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iio: proximity: vl53l0x-i2c: claim direct mode for raw readsgrafted
vl53l0x_read_raw() starts a single-shot ranging measurement and reads back the result. Once the triggered buffer is enabled the sensor runs in continuous mode and its data-ready interrupt is routed to the trigger, so a concurrent in_distance_raw read disturbs the streaming setup and never gets its completion, returning -ETIMEDOUT. The original submission claimed direct mode here, but it was dropped during review because the driver had no buffer support at the time [1]. Continuous (buffered) mode was later added without restoring the claim [2], reintroducing the conflict. Reject direct reads while buffered capture is active by claiming direct mode around the measurement, as the vl53l1x sibling already does. Fixes: 762186c6e7b1 ("iio: proximity: vl53l0x-i2c: Added continuous mode support") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20180911160300.GA9212@himanshu-Vostro-3559/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20240909101508.263085-3-abhashkumarjha123@gmail.com/ [2] Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@oss.qualcomm.com>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================================
+Generic System Interconnect Subsystem
+=====================================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+This framework is designed to provide a standard kernel interface to control
+the settings of the interconnects on an SoC. These settings can be throughput,
+latency and priority between multiple interconnected devices or functional
+blocks. This can be controlled dynamically in order to save power or provide
+maximum performance.
+
+The interconnect bus is hardware with configurable parameters, which can be
+set on a data path according to the requests received from various drivers.
+An example of interconnect buses are the interconnects between various
+components or functional blocks in chipsets. There can be multiple interconnects
+on an SoC that can be multi-tiered.
+
+Below is a simplified diagram of a real-world SoC interconnect bus topology.
+
+::
+
+ +----------------+ +----------------+
+ | HW Accelerator |--->| M NoC |<---------------+
+ +----------------+ +----------------+ |
+ | | +------------+
+ +-----+ +-------------+ V +------+ | |
+ | DDR | | +--------+ | PCIe | | |
+ +-----+ | | Slaves | +------+ | |
+ ^ ^ | +--------+ | | C NoC |
+ | | V V | |
+ +------------------+ +------------------------+ | | +-----+
+ | |-->| |-->| |-->| CPU |
+ | |-->| |<--| | +-----+
+ | Mem NoC | | S NoC | +------------+
+ | |<--| |---------+ |
+ | |<--| |<------+ | | +--------+
+ +------------------+ +------------------------+ | | +-->| Slaves |
+ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | | +--------+
+ | | | | | | V
+ +------+ | +-----+ +-----+ +---------+ +----------------+ +--------+
+ | CPUs | | | GPU | | DSP | | Masters |-->| P NoC |-->| Slaves |
+ +------+ | +-----+ +-----+ +---------+ +----------------+ +--------+
+ |
+ +-------+
+ | Modem |
+ +-------+
+
+Terminology
+-----------
+
+Interconnect provider is the software definition of the interconnect hardware.
+The interconnect providers on the above diagram are M NoC, S NoC, C NoC, P NoC
+and Mem NoC.
+
+Interconnect node is the software definition of the interconnect hardware
+port. Each interconnect provider consists of multiple interconnect nodes,
+which are connected to other SoC components including other interconnect
+providers. The point on the diagram where the CPUs connect to the memory is
+called an interconnect node, which belongs to the Mem NoC interconnect provider.
+
+Interconnect endpoints are the first or the last element of the path. Every
+endpoint is a node, but not every node is an endpoint.
+
+Interconnect path is everything between two endpoints including all the nodes
+that have to be traversed to reach from a source to destination node. It may
+include multiple master-slave pairs across several interconnect providers.
+
+Interconnect consumers are the entities which make use of the data paths exposed
+by the providers. The consumers send requests to providers requesting various
+throughput, latency and priority. Usually the consumers are device drivers, that
+send request based on their needs. An example for a consumer is a video decoder
+that supports various formats and image sizes.
+
+Interconnect providers
+----------------------
+
+Interconnect provider is an entity that implements methods to initialize and
+configure interconnect bus hardware. The interconnect provider drivers should
+be registered with the interconnect provider core.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/interconnect-provider.h
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/interconnect/core.c
+ :functions: icc_provider_init icc_provider_register icc_provider_deregister
+ icc_node_create icc_node_create_dyn icc_node_destroy
+ icc_node_add icc_node_del icc_nodes_remove icc_node_set_name
+ icc_link_create icc_link_nodes
+
+Interconnect consumers
+----------------------
+
+Interconnect consumers are the clients which use the interconnect APIs to
+get paths between endpoints and set their bandwidth/latency/QoS requirements
+for these interconnect paths.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/interconnect/core.c
+ :functions: devm_of_icc_get of_icc_get_by_index of_icc_get icc_get
+ icc_put icc_enable icc_disable icc_set_bw icc_set_tag
+ icc_get_name
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/interconnect/bulk.c
+
+Interconnect debugfs interfaces
+-------------------------------
+
+Like several other subsystems interconnect will create some files for debugging
+and introspection. Files in debugfs are not considered ABI so application
+software shouldn't rely on format details change between kernel versions.
+
+``/sys/kernel/debug/interconnect/interconnect_summary``:
+
+Show all interconnect nodes in the system with their aggregated bandwidth
+request. Indented under each node show bandwidth requests from each device.
+
+``/sys/kernel/debug/interconnect/interconnect_graph``:
+
+Show the interconnect graph in the graphviz dot format. It shows all
+interconnect nodes and links in the system and groups together nodes from the
+same provider as subgraphs. The format is human-readable and can also be piped
+through dot to generate diagrams in many graphical formats::
+
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/interconnect/interconnect_graph | \
+ dot -Tsvg > interconnect_graph.svg
+
+The ``test-client`` directory provides interfaces for issuing BW requests to
+any arbitrary path. Note that for safety reasons, this feature is disabled by
+default without a Kconfig to enable it. Enabling it requires code changes to
+``#define INTERCONNECT_ALLOW_WRITE_DEBUGFS``. Example usage::
+
+ cd /sys/kernel/debug/interconnect/test-client/
+
+ # Configure node endpoints for the path from CPU to DDR on
+ # qcom/sm8550.
+ echo chm_apps > src_node
+ echo ebi > dst_node
+
+ # Get path between src_node and dst_node. This is only
+ # necessary after updating the node endpoints.
+ echo 1 > get
+
+ # Set desired BW to 1GBps avg and 2GBps peak.
+ echo 1000000 > avg_bw
+ echo 2000000 > peak_bw
+
+ # Vote for avg_bw and peak_bw on the latest path from "get".
+ # Voting for multiple paths is possible by repeating this
+ # process for different nodes endpoints.
+ echo 1 > commit