[RFC PATCH v1] pinctrl: meson: meson8b: fix requesting GPIOs greater than GPIOZ_3

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 24 02:10:15 PST 2018


Hi Jerome,

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet at baylibre.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 01:27 +0100, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
>> Meson8b is a cost reduced variant of the Meson8 SoC. It's package size
>> is smaller than Meson8.
>> Unfortunately there are a few key differences which cannot be seen
>> without close inspection of the code and the public S805 data-sheet:
>> - the GPIOX bank is missing the GPIOX_12, GPIOX_13, GPIOX_14 and
>>   GPIOX_15 GPIOs
>> - the GPIOY bank is missing the GPIOY_2, GPIOY_4, GPIOY_5, GPIOY_15 and
>>   GPIOY_16 GPIOs
>> - the GPIODV bank is missing all GPIOs except GPIODV_9, GPIODV_24,
>>   GPIODV_25, GPIODV_26, GPIODV_27, GPIODV_28 and GPIODV_29
>> - the GPIOZ bank is missing completely
>> - there is a new GPIO bank called "DIF"
>> - (all other pads exist on both, Meson8 and Meson8b)
>>
>> The pinctrl-meson driver internally uses struct meson_bank, which
>> assumes that the GPIOs are continuous, without any holes in between.
>> This also matches with how the registers work:
>> - GPIOX_0 for example uses bit 0 for switching this pad between
>>   input/output, configuring pull-up/down, etc.
>> - GPIOX_16 uses bit 16 for switching this pad between input/output,
>>   configuring pull-up/down/, etc
>> GPIOX_16 uses bit 16 even though GPIOX12..15 don't exist. (This is
>> probably the reason why Meson8b inherits the dt-bindings - with all GPIO
>> IDs - from Meson8)
>> This means that Meson8b only has 83 actual GPIO lines. Without any holes
>> there would be 130 GPIO lines in total (120 are inherited from Meson8
>> plus 10 new from the DIF bank).
>>
>> The pinctrl framework handles holes in the pin list fine, which can be
>> seen in debugfs:
>> $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl/c1109880.pinctrl/pins
>> pin 9 (GPIOX_9)  c1109880.pinctrl
>> pin 10 (GPIOX_10)  c1109880.pinctrl
>> pin 11 (GPIOX_11)  c1109880.pinctrl
>> pin 16 (GPIOX_16)  c1109880.pinctrl
>> pin 17 (GPIOX_17)  c1109880.pinctrl
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> While working on this controller a few weeks ago, I have seen that our current
> design does not tolerate having holes in the declared PINS. This is something
> that predate the changes mentioned here.
>
> I'm not a big fan of the this overrides_ngpio here, I'm sure it fixes your
> problem but it seems a bit hacky, don't you think ?
this is the reason why I sent it as RFC - I'm open to better solutions!

> I would prefer either of these 2 approach:
>
> * Update the binding and kill the necessary pins. We are still figuring out
> those chips, which is why the bindings are marked as un-stable. If sharing the
> binding with meson8 was a mistake, now is the time to fix it.
let's say we produce a header file which does not contain GPIOX_12:
this would be nice since it gives compile errors if non-existent GPIOs
are used (instead of failing only at run-time)

however, the problem is meson8b_cbus_banks (annotated here to make it
easier to read):
BANK("X", /* name */
          GPIOX_0, GPIOX_21, /* first and last GPIO */
          97, 118, /* first and last IRQ */
          4,  0, /* pull-up/down enable register and bit offset */
          4,  0, /* pull-up/down configuration register and bit offset */
          0,  0, /* input/output direction register and bit offset */
          1,  0, /* output value register and bit offset */
          2,  0), /* input value register and bit offset */

let's say we want to configure GPIOX_0 as an input:
- we need to find the "offset" of this pad within the bank -> 0
- find the input/output direction register -> 0
- find the bit in that register: bit 0 + pad offset 0 = 0
- we clear bit 0 in register 0

with the current code configuring GPIOX_16 as input works like this:
- we need to find the "offset" of this pad within the bank -> 16
- find the input/output direction register -> 0
- find the bit in that register: bit 0 + pad offset 16 = 16
- we clear bit 16 in register 0

let's assume that we removed GPIOX_12...15 from Meson8b
GPIOX_16 could now have the same value that was assigned to GPIOX_12
before (= 12)
but how do we now know the offset of GPIOX_16?
if we don't consider it in the calculation above we would end up
writing to bit 12 (instead of bit 16).

we could still cleanup the header file but leave the IDs of the
existing GPIOs untouched (so GPIOX_16 would still be 16).
however, that means that this patch is still needed because our last
ID would be DIF_4_N (= value 129) again (so with holes our total count
is still 130).
with that we wouldn't even break the DT ABI

> * If meson8b is indeed a cost reduction, it is likely to be same the approach as
> s905x vs s905d: The D version is the same SoC with less ball pad but, as far as
> we know, the logic is still there on the silicium (same die), it is just not
> routed to the outside world. Both version share the same pinctrl driver (gxl).
> The pad not routed to the outside world can just be considered "internal pads"
there are a few differences between Meson8 and Meson8b, see also [0]:
- Meson8 (and Meson8m2) CPU cores: 4x Cortex-A9
- Meson8b CPU cores: 4x Cortex-A5
- Meson8 (and Meson8m2) GPU: Mali-450MP8
- Meson8b GPU: Mali-450MP4
- Meson8 (and Meson8m2) package size: 19mm x 19 mm, LFBGA
- Meson8b package size: 12mm x 12 mm, LFBGA

the pinctrl register layout seems to be *mostly* compatible between
Meson8 and Meson8b.
unfortunately it's not entirely compatible, here is one example:
- Meson8: GROUP(uart_tx_b1, 6, 23),
- Meson8b: GROUP(uart_tx_b1, 6, 19),
- Meson8: GROUP(eth_mdc, 6, 5),
- Meson8b: GROUP(eth_mdc, 6, 9),

