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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..de6fc79ad --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst @@ -0,0 +1,468 @@ +================================== +GPIO Descriptor Consumer Interface +================================== + +This document describes the consumer interface of the GPIO framework. Note that +it describes the new descriptor-based interface. For a description of the +deprecated integer-based GPIO interface please refer to legacy.rst. + + +Guidelines for GPIOs consumers +============================== + +Drivers that can't work without standard GPIO calls should have Kconfig entries +that depend on GPIOLIB or select GPIOLIB. The functions that allow a driver to +obtain and use GPIOs are available by including the following file:: + + #include <linux/gpio/consumer.h> + +There are static inline stubs for all functions in the header file in the case +where GPIOLIB is disabled. When these stubs are called they will emit +warnings. These stubs are used for two use cases: + +- Simple compile coverage with e.g. COMPILE_TEST - it does not matter that + the current platform does not enable or select GPIOLIB because we are not + going to execute the system anyway. + +- Truly optional GPIOLIB support - where the driver does not really make use + of the GPIOs on certain compile-time configurations for certain systems, but + will use it under other compile-time configurations. In this case the + consumer must make sure not to call into these functions, or the user will + be met with console warnings that may be perceived as intimidating. + +All the functions that work with the descriptor-based GPIO interface are +prefixed with ``gpiod_``. The ``gpio_`` prefix is used for the legacy +interface. No other function in the kernel should use these prefixes. The use +of the legacy functions is strongly discouraged, new code should use +<linux/gpio/consumer.h> and descriptors exclusively. + + +Obtaining and Disposing GPIOs +============================= + +With the descriptor-based interface, GPIOs are identified with an opaque, +non-forgeable handler that must be obtained through a call to one of the +gpiod_get() functions. Like many other kernel subsystems, gpiod_get() takes the +device that will use the GPIO and the function the requested GPIO is supposed to +fulfill:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +If a function is implemented by using several GPIOs together (e.g. a simple LED +device that displays digits), an additional index argument can be specified:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_index(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, unsigned int idx, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +For a more detailed description of the con_id parameter in the DeviceTree case +see Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst + +The flags parameter is used to optionally specify a direction and initial value +for the GPIO. Values can be: + +* GPIOD_ASIS or 0 to not initialize the GPIO at all. The direction must be set + later with one of the dedicated functions. +* GPIOD_IN to initialize the GPIO as input. +* GPIOD_OUT_LOW to initialize the GPIO as output with a value of 0. +* GPIOD_OUT_HIGH to initialize the GPIO as output with a value of 1. +* GPIOD_OUT_LOW_OPEN_DRAIN same as GPIOD_OUT_LOW but also enforce the line + to be electrically used with open drain. +* GPIOD_OUT_HIGH_OPEN_DRAIN same as GPIOD_OUT_HIGH but also enforce the line + to be electrically used with open drain. + +Note that the initial value is *logical* and the physical line level depends on +whether the line is configured active high or active low (see +:ref:`active_low_semantics`). + +The two last flags are used for use cases where open drain is mandatory, such +as I2C: if the line is not already configured as open drain in the mappings +(see board.rst), then open drain will be enforced anyway and a warning will be +printed that the board configuration needs to be updated to match the use case. + +Both functions return either a valid GPIO descriptor, or an error code checkable +with IS_ERR() (they will never return a NULL pointer). -ENOENT will be returned +if and only if no GPIO has been assigned to the device/function/index triplet, +other error codes are used for cases where a GPIO has been assigned but an error +occurred while trying to acquire it. This is useful to discriminate between mere +errors and an absence of GPIO for optional GPIO parameters. For the common +pattern where a GPIO is optional, the gpiod_get_optional() and +gpiod_get_index_optional() functions can be used. These functions return NULL +instead of -ENOENT if no GPIO has been assigned to the requested function:: + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + unsigned int index, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +Note that gpio_get*_optional() functions (and their managed variants), unlike +the rest of gpiolib API, also return NULL when gpiolib support is disabled. +This is helpful to driver authors, since they do not need to special case +-ENOSYS return codes. System integrators should however be careful to enable +gpiolib on systems that need it. + +For a function using multiple GPIOs all of those can be obtained with one call:: + + struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +This function returns a struct gpio_descs which contains an array of +descriptors. It also contains a pointer to a gpiolib private structure which, +if passed back to get/set array functions, may speed up I/O processing:: + + struct gpio_descs { + struct gpio_array *info; + unsigned int ndescs; + struct gpio_desc *desc[]; + } + +The following function returns NULL instead of -ENOENT if no GPIOs have been +assigned to the requested function:: + + struct gpio_descs *gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +Device-managed variants of these functions are also defined:: + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get(struct device *dev, const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_index(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + unsigned int idx, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_desc *devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + unsigned int index, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_descs *devm_gpiod_get_array(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + + struct gpio_descs *devm_gpiod_get_array_optional(struct device *dev, + const char *con_id, + enum gpiod_flags flags) + +A GPIO descriptor can be disposed of using the gpiod_put() function:: + + void gpiod_put(struct gpio_desc *desc) + +For an array of