[PATCH/RFC 4/6] spi: slave: Add SPI slave handler reporting boot up time

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jun 22 2016 - 09:44:08 EST


Add an SPI slave handler responding with the time of reception of the
last SPI message.

This can be used by an external microcontroller as a dead man's switch.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
---
FIXME kthread_stop() hangs, as spi_write() is blocked on a completion
---
drivers/spi/Kconfig | 6 +++
drivers/spi/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/spi/spi-slave-time.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 110 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 drivers/spi/spi-slave-time.c

diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
index 00e990d91a715c0e..e9b2f48574464949 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
@@ -748,6 +748,12 @@ config SPI_SLAVE

if SPI_SLAVE

+config SPI_SLAVE_TIME
+ tristate "SPI slave handler reporting boot up time"
+ help
+ SPI slave handler responding with the time of reception of the last
+ SPI message.
+
endif # SPI_SLAVE

endif # SPI
diff --git a/drivers/spi/Makefile b/drivers/spi/Makefile
index 71d02939080fb747..dc67b8f137e2ced0 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/spi/Makefile
@@ -99,3 +99,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SPI_XTENSA_XTFPGA) += spi-xtensa-xtfpga.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SPI_ZYNQMP_GQSPI) += spi-zynqmp-gqspi.o

# SPI slave protocol handlers
+obj-$(CONFIG_SPI_SLAVE_TIME) += spi-slave-time.o
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-slave-time.c b/drivers/spi/spi-slave-time.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000..3d606af318024573
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-slave-time.c
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/*
+ * SPI slave handler reporting boot up time
+ *
+ * This SPI slave handler sends the time of reception of the last SPI message
+ * as two 32-bit unsigned integers in binary format and in network byte order,
+ * representing the number of seconds and fractional seconds (in microseconds)
+ * since boot up.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Glider bvba
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/spi/spi.h>
+
+
+struct spi_slave_time_priv {
+ struct spi_device *spi;
+ struct task_struct *thread;
+};
+
+static int spi_slave_time_send(struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+ __be32 msg[2];
+ u32 rem_ns;
+ u64 ts;
+
+ ts = local_clock();
+ rem_ns = do_div(ts, 1000000000) / 1000;
+
+ msg[0] = cpu_to_be32(ts);
+ msg[1] = cpu_to_be32(rem_ns);
+
+ return spi_write(spi, &msg, sizeof(msg));
+}
+
+static int spi_slave_time_thread(void *data)
+{
+ struct spi_slave_time_priv *priv = data;
+ int error;
+
+ while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ error = spi_slave_time_send(priv->spi);
+ if (error)
+ pr_err("%s: SPI transfer failed %d\n", __func__, error);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int spi_slave_time_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+ struct spi_slave_time_priv *priv;
+ int ret;
+
+ /*
+ * bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data
+ */
+ spi->bits_per_word = 8;
+
+ ret = spi_setup(spi);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ priv = devm_kzalloc(&spi->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!priv)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ priv->spi = spi;
+ priv->thread = kthread_run(spi_slave_time_thread, priv,
+ "spi-slave-time/%s", dev_name(&spi->dev));
+ if (IS_ERR(priv->thread))
+ return PTR_ERR(priv->thread);
+
+ spi_set_drvdata(spi, priv);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int spi_slave_time_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+ struct spi_slave_time_priv *priv = spi_get_drvdata(spi);
+
+ /* FIXME Doesn't work, as spi_write() is blocked on a completion */
+ kthread_stop(priv->thread);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static struct spi_driver spi_slave_time_driver = {
+ .driver = {
+ .name = "spi-slave-time",
+ },
+ .probe = spi_slave_time_probe,
+ .remove = spi_slave_time_remove,
+};
+module_spi_driver(spi_slave_time_driver);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SPI slave reporting boot up time");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
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