Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: aspeed: Force to disable the function's signal

["Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Billy,

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, at 19:48, Billy Tsai wrote:
> When the driver want to disable the signal of the function, it doesn't
> need to query the state of the mux function's signal on a pin. The
> condition below will miss the disable of the signal:
> Ball | Default | P0 Signal | P0 Expression               | Other
> -----+---------+-----------+-----------------------------+----------
>  E21   GPIOG0    SD2CLK      SCU4B4[16]=1 & SCU450[1]=1    GPIOG0
> -----+---------+-----------+-----------------------------+----------
>  B22   GPIOG1    SD2CMD      SCU4B4[17]=1 & SCU450[1]=1    GPIOG1
> -----+---------+-----------+-----------------------------+----------
> Assume the register status like below:
> SCU4B4[16] == 1 & SCU4B4[17] == 1 & SCU450[1]==1
> After the driver set the Ball E21 to the GPIOG0:
> SCU4B4[16] == 0 & SCU4B4[17] == 1 & SCU450[1]==0
> When the driver want to set the Ball B22 to the GPIOG1, the condition of
> the SD2CMD will be false causing SCU4B4[17] not to be cleared.
>
> Signed-off-by: Billy Tsai <billy_tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c | 11 +----------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c 
> b/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c
> index 83d47ff1cea8..a30912a92f05 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c
> @@ -92,19 +92,10 @@ static int aspeed_sig_expr_enable(struct 
> aspeed_pinmux_data *ctx,
>  static int aspeed_sig_expr_disable(struct aspeed_pinmux_data *ctx,
>  				   const struct aspeed_sig_expr *expr)
>  {
> -	int ret;
> -
>  	pr_debug("Disabling signal %s for %s\n", expr->signal,
>  		 expr->function);
> 
> -	ret = aspeed_sig_expr_eval(ctx, expr, true);
> -	if (ret < 0)
> -		return ret;
> -
> -	if (ret)
> -		return aspeed_sig_expr_set(ctx, expr, false);
> -
> -	return 0;
> +	return aspeed_sig_expr_set(ctx, expr, false);

Okay, maybe I was short-circuiting things in a way that wasn't quite 
right. However, I'm a little nervous that we'll end up whacking state 
that we can't restore and give ourselves mux-request ordering problems. 
The Aspeed pin controllers are such a complex sea of state. Hopefully 
we get away without needing to fix the theory behind the driver's 
implementation.

This code is common to the 2400, 2500 and 2600, have you tested the 
patch on platforms for each to get coverage for the various pin state 
expressions we have?

I also wonder if we can write kunit tests to build some confidence with 
the expected SCU bit state patterns for a given set of desired mux 
states. Is this something you've looked at (it would be handy if kunit 
can intercept regmap accesses)?

Andrew