1=============================== 2PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem 3=============================== 4 5This document outlines the pin control subsystem in Linux 6 7This subsystem deals with: 8 9- Enumerating and naming controllable pins 10 11- Multiplexing of pins, pads, fingers (etc) see below for details 12 13- Configuration of pins, pads, fingers (etc), such as software-controlled 14 biasing and driving mode specific pins, such as pull-up/down, open drain, 15 load capacitance etc. 16 17Top-level interface 18=================== 19 20Definition of PIN CONTROLLER: 21 22- A pin controller is a piece of hardware, usually a set of registers, that 23 can control PINs. It may be able to multiplex, bias, set load capacitance, 24 set drive strength, etc. for individual pins or groups of pins. 25 26Definition of PIN: 27 28- PINS are equal to pads, fingers, balls or whatever packaging input or 29 output line you want to control and these are denoted by unsigned integers 30 in the range 0..maxpin. This numberspace is local to each PIN CONTROLLER, so 31 there may be several such number spaces in a system. This pin space may 32 be sparse - i.e. there may be gaps in the space with numbers where no 33 pin exists. 34 35When a PIN CONTROLLER is instantiated, it will register a descriptor to the 36pin control framework, and this descriptor contains an array of pin descriptors 37describing the pins handled by this specific pin controller. 38 39Here is an example of a PGA (Pin Grid Array) chip seen from underneath:: 40 41 A B C D E F G H 42 43 8 o o o o o o o o 44 45 7 o o o o o o o o 46 47 6 o o o o o o o o 48 49 5 o o o o o o o o 50 51 4 o o o o o o o o 52 53 3 o o o o o o o o 54 55 2 o o o o o o o o 56 57 1 o o o o o o o o 58 59To register a pin controller and name all the pins on this package we can do 60this in our driver:: 61 62 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h> 63 64 const struct pinctrl_pin_desc foo_pins[] = { 65 PINCTRL_PIN(0, "A8"), 66 PINCTRL_PIN(1, "B8"), 67 PINCTRL_PIN(2, "C8"), 68 ... 69 PINCTRL_PIN(61, "F1"), 70 PINCTRL_PIN(62, "G1"), 71 PINCTRL_PIN(63, "H1"), 72 }; 73 74 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = { 75 .name = "foo", 76 .pins = foo_pins, 77 .npins = ARRAY_SIZE(foo_pins), 78 .owner = THIS_MODULE, 79 }; 80 81 int __init foo_probe(void) 82 { 83 int error; 84 85 struct pinctrl_dev *pctl; 86 87 error = pinctrl_register_and_init(&foo_desc, <PARENT>, 88 NULL, &pctl); 89 if (error) 90 return error; 91 92 return pinctrl_enable(pctl); 93 } 94 95To enable the pinctrl subsystem and the subgroups for PINMUX and PINCONF and 96selected drivers, you need to select them from your machine's Kconfig entry, 97since these are so tightly integrated with the machines they are used on. 98See for example arch/arm/mach-ux500/Kconfig for an example. 99 100Pins usually have fancier names than this. You can find these in the datasheet 101for your chip. Notice that the core pinctrl.h file provides a fancy macro 102called PINCTRL_PIN() to create the struct entries. As you can see I enumerated 103the pins from 0 in the upper left corner to 63 in the lower right corner. 104This enumeration was arbitrarily chosen, in practice you need to think 105through your numbering system so that it matches the layout of registers 106and such things in your driver, or the code may become complicated. You must 107also consider matching of offsets to the GPIO ranges that may be handled by 108the pin controller. 109 110For a padring with 467 pads, as opposed to actual pins, I used an enumeration 111like this, walking around the edge of the chip, which seems to be industry 112standard too (all these pads had names, too):: 113 114 115 0 ..... 104 116 466 105 117 . . 118 . . 119 358 224 120 357 .... 225 121 122 123Pin groups 124========== 125 126Many controllers need to deal with groups of pins, so the pin controller 127subsystem has a mechanism for enumerating groups of pins and retrieving the 128actual enumerated pins that are part of a certain group. 129 130For example, say that we have a group of pins dealing with an SPI interface 131on { 0, 8, 16, 24 }, and a group of pins dealing with an I2C interface on pins 132on { 24, 25 }. 