[PATCH] pinctrl: mediatek: common-v1: Directly modify registers to set GPIO direction

From: Chen-Yu Tsai

Date: Mon Apr 27 2026 - 02:17:39 EST


pinctrl_gpio_direction_input() / pinctrl_gpio_direction_output() take
the pinctrl mutex. This causes a gpiochip operations to need to sleep.
Worse yet, the .can_sleep field in the gpiochip is not set. This causes
the shared GPIO proxy to trip over, as it uses gpiod_cansleep() to check
whether it can use a spinlock or needs a mutex. In this case, it ends
up taking a spinlock, then calls pinctrl_gpio_direction_output(), which
takes a mutex. This causes a huge warning.

Since the Mediatek hardware has separate clear/set registers, there is
no risk of clobbering other bits like with a read-modify-write pattern.
Switch to directly setting the GPIO direction register bits to avoid
the mutex.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Only compile tested. Accidentally fixed the wrong file when my target
actually used pinctrl-paris.c
---
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c
index 3f518dce6d23..9c258e205e39 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c
@@ -806,16 +806,24 @@ static const struct pinmux_ops mtk_pmx_ops = {
.gpio_request_enable = mtk_pmx_gpio_request_enable,
};

+static int mtk_gpio_direction_input(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset)
+{
+ struct mtk_pinctrl *pctl = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
+
+ return mtk_pmx_gpio_set_direction(pctl->pctl_dev, NULL, offset, true);
+}
+
static int mtk_gpio_direction_output(struct gpio_chip *chip,
unsigned offset, int value)
{
+ struct mtk_pinctrl *pctl = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
int ret;

ret = mtk_gpio_set(chip, offset, value);
if (ret)
return ret;

- return pinctrl_gpio_direction_output(chip, offset);
+ return mtk_pmx_gpio_set_direction(pctl->pctl_dev, NULL, offset, true);
}

static int mtk_gpio_get_direction(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset)
@@ -895,7 +903,7 @@ static const struct gpio_chip mtk_gpio_chip = {
.request = gpiochip_generic_request,
.free = gpiochip_generic_free,
.get_direction = mtk_gpio_get_direction,
- .direction_input = pinctrl_gpio_direction_input,
+ .direction_input = mtk_gpio_direction_input,
.direction_output = mtk_gpio_direction_output,
.get = mtk_gpio_get,
.set = mtk_gpio_set,
--
2.54.0.rc2.544.gc7ae2d5bb8-goog