The patch titled gpiolib locking simplified has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: gpiolib locking simplified From: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> Simplify the hot-path (gpio value get/set) locking by taking advantage of the fact that gpio_request() effectively locks that GPIO in memory. This also helps avoid the belated complaints about whether this locking is one of the places raw spinlocks are OK to use; it's now back to using regular spinlocks. Also update docs to clarify some issues that came up. We'd like to eventually have direction-setting stop implicitly requesting GPIOs, so discourage that usage. Also document the "locking" implication of gpio_request(). This is a code shrink relative to the previous code, most of it by removing explicit locking calls from those hot paths. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/gpio.txt | 14 +++- lib/gpiolib.c | 116 ++++++++++----------------------------- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/gpio.txt~generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified Documentation/gpio.txt --- a/Documentation/gpio.txt~generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified +++ a/Documentation/gpio.txt @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ before tasking is enabled, as part of ea For output GPIOs, the value provided becomes the initial output value. This helps avoid signal glitching during system startup. +For compatibility with legacy interfaces to GPIOs, setting the direction +of a GPIO implicitly requests that GPIO (see below). That compatibility +may be removed in the future; explicitly requesting GPIOs is preferred. + Setting the direction can fail if the GPIO number is invalid, or when that particular GPIO can't be used in that mode. It's generally a bad idea to rely on boot firmware to have set the direction correctly, since @@ -173,7 +177,8 @@ get to the head of a queue to transmit a This requires sleeping, which can't be done from inside IRQ handlers. Platforms that support this type of GPIO distinguish them from other GPIOs -by returning nonzero from this call: +by returning nonzero from this call (which requires a valid GPIO number, +either explicitly or implicitly requested): int gpio_cansleep(unsigned gpio); @@ -212,8 +217,11 @@ before tasking is enabled, as part of ea These calls serve two basic purposes. One is marking the signals which are actually in use as GPIOs, for better diagnostics; systems may have several hundred potential GPIOs, but often only a dozen are used on any -given board. Another is to catch conflicts between drivers, reporting -errors when drivers wrongly think they have exclusive use of that signal. +given board. Another is to catch conflicts, identifying errors when +(a) two or more drivers wrongly think they have exclusive use of that +signal, or (b) something wrongly believes it's safe to remove drivers +needed to manage a signal that's in active use. That is, requesting a +GPIO can serve as a kind of lock. These two calls are optional because not not all current Linux platforms offer such functionality in their GPIO support; a valid implementation diff -puN lib/gpiolib.c~generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified lib/gpiolib.c --- a/lib/gpiolib.c~generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified +++ a/lib/gpiolib.c @@ -29,11 +29,10 @@ #endif /* gpio_lock protects the table of chips and gpio_chip->requested. - * While any gpio is requested, its gpio_chip is not removable. It's - * a raw spinlock to ensure safe access from hardirq contexts, and to - * shrink bitbang overhead: per-bit preemption would be very wrong. + * While any GPIO is requested, its gpio_chip is not removable; + * each GPIO's "requested" flag serves as a lock and refcount. */ -static raw_spinlock_t gpio_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(gpio_lock); static struct gpio_chip *chips[DIV_ROUND_UP(ARCH_NR_GPIOS, ARCH_GPIOS_PER_CHIP)]; @@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ static void gpio_ensure_requested(struct chip->base + offset); } -/* caller holds gpio_lock */ +/* caller holds gpio_lock *OR* gpio is marked as requested */ static inline struct gpio_chip *gpio_to_chip(unsigned gpio) { return chips[gpio / ARCH_GPIOS_PER_CHIP]; @@ -86,8 +85,7 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip) if (chip->ngpio > ARCH_GPIOS_PER_CHIP) return -EINVAL; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); id = chip->base / ARCH_GPIOS_PER_CHIP; if (chips[id] == NULL) @@ -95,8 +93,7 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip) else status = -EBUSY; - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_add); @@ -114,8 +111,7 @@ int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *ch int offset; unsigned id = chip->base / ARCH_GPIOS_PER_CHIP; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); for (offset = 0; offset < chip->ngpio; offset++) { if (gpiochip_is_requested(chip, offset)) { @@ -131,8 +127,7 @@ int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *ch status = -EINVAL; } - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_remove); @@ -148,8 +143,7 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const ch int status = -EINVAL; unsigned long flags; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); if (!chip) @@ -176,8 +170,7 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const ch #endif done: - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_request); @@ -187,8 +180,7 @@ void gpio_free(unsigned gpio) unsigned long flags; struct gpio_chip *chip; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); if (!chip) @@ -208,8 +200,7 @@ void gpio_free(unsigned gpio) #endif WARN_ON(extra_checks && chip == NULL); done: - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_free); @@ -229,8 +220,7 @@ int gpio_direction_input(unsigned gpio) struct gpio_chip *chip; int