133 134These two groups are presented to the pin control subsystem by implementing 135some generic pinctrl_ops like this:: 136 137 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h> 138 139 struct foo_group { 140 const char *name; 141 const unsigned int *pins; 142 const unsigned num_pins; 143 }; 144 145 static const unsigned int spi0_pins[] = { 0, 8, 16, 24 }; 146 static const unsigned int i2c0_pins[] = { 24, 25 }; 147 148 static const struct foo_group foo_groups[] = { 149 { 150 .name = "spi0_grp", 151 .pins = spi0_pins, 152 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_pins), 153 }, 154 { 155 .name = "i2c0_grp", 156 .pins = i2c0_pins, 157 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_pins), 158 }, 159 }; 160 161 162 static int foo_get_groups_count(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev) 163 { 164 return ARRAY_SIZE(foo_groups); 165 } 166 167 static const char *foo_get_group_name(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, 168 unsigned selector) 169 { 170 return foo_groups[selector].name; 171 } 172 173 static int foo_get_group_pins(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector, 174 const unsigned **pins, 175 unsigned *num_pins) 176 { 177 *pins = (unsigned *) foo_groups[selector].pins; 178 *num_pins = foo_groups[selector].num_pins; 179 return 0; 180 } 181 182 static struct pinctrl_ops foo_pctrl_ops = { 183 .get_groups_count = foo_get_groups_count, 184 .get_group_name = foo_get_group_name, 185 .get_group_pins = foo_get_group_pins, 186 }; 187 188 189 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = { 190 ... 191 .pctlops = &foo_pctrl_ops, 192 }; 193 194The pin control subsystem will call the .get_groups_count() function to 195determine the total number of legal selectors, then it will call the other functions 196to retrieve the name and pins of the group. Maintaining the data structure of 197the groups is up to the driver, this is just a simple example - in practice you 198may need more entries in your group structure, for example specific register 199ranges associated with each group and so on. 200 201 202Pin configuration 203================= 204 205Pins can sometimes be software-configured in various ways, mostly related 206to their electronic properties when used as inputs or outputs. For example you 207may be able to make an output pin high impedance, or "tristate" meaning it is 208effectively disconnected. You may be able to connect an input pin to VDD or GND 209using a certain resistor value - pull up and pull down - so that the pin has a 210stable value when nothing is driving the rail it is connected to, or when it's 211unconnected. 212 213Pin configuration can be programmed by adding configuration entries into the 214mapping table; see section "Board/machine configuration" below. 215 216The format and meaning of the configuration parameter, PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP 217above, is entirely defined by the pin controller driver. 218 219The pin configuration driver implements callbacks for changing pin 220configuration in the pin controller ops like this:: 221 222 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h> 223 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinconf.h> 224 #include "platform_x_pindefs.h" 225 226 static int foo_pin_config_get(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, 227 unsigned offset, 228 unsigned long *config) 229 { 230 struct my_conftype conf; 231 232 ... Find setting for pin @ offset ... 233 234 *config = (unsigned long) conf; 235 } 236 237 static int foo_pin_config_set(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, 238 unsigned offset, 239 unsigned long config) 240 { 241 struct my_conftype *conf = (struct my_conftype *) config; 242 243 switch (conf) { 244 case PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP: 245 ... 246 } 247 } 248 } 249 250 static int foo_pin_config_group_get (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, 251 unsigned selector, 252 unsigned long *config) 253 { 254 ... 255 } 256 257 static int foo_pin_config_group_set (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, 258 unsigned selector, 259 unsigned long config) 260 { 261 ... 262 } 263 264 static struct pinconf_ops foo_pconf_ops = { 265 .pin_config_get = foo_pin_config_get, 266 .pin_config_set = foo_pin_config_set, 267 .pin_config_group_get = foo_pin_config_group_get, 268 .pin_config_group_set = foo_pin_config_group_set, 269 }; 270 271 /* Pin config operations are handled by some pin controller */ 272 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = { 273 ... 274 .confops = &foo_pconf_ops, 275 }; 276 277Interaction with the GPIO subsystem 278=================================== 279 280The GPIO drivers may want to perform operations of various types on the same 281physical pins that are also registered as pin controller pins. 282 283First and foremost, the two subsystems can be used as completely orthogonal, 284see the section named "pin control requests from drivers" and 285"drivers needing both pin control and GPIOs" below for details. But in some 286situations a cross-subsystem mapping between pins and GPIOs is needed. 