Re: [PATCH RFC v3 3/3] pinctrl: add pinctrl gpio binding support

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 16:44:11 EST


On 05/23/2012 07:22 AM, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> From: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch implements a standard common binding for pinctrl gpio ranges.
> Each SoC can add gpio ranges through device tree by adding a gpio-maps property
> under their pinctrl devices node with the format:
> <&gpio $gpio_offset $pin_offset $npin>.
>
> Then the pinctrl driver can call pinctrl_dt_add_gpio_ranges(pctldev, node)
> to parse and register the gpio ranges from device tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is mostly good. Just a few comments:

> +gpio-maps: 4 integers array, each entry in the array represents a gpio
> +range with the format: <&gpio $gpio_offset $pin_offset $count>
> +- gpio: phandle pointing at gpio device node
> +- gpio_offset: integer, the local offset of $gpio
> +- pin_offset: integer, the pin offset or pin id
> +- npins: integer, the gpio ranges starting from pin_offset

This uses a single cell to represent a GPIO ID within a GPIO controller.
The standard GPIO bindings use #gpio-cells, where that's a property in
the GPIO controller's node. I wonder if we shouldn't do the same here,
and call into the GPIO driver to parse #gpio-cells and give back the
Linux GPIO ID, just like of_get_named_gpio_flags() does. This would also
make this code able to cope with the GPIO of_xlate function returning a
different GPIO chip, which Grant put in place for banked GPIO controllers.

> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c b/drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c

> +int pinctrl_dt_add_gpio_ranges(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,

The locking I was talking about before is between the following line:

> + ranges[i].gc = of_node_to_gpiochip(np_gpio);

and this code:

> + ranges[i].name = dev_name(pctldev->dev);
> + ranges[i].base = ranges[i].gc->base + gpio_offset;
> + ranges[i].pin_base = pin_offset;
> + ranges[i].npins = npins;

If of_node_to_gpiochip() doesn't mark the GPIO chip as "in use", then
the module that provides that device could be unloaded between the two
blocks of code above.

Re: your locking comments in your other email: ranges[i].gc doesn't
appear to be used anywhere else in pinctrl, so I think it's OK not to
lock the GPIO chip for any more time than between the above two blocks
of code.

Finally, just a minor nit:

> + ranges[i].gc = of_node_to_gpiochip(np_gpio);
> + if (!ranges[i].gc) {
> + dev_err(pctldev->dev,
> + "can not find gpio chip of node(%s)\n",
> + np_gpio->name);
> + of_node_put(np_gpio);
> + return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> + }
> +
> + of_node_put(np_gpio);

could be slightly simpler:

+ ranges[i].gc = of_node_to_gpiochip(np_gpio);
+ of_node_put(np_gpio); <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+ if (!ranges[i].gc) {
+ dev_err(pctldev->dev,
+ "can not find gpio chip of node(%s)\n",
+ np_gpio->name);
+ return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+ }
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