status = -EINVAL; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); if (!chip || !chip->get || !chip->direction_input) @@ -242,8 +232,7 @@ int gpio_direction_input(unsigned gpio) /* now we know the gpio is valid and chip won't vanish */ - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); might_sleep_if(extra_checks && chip->can_sleep); @@ -252,8 +241,7 @@ int gpio_direction_input(unsigned gpio) clear_bit(gpio, chip->is_out); return status; fail: - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_direction_input); @@ -264,8 +252,7 @@ int gpio_direction_output(unsigned gpio, struct gpio_chip *chip; int status = -EINVAL; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); if (!chip || !chip->set || !chip->direction_output) @@ -277,8 +264,7 @@ int gpio_direction_output(unsigned gpio, /* now we know the gpio is valid and chip won't vanish */ - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); might_sleep_if(extra_checks && chip->can_sleep); @@ -287,8 +273,7 @@ int gpio_direction_output(unsigned gpio, set_bit(gpio, chip->is_out); return status; fail: - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_direction_output); @@ -303,22 +288,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_direction_output) * When "set" operations are inlinable, they involve writing that mask to * one register to set a low value, or a different register to set it high. * Otherwise locking is needed, so there may be little value to inlining. + * + *------------------------------------------------------------------------ + * + * IMPORTANT!!! The hot paths -- get/set value -- assume that callers + * have requested the GPIO. That can include implicit requesting by + * a direction setting call. Marking a gpio as requested locks its chip + * in memory, guaranteeing that these table lookups need no more locking + * and that gpiochip_remove() will fail. + * + * REVISIT when debugging, consider adding some instrumentation to ensure + * that the GPIO was actually requested. */ int __gpio_get_value(unsigned gpio) { - unsigned long flags; struct gpio_chip *chip; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); - chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); - if (extra_checks) - gpio_ensure_requested(chip, gpio - chip->base); - - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); - WARN_ON(extra_checks && chip->can_sleep); return chip->get(chip, gpio - chip->base); } @@ -326,19 +312,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__gpio_get_value); void __gpio_set_value(unsigned gpio, int value) { - unsigned long flags; struct gpio_chip *chip; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); - chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); - if (extra_checks) - gpio_ensure_requested(chip, gpio - chip->base); - - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); - WARN_ON(extra_checks && chip->can_sleep); chip->set(chip, gpio - chip->base, value); } @@ -346,18 +322,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__gpio_set_value); int __gpio_cansleep(unsigned gpio) { - unsigned long flags; struct gpio_chip *chip; - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); - + /* only call this on GPIOs that are valid! */ chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); - if (extra_checks) - gpio_ensure_requested(chip, gpio - chip->base); - - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); return chip->can_sleep; } @@ -365,48 +333,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__gpio_cansleep); -/* There's no value in inlining GPIO calls that may sleep. +/* There's no value in making it easy to inline GPIO calls that may sleep. * Common examples include ones connected to I2C or SPI chips. */ int gpio_get_value_cansleep(unsigned gpio) { - unsigned long flags; struct gpio_chip *chip; might_sleep_if(extra_checks); - - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); - chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); - if (extra_checks) - gpio_ensure_requested(chip, gpio - chip->base); - - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); - return chip->get(chip, gpio - chip->base); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_get_value_cansleep); void gpio_set_value_cansleep(unsigned gpio, int value) { - unsigned long flags; struct gpio_chip *chip; might_sleep_if(extra_checks); - - local_irq_save(flags); - __raw_spin_lock(&gpio_lock); - chip = gpio_to_chip(gpio); - if (extra_checks) - gpio_ensure_requested(chip, gpio - chip->base); - - __raw_spin_unlock(&gpio_lock); - local_irq_restore(flags); - chip->set(chip, gpio - chip->base, value); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpio_set_value_cansleep); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx are git-arm.patch i2c-isp1301_omap-new-style-i2c-driver-updates-part-1.patch i2c-isp1301_omap-new-style-i2c-driver-updates-part-2.patch git-input.patch git-mmc.patch git-mtd.patch pcmcia-stop-updating-dev-powerpower_state.patch remove-obsolete-sys-devices-power-state-docs.patch drivers-pmc-msp71xx-gpio-char-driver.patch remove-pointless-casts-from-void-pointers.patch spi-core-stop-updating-dev-powerpower_state.patch cosmetic-fixes-to-rtc-subsystems-kconfig.patch rtc-pcf8583-dont-abuse-i2c_m_nostart.patch rtc-s3c-use-is_power_of_2-macro-for-simplicity.patch rtc-cmos-exports-nvram-in-sysfs.patch rtc-cmos-alarm-acts-as-oneshot.patch platform-real-time-clock-driver-for-dallas-1511-chip.patch rtc-add-support-for-the-s-35390a-rtc-chip.patch rtc-add-support-for-the-s-35390a-rtc-chip-update.patch w1-gpio-add-gpio-w1-bus-master-driver.patch w1-gpio-add-gpio-w1-bus-master-driver-v3.patch generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified.patch avr32-uses-gpio_chip.patch mcp23s08-spi-gpio-expander.patch mcp23s08-spi-gpio-expander-checkpatch-fixes.patch arm-pxa-gpiolib-support-make-pxa_gpio_chip-static.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html