[PATCH 4/4] gpio: aspeed: Add interfaces for co-processor to grab GPIOs
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 12 17:17:13 AEST 2018
On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 15:07 +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On 12 June 2018 at 09:40, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On the Aspeed chip, the GPIOs can be under control of the ARM
> > chip or of the ColdFire coprocessor. (There's a third command
> > source, the LPC bus, which we don't use or support yet).
> >
> > The control of which master is allowed to modify a given
> > GPIO is per-bank (8 GPIOs).
> >
> > Unfortunately, systems already exist for which we want to
> > use GPIOs of both sources in the same bank.
> >
> > This provides an API exported by the gpio-aspeed driver
> > that an aspeed coprocessor driver can use to "grab" some
> > GPIOs for use by the coprocessor, and allow the coprocessor
> > driver to provide callbacks for arbitrating access.
> >
> > Once at least one GPIO of a given bank has been "grabbed"
> > by the coprocessor, the entire bank is marked as being
> > under coprocessor control. It's command source is switched
> > to the coprocessor.
> >
> > If the ARM then tries to write to a GPIO in such a marked bank,
> > the provided callbacks are used to request access from the
> > coprocessor driver, which is responsible to doing whatever
> > is necessary to "pause" the coprocessor or prevent it from
> > trying to use the GPIOs while the ARM is doing its accesses.
> >
> > During that time, the command source for the bank is temporarily
> > switched back to the ARM.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>
> Looks okay to me. Just need to deal with the memory allocated.
>
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * aspeed_gpio_copro_grab_gpio - Mark a GPIO used by the coprocessor. The entire
> > + * bank gets marked and any access from the ARM will
> > + * result in handshaking via callbacks.
> > + * @desc: The GPIO to be marked
> > + */
> > +int aspeed_gpio_copro_grab_gpio(struct gpio_desc *desc)
> > +{
> > + struct gpio_chip *chip = gpiod_to_chip(desc);
> > + struct aspeed_gpio *gpio = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
> > + int rc = 0, bindex, offset = gpio_chip_hwgpio(desc);
> > + const struct aspeed_gpio_bank *bank = to_bank(offset);
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > + if (!gpio->cf_copro_bankmap)
> > + gpio->cf_copro_bankmap = kzalloc(gpio->config->nr_gpios >> 3, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Someone should free this.
Right, I'll probably just make it a devm_kzalloc
> > + if (!gpio->cf_copro_bankmap)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + if (offset < 0 || offset > gpio->config->nr_gpios)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + bindex = offset >> 3;
> > +
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio->lock, flags);
> > +
> > + /* Sanity check, this shouldn't happen */
> > + if (gpio->cf_copro_bankmap[bindex] == 0xff) {
> > + rc = -EIO;
> > + goto bail;
> > + }
> > + gpio->cf_copro_bankmap[bindex]++;
> > +
> > + /* Switch command source */
> > + if (gpio->cf_copro_bankmap[bindex] == 1)
> > + aspeed_gpio_change_cmd_source(gpio, bank, bindex,
> > + GPIO_CMDSRC_COLDFIRE);
> > +
> > + bail:
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio->lock, flags);
> > + return rc;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(aspeed_gpio_copro_grab_gpio);
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