Re: [PATCH 1/1] pinctrl: exynos: Lock GPIOs as interrupts when used as EINTs

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently after configuring a GPIO pin as an interrupt related pinmux
> registers are changed, but there is no protection from calling
> gpio_direction_*() in a badly written driver, which would cause the same
> pinmux register to be reconfigured for regular input/output and this
> disabling interrupt capability of the pin.
>
> This patch addresses this issue by moving pinmux reconfiguration to
> .irq_{request,release}_resources() callback of irq_chip and calling
> gpio_lock_as_irq() helper to prevent reconfiguration of pin direction.
>
> Setting up a GPIO interrupt on Samsung SoCs is a two-step operation -
> in addition to trigger configuration in a dedicated register, the pinmux
> must be also reconfigured to GPIO interrupt, which is a different function
> than normal GPIO input, although I/O-wise they both behave in the same way
> and gpio_get_value() can be used on a pin configured as IRQ as well.
>
> Such design implies subtleties such as gpio_direction_input() not having
> to fail if a pin is already configured as an interrupt nor change the
> configuration to normal input. But the FLAG_USED_AS_IRQ set in gpiolib by
> gpio_lock_as_irq() is only used to check that gpio_direction_output() is
> not called, it's not used to prevent gpio_direction_input() to be called.
> So this is not a complete solution for Samsung SoCs but it's definitely a
> move in the right direction.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [javier: use request resources instead of startup and expand commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This patch solves the issue explained in https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/8/461

Hm, this looks much better atleast, it is not possible to use the
irqchip helpers from gpiolib then, because that grabs the request/release
resource callbacks.

If I get some ACKs on this we can go for this solution.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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