287 288Since the pin controller subsystem has its pinspace local to the pin controller 289we need a mapping so that the pin control subsystem can figure out which pin 290controller handles control of a certain GPIO pin. Since a single pin controller 291may be muxing several GPIO ranges (typically SoCs that have one set of pins, 292but internally several GPIO silicon blocks, each modelled as a struct 293gpio_chip) any number of GPIO ranges can be added to a pin controller instance 294like this:: 295 296 struct gpio_chip chip_a; 297 struct gpio_chip chip_b; 298 299 static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range_a = { 300 .name = "chip a", 301 .id = 0, 302 .base = 32, 303 .pin_base = 32, 304 .npins = 16, 305 .gc = &chip_a; 306 }; 307 308 static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range_b = { 309 .name = "chip b", 310 .id = 0, 311 .base = 48, 312 .pin_base = 64, 313 .npins = 8, 314 .gc = &chip_b; 315 }; 316 317 { 318 struct pinctrl_dev *pctl; 319 ... 320 pinctrl_add_gpio_range(pctl, &gpio_range_a); 321 pinctrl_add_gpio_range(pctl, &gpio_range_b); 322 } 323 324So this complex system has one pin controller handling two different 325GPIO chips. "chip a" has 16 pins and "chip b" has 8 pins. The "chip a" and 326"chip b" have different .pin_base, which means a start pin number of the 327GPIO range. 328 329The GPIO range of "chip a" starts from the GPIO base of 32 and actual 330pin range also starts from 32. However "chip b" has different starting 331offset for the GPIO range and pin range. The GPIO range of "chip b" starts 332from GPIO number 48, while the pin range of "chip b" starts from 64. 333 334We can convert a gpio number to actual pin number using this "pin_base". 335They are mapped in the global GPIO pin space at: 336 337chip a: 338 - GPIO range : [32 .. 47] 339 - pin range : [32 .. 47] 340chip b: 341 - GPIO range : [48 .. 55] 342 - pin range : [64 .. 71] 343 344The above examples assume the mapping between the GPIOs and pins is 345linear. If the mapping is sparse or haphazard, an array of arbitrary pin 346numbers can be encoded in the range like this:: 347 348 static const unsigned range_pins[] = { 14, 1, 22, 17, 10, 8, 6, 2 }; 349 350 static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range = { 351 .name = "chip", 352 .id = 0, 353 .base = 32, 354 .pins = &range_pins, 355 .npins = ARRAY_SIZE(range_pins), 356 .gc = &chip; 357 }; 358 359In this case the pin_base property will be ignored. If the name of a pin 360group is known, the pins and npins elements of the above structure can be 361initialised using the function pinctrl_get_group_pins(), e.g. for pin 362group "foo":: 363 364 pinctrl_get_group_pins(pctl, "foo", &gpio_range.pins, 365 &gpio_range.npins); 366 367When GPIO-specific functions in the pin control subsystem are called, these 368ranges will be used to look up the appropriate pin controller by inspecting 369and matching the pin to the pin ranges across all controllers. When a 370pin controller handling the matching range is found, GPIO-specific functions 371will be called on that specific pin controller. 372 373For all functionalities dealing with pin biasing, pin muxing etc, the pin 374controller subsystem will look up the corresponding pin number from the passed 375in gpio number, and use the range's internals to retrieve a pin number. After 376that, the subsystem passes it on to the pin control driver, so the driver 377will get a pin number into its handled number range. Further it is also passed 378the range ID value, so that the pin controller knows which range it should 379deal with. 380 381Calling pinctrl_add_gpio_range from pinctrl driver is DEPRECATED. Please see 382section 2.1 of Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt on how to bind 383pinctrl and gpio drivers. 384 385 386PINMUX interfaces 387================= 388 389These calls use the pinmux_* naming prefix. No other calls should use that 390prefix. 391 392 393What is pinmuxing? 394================== 395 396PINMUX, also known as padmux, ballmux, alternate functions or mission modes 397is a way for chip vendors producing some kind of electrical packages to use 398a certain physical pin (ball, pad, finger, etc) for multiple mutually exclusive 399functions, depending on the application. By "application" in this context 400we usually mean a way of soldering or wiring the package into an electronic 401system, even though the framework makes it possible to also change the function 402at runtime. 403 404Here is an example of a PGA (Pin Grid Array) chip seen from underneath:: 405 406 A B C D E F G H 407 +---+ 408 8 | o | o o o o o o o 409 | | 410 7 | o | o o o o o o o 411 | | 412 6 | o | o o o o o o o 413 +---+---+ 414 5 | o | o | o o o o o o 415 +---+---+ +---+ 416 4 o o o o o o | o | o 417 | | 418 3 o o o o o o | o | o 419 | | 420 2 o o o o o o | o | o 421 +-------+-------+-------+---+---+ 422 1 | o o | o o | o o | o | o | 423 +-------+-------+-------+---+---+ 424 425This is not tetris. The game to think of is chess. Not all PGA/BGA packages 426are chessboard-like, big ones have "holes" in some arrangement according to 427different design patterns, but we're using this as a simple example. Of the 428pins you see some will be taken by things like a few VCC and GND to feed power 429to the chip, and quite a few will be taken by large ports like an external 430memory interface. The remaining pins will often be subject to pin multiplexing. 