Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: Take MUX usage into account

From: Stefan Wahren
Date: Tue Aug 13 2019 - 01:38:54 EST


Hi Ramon,

On 13.08.19 03:42, Ramon Fried wrote:
> From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The user space like gpioinfo only see the GPIO usage but not the
> MUX usage (e.g. I2C or SPI usage) of a pin. As a user we want to know which
> pin is free/safe to use. So take the MUX usage of strict pinmux controllers
> into account to get a more realistic view for ioctl GPIO_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Address review from linus:
> * ** Please notive logic was reversed **
> * renamed pinctrl_gpio_is_in_use() to pinctrl_gpio_can_use_line()
> * renamed pinmux_is_in_use() to pinmux_can_be_used_for_gpio()
> * changed dev_err to dev_dbg (Linus suggested removing it altogether, I
> find it better to keep it for debug).
thanks for taking care of this.
>
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 3 ++-
> drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.h | 8 ++++++++
> include/linux/pinctrl/consumer.h | 6 ++++++
> 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index f497003f119c..52937bf8e514 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -1084,7 +1084,8 @@ static long gpio_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> test_bit(FLAG_IS_HOGGED, &desc->flags) ||
> test_bit(FLAG_USED_AS_IRQ, &desc->flags) ||
> test_bit(FLAG_EXPORT, &desc->flags) ||
> - test_bit(FLAG_SYSFS, &desc->flags))
> + test_bit(FLAG_SYSFS, &desc->flags) ||
> + !pinctrl_gpio_can_use_line(chip->base + lineinfo.line_offset))
> lineinfo.flags |= GPIOLINE_FLAG_KERNEL;
> if (test_bit(FLAG_IS_OUT, &desc->flags))
> lineinfo.flags |= GPIOLINE_FLAG_IS_OUT;
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> index b70df27874d1..2bbd8ee93507 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> @@ -736,6 +736,34 @@ int pinctrl_get_group_selector(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> +bool pinctrl_gpio_can_use_line(unsigned gpio)
> +{
> + struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev;
> + struct pinctrl_gpio_range *range;
> + bool result;
> + int pin;
> +
> + /*
> + * Try to obtain GPIO range, if it fails
> + * we're probably dealing with GPIO driver
> + * without a backing pin controller - bail out.
> + */
> + if (pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range(gpio, &pctldev, &range))
> + return true;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&pctldev->mutex);
> +
> + /* Convert to the pin controllers number space */
> + pin = gpio_to_pin(range, gpio);
> +
> + result = pinmux_can_be_used_for_gpio(pctldev, pin);
> +
> + mutex_unlock(&pctldev->mutex);
> +
> + return result;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pinctrl_gpio_can_use_line);
> +
> /**
> * pinctrl_gpio_request() - request a single pin to be used as GPIO
> * @gpio: the GPIO pin number from the GPIO subsystem number space
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c b/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c
> index 020e54f843f9..7e42a5738d82 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,33 @@ int pinmux_validate_map(const struct pinctrl_map *map, int i)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/**
> + * pinmux_can_be_used_for_gpio() - check if a specific pin
> + * is either muxed to a different function or used as gpio.
> + *
> + * @pin: the pin number in the global pin space
> + *
> + * Controllers not defined as strict will always return true,
> + * menaning that the gpio can be used.
> + */
> +bool pinmux_can_be_used_for_gpio(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned pin)
> +{
> + struct pin_desc *desc = pin_desc_get(pctldev, pin);
> + const struct pinmux_ops *ops = pctldev->desc->pmxops;
> +
> + if (!desc) {
> + dev_dbg(pctldev->dev,
> + "pin %u is not registered so it cannot be requested\n",
> + pin);
> + return true;

This return value looks strange to me.

Stefan