings: gpio: Binding for MStar MSC313 GPIO controller dt-bindings: gpio: Add a binding header for the MSC313 GPIO driver ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst67
2 files changed, 54 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
index 423492d125b9..173e4c7b037d 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
@@ -440,18 +440,20 @@ For details refer to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst
Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem
==========================================
-Many kernel subsystems still handle GPIOs using the legacy integer-based
-interface. Although it is strongly encouraged to upgrade them to the safer
-descriptor-based API, the following two functions allow you to convert a GPIO
-descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace and vice-versa::
+Many kernel subsystems and drivers still handle GPIOs using the legacy
+integer-based interface. It is strongly recommended to update these to the new
+gpiod interface. For cases where both interfaces need to be used, the following
+two functions allow to convert a GPIO descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace
+and vice-versa::
int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc)
struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio)
-The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can be safely used as long as the
-GPIO descriptor has not been freed. All the same, a GPIO number passed to
-gpio_to_desc() must have been properly acquired, and usage of the returned GPIO
-descriptor is only possible after the GPIO number has been released.
+The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can safely be used as a parameter of
+the gpio\_*() functions for as long as the GPIO descriptor `desc` is not freed.
+All the same, a GPIO number passed to gpio_to_desc() must first be properly
+acquired using e.g. gpio_request_one(), and the returned GPIO descriptor is only
+considered valid until that GPIO number is released using gpio_free().
Freeing a GPIO obtained by one API with the other API is forbidden and an
unchecked error.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst
index 072a7455044e..0fb57e298b41 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ The preferred way to set up the helpers is to fill in the
struct gpio_irq_chip inside struct gpio_chip before adding the gpio_chip.
If you do this, the additional irq_chip will be set up by gpiolib at the
same time as setting up the rest of the GPIO functionality. The following
-is a typical example of a cascaded interrupt handler using gpio_irq_chip:
+is a typical example of a chained cascaded interrupt handler using
+the gpio_irq_chip:
.. code-block:: c
@@ -452,7 +453,46 @@ is a typical example of a cascaded interrupt handler using gpio_irq_chip:
return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g);
-The helper support using hierarchical interrupt controllers as well.
+The helper supports using threaded interrupts as well. Then you just request
+the interrupt separately and go with it:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ /* Typical state container with dynamic irqchip */
+ struct my_gpio {
+ struct gpio_chip gc;
+ struct irq_chip irq;
+ };
+
+ int irq; /* from platform etc */
+ struct my_gpio *g;
+ struct gpio_irq_chip *girq;
+
+ /* Set up the irqchip dynamically */
+ g->irq.name = "my_gpio_irq";
+ g->irq.irq_ack = my_gpio_ack_irq;
+ g->irq.irq_mask = my_gpio_mask_irq;
+ g->irq.irq_unmask = my_gpio_unmask_irq;
+ g->irq.irq_set_type = my_gpio_set_irq_type;
+
+ ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL,
+ irq_thread_fn, IRQF_ONESHOT, "my-chip", g);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ /* Get a pointer to the gpio_irq_chip */
+ girq = &g->gc.irq;
+ girq->chip = &g->irq;
+ /* This will let us handle the parent IRQ in the driver */
+ girq->parent_handler = NULL;
+ girq->num_parents = 0;
+ girq->parents = NULL;
+ girq->default_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE;
+ girq->handler = handle_bad_irq;
+
+ return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g);
+
+The helper supports using hierarchical interrupt controllers as well.
In this case the typical set-up will look like this:
.. code-block:: c
@@ -493,32 +533,13 @@ the parent hardware irq from a child (i.e. this gpio chip) hardware irq.
As always it is good to look at examples in the kernel tree for advice
on how to find the required pieces.
-The old way of adding irqchips to gpiochips after registration is also still
-available but we try to move away from this:
-
-- DEPRECATED: gpiochip_irqchip_add(): adds a chained cascaded irqchip to a
- gpiochip. It will pass the struct gpio_chip* for the chip to all IRQ
- callbacks, so the callbacks need to embed the gpio_chip in its state
- container and obtain a pointer to the container using container_of().
- (See Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/design-patterns.rst)
-
-- gpiochip_irqchip_add_nested(): adds a nested cascaded irqchip to a gpiochip,
- as discussed above regarding different types of cascaded irqchips. The
- cascaded irq has to be handled by a threaded interrupt handler.
- Apart from that it works exactly like the chained irqchip.
-
-- gpiochip_set_nested_irqchip(): sets up a nested cascaded irq handler for a
- gpio_chip from a parent IRQ. As the parent IRQ has usually been
- explicitly requested by the driver, this does very little more than
- mark all the child IRQs as having the other IRQ as parent.
-
If there is a need to exclude certain GPIO lines from the IRQ domain handled by
these helpers, we can set .irq.need_valid_mask of the gpiochip before
devm_gpiochip_add_data() or gpiochip_add_data() is called. This allocates an
.irq.valid_mask with as many bits set as there are GPIO lines in the chip, each
bit representing line 0..n-1. Drivers can exclude GPIO lines by clearing bits
-from this mask. The mask must be filled in before gpiochip_irqchip_add() or
-gpiochip_irqchip_add_nested() is called.
+from this mask. The mask can be filled in the init_valid_mask() callback
+that is part of the struct gpio_irq_chip.
To use the helpers please keep the following in mind: