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| author | Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> | 2026-09-04 10:43:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2026-09-04 07:58:36 -0700 |
| commit | 6668ed271eaefaa63e686bdfbedaeb7b8e492722 (patch) | |
| tree | 58e8288fead484f6755ad0815fc74c3742663761 /Documentation/driver-api/gpio | |
| download | linux-stable-6668ed271eaefaa63e686bdfbedaeb7b8e492722.tar.gz linux-stable-6668ed271eaefaa63e686bdfbedaeb7b8e492722.zip | |
selftests/bpf: Reject graph kptr use after RCU unlockgrafted
Add a sleepable verifier test that loads a graph-node local kptr in an
explicit RCU read-side critical section, then passes its node to
bpf_rbtree_remove() after the section ends.
Before the verifier fix, the stale NON_OWN_REF flag makes the node look like
a live borrowed reference and the program is accepted. After the fix, the
pointer is demoted without NON_OWN_REF and the graph kfunc argument is
rejected.
Also exercise a graph kptr loaded while a spin lock provides implicit RCU
protection. The pointer must be invalidated when the lock is released, which
guards the required ordering between non-owning-reference invalidation and
RCU demotion.
Update the existing fault-protected load test state description. The
post-unlock pointer no longer carries NON_OWN_REF, but remains readable
because the load is rewritten to use BPF_PROBE_MEM.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904084325.52250-7-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/gpio')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst | 278 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/bt8xxgpio.rst | 62 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst | 470 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst | 804 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst | 119 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst | 112 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy-boards.rst | 316 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/pca953x.rst | 639 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/gpio/using-gpio.rst | 50 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4ac1e12cf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst @@ -0,0 +1,278 @@ +============= +GPIO Mappings +============= + +This document explains how GPIOs can be assigned to given devices and functions. + +All platforms can enable the GPIO library, but if the platform strictly +requires GPIO functionality to be present, it needs to select GPIOLIB from its +Kconfig. Then, how GPIOs are mapped depends on what the platform uses to +describe its hardware layout. Currently, mappings can be defined through device +tree, ACPI, and platform data. + +Device Tree +----------- +GPIOs can easily be mapped to devices and functions in the device tree. The +exact way to do it depends on the GPIO controller providing the GPIOs, see the +device tree bindings for your controller. + +GPIOs mappings are defined in the consumer device's node, in a property named +<function>-gpios, where <function> is the function the driver will request +through gpiod_get(). For example:: + + foo_device { + compatible = "acme,foo"; + ... + led-gpios = <&gpio 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>, /* red */ + <&gpio 16 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>, /* green */ + <&gpio 17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; /* blue */ + + power-gpios = <&gpio 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>; + }; + +Properties named <function>-gpio are also considered valid and old bindings use +it but are only supported for compatibility reasons and should not be used for +newer bindings since it has been deprecated. + +This property will make GPIOs 15, 16 and 17 available to the driver under the +"led" function, and GPIO 1 as the "power" GPIO:: + + struct gpio_desc *red, *green, *blue, *power; + + red = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 0, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + green = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 1, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + blue = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 2, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + + power = gpiod_get(dev, "power", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + +The led GPIOs will be active high, while the power GPIO will be active low (i.e. +gpiod_is_active_low(power) will be true). + +The second parameter of the gpiod_get() functions, the con_id string, has to be +the <function>-prefix of the GPIO suffixes ("gpios" or "gpio", automatically +looked up by the gpiod functions internally) used in the device tree. With above +"led-gpios" example, use the prefix without the "-" as con_id parameter: "led". + +Internally, the GPIO subsystem prefixes the GPIO suffix ("gpios" or "gpio") +with the string passed in con_id to get the resulting string +(``snprintf(... "%s-%s", con_id, gpio_suffixes[]``). + +ACPI +---- +ACPI also supports function names for GPIOs in a similar fashion to DT. +The above DT example can be converted to an equivalent ACPI description +with the help of _DSD (Device Specific Data), introduced in ACPI 5.1:: + + Device (FOO) { + Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () { + GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly, + "\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 15 } // red + GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly, + "\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 16 } // green + GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly, + "\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 17 } // blue + GpioIo (Exclusive, PullNone, 0, 0, IoRestrictionOutputOnly, + "\\_SB.GPI0", 0, ResourceConsumer) { 1 } // power + }) + + Name (_DSD, Package () { + ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"), + Package () { + Package () { + "led-gpios", + Package () { + ^FOO, 0, 0, 1, + ^FOO, 1, 0, 1, + ^FOO, 2, 0, 1, + } + }, + Package () { "power-gpios", Package () { ^FOO, 3, 0, 0 } }, + } + }) + } + +For more information about the ACPI GPIO bindings see +Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst. + +Software Nodes +-------------- + +Software nodes allow board-specific code to construct an in-memory, +device-tree-like structure using struct software_node and struct +property_entry. This structure can then be associated with a platform device, +allowing drivers to use the standard device properties API to query +configuration, just as they would on an ACPI or device tree system. + +Software-node-backed GPIOs are described using the ``PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO()`` +macro, which ties a software node representing the GPIO controller with +consumer device. It allows consumers to use regular gpiolib APIs, such as +gpiod_get(), gpiod_get_optional(). + +The software node representing a GPIO controller must be attached to the +GPIO controller device - either as the primary or the secondary firmware node. + +For example, here is how to describe a single GPIO-connected LED. This is an +alternative to using platform_data on legacy systems. + +.. code-block:: c + + #include <linux/property.h> + #include <linux/gpio/machine.h> + #include <linux/gpio/property.h> + + /* + * 1. Define a node for the GPIO controller. + */ + static const struct software_node gpio_controller_node = { + .name = "gpio-foo", + }; + + /* 2. Define the properties for the LED device. */ + static const struct property_entry led_device_props[] = { + PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("label", "myboard:green:status"), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("linux,default-trigger", "heartbeat"), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO("gpios", &gpio_controller_node, 42, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH), + { } + }; + + /* 3. Define the software node for the LED device. */ + static const struct software_node led_device_swnode = { + .name = "status-led", + .properties = led_device_props, + }; + + /* + * 4. Register the software nodes and the platform device. + */ + const struct software_node *swnodes[] = { + &gpio_controller_node, + &led_device_swnode, + NULL + }; + software_node_register_node_group(swnodes); + + /* + * 5. Attach the GPIO controller's software node to the device and + * register it. + */ + static void gpio_foo_register(void) + { + struct platform_device_info pdev_info = { + .name = "gpio-foo", + .id = PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, + .swnode = &gpio_controller_node + }; + + platform_device_register_full(&pdev_info); + } + + // Then register a platform_device for "leds-gpio" and associate + // it with &led_device_swnode via .fwnode. + +For a complete guide on converting board files to use software nodes, see +Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy-boards.rst. + +Platform Data +------------- +Finally, GPIOs can be bound to devices and functions using platform data. Board +files that desire to do so need to include the following header:: + + #include <linux/gpio/machine.h> + +GPIOs are mapped by the means of tables of lookups, containing instances of the +gpiod_lookup structure. Two macros are defined to help declaring such mappings:: + + GPIO_LOOKUP(key, chip_hwnum, con_id, flags) + GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX(key, chip_hwnum, con_id, idx, flags) + +where + + - key is either the label of the gpiod_chip instance providing the GPIO, or + the GPIO line name + - chip_hwnum is the hardware number of the GPIO within the chip, or U16_MAX + to indicate that key is a GPIO line name + - con_id is the name of the GPIO function from the device point of view. It + can be NULL, in which case it will match any function. + - idx is the index of the GPIO within the function. + - flags is defined to specify the following properties: + * GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH - GPIO line is active high + * GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW - GPIO line is active low + * GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN - GPIO line is set up as open drain + * GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE - GPIO line is set up as open source + * GPIO_PERSISTENT - GPIO line is persistent during + suspend/resume and maintains its value + * GPIO_TRANSITORY - GPIO line is transitory and may loose its + electrical state during suspend/resume + +In the future, these flags might be extended to support more properties. + +Note that: + 1. GPIO line names are not guaranteed to be globally unique, so the first + match found will be used. + 2. GPIO_LOOKUP() is just a shortcut to GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX() where idx = 0. + +A lookup table can then be defined as follows, with an empty entry defining its +end. The 'dev_id' field of the table is the identifier of the device that will +make use of these GPIOs. It can be NULL, in which case it will be matched for +calls to gpiod_get() with a NULL device. + +.. code-block:: c + + struct gpiod_lookup_table gpios_table = { + .dev_id = "foo.0", + .table = { + GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("gpio.0", 15, "led", 0, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH), + GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("gpio.0", 16, "led", 1, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH), + GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX("gpio.0", 17, "led", 2, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH), + GPIO_LOOKUP("gpio.0", 1, "power", GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW), + { }, + }, + }; + +And the table can be added by the board code as follows:: + + gpiod_add_lookup_table(&gpios_table); + +The driver controlling "foo.0" will then be able to obtain its GPIOs as follows:: + + struct gpio_desc *red, *green, *blue, *power; + + red = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 0, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + green = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 1, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + blue = gpiod_get_index(dev, "led", 2, GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + + power = gpiod_get(dev, "power", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); + +Since the "led" GPIOs are mapped as active-high, this example will switch their +signals to 1, i.e. enabling the LEDs. And for the "power" GPIO, which is mapped +as active-low, its actual signal will be 0 after this code. Contrary to the +legacy integer GPIO interface, the active-low property is handled during +mapping and is thus transparent to GPIO consumers. + +A set of functions such as gpiod_set_value() is available to work with +the new descriptor-oriented interface. + +Arrays of pins +-------------- +In addition to requesting pins belonging to a function one by one, a device may +also request an array of pins assigned to the function. The way those pins are +mapped to the device determines if the array qualifies for fast bitmap +processing. If yes, a bitmap is passed over get/set array functions directly +between a caller and a respective .get/set_multiple() callback of a GPIO chip. + +In order to qualify for fast bitmap processing, the array must meet the +following requirements: + +- pin hardware number of array member 0 must also be 0, +- pin hardware numbers of consecutive array members which belong to the same + chip as member 0 does must also match their array indexes. + +Otherwise fast bitmap processing path is not used in order to avoid consecutive +pins which belong to the same chip but are not in hardware order being processed +separately. + +If the array applies for fast bitmap processing path, pins which belong to +different chips than member 0 does, as well as those with indexes different from +their hardware pin numbers, are excluded from the fast path, both input and +output. Moreover, open drain and open source pins are excluded from fast bitmap +output processing. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/bt8xxgpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/bt8xxgpio.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d7e75f123 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/bt8xxgpio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +=================================================================== +A driver for a selfmade cheap BT8xx based PCI GPIO-card (bt8xxgpio) +=================================================================== + +For advanced documentation, see https://bues.ch/cms/unmaintained/btgpio.html + +A generic digital 24-port PCI GPIO card can be built out of an ordinary +Brooktree bt848, bt849, bt878 or bt879 based analog TV tuner card. The +Brooktree chip is used in old analog Hauppauge WinTV PCI cards. You can easily +find them used for low prices on the net. + +The bt8xx chip does have 24 digital GPIO ports. +These ports are accessible via 24 pins on the SMD chip package. + + +How to physically access the GPIO pins +====================================== + +The are several ways to access these pins. One might unsolder the whole chip +and put it on a custom PCI board, or one might only unsolder each individual +GPIO pin and solder that to some tiny wire. As the chip package really is tiny +there are some advanced soldering skills needed in any case. + +The physical pinouts are drawn in the following ASCII art. +The GPIO pins are marked with G00-G23:: + + G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G + 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 + 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 + | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | + --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + --| ^ ^ |-- + --| pin 86 pin 67 |-- + --| |-- + --| pin 61 > |-- G18 + --| |-- G19 + --| |-- G20 + --| |-- G21 + --| |-- G22 + --| pin 56 > |-- G23 + --| |-- + --| Brooktree 878/879 |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| |-- + --| O |-- + --| |-- + --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | + ^ + This is pin 1 + diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bb3366047 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst @@ -0,0 +1,470 @@ +================================== +GPIO Descriptor Consumer Interface +================================== + +This document describes the consumer interface of the GPIO framework. + + +Guidelines for GPIOs consumers +============================== + +Drivers that can't work without standard GPIO calls should have Kconfig entries +that depend on GPIOLIB or select GPIOLIB. The functions that allow a driver to +obtain and use GPIOs are available by including the following file:: + + #include <linux/gpio/consumer.h> + +There are static inline stubs for all functions in the header file in the case +where GPIOLIB is disabled. When these stubs are called they will emit +warnings. These stubs are used for two use cases: + +- Simple compile coverage with e.g. COMPILE_TEST - it does not matter that + the current platform does not enable or select GPIOLIB because we are not + going to execute the system anyway. + +- Truly optional GPIOLIB support - where the driver does not really make use + of the GPIOs on certain compile-time configurations for certain systems, but + will use it under other compile-time configurations. In this case the + consumer must make sure not to call into these functions, or the user will + be met with console warnings that may be perceived as intimidating. + Combining truly optional GPIOLIB usage with calls to + ``[devm_]gpiod_get_optional()`` is a *bad idea*, and will result in weird + error messages. Use the ordinary getter functions with optional GPIOLIB: + some open coding of error handling should be expected when you do this. + +All the functions that work with the descriptor-based GPIO interface are +prefixed with ``gpiod_``. The ``gpio_`` prefix is used for the legacy +interface. No other function in the kernel should use these prefixes. The use +of the legacy functions is strongly discouraged, new code should use +<linux/gpio/consumer.h> and descriptors exclusively. + + +Obtaining and Disposing GPIOs +============================= + +With the descriptor-based interface, GPIOs are identified with an opaque, +non-forgeable handler that must be obtained through a call to one of the +gpiod_get() functions. Like many other kernel subsystems, gpiod_get() takes the +device that will use the GPIO and the function the requested GPIO is supposed to +fulfill:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +If a function is implemented by using several GPIOs together (e.g. a simple LED +device that displays digits), an additional index argument can be specified:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_index(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, unsigned int idx, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +For a more detailed description of the con_id parameter in the DeviceTree case +see Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst + +The flags parameter is used to optionally specify a direction and initial value +for the GPIO. Values can be: + +* GPIOD_ASIS or 0 to not initialize the GPIO at all. The direction must be set + later with one of the dedicated functions. +* GPIOD_IN to initialize the GPIO as input. +* GPIOD_OUT_LOW to initialize the GPIO as output with a value of 0. +* GPIOD_OUT_HIGH to initialize the GPIO as output with a value of 1. +* GPIOD_OUT_LOW_OPEN_DRAIN same as GPIOD_OUT_LOW but also enforce the line + to be electrically used with open drain. +* GPIOD_OUT_HIGH_OPEN_DRAIN same as GPIOD_OUT_HIGH but also enforce the line + to be electrically used with open drain. + +Note that the initial value is *logical* and the physical line level depends on +whether the line is configured active high or active low (see +:ref:`active_low_semantics`). + +The two last flags are used for use cases where open drain is mandatory, such +as I2C: if the line is not already configured as open drain in the mappings +(see board.rst), then open drain will be enforced anyway and a warning will be +printed that the board configuration needs to be updated to match the use case. + +Both functions return either a valid GPIO descriptor, or an error code checkable +with IS_ERR() (they will never return a NULL pointer). -ENOENT will be returned +if and only if no GPIO has been assigned to the device/function/index triplet, +other error codes are used for cases where a GPIO has been assigned but an error +occurred while trying to acquire it. This is useful to discriminate between mere +errors and an absence of GPIO for optional GPIO parameters. For the common +pattern where a GPIO is optional, the gpiod_get_optional() and +gpiod_get_index_optional() functions can be used. These functions return NULL +instead of -ENOENT if no GPIO has been assigned to the requested function:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + unsigned int index, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +Note that gpio_get*_optional() functions (and their managed variants), unlike +the rest of gpiolib API, also return NULL when gpiolib support is disabled. +This is helpful to driver authors, since they do not need to special case +-ENOSYS return codes. System integrators should however be careful to enable +gpiolib on systems that need it. + +For a function using multiple GPIOs all of those can be obtained with one call:: + + struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +This function returns a struct gpio_descs which contains an array of +descriptors. It also contains a pointer to a gpiolib private structure which, +if passed back to get/set array functions, may speed up I/O processing:: + + struct gpio_descs { + struct gpio_array *info; + unsigned int ndescs; + struct gpio_desc *desc[]; + } + +The following function returns NULL instead of -ENOENT if no GPIOs have been +assigned to the requested function:: + + struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +Device-managed variants of these functions are also defined:: + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_index(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + unsigned int idx, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + unsigned int index, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_descs *devm_gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_descs *devm_gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +A GPIO descriptor can be disposed of using the gpiod_put() function:: + + void gpiod_put(struct gpio_desc *desc) + +For an array of GPIOs this function can be used:: + + void gpiod_put_array(struct gpio_descs *descs) + +It is strictly forbidden to use a descriptor after calling these functions. +It is also not allowed to individually release descriptors (using gpiod_put()) +from an array acquired with gpiod_get_array(). + +The device-managed variants are, unsurprisingly:: + + void devm_gpiod_put(struct device *dev, struct gpio_desc *desc) + + void devm_gpiod_put_array(struct device *dev, struct gpio_descs *descs) + + +Using GPIOs +=========== + +Setting Direction +----------------- +The first thing a driver must do with a GPIO is setting its direction. If no +direction-setting flags have been given to gpiod_get*(), this is done by +invoking one of the gpiod_direction_*() functions:: + + int gpiod_direction_input(struct gpio_desc *desc) + int gpiod_direction_output(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + +The return value is zero for success, else a negative errno. It should be +checked, since the get/set calls don't return errors and since misconfiguration +is possible. You should normally issue these calls from a task context. However, +for spinlock-safe GPIOs it is OK to use them before tasking is enabled, as part +of early board setup. + +For output GPIOs, the value provided becomes the initial output value. This +helps avoid signal glitching during system startup. + +A driver can also query the current direction of a GPIO:: + + int gpiod_get_direction(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +This function returns 0 for output, 1 for input, or an error code in case of error. + +Be aware that there is no default direction for GPIOs. Therefore, **using a GPIO +without setting its direction first is illegal and will result in undefined +behavior!** + + +Spinlock-Safe GPIO Access +------------------------- +Most GPIO controllers can be accessed with memory read/write instructions. Those +don't need to sleep, and can safely be done from inside hard (non-threaded) IRQ +handlers and similar contexts. + +Use the following calls to access GPIOs from an atomic context:: + + int gpiod_get_value(const struct gpio_desc *desc); + void gpiod_set_value(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value); + +The values are boolean, zero for inactive, nonzero for active. When reading the +value of an output pin, the value returned should be what's seen on the pin. +That won't always match the specified output value, because of issues including +open-drain signaling and output latencies. + +The get/set calls do not return errors because "invalid GPIO" should have been +reported earlier from gpiod_direction_*(). However, note that not all platforms +can read the value of output pins; those that can't should always return zero. +Also, using these calls for GPIOs that can't safely be accessed without sleeping +(see below) is an error. + + +GPIO Access That May Sleep +-------------------------- +Some GPIO controllers must be accessed using message based buses like I2C or +SPI. Commands to read or write those GPIO values require waiting to get to the +head of a queue to transmit a command and get its response. This requires +sleeping, which can't be done from inside IRQ handlers. + +Platforms that support this type of GPIO distinguish them from other GPIOs by +returning nonzero from this call:: + + int gpiod_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +To access such GPIOs, a different set of accessors is defined:: + + int gpiod_get_value_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_set_value_cansleep(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + +Accessing such GPIOs requires a context which may sleep, for example a threaded +IRQ handler, and those accessors must be used instead of spinlock-safe +accessors without the cansleep() name suffix. + +Other than the fact that these accessors might sleep, and will work on GPIOs +that can't be accessed from hardIRQ handlers, these calls act the same as the +spinlock-safe calls. + + +.. _active_low_semantics: + +The active low and open drain semantics +--------------------------------------- +As a consumer should not have to care about the physical line level, all of the +gpiod_set_value_xxx() or gpiod_set_array_value_xxx() functions operate with +the *logical* value. With this they take the active low property into account. +This means that they check whether the GPIO is configured to be active low, +and if so, they manipulate the passed value before the physical line level is +driven. + +The same is applicable for open drain or open source output lines: those do not +actively drive their output high (open drain) or low (open source), they just +switch their output to a high impedance value. The consumer should not need to +care. (For details read about open drain in driver.rst.) + +With this, all the gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() functions interpret the +parameter "value" as "active" ("1") or "inactive" ("0"). The physical line +level will be driven accordingly. + +As an example, if the active low property for a dedicated GPIO is set, and the +gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() passes "active" ("1"), the physical line level +will be driven low. + +To summarize:: + + Function (example) line property physical line + gpiod_set_raw_value(desc, 0); don't care low + gpiod_set_raw_value(desc, 1); don't care high + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); default (active high) low + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); default (active high) high + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); active low high + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); active low low + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); open drain low + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); open drain high impedance + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); open source high impedance + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); open source high + +It is possible to override these semantics using the set_raw/get_raw functions +but it should be avoided as much as possible, especially by system-agnostic drivers +which should not need to care about the actual physical line level and worry about +the logical value instead. + + +Accessing raw GPIO values +------------------------- +Consumers exist that need to manage the logical state of a GPIO line, i.e. the value +their device will actually receive, no matter what lies between it and the GPIO +line. + +The following set of calls ignore the active-low or open drain property of a GPIO and +work on the raw line value:: + + int gpiod_get_raw_value(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_set_raw_value(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + int gpiod_get_raw_value_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_set_raw_value_cansleep(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + int gpiod_direction_output_raw(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + +The active low state of a GPIO can also be queried and toggled using the +following calls:: + + int gpiod_is_active_low(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_toggle_active_low(struct gpio_desc *desc) + +Note that these functions should only be used with great moderation; a driver +should not have to care about the physical line level or open drain semantics. + + +Access multiple GPIOs with a single function call +------------------------------------------------- +The following functions get or set the values of an array of GPIOs:: + + int gpiod_get_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + int gpiod_get_raw_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + int gpiod_get_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + int gpiod_get_raw_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + + int gpiod_set_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + int gpiod_set_raw_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + int gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + int gpiod_set_raw_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + +The array can be an arbitrary set of GPIOs. The functions will try to access +GPIOs belonging to the same bank or chip simultaneously if supported by the +corresponding chip driver. In that case a significantly improved performance +can be expected. If simultaneous access is not possible the GPIOs will be +accessed sequentially. + +The functions take four arguments: + + * array_size - the number of array elements + * desc_array - an array of GPIO descriptors + * array_info - optional information obtained from gpiod_get_array() + * value_bitmap - a bitmap to store the GPIOs' values (get) or + a bitmap of values to assign to the GPIOs (set) + +The descriptor array can be obtained using the gpiod_get_array() function +or one of its variants. If the group of descriptors returned by that function +matches the desired group of GPIOs, those GPIOs can be accessed by simply using +the struct gpio_descs returned by gpiod_get_array():: + + struct gpio_descs *my_gpio_descs = gpiod_get_array(...); + gpiod_set_array_value(my_gpio_descs->ndescs, my_gpio_descs->desc, + my_gpio_descs->info, my_gpio_value_bitmap); + +It is also possible to access a completely arbitrary array of descriptors. The +descriptors may be obtained using any combination of gpiod_get() and +gpiod_get_array(). Afterwards the array of descriptors has to be setup +manually before it can be passed to one of the above functions. In that case, +array_info should be set to NULL. + +Note that for optimal performance GPIOs belonging to the same chip should be +contiguous within the array of descriptors. + +Still better performance may be achieved if array indexes of the descriptors +match hardware pin numbers of a single chip. If an array passed to a get/set +array function matches the one obtained from gpiod_get_array() and array_info +associated with the array is also passed, the function may take a fast bitmap +processing path, passing the value_bitmap argument directly to the respective +.get/set_multiple() callback of the chip. That allows for utilization of GPIO +banks as data I/O ports without much loss of performance. + +The return value of gpiod_get_array_value() and its variants is 0 on success +or negative on error. Note the difference to gpiod_get_value(), which returns +0 or 1 on success to convey the GPIO value. With the array functions, the GPIO +values are stored in value_array rather than passed back as return value. + + +GPIOs mapped to IRQs +-------------------- +GPIO lines can quite often be used as IRQs. You can get the IRQ number +corresponding to a given GPIO using the following call:: + + int gpiod_to_irq(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +It will return an IRQ number, or a negative errno code if the mapping can't be +done (most likely because that particular GPIO cannot be used as IRQ). It is an +unchecked error to use a GPIO that wasn't set up as an input using +gpiod_direction_input(), or to use an IRQ number that didn't originally come +from gpiod_to_irq(). gpiod_to_irq() is not allowed to sleep. + +Non-error values returned from gpiod_to_irq() can be passed to request_irq() or +free_irq(). They will often be stored into IRQ resources for platform devices, +by the board-specific initialization code. Note that IRQ trigger options are +part of the IRQ interface, e.g. IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, as are system wakeup +capabilities. + + +GPIOs and ACPI +============== + +On ACPI systems, GPIOs are described by GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources listed by +the _CRS configuration objects of devices. Those resources do not provide +connection IDs (names) for GPIOs, so it is necessary to use an additional +mechanism for this purpose. + +Systems compliant with ACPI 5.1 or newer may provide a _DSD configuration object +which, among other things, may be used to provide connection IDs for specific +GPIOs described by the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources in _CRS. If that is the +case, it will be handled by the GPIO subsystem automatically. However, if the +_DSD is not present, the mappings between GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources and GPIO +connection IDs need to be provided by device drivers. + +For details refer to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst + + +Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem +========================================== +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 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 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a4f160b95 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst @@ -0,0 +1,804 @@ +===================== +GPIO Driver Interface +===================== + +This document serves as a guide for writers of GPIO chip drivers. + +Each GPIO controller driver needs to include the following header, which defines +the structures used to define a GPIO driver:: + + #include <linux/gpio/driver.h> + + +Internal Representation of GPIOs +================================ + +A GPIO chip handles one or more GPIO lines. To be considered a GPIO chip, the +lines must conform to the definition: General Purpose Input/Output. If the +line is not general purpose, it is not GPIO and should not be handled by a +GPIO chip. The use case is the indicative: certain lines in a system may be +called GPIO but serve a very particular purpose thus not meeting the criteria +of a general purpose I/O. On the other hand a LED driver line may be used as a +GPIO and should therefore still be handled by a GPIO chip driver. + +Inside a GPIO driver, individual GPIO lines are identified by their hardware +number, sometime also referred to as ``offset``, which is a unique number +between 0 and n-1, n being the number of GPIOs managed by the chip. + +The hardware GPIO number should be something intuitive to the hardware, for +example if a system uses a memory-mapped set of I/O-registers where 32 GPIO +lines are handled by one bit per line in a 32-bit register, it makes sense to +use hardware offsets 0..31 for these, corresponding to bits 0..31 in the +register. + +This number is purely internal: the hardware number of a particular GPIO +line is never made visible outside of the driver. + +On top of this internal number, each GPIO line also needs to have a global +number in the integer GPIO namespace so that it can be used with the legacy GPIO +interface. Each chip must thus have a "base" number (which can be automatically +assigned), and for each GPIO line the global number will be (base + hardware +number). Although the integer representation is considered deprecated, it still +has many users and thus needs to be maintained. + +So for example one platform could use global numbers 32-159 for GPIOs, with a +controller defining 128 GPIOs at a "base" of 32 ; while another platform uses +global numbers 0..63 with one set of GPIO controllers, 64-79 with another type +of GPIO controller, and on one particular board 80-95 with an FPGA. The legacy +numbers need not be contiguous; either of those platforms could also use numbers +2000-2063 to identify GPIO lines in a bank of I2C GPIO expanders. + + +Controller Drivers: gpio_chip +============================= + +In the gpiolib framework each GPIO controller is packaged as a "struct +gpio_chip" (see <linux/gpio/driver.h> for its complete definition) with members +common to each controller of that type, these should be assigned by the +driver code: + + - methods to establish GPIO line direction + - methods used to access GPIO line values + - method to set electrical configuration for a given GPIO line + - method to return the IRQ number associated to a given GPIO line + - flag saying whether calls to its methods may sleep + - optional line names array to identify lines + - optional debugfs dump method (showing extra state information) + - optional base number (will be automatically assigned if omitted) + - optional label for diagnostics and GPIO chip mapping using platform data + +The code implementing a gpio_chip should support multiple instances of the +controller, preferably using the driver model. That code will configure each +gpio_chip and issue gpiochip_add_data() or devm_gpiochip_add_data(). Removing +a GPIO controller should be rare; use gpiochip_remove() when it is unavoidable. + +Often a gpio_chip is part of an instance-specific structure with states not +exposed by the GPIO interfaces, such as addressing, power management, and more. +Chips such as audio codecs will have complex non-GPIO states. + +Any debugfs dump method should normally ignore lines which haven't been +requested. They can use gpiochip_is_requested(), which returns either +NULL or the label associated with that GPIO line when it was requested. + +Realtime considerations: the GPIO driver should not use spinlock_t or any +sleepable APIs (like PM runtime) in its gpio_chip implementation (.get/.set +and direction control callbacks) if it is expected to call GPIO APIs from +atomic context on realtime kernels (inside hard IRQ handlers and similar +contexts). Normally this should not be required. + + +GPIO level semantics +-------------------- + +The gpip_chip .get/set[_multiple]() line values are clamped to the boolean +space [0, 1], low level or high level. + +Low and high values are defined as physical low on the line in/out to the +connector such as a physical pad, pin or rail. + +The GPIO library has internal logic to handle lines that are active low, such +as indicated by overstrike or #name in a schematic, and the driver should not +try to second-guess the logic value of a line. + +The way GPIO values are handled by the consumers is that the library present +the *logical* value to the consumer. A line is *asserted* if its *logical* +value is 1, and *de-asserted* if its logical value is 0. If inversion is +required, this is handled by gpiolib and configured using hardware descriptions +such as device tree or ACPI that can clearly indicate if a line is active +high or low. + +Since electronics commonly insert inverters as driving stages or protection +buffers in front of a GPIO line it is necessary that this semantic is part +of the hardware description, so that consumers such as kernel drivers need +not worry about this, and can for example assert a RESET line tied to a GPIO +pin by setting it to logic 1 even if it is physically active low. + + +GPIO electrical configuration +----------------------------- + +GPIO lines can be configured for several electrical modes of operation by using +the .set_config() callback. Currently this API supports setting: + +- Debouncing +- Single-ended modes (open drain/open source) +- Pull up and pull down resistor enablement + +These settings are described below. + +The .set_config() callback uses the same enumerators and configuration +semantics as the generic pin control drivers. This is not a coincidence: it is +possible to assign the .set_config() to the function gpiochip_generic_config() +which will result in pinctrl_gpio_set_config() being called and eventually +ending up in the pin control back-end "behind" the GPIO controller, usually +closer to the actual pins. This way the pin controller can manage the below +listed GPIO configurations. + +If a pin controller back-end is used, the GPIO controller or hardware +description needs to provide "GPIO ranges" mapping the GPIO line offsets to pin +numbers on the pin controller so they can properly cross-reference each other. + + +GPIO lines with debounce support +-------------------------------- + +Debouncing is a configuration set to a pin indicating that it is connected to +a mechanical switch or button, or similar that may bounce. Bouncing means the +line is pulled high/low quickly at very short intervals for mechanical +reasons. This can result in the value being unstable or irqs firing repeatedly +unless the line is debounced. + +Debouncing in practice involves setting up a timer when something happens on +the line, wait a little while and then sample the line again, so see if it +still has the same value (low or high). This could also be repeated by a clever +state machine, waiting for a line to become stable. In either case, it sets +a certain number of milliseconds for debouncing, or just "on/off" if that time +is not configurable. + + +GPIO lines with open drain/source support +----------------------------------------- + +Open drain (CMOS) or open collector (TTL) means the line is not actively driven +high: instead you provide the drain/collector as output, so when the transistor +is not open, it will present a high-impedance (tristate) to the external rail:: + + + CMOS CONFIGURATION TTL CONFIGURATION + + ||--- out +--- out + in ----|| |/ + ||--+ in ----| + | |\ + GND GND + +This configuration is normally used as a way to achieve one of two things: + +- Level-shifting: to reach a logical level higher than that of the silicon + where the output resides. + +- Inverse wire-OR on an I/O line, for example a GPIO line, making it possible + for any driving stage on the line to drive it low even if any other output + to the same line is simultaneously driving it high. A special case of this + is driving the SCL and SDA lines of an I2C bus, which is by definition a + wire-OR bus. + +Both use cases require that the line be equipped with a pull-up resistor. This +resistor will make the line tend to high level unless one of the transistors on +the rail actively pulls it down. + +The level on the line will go as high as the VDD on the pull-up resistor, which +may be higher than the level supported by the transistor, achieving a +level-shift to the higher VDD. + +Integrated electronics often have an output driver stage in the form of a CMOS +"totem-pole" with one N-MOS and one P-MOS transistor where one of them drives +the line high and one of them drives the line low. This is called a push-pull +output. The "totem-pole" looks like so:: + + VDD + | + OD ||--+ + +--/ ---o|| P-MOS-FET + | ||--+ + IN --+ +----- out + | ||--+ + +--/ ----|| N-MOS-FET + OS ||--+ + | + GND + +The desired output signal (e.g. coming directly from some GPIO output register) +arrives at IN. The switches named "OD" and "OS" are normally closed, creating +a push-pull circuit. + +Consider the little "switches" named "OD" and "OS" that enable/disable the +P-MOS or N-MOS transistor right after the split of the input. As you can see, +either transistor will go totally numb if this switch is open. The totem-pole +is then halved and give high impedance instead of actively driving the line +high or low respectively. That is usually how software-controlled open +drain/source works. + +Some GPIO hardware come in open drain / open source configuration. Some are +hard-wired lines that will only support open drain or open source no matter +what: there is only one transistor there. Some are software-configurable: +by flipping a bit in a register the output can be configured as open drain +or open source, in practice by flicking open the switches labeled "OD" and "OS" +in the drawing above. + +By disabling the P-MOS transistor, the output can be driven between GND and +high impedance (open drain), and by disabling the N-MOS transistor, the output +can be driven between VDD and high impedance (open source). In the first case, +a pull-up resistor is needed on the outgoing rail to complete the circuit, and +in the second case, a pull-down resistor is needed on the rail. + +Hardware that supports open drain or open source or both, can implement a +special callback in the gpio_chip: .set_config() that takes a generic +pinconf packed value telling whether to configure the line as open drain, +open source or push-pull. This will happen in response to the +GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN or GPIO_OPEN_SOURCE flag set in the machine file, or coming +from other hardware descriptions. + +If this state can not be configured in hardware, i.e. if the GPIO hardware does +not support open drain/open source in hardware, the GPIO library will instead +use a trick: when a line is set as output, if the line is flagged as open +drain, and the IN output value is low, it will be driven low as usual. But +if the IN output value is set to high, it will instead *NOT* be driven high, +instead it will be switched to input, as input mode is an equivalent to +high impedance, thus achieving an "open drain emulation" of sorts: electrically +the behaviour will be identical, with the exception of possible hardware glitches +when switching the mode of the line. + +For open source configuration the same principle is used, just that instead +of actively driving the line low, it is set to input. + + +GPIO lines with pull up/down resistor support +--------------------------------------------- + +A GPIO line can support pull-up/down using the .set_config() callback. This +means that a pull up or pull-down resistor is available on the output of the +GPIO line, and this resistor is software controlled. + +In discrete designs, a pull-up or pull-down resistor is simply soldered on +the circuit board. This is not something we deal with or model in software. The +most you will think about these lines is that they will very likely be +configured as open drain or open source (see the section above). + +The .set_config() callback can only turn pull up or down on and off, and will +no have any semantic knowledge about the resistance used. It will only say +switch a bit in a register enabling or disabling pull-up or pull-down. + +If the GPIO line supports shunting in different resistance values for the +pull-up or pull-down resistor, the GPIO chip callback .set_config() will not +suffice. For these complex use cases, a combined GPIO chip and pin controller +need to be implemented, as the pin config interface of a pin controller +supports more versatile control over electrical properties and can handle +different pull-up or pull-down resistance values. + + +GPIO drivers providing IRQs +=========================== + +It is custom that GPIO drivers (GPIO chips) are also providing interrupts, +most often cascaded off a parent interrupt controller, and in some special +cases the GPIO logic is melded with a SoC's primary interrupt controller. + +The IRQ portions of the GPIO block are implemented using an irq_chip, using +the header <linux/irq.h>. So this combined driver is utilizing two sub- +systems simultaneously: gpio and irq. + +It is legal for any IRQ consumer to request an IRQ from any irqchip even if it +is a combined GPIO+IRQ driver. The basic premise is that gpio_chip and +irq_chip are orthogonal, and offering their services independent of each +other. + +gpiod_to_irq() is just a convenience function to figure out the IRQ for a +certain GPIO line and should not be relied upon to have been called before +the IRQ is used. + +Always prepare the hardware and make it ready for action in respective +callbacks from the GPIO and irq_chip APIs. Do not rely on gpiod_to_irq() having +been called first. + +We can divide GPIO irqchips in two broad categories: + +- CASCADED INTERRUPT CHIPS: this means that the GPIO chip has one common + interrupt output line, which is triggered by any enabled GPIO line on that + chip. The interrupt output line will then be routed to an parent interrupt + controller one level up, in the most simple case the systems primary + interrupt controller. This is modeled by an irqchip that will inspect bits + inside the GPIO controller to figure out which line fired it. The irqchip + part of the driver needs to inspect registers to figure this out and it + will likely also need to acknowledge that it is handling the interrupt + by clearing some bit (sometime implicitly, by just reading a status + register) and it will often need to set up the configuration such as + edge sensitivity (rising or falling edge, or high/low level interrupt for + example). + +- HIERARCHICAL INTERRUPT CHIPS: this means that each GPIO line has a dedicated + irq line to a parent interrupt controller one level up. There is no need + to inquire the GPIO hardware to figure out which line has fired, but it + may still be necessary to acknowledge the interrupt and set up configuration + such as edge sensitivity. + +Realtime considerations: a realtime compliant GPIO driver should not use +spinlock_t or any sleepable APIs (like PM runtime) as part of its irqchip +implementation. + +- spinlock_t should be replaced with raw_spinlock_t.[1] +- If sleepable APIs have to be used, these can be done from the .irq_bus_lock() + and .irq_bus_unlock() callbacks, as these are the only slowpath callbacks + on an irqchip. Create the callbacks if needed.[2] + + +Cascaded GPIO irqchips +---------------------- + +Cascaded GPIO irqchips usually fall in one of three categories: + +- CHAINED CASCADED GPIO IRQCHIPS: these are usually the type that is embedded on + an SoC. This means that there is a fast IRQ flow handler for the GPIOs that + gets called in a chain from the parent IRQ handler, most typically the + system interrupt controller. This means that the GPIO irqchip handler will + be called immediately from the parent irqchip, while holding the IRQs + disabled. The GPIO irqchip will then end up calling something like this + sequence in its interrupt handler:: + + static irqreturn_t foo_gpio_irq(int irq, void *data) + chained_irq_enter(...); + generic_handle_irq(...); + chained_irq_exit(...); + + Chained GPIO irqchips typically can NOT set the .can_sleep flag on + struct gpio_chip, as everything happens directly in the callbacks: no + slow bus traffic like I2C can be used. + + Realtime considerations: Note that chained IRQ handlers will not be forced + threaded on -RT. As a result, spinlock_t or any sleepable APIs (like PM + runtime) can't be used in a chained IRQ handler. + + If required (and if it can't be converted to the nested threaded GPIO irqchip, + see below) a chained IRQ handler can be converted to generic irq handler and + this way it will become a threaded IRQ handler on -RT and a hard IRQ handler + on non-RT (for example, see [3]). + + The generic_handle_irq() is expected to be called with IRQ disabled, + so the IRQ core will complain if it is called from an IRQ handler which is + forced to a thread. The "fake?" raw lock can be used to work around this + problem:: + + raw_spinlock_t wa_lock; + static irqreturn_t omap_gpio_irq_handler(int irq, void *gpiobank) + unsigned long wa_lock_flags; + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&bank->wa_lock, wa_lock_flags); + generic_handle_irq(irq_find_mapping(bank->chip.irq.domain, bit)); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bank->wa_lock, wa_lock_flags); + +- GENERIC CHAINED GPIO IRQCHIPS: these are the same as "CHAINED GPIO irqchips", + but chained IRQ handlers are not used. Instead GPIO IRQs dispatching is + performed by generic IRQ handler which is configured using request_irq(). + The GPIO irqchip will then end up calling something like this sequence in + its interrupt handler:: + + static irqreturn_t gpio_rcar_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id) + for each detected GPIO IRQ + generic_handle_irq(...); + + Realtime considerations: this kind of handlers will be forced threaded on -RT, + and as result the IRQ core will complain that generic_handle_irq() is called + with IRQ enabled and the same work-around as for "CHAINED GPIO irqchips" can + be applied. + +- NESTED THREADED GPIO IRQCHIPS: these are off-chip GPIO expanders and any + other GPIO irqchip residing on the other side of a sleeping bus such as I2C + or SPI. + + Of course such drivers that need slow bus traffic to read out IRQ status and + similar, traffic which may in turn incur other IRQs to happen, cannot be + handled in a quick IRQ handler with IRQs disabled. Instead they need to spawn + a thread and then mask the parent IRQ line until the interrupt is handled + by the driver. The hallmark of this driver is to call something like + this in its interrupt handler:: + + static irqreturn_t foo_gpio_irq(int irq, void *data) + ... + handle_nested_irq(irq); + + The hallmark of threaded GPIO irqchips is that they set the .can_sleep + flag on struct gpio_chip to true, indicating that this chip may sleep + when accessing the GPIOs. + + These kinds of irqchips are inherently realtime tolerant as they are + already set up to handle sleeping contexts. + + +Infrastructure helpers for GPIO irqchips +---------------------------------------- + +To help out in handling the set-up and management of GPIO irqchips and the +associated irqdomain and resource allocation callbacks. These are activated +by selecting the Kconfig symbol GPIOLIB_IRQCHIP. If the symbol +IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY is also selected, hierarchical helpers will also be +provided. A big portion of overhead code will be managed by gpiolib, +under the assumption that your interrupts are 1-to-1-mapped to the +GPIO line index: + +.. csv-table:: + :header: GPIO line offset, Hardware IRQ + + 0,0 + 1,1 + 2,2 + ...,... + ngpio-1, ngpio-1 + + +If some GPIO lines do not have corresponding IRQs, the bitmask valid_mask +and the flag need_valid_mask in gpio_irq_chip can be used to mask off some +lines as invalid for associating with IRQs. + +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 chained cascaded interrupt handler using +the gpio_irq_chip. Note how the mask/unmask (or disable/enable) functions +call into the core gpiolib code: + +.. code-block:: c + + /* Typical state container */ + struct my_gpio { + struct gpio_chip gc; + }; + + static void my_gpio_mask_irq(struct irq_data *d) + { + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d); + irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d); + + /* + * Perform any necessary action to mask the interrupt, + * and then call into the core code to synchronise the + * state. + */ + + gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq); + } + + static void my_gpio_unmask_irq(struct irq_data *d) + { + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d); + irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d); + + gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq); + + /* + * Perform any necessary action to unmask the interrupt, + * after having called into the core code to synchronise + * the state. + */ + } + + /* + * Statically populate the irqchip. Note that it is made const + * (further indicated by the IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE flag), and that + * the GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPER macro adds some extra + * callbacks to the structure. + */ + static const struct irq_chip my_gpio_irq_chip = { + .name = "my_gpio_irq", + .irq_ack = my_gpio_ack_irq, + .irq_mask = my_gpio_mask_irq, + .irq_unmask = my_gpio_unmask_irq, + .irq_set_type = my_gpio_set_irq_type, + .flags = IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE, + /* Provide the gpio resource callbacks */ + GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS, + }; + + int irq; /* from platform etc */ + struct my_gpio *g; + struct gpio_irq_chip *girq; + + /* Get a pointer to the gpio_irq_chip */ + girq = &g->gc.irq; + gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &my_gpio_irq_chip); + girq->parent_handler = ftgpio_gpio_irq_handler; + girq->num_parents = 1; + girq->parents = devm_kcalloc(dev, 1, sizeof(*girq->parents), + GFP_KERNEL); + if (!girq->parents) + return -ENOMEM; + girq->default_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE; + girq->handler = handle_bad_irq; + girq->parents[0] = irq; + + return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g); + +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 */ + struct my_gpio { + struct gpio_chip gc; + }; + + static void my_gpio_mask_irq(struct irq_data *d) + { + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d); + irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d); + + /* + * Perform any necessary action to mask the interrupt, + * and then call into the core code to synchronise the + * state. + */ + + gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq); + } + + static void my_gpio_unmask_irq(struct irq_data *d) + { + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d); + irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d); + + gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq); + + /* + * Perform any necessary action to unmask the interrupt, + * after having called into the core code to synchronise + * the state. + */ + } + + /* + * Statically populate the irqchip. Note that it is made const + * (further indicated by the IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE flag), and that + * the GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPER macro adds some extra + * callbacks to the structure. + */ + static const struct irq_chip my_gpio_irq_chip = { + .name = "my_gpio_irq", + .irq_ack = my_gpio_ack_irq, + .irq_mask = my_gpio_mask_irq, + .irq_unmask = my_gpio_unmask_irq, + .irq_set_type = my_gpio_set_irq_type, + .flags = IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE, + /* Provide the gpio resource callbacks */ + GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS, + }; + + int irq; /* from platform etc */ + struct my_gpio *g; + struct gpio_irq_chip *girq; + + 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; + gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &my_gpio_irq_chip); + /* 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 + + /* Typical state container with dynamic irqchip */ + struct my_gpio { + struct gpio_chip gc; + struct fwnode_handle *fwnode; + }; + + static void my_gpio_mask_irq(struct irq_data *d) + { + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d); + irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d); + + /* + * Perform any necessary action to mask the interrupt, + * and then call into the core code to synchronise the + * state. + */ + + gpiochip_disable_irq(gc, hwirq); + irq_mask_mask_parent(d); + } + + static void my_gpio_unmask_irq(struct irq_data *d) + { + struct gpio_chip *gc = irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(d); + irq_hw_number_t hwirq = irqd_to_hwirq(d); + + gpiochip_enable_irq(gc, hwirq); + + /* + * Perform any necessary action to unmask the interrupt, + * after having called into the core code to synchronise + * the state. + */ + + irq_mask_unmask_parent(d); + } + + /* + * Statically populate the irqchip. Note that it is made const + * (further indicated by the IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE flag), and that + * the GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPER macro adds some extra + * callbacks to the structure. + */ + static const struct irq_chip my_gpio_irq_chip = { + .name = "my_gpio_irq", + .irq_ack = my_gpio_ack_irq, + .irq_mask = my_gpio_mask_irq, + .irq_unmask = my_gpio_unmask_irq, + .irq_set_type = my_gpio_set_irq_type, + .flags = IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE, + /* Provide the gpio resource callbacks */ + GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS, + }; + + struct my_gpio *g; + struct gpio_irq_chip *girq; + + /* Get a pointer to the gpio_irq_chip */ + girq = &g->gc.irq; + gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &my_gpio_irq_chip); + girq->default_type = IRQ_TYPE_NONE; + girq->handler = handle_bad_irq; + girq->fwnode = g->fwnode; + girq->parent_domain = parent; + girq->child_to_parent_hwirq = my_gpio_child_to_parent_hwirq; + + return devm_gpiochip_add_data(dev, &g->gc, g); + +As you can see pretty similar, but you do not supply a parent handler for +the IRQ, instead a parent irqdomain, an fwnode for the hardware and +a function .child_to_parent_hwirq() that has the purpose of looking up +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. + +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 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: + +- Make sure to assign all relevant members of the struct gpio_chip so that + the irqchip can initialize. E.g. .dev and .can_sleep shall be set up + properly. + +- Nominally set gpio_irq_chip.handler to handle_bad_irq. Then, if your irqchip + is cascaded, set the handler to handle_level_irq() and/or handle_edge_irq() + in the irqchip .set_type() callback depending on what your controller + supports and what is requested by the consumer. + + +Locking IRQ usage +----------------- + +Since GPIO and irq_chip are orthogonal, we can get conflicts between different +use cases. For example a GPIO line used for IRQs should be an input line, +it does not make sense to fire interrupts on an output GPIO. + +If there is competition inside the subsystem which side is using the +resource (a certain GPIO line and register for example) it needs to deny +certain operations and keep track of usage inside of the gpiolib subsystem. + +Input GPIOs can be used as IRQ signals. When this happens, a driver is requested +to mark the GPIO as being used as an IRQ:: + + int gpiochip_lock_as_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset) + +This will prevent the use of non-irq related GPIO APIs until the GPIO IRQ lock +is released:: + + void gpiochip_unlock_as_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset) + +When implementing an irqchip inside a GPIO driver, these two functions should +typically be called in the .startup() and .shutdown() callbacks from the +irqchip. + +When using the gpiolib irqchip helpers, these callbacks are automatically +assigned. + + +Disabling and enabling IRQs +--------------------------- + +In some (fringe) use cases, a driver may be using a GPIO line as input for IRQs, +but occasionally switch that line over to drive output and then back to being +an input with interrupts again. This happens on things like CEC (Consumer +Electronics Control). + +When a GPIO is used as an IRQ signal, then gpiolib also needs to know if +the IRQ is enabled or disabled. In order to inform gpiolib about this, +the irqchip driver should call:: + + void gpiochip_disable_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset) + +This allows drivers to drive the GPIO as an output while the IRQ is +disabled. When the IRQ is enabled again, a driver should call:: + + void gpiochip_enable_irq(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset) + +When implementing an irqchip inside a GPIO driver, these two functions should +typically be called in the .irq_disable() and .irq_enable() callbacks from the +irqchip. + +When IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE is not advertised by the irqchip, these callbacks +are automatically assigned. This behaviour is deprecated and on its way +to be removed from the kernel. + + +Real-Time compliance for GPIO IRQ chips +--------------------------------------- + +Any provider of irqchips needs to be carefully tailored to support Real-Time +preemption. It is desirable that all irqchips in the GPIO subsystem keep this +in mind and do the proper testing to assure they are real time-enabled. + +So, pay attention on above realtime considerations in the documentation. + +The following is a checklist to follow when preparing a driver for real-time +compliance: + +- ensure spinlock_t is not used as part irq_chip implementation +- ensure that sleepable APIs are not used as part irq_chip implementation + If sleepable APIs have to be used, these can be done from the .irq_bus_lock() + and .irq_bus_unlock() callbacks +- Chained GPIO irqchips: ensure spinlock_t or any sleepable APIs are not used + from the chained IRQ handler +- Generic chained GPIO irqchips: take care about generic_handle_irq() calls and + apply corresponding work-around +- Chained GPIO irqchips: get rid of the chained IRQ handler and use generic irq + handler if possible +- regmap_mmio: it is possible to disable internal locking in regmap by setting + .disable_locking and handling the locking in the GPIO driver +- Test your driver with the appropriate in-kernel real-time test cases for both + level and edge IRQs + +* [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1437496011-11486-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de/ +* [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1443209283-20781-2-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com +* [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1443209283-20781-3-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com + + +Requesting self-owned GPIO pins +=============================== + +Sometimes it is useful to allow a GPIO chip driver to request its own GPIO +descriptors through the gpiolib API. A GPIO driver can use the following +functions to request and free descriptors:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiochip_request_own_desc(struct gpio_desc *desc, + u16 hwnum, + const char *label, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + void gpiochip_free_own_desc(struct gpio_desc *desc) + +Descriptors requested with gpiochip_request_own_desc() must be released with +gpiochip_free_own_desc(). + +These functions must be used with care since they do not affect module use +count. Do not use the functions to request gpio descriptors not owned by the +calling driver. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..95572d2a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +============================ +Subsystem drivers using GPIO +============================ + +Note that standard kernel drivers exist for common GPIO tasks and will provide +the right in-kernel and userspace APIs/ABIs for the job, and that these +drivers can quite easily interconnect with other kernel subsystems using +hardware descriptions such as device tree or ACPI: + +- leds-gpio: drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c will handle LEDs connected to GPIO + lines, giving you the LED sysfs interface + +- ledtrig-gpio: drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-gpio.c will provide a LED trigger, + i.e. a LED will turn on/off in response to a GPIO line going high or low + (and that LED may in turn use the leds-gpio as per above). + +- gpio-keys: drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c is used when your GPIO line + can generate interrupts in response to a key press. Also supports debounce. + +- gpio-keys-polled: drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys_polled.c is used when your + GPIO line cannot generate interrupts, so it needs to be periodically polled + by a timer. + +- gpio_mouse: drivers/input/mouse/gpio_mouse.c is used to provide a mouse with + up to three buttons by simply using GPIOs and no mouse port. You can cut the + mouse cable and connect the wires to GPIO lines or solder a mouse connector + to the lines for a more permanent solution of this type. + +- gpio-beeper: drivers/input/misc/gpio-beeper.c is used to provide a beep from + an external speaker connected to a GPIO line. (If the beep is controlled by + off/on, for an actual PWM waveform, see pwm-gpio below.) + +- pwm-gpio: drivers/pwm/pwm-gpio.c is used to toggle a GPIO with a high + resolution timer producing a PWM waveform on the GPIO line, as well as + Linux high resolution timers can do. + +- extcon-gpio: drivers/extcon/extcon-gpio.c is used when you need to read an + external connector status, such as a headset line for an audio driver or an + HDMI connector. It will provide a better userspace sysfs interface than GPIO. + +- restart-gpio: drivers/power/reset/gpio-restart.c is used to restart/reboot + the system by pulling a GPIO line and will register a restart handler so + userspace can issue the right system call to restart the system. + +- poweroff-gpio: drivers/power/reset/gpio-poweroff.c is used to power the + system down by pulling a GPIO line and will register a pm_power_off() + callback so that userspace can issue the right system call to power down the + system. + +- gpio-gate-clock: drivers/clk/clk-gpio.c is used to control a gated clock + (off/on) that uses a GPIO, and integrated with the clock subsystem. + +- i2c-gpio: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-gpio.c is used to drive an I2C bus + (two wires, SDA and SCL lines) by hammering (bitbang) two GPIO lines. It will + appear as any other I2C bus to the system and makes it possible to connect + drivers for the I2C devices on the bus like any other I2C bus driver. + +- spi_gpio: drivers/spi/spi-gpio.c is used to drive an SPI bus (variable number + of wires, at least SCK and optionally MISO, MOSI and chip select lines) using + GPIO hammering (bitbang). It will appear as any other SPI bus on the system + and makes it possible to connect drivers for SPI devices on the bus like + any other SPI bus driver. For example any MMC/SD card can then be connected + to this SPI by using the mmc_spi host from the MMC/SD card subsystem. + +- w1-gpio: drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c is used to drive a one-wire bus using + a GPIO line, integrating with the W1 subsystem and handling devices on + the bus like any other W1 device. + +- gpio-fan: drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c is used to control a fan for cooling the + system, connected to a GPIO line (and optionally a GPIO alarm line), + presenting all the right in-kernel and sysfs interfaces to make your system + not overheat. + +- gpio-regulator: drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c is used to control a + regulator providing a certain voltage by pulling a GPIO line, integrating + with the regulator subsystem and giving you all the right interfaces. + +- gpio-wdt: drivers/watchdog/gpio_wdt.c is used to provide a watchdog timer + that will periodically "ping" a hardware connected to a GPIO line by toggling + it from 1-to-0-to-1. If that hardware does not receive its "ping" + periodically, it will reset the system. + +- gpio-nand: drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpio.c is used to connect a NAND flash chip + to a set of simple GPIO lines: RDY, NCE, ALE, CLE, NWP. It interacts with the + NAND flash MTD subsystem and provides chip access and partition parsing like + any other NAND driving hardware. + +- ps2-gpio: drivers/input/serio/ps2-gpio.c is used to drive a PS/2 (IBM) serio + bus, data and clock line, by bit banging two GPIO lines. It will appear as + any other serio bus to the system and makes it possible to connect drivers + for e.g. keyboards and other PS/2 protocol based devices. + +- cec-gpio: drivers/media/platform/cec-gpio/ is used to interact with a CEC + Consumer Electronics Control bus using only GPIO. It is used to communicate + with devices on the HDMI bus. + +- gpio-charger: drivers/power/supply/gpio-charger.c is used if you need to do + battery charging and all you have to go by to check the presence of the + AC charger or more complex tasks such as indicating charging status using + nothing but GPIO lines, this driver provides that and also a clearly defined + way to pass the charging parameters from hardware descriptions such as the + device tree. + +- gpio-mux: drivers/mux/gpio.c is used for controlling a multiplexer using + n GPIO lines such that you can mux in 2^n different devices by activating + different GPIO lines. Often the GPIOs are on a SoC and the devices are + some SoC-external entities, such as different components on a PCB that + can be selectively enabled. + +Apart from this there are special GPIO drivers in subsystems like MMC/SD to +read card detect and write protect GPIO lines, and in the TTY serial subsystem +to emulate MCTRL (modem control) signals CTS/RTS by using two GPIO lines. The +MTD NOR flash has add-ons for extra GPIO lines too, though the address bus is +usually connected directly to the flash. + +Use those instead of talking directly to the GPIOs from userspace; they +integrate with kernel frameworks better than your userspace code could. +Needless to say, just using the appropriate kernel drivers will simplify and +speed up your embedded hacking in particular by providing ready-made components. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bee58f709 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +=================================== +General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) +=================================== + +Contents: + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + intro + using-gpio + driver + consumer + board + legacy-boards + drivers-on-gpio + bt8xxgpio + pca953x + +Core +==== + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gpio/driver.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c + :export: + +ACPI support +============ + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c + :export: + +Device tree support +=================== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c + :export: + +Device-managed API +================== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devres.c + :export: + +sysfs helpers +============= + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c + :export: diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5936a9c57 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +============ +Introduction +============ + + +GPIO Interfaces +=============== + +The documents in this directory give detailed instructions on how to access +GPIOs in drivers, and how to write a driver for a device that provides GPIOs +itself. + + +What is a GPIO? +=============== + +A "General Purpose Input/Output" (GPIO) is a flexible software-controlled +digital signal. They are provided from many kinds of chips, and are familiar +to Linux developers working with embedded and custom hardware. Each GPIO +represents a bit connected to a particular pin, or "ball" on Ball Grid Array +(BGA) packages. Board schematics show which external hardware connects to +which GPIOs. Drivers can be written generically, so that board setup code +passes such pin configuration data to drivers. + +System-on-Chip (SOC) processors heavily rely on GPIOs. In some cases, every +non-dedicated pin can be configured as a GPIO; and most chips have at least +several dozen of them. Programmable logic devices (like FPGAs) can easily +provide GPIOs; multifunction chips like power managers, and audio codecs +often have a few such pins to help with pin scarcity on SOCs; and there are +also "GPIO Expander" chips that connect using the I2C or SPI serial buses. +Most PC southbridges have a few dozen GPIO-capable pins (with only the BIOS +firmware knowing how they're used). + +The exact capabilities of GPIOs vary between systems. Common options: + + - Output values are writable (high=1, low=0). Some chips also have + options about how that value is driven, so that for example only one + value might be driven, supporting "wire-OR" and similar schemes for the + other value (notably, "open drain" signaling). + + - Input values are likewise readable (1, 0). Some chips support readback + of pins configured as "output", which is very useful in such "wire-OR" + cases (to support bidirectional signaling). GPIO controllers may have + input de-glitch/debounce logic, sometimes with software controls. + + - Inputs can often be used as IRQ signals, often edge triggered but + sometimes level triggered. Such IRQs may be configurable as system + wakeup events, to wake the system from a low power state. + + - Usually a GPIO will be configurable as either input or output, as needed + by different product boards; single direction ones exist too. + + - Most GPIOs can be accessed while holding spinlocks, but those accessed + through a serial bus normally can't. Some systems support both types. + +On a given board each GPIO is used for one specific purpose like monitoring +MMC/SD card insertion/removal, detecting card write-protect status, driving +a LED, configuring a transceiver, bit-banging a serial bus, poking a hardware +watchdog, sensing a switch, and so on. + + +Common GPIO Properties +====================== + +These properties are met through all the other documents of the GPIO interface +and it is useful to understand them, especially if you need to define GPIO +mappings. + +Active-High and Active-Low +-------------------------- +It is natural to assume that a GPIO is "active" when its output signal is 1 +("high"), and inactive when it is 0 ("low"). However in practice the signal of a +GPIO may be inverted before is reaches its destination, or a device could decide +to have different conventions about what "active" means. Such decisions should +be transparent to device drivers, therefore it is possible to define a GPIO as +being either active-high ("1" means "active", the default) or active-low ("0" +means "active") so that drivers only need to worry about the logical signal and +not about what happens at the line level. + +Open Drain and Open Source +-------------------------- +Sometimes shared signals need to use "open drain" (where only the low signal +level is actually driven), or "open source" (where only the high signal level is +driven) signaling. That term applies to CMOS transistors; "open collector" is +used for TTL. A pullup or pulldown resistor causes the high or low signal level. +This is sometimes called a "wire-AND"; or more practically, from the negative +logic (low=true) perspective this is a "wire-OR". + +One common example of an open drain signal is a shared active-low IRQ line. +Also, bidirectional data bus signals sometimes use open drain signals. + +Some GPIO controllers directly support open drain and open source outputs; many +don't. When you need open drain signaling but your hardware doesn't directly +support it, there's a common idiom you can use to emulate it with any GPIO pin +that can be used as either an input or an output: + + **LOW**: ``gpiod_direction_output(gpio, 0)`` ... this drives the signal and + overrides the pullup. + + **HIGH**: ``gpiod_direction_input(gpio)`` ... this turns off the output, so + the pullup (or some other device) controls the signal. + +The same logic can be applied to emulate open source signaling, by driving the +high signal and configuring the GPIO as input for low. This open drain/open +source emulation can be handled transparently by the GPIO framework. + +If you are "driving" the signal high but gpiod_get_value(gpio) reports a low +value (after the appropriate rise time passes), you know some other component is +driving the shared signal low. That's not necessarily an error. As one common +example, that's how I2C clocks are stretched: a slave that needs a slower clock +delays the rising edge of SCK, and the I2C master adjusts its signaling rate +accordingly. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy-boards.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy-boards.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a9d33bcbb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/legacy-boards.rst @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ +Supporting Legacy Boards +======================== + +Many drivers in the kernel, such as ``leds-gpio`` and ``gpio-keys``, are +migrating away from using board-specific ``platform_data`` to a unified device +properties interface. This interface allows drivers to be simpler and more +generic, as they can query properties in a standardized way. + +On modern systems, these properties are provided via device tree. However, some +older platforms have not been converted to device tree and instead rely on +board files to describe their hardware configuration. To bridge this gap and +allow these legacy boards to work with modern, generic drivers, the kernel +provides a mechanism called **software nodes**. + +This document provides a guide on how to convert a legacy board file from using +``platform_data`` and ``gpiod_lookup_table`` to the modern software node +approach for describing GPIO-connected devices. + +The Core Idea: Software Nodes +----------------------------- + +Software nodes allow board-specific code to construct an in-memory, +device-tree-like structure using struct software_node and struct +property_entry. This structure can then be associated with a platform device, +allowing drivers to use the standard device properties API (e.g., +device_property_read_u32(), device_property_read_string()) to query +configuration, just as they would on an ACPI or device tree system. + +The gpiolib code has support for handling software nodes, so that if GPIO is +described properly, as detailed in the section below, then regular gpiolib APIs, +such as gpiod_get(), gpiod_get_optional(), and others will work. + +Requirements for GPIO Properties +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +When using software nodes to describe GPIO connections, the following +requirements must be met for the GPIO core to correctly resolve the reference: + +1. **The GPIO controller's software node must be registered and attached to + the controller's ``struct device`` either as its primary or secondary + firmware node.** The gpiolib core uses the address of the firmware node to + find the corresponding ``struct gpio_chip`` at runtime. + +2. **The GPIO property must be a reference.** The ``PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO()`` + macro handles this as it is an alias for ``PROPERTY_ENTRY_REF()``. + +3. **The reference must have exactly two arguments:** + + - The first argument is the GPIO offset within the controller. + - The second argument is the flags for the GPIO line (e.g., + GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW). + +The ``PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO()`` macro is the preferred way of defining GPIO +properties in software nodes. + +Conversion Example +------------------ + +Let's walk through an example of converting a board file that defines a GPIO- +connected LED and a button. + +Before: Using Platform Data +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +A typical legacy board file might look like this: + +.. code-block:: c + + #include <linux/platform_device.h> + #include <linux/leds.h> + #include <linux/gpio_keys.h> + #include <linux/gpio/machine.h> + + #define MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER "gpio-foo" + + /* LED setup */ + static const struct gpio_led myboard_leds[] = { + { + .name = "myboard:green:status", + .default_trigger = "heartbeat", + }, + }; + + static const struct gpio_led_platform_data myboard_leds_pdata = { + .num_leds = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_leds), + .leds = myboard_leds, + }; + + static struct gpiod_lookup_table myboard_leds_gpios = { + .dev_id = "leds-gpio", + .table = { + GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX(MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER, 42, NULL, 0, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH), + { }, + }, + }; + + /* Button setup */ + static struct gpio_keys_button myboard_buttons[] = { + { + .code = KEY_WPS_BUTTON, + .desc = "WPS Button", + .active_low = 1, + }, + }; + + static const struct gpio_keys_platform_data myboard_buttons_pdata = { + .buttons = myboard_buttons, + .nbuttons = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_buttons), + }; + + static struct gpiod_lookup_table myboard_buttons_gpios = { + .dev_id = "gpio-keys", + .table = { + GPIO_LOOKUP_IDX(MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER, 15, NULL, 0, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW), + { }, + }, + }; + + /* Device registration */ + static int __init myboard_init(void) + { + struct platform_device_info pdev_info = { + .name = MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER, + .id = PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, + .swnode = &gpio_controller_node + }; + + gpiod_add_lookup_table(&myboard_leds_gpios); + gpiod_add_lookup_table(&myboard_buttons_gpios); + + platform_device_register_full(&pdev_info); + platform_device_register_data(NULL, "leds-gpio", -1, + &myboard_leds_pdata, sizeof(myboard_leds_pdata)); + platform_device_register_data(NULL, "gpio-keys", -1, + &myboard_buttons_pdata, + sizeof(myboard_buttons_pdata)); + + return 0; + } + +After: Using Software Nodes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Here is how the same configuration can be expressed using software nodes. + +Step 1: Define the GPIO Controller Node +*************************************** + +First, define a software node that represents the GPIO controller that the +LEDs and buttons are connected to. The ``name`` of this node is optional. + +.. code-block:: c + + #include <linux/property.h> + #include <linux/gpio/property.h> + + #define MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER "gpio-foo" + + static const struct software_node myboard_gpio_controller_node = { + .name = MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER, + }; + +Step 2: Define Consumer Device Nodes and Properties +*************************************************** + +Next, define the software nodes for the consumer devices (the LEDs and buttons). +This involves creating a parent node for each device type and child nodes for +each individual LED or button. + +.. code-block:: c + + /* LED setup */ + static const struct software_node myboard_leds_node = { + .name = "myboard-leds", + }; + + static const struct property_entry myboard_status_led_props[] = { + PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("label", "myboard:green:status"), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("linux,default-trigger", "heartbeat"), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO("gpios", &myboard_gpio_controller_node, 42, GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH), + { } + }; + + static const struct software_node myboard_status_led_swnode = { + .name = "status-led", + .parent = &myboard_leds_node, + .properties = myboard_status_led_props, + }; + + /* Button setup */ + static const struct software_node myboard_keys_node = { + .name = "myboard-keys", + }; + + static const struct property_entry myboard_wps_button_props[] = { + PROPERTY_ENTRY_STRING("label", "WPS Button"), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_U32("linux,code", KEY_WPS_BUTTON), + PROPERTY_ENTRY_GPIO("gpios", &myboard_gpio_controller_node, 15, GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW), + { } + }; + + static const struct software_node myboard_wps_button_swnode = { + .name = "wps-button", + .parent = &myboard_keys_node, + .properties = myboard_wps_button_props, + }; + + + +Step 3: Group and Register the Nodes +************************************ + +For maintainability, it is often beneficial to group all software nodes into a +single array and register them with one call. + +.. code-block:: c + + static const struct software_node * const myboard_swnodes[] = { + &myboard_gpio_controller_node, + &myboard_leds_node, + &myboard_status_led_swnode, + &myboard_keys_node, + &myboard_wps_button_swnode, + NULL + }; + + static int __init myboard_init(void) + { + int error; + + error = software_node_register_node_group(myboard_swnodes); + if (error) { + pr_err("Failed to register software nodes: %d\n", error); + return error; + } + + // ... platform device registration follows + } + +.. note:: + When splitting registration of nodes by devices that they represent, it is + essential that the software node representing the GPIO controller itself + is registered first, before any of the nodes that reference it. + +Step 4: Register Platform Devices with Software Nodes +***************************************************** + +Finally, register the platform devices and associate them with their respective +software nodes using the ``fwnode`` field in struct platform_device_info. + +.. code-block:: c + + static struct platform_device *leds_pdev; + static struct platform_device *keys_pdev; + + static int __init myboard_init(void) + { + struct platform_device_info pdev_info; + int error; + + error = software_node_register_node_group(myboard_swnodes); + if (error) + return error; + + memset(&pdev_info, 0, sizeof(pdev_info)); + pdev_info.name = MYBOARD_GPIO_CONTROLLER; + pdev_info.id = PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE; + pdev_info.swnode = &myboard_gpio_controller_node; + gpio_pdev = platform_device_register_full(&pdev_info); + if (IS_ERR(gpio_pdev)) { + error = PTR_ERR(gpio_pdev); + goto err_unregister_nodes; + } + + memset(&pdev_info, 0, sizeof(pdev_info)); + pdev_info.name = "leds-gpio"; + pdev_info.id = PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE; + pdev_info.fwnode = software_node_fwnode(&myboard_leds_node); + leds_pdev = platform_device_register_full(&pdev_info); + if (IS_ERR(leds_pdev)) { + error = PTR_ERR(leds_pdev); + platform_device_unregister(gpio_pdev); + goto err_unregister_nodes; + } + + memset(&pdev_info, 0, sizeof(pdev_info)); + pdev_info.name = "gpio-keys"; + pdev_info.id = PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE; + pdev_info.fwnode = software_node_fwnode(&myboard_keys_node); + keys_pdev = platform_device_register_full(&pdev_info); + if (IS_ERR(keys_pdev)) { + error = PTR_ERR(keys_pdev); + platform_device_unregister(gpio_pdev); + platform_device_unregister(leds_pdev); + goto err_unregister_nodes; + } + + return 0; + + err_unregister_nodes: + software_node_unregister_node_group(myboard_swnodes); + return error; + } + + static void __exit myboard_exit(void) + { + platform_device_unregister(keys_pdev); + platform_device_unregister(leds_pdev); + platform_device_unregister(gpio_pdev); + software_node_unregister_node_group(myboard_swnodes); + } + +With these changes, the generic ``leds-gpio`` and ``gpio-keys`` drivers will +be able to probe successfully and get their configuration from the properties +defined in the software nodes, removing the need for board-specific platform +data. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/pca953x.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/pca953x.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fa4a57aa8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/pca953x.rst @@ -0,0 +1,639 @@ +============================================ +PCA953x I²C GPIO expander compatibility list +============================================ + +:Author: Levente Révész <levente.revesz@eilabs.com> + +I went through all the datasheets and created this note listing +chip functions and register layouts. + +Overview of chips +================= + +Chips with the basic 4 registers +-------------------------------- + +These chips have 4 register banks: input, output, invert and direction. +Each of these banks contains (lines/8) registers, one for each GPIO port. + +Banks offset is always a power of 2: + +- 4 lines -> bank offset is 1 +- 8 lines -> bank offset is 1 +- 16 lines -> bank offset is 2 +- 24 lines -> bank offset is 4 +- 32 lines -> bank offset is 4 +- 40 lines -> bank offset is 8 + +For example, register layout of GPIO expander with 24 lines: + ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| addr | function | bank | ++======+=================+========+ +| 00 | input port0 | | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 01 | input port1 | bank 0 | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 02 | input port2 | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 03 | n/a | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 04 | output port0 | | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 05 | output port1 | bank 1 | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 06 | output port2 | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 07 | n/a | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 08 | invert port0 | | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 09 | invert port1 | bank 2 | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 0A | invert port2 | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 0B | n/a | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 0C | direction port0 | | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 0D | direction port1 | bank 3 | ++------+-----------------+ | +| 0E | direction port2 | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ +| 0F | n/a | | ++------+-----------------+--------+ + +.. note:: + This is followed by all supported chips, except by pcal6534. + +The table below shows the offsets for each of the compatible chips: + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= +pca9536 4 no 00 01 02 03 +pca9537 4 yes 00 01 02 03 +pca6408 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +tca6408 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pca9534 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pca9538 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pca9554 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +tca9554 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pca9556 8 no 00 01 02 03 +pca9557 8 no 00 01 02 03 +pca6107 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pca6416 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +tca6416 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +pca9535 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +pca9539 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +tca9539 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +pca9555 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +max7318 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +tca6424 24 yes 00 04 08 0C +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= + +Chips with additional timeout_en register +----------------------------------------- + +These Maxim chips have a bus timeout function which can be enabled in +the timeout_en register. This is present in only two chips. Defaults to +timeout disabled. + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ========== +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction timeout_en +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ========== +max7310 8 no 00 01 02 03 04 +max7312 16 yes 00 02 04 06 08 +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ========== + +Chips with additional int_mask register +--------------------------------------- + +These chips have an interrupt mask register in addition to the 4 basic +registers. The interrupt masks default to all interrupts disabled. To +use interrupts with these chips, the driver has to set the int_mask +register. + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ======== +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction int_mask +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ======== +pca9505 40 yes 00 08 10 18 20 +pca9506 40 yes 00 08 10 18 20 +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ======== + +Chips with additional int_mask and out_conf registers +----------------------------------------------------- + +This chip has an interrupt mask register, and an output port +configuration register, which can select between push-pull and +open-drain modes. Each bit controls two lines. Both of these registers +are present in PCAL chips as well, albeit the out_conf works +differently. + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ======== ======== +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction int_mask out_conf +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ======== ======== +pca9698 40 yes 00 08 10 18 20 28 +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ======== ======== + +pca9698 also has a "master output" register for setting all outputs per +port to the same value simultaneously, and a chip specific mode register +for various additional chip settings. + +========== ============= ==== +compatible master_output mode +========== ============= ==== +pca9698 29 2A +========== ============= ==== + +Chips with LED blink and intensity control +------------------------------------------ + +These Maxim chips have no invert register. + +They have two sets of output registers (output0 and output1). An internal +timer alternates the effective output between the values set in these +registers, if blink mode is enabled in the blink register. The +master_intensity register and the intensity registers together define +the PWM intensity value for each pair of outputs. + +These chips can be used as simple GPIO expanders if the driver handles the +input, output0 and direction registers. + +========== ===== ========= ===== ======= ========= ======= ================ ===== ========= +compatible lines interrupt input output0 direction output1 master_intensity blink intensity +========== ===== ========= ===== ======= ========= ======= ================ ===== ========= +max7315 8 yes 00 01 03 09 0E 0F 10 +max7313 16 yes 00 02 06 0A 0E 0F 10 +========== ===== ========= ===== ======= ========= ======= ================ ===== ========= + +Basic PCAL chips +---------------- + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= +pcal6408 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pcal9554b 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +pcal6416 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +pcal9535 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +pcal9555a 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +tcal6408 8 yes 00 01 02 03 +tcal6416 16 yes 00 02 04 06 +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= + +These chips have several additional features: + + 1. output drive strength setting (out_strength) + 2. input latch (in_latch) + 3. pull-up/pull-down (pull_in, pull_sel) + 4. push-pull/open-drain outputs (out_conf) + 5. interrupt mask and interrupt status (int_mask, int_status) + +========== ============ ======== ======= ======== ======== ========== ======== +compatible out_strength in_latch pull_en pull_sel int_mask int_status out_conf +========== ============ ======== ======= ======== ======== ========== ======== +pcal6408 40 42 43 44 45 46 4F +pcal9554b 40 42 43 44 45 46 4F +pcal6416 40 44 46 48 4A 4C 4F +pcal9535 40 44 46 48 4A 4C 4F +pcal9555a 40 44 46 48 4A 4C 4F +tcal6408 40 42 43 44 45 46 4F +tcal6416 40 44 46 48 4A 4C 4F +========== ============ ======== ======= ======== ======== ========== ======== + +Currently the driver has support for the input latch, pull-up/pull-down +and uses int_mask and int_status for interrupts. + +PCAL chips with extended interrupt and output configuration functions +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= +pcal6524 24 yes 00 04 08 0C +pcal6534 34 yes 00 05 0A 0F +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= + +These chips have the full PCAL register set, plus the following functions: + + 1. interrupt event selection: level, rising, falling, any edge + 2. clear interrupt status per line + 3. read input without clearing interrupt status + 4. individual output config (push-pull/open-drain) per output line + 5. debounce inputs + +========== ============ ======== ======= ======== ======== ========== ======== +compatible out_strength in_latch pull_en pull_sel int_mask int_status out_conf +========== ============ ======== ======= ======== ======== ========== ======== +pcal6524 40 48 4C 50 54 58 5C +pcal6534 30 3A 3F 44 49 4E 53 +========== ============ ======== ======= ======== ======== ========== ======== + +========== ======== ========= ============ ============== ======== ============== +compatible int_edge int_clear input_status indiv_out_conf debounce debounce_count +========== ======== ========= ============ ============== ======== ============== +pcal6524 60 68 6C 70 74 76 +pcal6534 54 5E 63 68 6D 6F +========== ======== ========= ============ ============== ======== ============== + +As can be seen in the table above, pcal6534 does not follow the usual +bank spacing rule. Its banks are closely packed instead. + +PCA957X chips with a completely different register layout +--------------------------------------------------------- + +These chips have the basic 4 registers, but at unusual addresses. + +Additionally, they have: + + 1. pull-up/pull-down (pull_sel) + 2. a global pull enable, defaults to disabled (config) + 3. interrupt mask, interrupt status (int_mask, int_status) + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ======== ========= ====== ======== ========== +compatible lines interrupt input invert config pull_sel direction output int_mask int_status +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ======== ========= ====== ======== ========== +pca9574 8 yes 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 +pca9575 16 yes 00 02 04 06 08 0A 0C 0E +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ======== ========= ====== ======== ========== + +Currently the driver supports none of the advanced features. + +XRA1202 +------- + +Basic 4 registers, plus advanced features: + + 1. interrupt mask, defaults to interrupts disabled + 2. interrupt status + 3. interrupt event selection, level, rising, falling, any edge + (int_mask, rising_mask, falling_mask) + 4. pull-up (no pull-down) + 5. tri-state + 6. debounce + +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ========= +compatible lines interrupt input output invert direction pullup_en +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ========= +xra1202 8 yes 00 01 02 03 04 +========== ===== ========= ===== ====== ====== ========= ========= + +========== ======== ======== ========== =========== ============ ======== +compatible int_mask tristate int_status rising_mask falling_mask debounce +========== ======== ======== ========== =========== ============ ======== +xra1202 05 06 07 08 09 0A +========== ======== ======== ========== =========== ============ ======== + +Overview of functions +===================== + +This section lists chip functions that are supported by the driver +already, or are at least common in multiple chips. + +Input, Output, Invert, Direction +-------------------------------- + +The basic 4 GPIO functions are present in all but one chip category, i.e. +`Chips with LED blink and intensity control`_ are missing the invert +register. + +3 different layouts are used for these registers: + + 1. banks 0, 1, 2, 3 with bank offsets of 2^n + - all other chips + + 2. banks 0, 1, 2, 3 with closely packed banks + - pcal6534 + + 3. banks 0, 5, 1, 4 with bank offsets of 2^n + - pca9574 + - pca9575 + +Interrupts +---------- + +Only an interrupt mask register +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The same layout is used for all of these: + + 1. bank 5 with bank offsets of 2^n + - pca9505 + - pca9506 + - pca9698 + +Interrupt mask and interrupt status registers +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +These work the same way in all of the chips: mask and status have +one bit per line, 1 in the mask means interrupt enabled. + +Layouts: + + 1. base offset 0x40, bank 5 and bank 6, bank offsets of 2^n + - pcal6408 + - pcal6416 + - pcal9535 + - pcal9554b + - pcal9555a + - pcal6524 + - tcal6408 + - tcal6416 + + 2. base offset 0x30, bank 5 and 6, closely packed banks + - pcal6534 + + 3. bank 6 and 7, bank offsets of 2^n + - pca9574 + - pca9575 + + 4. bank 5 and 7, bank offsets of 2^n + - xra1202 + +Interrupt on specific edges +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +`PCAL chips with extended interrupt and output configuration functions`_ +have an int_edge register. This contains 2 bits per line, one of 4 events +can be selected for each line: + + 0: level, 1: rising edge, 2: falling edge, 3: any edge + +Layouts: + + 1. base offset 0x40, bank 7, bank offsets of 2^n + + - pcal6524 + + 2. base offset 0x30, bank 7 + offset 0x01, closely packed banks + (out_conf is 1 byte, not (lines/8) bytes, hence the 0x01 offset) + + - pcal6534 + +`XRA1202`_ chips have a different mechanism for the same thing: they have +a rising mask and a falling mask, with one bit per line. + +Layout: + + 1. bank 5, bank offsets of 2^n + +Input latch +----------- + +Only `Basic PCAL chips`_ and +`PCAL chips with extended interrupt and output configuration functions`_ +have this function. When the latch is enabled, the interrupt is not cleared +until the input port is read. When the latch is disabled, the interrupt +is cleared even if the input register is not read, if the input pin returns +to the logic value it had before generating the interrupt. Defaults to latch +disabled. + +Currently the driver enables the latch for each line with interrupt +enabled. + +An interrupt status register records which pins triggered an interrupt. +However, the status register and the input port register must be read +separately; there is no atomic mechanism to read both simultaneously, so races +are possible. Refer to the chapter `Interrupt source detection`_ to understand +the implications of this and how the driver still makes use of the latching +feature. + + 1. base offset 0x40, bank 2, bank offsets of 2^n + - pcal6408 + - pcal6416 + - pcal9535 + - pcal9554b + - pcal9555a + - pcal6524 + - tcal6408 + - tcal6416 + + 2. base offset 0x30, bank 2, closely packed banks + - pcal6534 + +Pull-up and pull-down +--------------------- + +`Basic PCAL chips`_ and +`PCAL chips with extended interrupt and output configuration functions`_ +use the same mechanism: their pull_en register enables the pull-up or pull-down +function, and their pull_sel register chooses the direction. They all use one +bit per line. + + 0: pull-down, 1: pull-up + +Layouts: + + 1. base offset 0x40, bank 3 (en) and 4 (sel), bank offsets of 2^n + - pcal6408 + - pcal6416 + - pcal9535 + - pcal9554b + - pcal9555a + - pcal6524 + + 2. base offset 0x30, bank 3 (en) and 4 (sel), closely packed banks + - pcal6534 + +`PCA957X chips with a completely different register layout`_ have a pull_sel +register with one bit per line, and a global pull_en bit in their config +register. + +Layout: + + 1. bank 2 (config), bank 3 (sel), bank offsets of 2^n + - pca9574 + - pca9575 + +`XRA1202`_ chips can only pull-up. They have a pullup_en register. + +Layout: + + 1. bank 4, bank offsets of 2^n + - xra1202 + +Push-pull and open-drain +------------------------ + +`Chips with additional int_mask and out_conf registers`_ have this function, +but only for select IO ports. Register has 1 bit per 2 lines. In pca9698, +only port0 and port1 have this function. + + 0: open-drain, 1: push-pull + +Layout: + + 1. base offset 5*bankoffset + - pca9698 + +`Basic PCAL chips`_ have 1 bit per port in one single out_conf register. +Only whole ports can be configured. + + 0: push-pull, 1: open-drain + +Layout: + + 1. base offset 0x4F + - pcal6408 + - pcal6416 + - pcal9535 + - pcal9554b + - pcal9555a + - tcal6408 + - tcal6416 + +`PCAL chips with extended interrupt and output configuration functions`_ +can set this for each line individually. They have the same per-port out_conf +register as `Basic PCAL chips`_, but they also have an indiv_out_conf register +with one bit per line, which inverts the effect of the port-wise setting. + + 0: push-pull, 1: open-drain + +Layouts: + + 1. base offset 0x40 + 7*bankoffset (out_conf), + base offset 0x60, bank 4 (indiv_out_conf) with bank offset of 2^n + + - pcal6524 + + 2. base offset 0x30 + 7*banksize (out_conf), + base offset 0x54, bank 4 (indiv_out_conf), closely packed banks + + - pcal6534 + +This function is currently not supported by the driver. + +Output drive strength +--------------------- + +Only PCAL chips have this function. 2 bits per line. + +==== ============== +bits drive strength +==== ============== + 00 0.25x + 01 0.50x + 10 0.75x + 11 1.00x +==== ============== + + 1. base offset 0x40, bank 0 and 1, bank offsets of 2^n + - pcal6408 + - pcal6416 + - pcal9535 + - pcal9554b + - pcal9555a + - pcal6524 + - tcal6408 + - tcal6416 + + 2. base offset 0x30, bank 0 and 1, closely packed banks + - pcal6534 + +Currently not supported by the driver. + +Interrupt source detection +========================== + +When triggered by the GPIO expander's interrupt, the driver determines which +IRQs are pending by reading the input port register. + +To be able to filter on specific interrupt events for all compatible devices, +the driver keeps track of the previous input state of the lines, and emits an +IRQ only for the correct edge or level. This system works irrespective of the +number of enabled interrupts. Events will not be missed even if they occur +between the GPIO expander's interrupt and the actual I2C read. Edges could of +course be missed if the related signal level changes back to the value +previously saved by the driver before the I2C read. PCAL variants offer input +latching for that reason. + +PCAL input latching +------------------- + +The PCAL variants have an input latch and the driver enables this for all +interrupt-enabled lines. The interrupt is then only cleared when the input port +is read out. These variants provide an interrupt status register that records +which pins triggered an interrupt, but the status and input registers cannot be +read atomically. If another interrupt occurs on a different line after the +status register has been read but before the input port register is sampled, +that event will not be reflected in the earlier status snapshot, so relying +solely on the interrupt status register is insufficient. + +Thus, the PCAL variants also have to use the existing level-change logic. + +For short pulses, the first edge is captured when the input register is read, +but if the signal returns to its previous level before this read, the second +edge is not observed. As a result, successive pulses can produce identical +input values at read time and no level change is detected, causing interrupts +to be missed. Below timing diagram shows this situation where the top signal is +the input pin level and the bottom signal indicates the latched value:: + + ─────┐ ┌──*───────────────┐ ┌──*─────────────────┐ ┌──*─── + │ │ . │ │ . │ │ . + │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ + └──*──┘ │ └──*──┘ │ └──*──┘ │ + Input │ │ │ │ │ │ + ▼ │ ▼ │ ▼ │ + IRQ │ IRQ │ IRQ │ + . . . + ─────┐ .┌──────────────┐ .┌────────────────┐ .┌── + │ │ │ │ │ │ + │ │ │ │ │ │ + └────────*┘ └────────*┘ └────────*┘ + Latched │ │ │ + ▼ ▼ ▼ + READ 0 READ 0 READ 0 + NO CHANGE NO CHANGE + +To deal with this, events indicated by the interrupt status register are merged +with events detected through the existing level-change logic. As a result: + +- short pulses, whose second edges are invisible, are detected via the + interrupt status register, and +- interrupts that occur between the status and input reads are still + caught by the generic level-change logic. + +Note that this is still best-effort: the status and input registers are read +separately, and short pulses on other lines may occur in between those reads. +Such pulses can still be latched as an interrupt without leaving an observable +level change at read time, and may not be attributable to a specific edge. This +does not reduce detection compared to the generic path, but reflects inherent +atomicity limitations. + +Datasheets +========== + +- MAX7310: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX7310.pdf +- MAX7312: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX7312.pdf +- MAX7313: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX7313.pdf +- MAX7315: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX7315.pdf +- MAX7318: https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX7318.pdf +- PCA6107: https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/161780/TI/PCA6107.html +- PCA6408A: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA6408A.pdf +- PCA6416A: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA6416A.pdf +- PCA9505: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9505_9506.pdf +- PCA9505: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9505_9506.pdf +- PCA9534: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9534.pdf +- PCA9535: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9535_PCA9535C.pdf +- PCA9536: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9536.pdf +- PCA9537: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9537.pdf +- PCA9538: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9538.pdf +- PCA9539: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9539_PCA9539R.pdf +- PCA9554: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9554_9554A.pdf +- PCA9555: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9555.pdf +- PCA9556: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9556.pdf +- PCA9557: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9557.pdf +- PCA9574: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9574.pdf +- PCA9575: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9575.pdf +- PCA9698: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCA9698.pdf +- PCAL6408A: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL6408A.pdf +- PCAL6416A: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL6416A.pdf +- PCAL6524: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL6524.pdf +- PCAL6534: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL6534.pdf +- PCAL9535A: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL9535A.pdf +- PCAL9554B: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL9554B_PCAL9554C.pdf +- PCAL9555A: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/PCAL9555A.pdf +- TCA6408A: https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/tca6408a +- TCA6416: https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/tca6416 +- TCA6424: https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/tca6424 +- TCA9539: https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/tca9539 +- TCA9554: https://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/tca9554 +- XRA1202: https://assets.maxlinear.com/web/documents/xra1202_1202p_101_042213.pdf diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/using-gpio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/using-gpio.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..894d88855 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/using-gpio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +========================= +Using GPIO Lines in Linux +========================= + +The Linux kernel exists to abstract and present hardware to users. GPIO lines +as such are normally not user facing abstractions. The most obvious, natural +and preferred way to use GPIO lines is to let kernel hardware drivers deal +with them. + +For examples of already existing generic drivers that will also be good +examples for any other kernel drivers you want to author, refer to +Documentation/driver-api/gpio/drivers-on-gpio.rst + +For any kind of mass produced system you want to support, such as servers, +laptops, phones, tablets, routers, and any consumer or office or business goods +using appropriate kernel drivers is paramount. Submit your code for inclusion +in the upstream Linux kernel when you feel it is mature enough and you will get +help to refine it, see Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. + +In Linux GPIO lines also have a userspace ABI. + +The userspace ABI is intended for one-off deployments. Examples are prototypes, +factory lines, maker community projects, workshop specimen, production tools, +industrial automation, PLC-type use cases, door controllers, in short a piece +of specialized equipment that is not produced by the numbers, requiring +operators to have a deep knowledge of the equipment and knows about the +software-hardware interface to be set up. They should not have a natural fit +to any existing kernel subsystem and not be a good fit for an operating system, +because of not being reusable or abstract enough, or involving a lot of non +computer hardware related policy. + +Applications that have a good reason to use the industrial I/O (IIO) subsystem +from userspace will likely be a good fit for using GPIO lines from userspace as +well. + +Do not under any circumstances abuse the GPIO userspace ABI to cut corners in +any product development projects. If you use it for prototyping, then do not +productify the prototype: rewrite it using proper kernel drivers. Do not under +any circumstances deploy any uniform products using GPIO from userspace. + +The userspace ABI is a character device for each GPIO hardware unit (GPIO chip). +These devices will appear on the system as ``/dev/gpiochip0`` thru +``/dev/gpiochipN``. Examples of how to directly use the userspace ABI can be +found in the kernel tree ``tools/gpio`` subdirectory. + +For structured and managed applications, we recommend that you make use of the +libgpiod_ library. This provides helper abstractions, command line utilities +and arbitration for multiple simultaneous consumers on the same GPIO chip. + +.. _libgpiod: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libgpiod/libgpiod.git/ |
