[PATCH v2 2/2] gpio: mmio: track the direction of chips without direction registers

From: Mehmet Fide

Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 03:40:15 EST


From: Mehmet Fide <mehmet.fide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

A generic chip with GPIO_GENERIC_PINCTRL_BACKEND and no direction
registers sets the direction through pinctrl but has no get_direction
callback, so every gpiod_get_direction() call trips the WARN in gpiolib
and the direction gpiolib reports is whatever it assumed. On a Vybrid
Colibri module that is 21 backtraces per boot.

Keep the direction of such a chip in the existing shadow: the direction
setters update sdir under the chip lock, and get_direction() is the
shadow-reading path already used for unreadable direction registers.
That keeps the callback usable in atomic context, which it has to be:
gpiochip_lock_as_irq() calls it for !can_sleep chips from
gpiochip_irq_domain_activate(), under the irq descriptor lock.

The pad's actual state is read once, in process context, when a line is
requested: gpiolib calls request() right before get_direction() for a
new line, so the shadow is seeded from PIN_CONFIG_OUTPUT_ENABLE there and
the line reports what the pin controller says. Lines pinctrl cannot
answer for keep the input default, which is what gpiolib assumed before.

Suggested-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mehmet Fide <mehmet.fide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- keep the direction in the chip's shadow and reuse the shadow-reading
get_direction(); seed the shadow from pinctrl in request(), because
gpiochip_lock_as_irq() calls get_direction() under the irq descriptor
lock for !can_sleep chips (Sashiko)
- lines pinctrl cannot answer for keep the input default, no error
returned to gpiochip_lock_as_irq() (Sashiko)
- drop the claim about the initial direction scan, it runs before the
pin ranges exist (Sashiko)
drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c
index 7e4b3e8d609f..84bf8cc7a0c7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ o ` ~~~~\___/~~~~ ` controller in FPGA is ,.`
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h>
+#include <linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/property.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
@@ -372,7 +373,17 @@ static int gpio_mmio_dir_in_err(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio)

static int gpio_mmio_simple_dir_in(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio)
{
- return gpio_mmio_dir_return(gc, gpio, false);
+ struct gpio_generic_chip *chip = to_gpio_generic_chip(gc);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = gpio_mmio_dir_return(gc, gpio, false);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&chip->lock);
+ chip->sdir &= ~gpio_mmio_line2mask(gc, gpio);
+
+ return 0;
}

static int gpio_mmio_dir_out_err(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio,
@@ -384,9 +395,19 @@ static int gpio_mmio_dir_out_err(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio,
static int gpio_mmio_simple_dir_out(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio,
int val)
{
+ struct gpio_generic_chip *chip = to_gpio_generic_chip(gc);
+ int ret;
+
gc->set(gc, gpio, val);

- return gpio_mmio_dir_return(gc, gpio, true);
+ ret = gpio_mmio_dir_return(gc, gpio, true);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&chip->lock);
+ chip->sdir |= gpio_mmio_line2mask(gc, gpio);
+
+ return 0;
}

static int gpio_mmio_dir_in(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio)
@@ -601,20 +622,54 @@ static int gpio_mmio_setup_direction(struct gpio_generic_chip *chip,
gc->direction_input = gpio_mmio_dir_in_err;
else
gc->direction_input = gpio_mmio_simple_dir_in;
+
+ if (cfg->flags & GPIO_GENERIC_PINCTRL_BACKEND) {
+ chip->dir_unreadable = true;
+ gc->get_direction = gpio_mmio_get_dir;
+ }
}

return 0;
}

+/*
+ * Without direction registers the direction lives in the pin controller,
+ * so seed the shadow from there when a line is requested.
+ */
+static void gpio_mmio_seed_dir_from_pinctrl(struct gpio_chip *gc,
+ unsigned int gpio)
+{
+ struct gpio_generic_chip *chip = to_gpio_generic_chip(gc);
+ unsigned long config;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PINCTRL) || chip->reg_dir_out || chip->reg_dir_in)
+ return;
+
+ config = pinconf_to_config_packed(PIN_CONFIG_OUTPUT_ENABLE, 0);
+ if (pinctrl_gpio_get_config(gc, gpio, &config))
+ return;
+
+ guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&chip->lock);
+ if (config)
+ chip->sdir |= gpio_mmio_line2mask(gc, gpio);
+ else
+ chip->sdir &= ~gpio_mmio_line2mask(gc, gpio);
+}
+
static int gpio_mmio_request(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned int gpio_pin)
{
struct gpio_generic_chip *chip = to_gpio_generic_chip(gc);
+ int ret;

if (gpio_pin >= gc->ngpio)
return -EINVAL;

- if (chip->pinctrl)
- return gpiochip_generic_request(gc, gpio_pin);
+ if (chip->pinctrl) {
+ ret = gpiochip_generic_request(gc, gpio_pin);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ gpio_mmio_seed_dir_from_pinctrl(gc, gpio_pin);
+ }

return 0;
}
--
2.54.0