GPIOs this function can be used:: + + void gpiod_put_array(struct gpio_descs *descs) + +It is strictly forbidden to use a descriptor after calling these functions. +It is also not allowed to individually release descriptors (using gpiod_put()) +from an array acquired with gpiod_get_array(). + +The device-managed variants are, unsurprisingly:: + + void devm_gpiod_put(struct device *dev, struct gpio_desc *desc) + + void devm_gpiod_put_array(struct device *dev, struct gpio_descs *descs) + + +Using GPIOs +=========== + +Setting Direction +----------------- +The first thing a driver must do with a GPIO is setting its direction. If no +direction-setting flags have been given to gpiod_get*(), this is done by +invoking one of the gpiod_direction_*() functions:: + + int gpiod_direction_input(struct gpio_desc *desc) + int gpiod_direction_output(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + +The return value is zero for success, else a negative errno. It should be +checked, since the get/set calls don't return errors and since misconfiguration +is possible. You should normally issue these calls from a task context. However, +for spinlock-safe GPIOs it is OK to use them before tasking is enabled, as part +of early board setup. + +For output GPIOs, the value provided becomes the initial output value. This +helps avoid signal glitching during system startup. + +A driver can also query the current direction of a GPIO:: + + int gpiod_get_direction(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +This function returns 0 for output, 1 for input, or an error code in case of error. + +Be aware that there is no default direction for GPIOs. Therefore, **using a GPIO +without setting its direction first is illegal and will result in undefined +behavior!** + + +Spinlock-Safe GPIO Access +------------------------- +Most GPIO controllers can be accessed with memory read/write instructions. Those +don't need to sleep, and can safely be done from inside hard (non-threaded) IRQ +handlers and similar contexts. + +Use the following calls to access GPIOs from an atomic context:: + + int gpiod_get_value(const struct gpio_desc *desc); + void gpiod_set_value(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value); + +The values are boolean, zero for low, nonzero for high. When reading the value +of an output pin, the value returned should be what's seen on the pin. That +won't always match the specified output value, because of issues including +open-drain signaling and output latencies. + +The get/set calls do not return errors because "invalid GPIO" should have been +reported earlier from gpiod_direction_*(). However, note that not all platforms +can read the value of output pins; those that can't should always return zero. +Also, using these calls for GPIOs that can't safely be accessed without sleeping +(see below) is an error. + + +GPIO Access That May Sleep +-------------------------- +Some GPIO controllers must be accessed using message based buses like I2C or +SPI. Commands to read or write those GPIO values require waiting to get to the +head of a queue to transmit a command and get its response. 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:: + + int gpiod_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +To access such GPIOs, a different set of accessors is defined:: + + int gpiod_get_value_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_set_value_cansleep(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + +Accessing such GPIOs requires a context which may sleep, for example a threaded +IRQ handler, and those accessors must be used instead of spinlock-safe +accessors without the cansleep() name suffix. + +Other than the fact that these accessors might sleep, and will work on GPIOs +that can't be accessed from hardIRQ handlers, these calls act the same as the +spinlock-safe calls. + + +.. _active_low_semantics: + +The active low and open drain semantics +--------------------------------------- +As a consumer should not have to care about the physical line level, all of the +gpiod_set_value_xxx() or gpiod_set_array_value_xxx() functions operate with +the *logical* value. With this they take the active low property into account. +This means that they check whether the GPIO is configured to be active low, +and if so, they manipulate the passed value before the physical line level is +driven. + +The same is applicable for open drain or open source output lines: those do not +actively drive their output high (open drain) or low (open source), they just +switch their output to a high impedance value. The consumer should not need to +care. (For details read about open drain in driver.rst.) + +With this, all the gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() functions interpret the +parameter "value" as "asserted" ("1") or "de-asserted" ("0"). The physical line +level will be driven accordingly. + +As an example, if the active low property for a dedicated GPIO is set, and the +gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() passes "asserted" ("1"), the physical line level +will be driven low. + +To summarize:: + + Function (example) line property physical line + gpiod_set_raw_value(desc, 0); don't care low + gpiod_set_raw_value(desc, 1); don't care high + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); default (active high) low + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); default (active high) high + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); active low high + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); active low low + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); open drain low + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); open drain high impedance + gpiod_set_value(desc, 0); open source high impedance + gpiod_set_value(desc, 1); open source high + +It is possible to override these semantics using the set_raw/get_raw functions +but it should be avoided as much as possible, especially by system-agnostic drivers +which should not need to care about the actual physical line level and worry about +the logical value instead. + + +Accessing raw GPIO values +------------------------- +Consumers exist that need to manage the logical state of a GPIO line, i.e. the value +their device will actually receive, no matter what lies between it and the GPIO +line. + +The following set of calls ignore the active-low or open drain property of a GPIO and +work on the raw line value:: + + int gpiod_get_raw_value(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_set_raw_value(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + int gpiod_get_raw_value_cansleep(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_set_raw_value_cansleep(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + int gpiod_direction_output_raw(struct gpio_desc *desc, int value) + +The active low state of a GPIO can also be queried and toggled using the +following calls:: + + int gpiod_is_active_low(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + void gpiod_toggle_active_low(struct gpio_desc *desc) + +Note that these functions should only be used with great moderation; a driver +should not have to care about the physical line level or open drain semantics. + + +Access multiple GPIOs with a single function call +------------------------------------------------- +The following functions get or set the values of an array of GPIOs:: + + int gpiod_get_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + int gpiod_get_raw_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + int gpiod_get_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + int gpiod_get_raw_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap); + + int gpiod_set_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + int gpiod_set_raw_array_value(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + int gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + int gpiod_set_raw_array_value_cansleep(unsigned int array_size, + struct gpio_desc **desc_array, + struct gpio_array *array_info, + unsigned long *value_bitmap) + +The array can be an arbitrary set of GPIOs. The functions will try to access +GPIOs belonging to the same bank or chip simultaneously if supported by the +corresponding chip driver. In that case a significantly improved performance +can be expected. If simultaneous access is not possible the GPIOs will be +accessed sequentially. + +The functions take four arguments: + + * array_size - the number of array elements + * desc_array - an array of GPIO descriptors + * array_info - optional information obtained from gpiod_get_array() + * value_bitmap - a bitmap to store the GPIOs' values (get) or + a bitmap of values to assign to the GPIOs (set) + +The descriptor array can be obtained using the gpiod_get_array() function +or one of its variants. If the group of descriptors returned by that function +matches the desired group of GPIOs, those GPIOs can be accessed by simply using +the struct gpio_descs returned by gpiod_get_array():: + + struct gpio_descs *my_gpio_descs = gpiod_get_array(...); + gpiod_set_array_value(my_gpio_descs->ndescs, my_gpio_descs->desc, + my_gpio_descs->info, my_gpio_value_bitmap); + +It is also possible to access a completely arbitrary array of descriptors. The +descriptors may be obtained using any combination of gpiod_get() and +gpiod_get_array(). Afterwards the array of descriptors has to be setup +manually before it can be passed to one of the above functions. In that case, +array_info should be set to NULL. + +Note that for optimal performance GPIOs belonging to the same chip should be +contiguous within the array of descriptors. + +Still better performance may be achieved if array indexes of the descriptors +match hardware pin numbers of a single chip. If an array passed to a get/set +array function matches the one obtained from gpiod_get_array() and array_info +associated with the array is also passed, the function may take a fast bitmap +processing path, passing the value_bitmap argument directly to the respective +.get/set_multiple() callback of the chip. That allows for utilization of GPIO +banks as data I/O ports without much loss of performance. + +The return value of gpiod_get_array_value() and its variants is 0 on success +or negative on error. Note the difference to gpiod_get_value(), which returns +0 or 1 on success to convey the GPIO value. With the array functions, the GPIO +values are stored in value_array rather than passed back as return value. + + +GPIOs mapped to IRQs +-------------------- +GPIO lines can quite often be used as IRQs. You can get the IRQ number +corresponding to a given GPIO using the following call:: + + int gpiod_to_irq(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + +It will return an IRQ number, or a negative errno code if the mapping can't be +done (most likely because that particular GPIO cannot be used as IRQ). It is an +unchecked error to use a GPIO that wasn't set up as an input using +gpiod_direction_input(), or to use an IRQ number that didn't originally come +from gpiod_to_irq(). gpiod_to_irq() is not allowed to sleep. + +Non-error values returned from gpiod_to_irq() can be passed to request_irq() or +free_irq(). They will often be stored into IRQ resources for platform devices, +by the board-specific initialization code. Note that IRQ trigger options are +part of the IRQ interface, e.g. IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, as are system wakeup +capabilities. + + +GPIOs and ACPI +============== + +On ACPI systems, GPIOs are described by GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources listed by +the _CRS configuration objects of devices. Those resources do not provide +connection IDs (names) for GPIOs, so it is necessary to use an additional +mechanism for this purpose. + +Systems compliant with ACPI 5.1 or newer may provide a _DSD configuration object +which, among other things, may be used to provide connection IDs for specific +GPIOs described by the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources in _CRS. If that is the +case, it will be handled by the GPIO subsystem automatically. However, if the +_DSD is not present, the mappings between GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources and GPIO +connection IDs need to be provided by device drivers. + +For details refer to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst + + +Interacting With the Legacy GPIO Subsystem +========================================== +Many kernel subsystems and drivers still handle GPIOs using the legacy +integer-based interface. It is strongly recommended to update these to the new +gpiod interface. For cases where both interfaces need to be used, the following +two functions allow to convert a GPIO descriptor into the GPIO integer namespace +and vice-versa:: + + int desc_to_gpio(const struct gpio_desc *desc) + struct gpio_desc *gpio_to_desc(unsigned gpio) + +The GPIO number returned by desc_to_gpio() can safely be used as a parameter of +the gpio\_*() functions for as long as the GPIO descriptor `desc` is not freed. +All the same, a GPIO number passed to gpio_to_desc() must first be properly +acquired using e.g. gpio_request_one(), and the returned GPIO descriptor is only +considered valid until that GPIO number is released using gpio_free(). + +Freeing a GPIO obtained by one API with the other API is forbidden and an +unchecked error. |