431 432The example 8x8 PGA package above will have pin numbers 0 through 63 assigned 433to its physical pins. It will name the pins { A1, A2, A3 ... H6, H7, H8 } using 434pinctrl_register_pins() and a suitable data set as shown earlier. 435 436In this 8x8 BGA package the pins { A8, A7, A6, A5 } can be used as an SPI port 437(these are four pins: CLK, RXD, TXD, FRM). In that case, pin B5 can be used as 438some general-purpose GPIO pin. However, in another setting, pins { A5, B5 } can 439be used as an I2C port (these are just two pins: SCL, SDA). Needless to say, 440we cannot use the SPI port and I2C port at the same time. However in the inside 441of the package the silicon performing the SPI logic can alternatively be routed 442out on pins { G4, G3, G2, G1 }. 443 444On the bottom row at { A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, H1 } we have something 445special - it's an external MMC bus that can be 2, 4 or 8 bits wide, and it will 446consume 2, 4 or 8 pins respectively, so either { A1, B1 } are taken or 447{ A1, B1, C1, D1 } or all of them. If we use all 8 bits, we cannot use the SPI 448port on pins { G4, G3, G2, G1 } of course. 449 450This way the silicon blocks present inside the chip can be multiplexed "muxed" 451out on different pin ranges. Often contemporary SoC (systems on chip) will 452contain several I2C, SPI, SDIO/MMC, etc silicon blocks that can be routed to 453different pins by pinmux settings. 454 455Since general-purpose I/O pins (GPIO) are typically always in shortage, it is 456common to be able to use almost any pin as a GPIO pin if it is not currently 457in use by some other I/O port. 458 459 460Pinmux conventions 461================== 462 463The purpose of the pinmux functionality in the pin controller subsystem is to 464abstract and provide pinmux settings to the devices you choose to instantiate 465in your machine configuration. It is inspired by the clk, GPIO and regulator 466subsystems, so devices will request their mux setting, but it's also possible 467to request a single pin for e.g. GPIO. 468 469Definitions: 470 471- FUNCTIONS can be switched in and out by a driver residing with the pin 472 control subsystem in the drivers/pinctrl/* directory of the kernel. The 473 pin control driver knows the possible functions. In the example above you can 474 identify three pinmux functions, one for spi, one for i2c and one for mmc. 475 476- FUNCTIONS are assumed to be enumerable from zero in a one-dimensional array. 477 In this case the array could be something like: { spi0, i2c0, mmc0 } 478 for the three available functions. 479 480- FUNCTIONS have PIN GROUPS as defined on the generic level - so a certain 481 function is *always* associated with a certain set of pin groups, could 482 be just a single one, but could also be many. In the example above the 483 function i2c is associated with the pins { A5, B5 }, enumerated as 484 { 24, 25 } in the controller pin space. 485 486 The Function spi is associated with pin groups { A8, A7, A6, A5 } 487 and { G4, G3, G2, G1 }, which are enumerated as { 0, 8, 16, 24 } and 488 { 38, 46, 54, 62 } respectively. 489 490 Group names must be unique per pin controller, no two groups on the same 491 controller may have the same name. 492 493- The combination of a FUNCTION and a PIN GROUP determine a certain function 494 for a certain set of pins. The knowledge of the functions and pin groups 495 and their machine-specific particulars are kept inside the pinmux driver, 496 from the outside only the enumerators are known, and the driver core can 497 request: 498 499 - The name of a function with a certain selector (>= 0) 500 - A list of groups associated with a certain function 501 - That a certain group in that list to be activated for a certain function 502 503 As already described above, pin groups are in turn self-descriptive, so 504 the core will retrieve the actual pin range in a certain group from the 505 driver. 506 507- FUNCTIONS and GROUPS on a certain PIN CONTROLLER are MAPPED to a certain 508 device by the board file, device tree or similar machine setup configuration 509 mechanism, similar to how regulators are connected to devices, usually by 510 name. Defining a pin controller, function and group thus uniquely identify 511 the set of pins to be used by a certain device. (If only one possible group 512 of pins is available for the function, no group name need to be supplied - 513 the core will simply select the first and only group available.) 514 515 In the example case we can define that this particular machine shall 516 use device spi0 with pinmux function fspi0 group gspi0 and i2c0 on function 517 fi2c0 group gi2c0, on the primary pin controller, we get mappings 518 like these:: 519 520 { 521 {"map-spi0", spi0, pinctrl0, fspi0, gspi0}, 522 {"map-i2c0", i2c0, pinctrl0, fi2c0, gi2c0} 523 } 524 525 Every map must be assigned a state name, pin controller, device and 526 function. The group is not compulsory - if it is omitted the first group 527 presented by the driver as applicable for the function will be selected, 528 which is useful for simple cases. 