From: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> Hi! [doing a v3 even if there is no "big picture" feedback yet, but previous versions has bugs that make them harder to test than needed, and testing is very much desired] I have a pair of boards with this i2c topology: GPIO ---| ------ BAT1 | v / I2C -----+------B---+---- MUX | \ EEPROM ------ BAT2 (B denotes the boundary between the boards) The problem with this is that the GPIO controller sits on the same i2c bus that it MUXes. For pca954x devices this is worked around by using unlocked transfers when updating the MUX. I have no such luck as the GPIO is a general purpose IO expander and the MUX is just a random bidirectional MUX, unaware of the fact that it is muxing an i2c bus, and extending unlocked transfers into the GPIO subsystem is too ugly to even think about. But the general hw approach is sane in my opinion, with the number of connections between the two boards minimized. To put is plainly, I need support for it. So, I observe that while it is needed to have the i2c bus locked during the actual MUX update in order to avoid random garbage on the slave side, it is not strictly a must to have it locked over the whole sequence of a full select-transfer-deselect operation. The MUX itself needs to be locked, so transfers to clients behind the mux are serialized, and the MUX needs to be stable during all i2c traffic (otherwise individual mux slave segments might see garbage). This series accomplishes this by adding code to i2c-mux-gpio and i2c-mux-pinctrl that determines if all involved devices used to update the mux are controlled by the same root i2c adapter that is muxed. When this is the case, the select-transfer-deselect operations should be locked individually to avoid the deadlock. The i2c bus *is* still locked during muxing, since the muxing happens as part of i2c transfers. This is true even if the MUX is updated with several transfers to the GPIO (at least as long as *all* MUX changes are using the i2s master bus). A lock is added to the mux so that transfers through the mux are serialized. Concerns: - The locking is perhaps too complex? - I worry about the priority inheritance aspect of the adapter lock. When the transfers behind the mux are divided into select-transfer-deselect all locked individually, low priority transfers get more chances to interfere with high priority transfers. - When doing an i2c_transfer() in_atomic() context or with irqs_disabled(), there is a higher possibility that the mux is not returned to its idle state after a failed (-EAGAIN) transfer due to trylock. - Is the detection of i2c-controlled gpios and pinctrls sane (i.e. the usage of the new i2c_root_adapter() function in 8/8)? To summarize the series, there's some i2c-mux infrastructure cleanup work first (I think that part stands by itself as desireable regardless), the locking changes are in the last three patches of the series, with the real meat in 8/8. PS. needs a bunch of testing, I do not have access to all the involved hw Changes since v2: - Fix devm_kfree of a NULL pointer in i2c_mux_reserve_adapters(). - Remove device tree "i2c-controlled" property and determine this by walking the dev tree instead. - Fix compile problems with inv_mpu_acpi.c - Wait with adding the client pointer to patch 2/8 for pca9541 and pca954x. Changes since v1: - Allocate mux core and (optional) priv in a combined allocation. - Kill dev_err messages triggered by memory allocation failure. - Fix the device specific i2c muxes that I had overlooked. - Rebase on top of v4.4-rc8 (was based on v4.4-rc6 previously). - Drop the last two patches in the series. Cheers, Peter Peter Rosin (8): i2c-mux: add common core data for every mux instance i2c-mux: move select and deselect ops to i2c_mux_core i2c-mux: move the slave side adapter management to i2c_mux_core i2c-mux: remove the mux dev pointer from the mux per channel data i2c-mux: pinctrl: get rid of the driver private struct device pointer i2c: allow adapter drivers to override the adapter locking i2c: muxes always lock the parent adapter i2c-mux: relax locking of the top i2c adapter during i2c controlled muxing drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 59 +++--- drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c | 299 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-arb-gpio-challenge.c | 46 ++--- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-gpio.c | 74 ++++--- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c | 58 +++--- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c | 66 +++--- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pinctrl.c | 125 ++++++----- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-reg.c | 63 +++--- drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_acpi.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_core.c | 34 +-- drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_iio.h | 3 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/m88ds3103.c | 23 ++- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/m88ds3103_priv.h | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2830.c | 24 ++- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2830_priv.h | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c | 30 +-- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832_priv.h | 2 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168.c | 29 ++- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2168_priv.h | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-core.c | 6 +- drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-i2c.c | 48 ++--- drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx.h | 4 +- drivers/of/unittest.c | 41 ++-- include/linux/i2c-mux.h | 41 +++- include/linux/i2c.h | 28 ++- 25 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 426 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html