[PATCH 2/4] gpio: aspeed: Add "Read Data" register to read the write latch

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Tue Jun 12 15:38:03 AEST 2018


On 12 June 2018 at 09:40, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> The Aspeed GPIO hardware has a quirk: the value register, for an
> output GPIO, doesn't contain the last value written (the write
> latch content) but the sampled input value.
>
> This means that when reading back shortly after writing, you can
> get an incorrect value as the input value is delayed by a few
> synchronizers.
>
> The HW supports a separate read-only register "Data Read Register"
> which allows you to read the write latch instead.
>
> This adds the definition for it, and uses it for the initial
> population of the GPIO value cache. It will be used more in
> subsequent patches.
> can be
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
> index 42aadd52f77d..210c3fcc7a40 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed.c
> @@ -59,7 +59,10 @@ struct aspeed_gpio {
>  };
>
>  struct aspeed_gpio_bank {
> -       uint16_t        val_regs;
> +       uint16_t        val_regs;       /* 0: Wr: set write latch, Rd: read input value (*)
> +                                        * 4: Direction (0=in, 1=out)
> +                                        */
> +       uint16_t        rdata_reg;      /* Wr: <none> Rd: read write latch */

The numbers weren't immediately obvious to me.

>         uint16_t        irq_regs;
>         uint16_t        debounce_regs;
>         uint16_t        tolerance_regs;
> @@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ static const int debounce_timers[4] = { 0x00, 0x50, 0x54, 0x58 };
>  static const struct aspeed_gpio_bank aspeed_gpio_banks[] = {
>         {
>                 .val_regs = 0x0000,
> +               .rdata_reg = 0x00c0,
>                 .irq_regs = 0x0008,
>                 .debounce_regs = 0x0040,
>                 .tolerance_regs = 0x001c,
> @@ -78,6 +82,7 @@ static const struct aspeed_gpio_bank aspeed_gpio_banks[] = {
>         },
>         {
>                 .val_regs = 0x0020,
> +               .rdata_reg = 0x00c4,
>                 .irq_regs = 0x0028,
>                 .debounce_regs = 0x0048,
>                 .tolerance_regs = 0x003c,
> @@ -85,6 +90,7 @@ static const struct aspeed_gpio_bank aspeed_gpio_banks[] = {
>         },
>         {
>                 .val_regs = 0x0070,
> +               .rdata_reg = 0x00c8,
>                 .irq_regs = 0x0098,
>                 .debounce_regs = 0x00b0,
>                 .tolerance_regs = 0x00ac,
> @@ -92,6 +98,7 @@ static const struct aspeed_gpio_bank aspeed_gpio_banks[] = {
>         },
>         {
>                 .val_regs = 0x0078,
> +               .rdata_reg = 0x00d0,

0x00cc?

I was really confused for a second, as I'd applied the series to my
tree for testing, and my source as correct. It looks like you fixed
these in patch 3.

>                 .irq_regs = 0x00e8,
>                 .debounce_regs = 0x0100,
>                 .tolerance_regs = 0x00fc,


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