Re: [PATCH 01/10] GPIO: gpio-generic: Move initialization up to postcore

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* Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [111212 14:36]:
> (adding Greg Kroah-Hartman and linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to Cc:)
> 
> On Monday 12 of December 2011 at 19:04:56, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [111211 11:41]:
> > > This will allow boards with custom memory mapped GPIO ports to set up
> > > and use those port pins while initializing devices from arch init.
> > 
> > Care to explain a bit more why you need to initialize those devices
> > early on?
> 
> Let me try.
> 
> From patch 2/10 "ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: Convert latches to 
> basic_mmio_gpio":
> 
> > @@ -307,8 +487,8 @@ static void __init ams_delta_init(void)
> >  	omap_serial_init();
> >  	omap_register_i2c_bus(1, 100, NULL, 0);
> >  
> > -	/* Clear latch2 (NAND, LCD, modem enable) */
> > -	ams_delta_latch2_write(~0, 0);
> > +	platform_add_devices(_latch_devices, ARRAY_SIZE(_latch_devices));
> > +	BUG_ON(gpio_request_array(_latch_gpios, ARRAY_SIZE(_latch_gpios)));
> >  
> >  	omap1_usb_init(&ams_delta_usb_config);
> >  	omap1_set_camera_info(&ams_delta_camera_platform_data);
> 
> Here I'm accessing the latches from ams_delta_init() (.init_machine 
> hook) with gpio_request_array() in order to:
> a) clear their contents,
> b) avoid accessing them, from ams_delta_latch_write(), never requested.
> 
> I could imagine clearing their contents with something like
> 
> 	*(volatile __u8 *) AMS_DELTA_LATCH2_VIRT = 0;
> 	*(volatile __u16 *) AMS_DELTA_LATCH2_VIRT = 0;
> 
> instead, i.e., the way the old code used to, than accessing those GPIO 
> pins not requested, until they are finally requested by drivers updated 
> to use gpiolib with successive patche. Would this be acceptable?

Thanks for explaining, it's best to use gpio calls instead :)

How about just add some __initcall into your board-*.c file to
do the required setups a bit later? Just make sure you exit
early if (!machine_is...) fails.

> However,
> From patch 6/10 "ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: Use GPIO API in modem setup":
> 
> > @@ -482,6 +472,12 @@ static void __init ams_delta_init(void)
> >  	omap_writew(omap_readw(ARM_RSTCT1) | 0x0004, ARM_RSTCT1);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void _modem_pm(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int state, unsigned old)
> > +{
> > +	if (state != old)
> > +		gpio_set_value(AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_NRESET, state == 0);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static struct plat_serial8250_port ams_delta_modem_ports[] = {
> >  	{
> >  		.membase	= IOMEM(_MODEM_VIRT),
> > @@ -492,6 +488,7 @@ static struct plat_serial8250_port ams_delta_modem_ports[] = {
> >  		.iotype		= UPIO_MEM,
> >  		.regshift	= 1,
> >  		.uartclk	= BASE_BAUD * 16,
> > +		.pm		= _modem_pm,
> >  	},
> >  	{ },
> >  };
> > @@ -504,6 +501,24 @@ static struct platform_device ams_delta_modem_device = {
> >  	},
> >  };
> >  
> > +static struct gpio _modem_gpios[] __initconst = {
> > +	{
> > +		.gpio	= AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_IRQ,
> > +		.flags	= GPIOF_DIR_IN,
> > +		.label	= "modem_irq",
> > +	},
> > +	{
> > +		.gpio	= AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_NRESET,
> > +		.flags	= GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH,
> > +		.label	= "modem_nreset",
> > +	},
> > +	{
> > +		.gpio	= AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_CODEC,
> > +		.flags	= GPIOF_OUT_INIT_HIGH,
> > +		.label	= "modem_codec",
> > +	},
> > +};
> > +
> >  static int __init ams_delta_modem_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	int err;
> > @@ -515,16 +530,11 @@ static int __init ams_delta_modem_init(void)
> >  	ams_delta_modem_ports[0].irq =
> >  			gpio_to_irq(AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_IRQ);
> >  
> > -	err = gpio_request(AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_IRQ, "modem");
> > +	err = gpio_request_array(_modem_gpios, ARRAY_SIZE(_modem_gpios));
> >  	if (err) {
> > -		pr_err("Couldn't request gpio pin for modem\n");
> > +		pr_err("Couldn't request gpio pins for modem\n");
> >  		return err;
> >  	}
> > -	gpio_direction_input(AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_IRQ);
> > -
> > -	ams_delta_latch2_write(
> > -		AMS_DELTA_LATCH2_MODEM_NRESET | AMS_DELTA_LATCH2_MODEM_CODEC,
> > -		AMS_DELTA_LATCH2_MODEM_NRESET | AMS_DELTA_LATCH2_MODEM_CODEC);
> >  
> >  	return platform_device_register(&ams_delta_modem_device);
> >  }
> 
> Before the change, only one GPIO pin, that IRQ, driven with omap_gpio 
> driver which is registered from postcore, was gpio_request()ed. Now, two 
> more, gpio-generic driven pins, are also requested _and_ initialized in 
> order to make the modem accessible. The ams_delta_modem_init() is 
> installed with arch_initcall().
> 
> I could imagine initializing those modem pins the old way I've suggested 
> above, but I can see no good solution to delegate calling of that 
> gpio_request*() to the 8250 driver. For me, the only hook passed to the 
> driver with platform_data that can be suitable is the .pm hook. However, 
> when I tried to remove powering up the modem (rising up 
> AMS_DELTA_GPIO_PIN_MODEM_NRESET) from the arch init and do this only 
> from that .pm hook, the device was not detected, so I wonder if and when 
> that hook is called, and if it is before probe, then perhaps powering 
> up the modem chip from there is too late for the device to get up before 
> being examined. But then, maybe if we initialize the pin the old way 
> from arch init, it would be enough for the device to be detected, while 
> consecutive open() response times may not be so critical. Perhaps Greg 
> or another serial guru can shed some more light on this.
> 
> But this way or another, we are talking about dirty hacks here IMHO.

Might be worth checking if some board specific __initcall helps here
too?

Regards,

Tony
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