> Long story short, if meson8 and meson8b share the same bindings, maybe they
> should also share the driver. If they can't share the driver because they are
> definitely incompatible, maybe they should not share the same bindings
based on what I have seen so far I believe that they should not share
the same bindings

>>
>> GPIOs which don't exist cannot be requested either ("base" of the GPIO
>> controller is 382):
>> $ echo 394 > /sys/class/gpio/export
>> meson8b-pinctrl c1109880.pinctrl: pin 12 is not registered so it cannot be requested
>> meson8b-pinctrl c1109880.pinctrl: pin-12 (cbus-banks:394) status -22
>>
>> Unfortunately GPIOs greater GPIOZ_3 (whose ID is 83 - as a reminder:
>> this is exactly the number of actual GPIO lines on Meson8b) cannot be
>> requested. Using CARD_6 (ID 100, "base of the GPIO controller is 382) as
>> an example:
>> $ echo 482 > /sys/class/gpio/export
>> export_store: invalid GPIO 482
>>
>> The problem here is that struct gpio_chip's "ngpio" is set to 83. Thus
>> requesting a GPIO higher than 83 fails. Commit 984cffdeaeb7ea ("pinctrl:
>> Fix gpio/pin mapping for Meson8b") fixed this problem a while ago, by
>> setting "ngpio" to 130. Unfortunately this broke again while cleaning up
>> the pinctrl-meson driver in commit db80f0e158e621 ("pinctrl: meson: get
>> rid of unneeded domain structures"), which started using
>> ARRAY_SIZE(meson8b_cbus_pins) - which evaluates to 83 - as "ngpio".
>>
>> This is now fixed by introducing a new "override_ngpio" field in struct
>> meson_pinctrl_data. This value is passed to struct gpio_chip's "ngpio"
>> when set - if override_ngpio is <= 0 then num_pins is used (which works
>> for all other Meson SoCs, except Meson8b).
>> The definitions in "include/dt-bindings/gpio/meson8b-gpio.h" were not
>> changed. Cleaning up these definitions would allow us to get rid of the
>> GPIOZ definitions (which are inherited from Meson8). However, we still
>> need to handle GPIO banks with holes (such as GPIOX), so this include is
>> not touched for now (touching it could also break the device-tree ABI).
>>
>> Meson8b's AO GPIO controller is not affected by this issue since it does
>> not have any holes in it - only the CBUS GPIO controller is affected.
>>
>> This was initially seen by Linus Lüssing who was preparing SD card
>> support on Odroid-C1 which uses CARD_6 as "card detect" GPIO.
>>
>> Fixes: db80f0e158e621 ("pinctrl: meson: get rid of unneeded domain structures")
>> Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing at c0d3.blue>
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.c   |  7 ++++++-
>>  drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.h   |  1 +
>>  drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson8b.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.c b/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.c
>> index 29a458da78db..1befe67fd187 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.c
>> @@ -413,7 +413,12 @@ static int meson_gpiolib_register(struct meson_pinctrl *pc)
>>       pc->chip.get = meson_gpio_get;
>>       pc->chip.set = meson_gpio_set;
>>       pc->chip.base = -1;
>> -     pc->chip.ngpio = pc->data->num_pins;
>> +
>> +     if (pc->data->override_ngpio > 0)
>> +             pc->chip.ngpio = pc->data->override_ngpio;
>> +     else
>> +             pc->chip.ngpio = pc->data->num_pins;
>> +
>>       pc->chip.can_sleep = false;
>>       pc->chip.of_node = pc->of_node;
>>       pc->chip.of_gpio_n_cells = 2;
>> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.h b/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.h
>> index 183b6e471635..afd7efaad9bb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.h
>> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.h
>> @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ struct meson_pinctrl_data {
>>       struct meson_bank *banks;
>>       unsigned int num_banks;
>>       const struct pinmux_ops *pmx_ops;
>> +     unsigned int override_ngpio;
>>  };
>>
>>  struct meson_pinctrl {
>> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson8b.c b/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson8b.c
>> index 5bd808dc81e1..05bb4c3143d9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson8b.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson8b.c
>> @@ -916,6 +916,20 @@ static struct meson_pinctrl_data meson8b_cbus_pinctrl_data = {
>>       .num_funcs      = ARRAY_SIZE(meson8b_cbus_functions),
>>       .num_banks      = ARRAY_SIZE(meson8b_cbus_banks),
>>       .pmx_ops        = &meson8_pmx_ops,
>> +     /*
>> +      * there are holes in the meson8b_cbus_pins mapping because we are
>> +      * mapping the GPIO identifiers to register bits. on Meson8b some bits
>> +      * (and thus the corresponding pads) are not used on the SoC
>> +      * (presumably because they were skipped because Meson8b is a cost
>> +      * reduced variant of Meson8 and it didn't make sense to create a whole
>> +      * new register layout for this variant).
>> +      * this informs the GPIO framework know about the number of GPIOs we
>> +      * have, including the pins which are not available on Meson8b (= the
>> +      * holes). The pinctrl/GPIO framework knows the holes because it checks
>> +      * all pinctrl_pin_desc in meson8b_cbus_pins and reports an error as
>> +      * soon as a GPIO is requested which is not part of meson8b_cbus_pins.
>> +      */
>> +     .override_ngpio = 130,
>>  };
>>
>>  static struct meson_pinctrl_data meson8b_aobus_pinctrl_data = {
>

[0] https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/04/25/amlogic-stb-socs-comparison-aml8726-mx-s802-s805-and-s812/



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