529 530 It is possible to map several groups to the same combination of device, 531 pin controller and function. This is for cases where a certain function on 532 a certain pin controller may use different sets of pins in different 533 configurations. 534 535- PINS for a certain FUNCTION using a certain PIN GROUP on a certain 536 PIN CONTROLLER are provided on a first-come first-serve basis, so if some 537 other device mux setting or GPIO pin request has already taken your physical 538 pin, you will be denied the use of it. To get (activate) a new setting, the 539 old one has to be put (deactivated) first. 540 541Sometimes the documentation and hardware registers will be oriented around 542pads (or "fingers") rather than pins - these are the soldering surfaces on the 543silicon inside the package, and may or may not match the actual number of 544pins/balls underneath the capsule. Pick some enumeration that makes sense to 545you. Define enumerators only for the pins you can control if that makes sense. 546 547Assumptions: 548 549We assume that the number of possible function maps to pin groups is limited by 550the hardware. I.e. we assume that there is no system where any function can be 551mapped to any pin, like in a phone exchange. So the available pin groups for 552a certain function will be limited to a few choices (say up to eight or so), 553not hundreds or any amount of choices. This is the characteristic we have found 554by inspecting available pinmux hardware, and a necessary assumption since we 555expect pinmux drivers to present *all* possible function vs pin group mappings 556to the subsystem. 557 558 559Pinmux drivers 560============== 561 562The pinmux core takes care of preventing conflicts on pins and calling 563the pin controller driver to execute different settings. 564 565It is the responsibility of the pinmux driver to impose further restrictions 566(say for example infer electronic limitations due to load, etc.) to determine 567whether or not the requested function can actually be allowed, and in case it 568is possible to perform the requested mux setting, poke the hardware so that 569this happens. 570 571Pinmux drivers are required to supply a few callback functions, some are 572optional. Usually the set_mux() function is implemented, writing values into 573some certain registers to activate a certain mux setting for a certain pin. 574 575A simple driver for the above example will work by setting bits 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 576into some register named MUX to select a certain function with a certain 577group of pins would work something like this:: 578 579 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h> 580 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinmux.h> 581 582 struct foo_group { 583 const char *name; 584 const unsigned int *pins; 585 const unsigned num_pins; 586 }; 587 588 static const unsigned spi0_0_pins[] = { 0, 8, 16, 24 }; 589 static const unsigned spi0_1_pins[] = { 38, 46, 54, 62 }; 590 static const unsigned i2c0_pins[] = { 24, 25 }; 591 static const unsigned mmc0_1_pins[] = { 56, 57 }; 592 static const unsigned mmc0_2_pins[] = { 58, 59 }; 593 static const unsigned mmc0_3_pins[] = { 60, 61, 62, 63 }; 594 595 static const struct foo_group foo_groups[] = { 596 { 597 .name = "spi0_0_grp", 598 .pins = spi0_0_pins, 599 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_0_pins), 600 }, 601 { 602 .name = "spi0_1_grp", 603 .pins = spi0_1_pins, 604 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_1_pins), 605 }, 606 { 607 .name = "i2c0_grp", 608 .pins = i2c0_pins, 609 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_pins), 610 }, 611 { 612 .name = "mmc0_1_grp", 613 .pins = mmc0_1_pins, 614 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_1_pins), 615 }, 616 { 617 .name = "mmc0_2_grp", 618 .pins = mmc0_2_pins, 619 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_2_pins), 620 }, 621 { 622 .name = "mmc0_3_grp", 623 .pins = mmc0_3_pins, 624 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_3_pins), 625 }, 626 }; 627 628 629 static int foo_get_groups_count(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev) 630 { 631 return ARRAY_SIZE(foo_groups); 632 } 633 634 static const char *foo_get_group_name(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, 635 unsigned selector) 636 { 637 return foo_groups[selector].name; 638 } 639 640 static int foo_get_group_pins(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector, 641 const unsigned ** pins, 642 unsigned * num_pins) 643 { 644 *pins = (unsigned *) foo_groups[selector].pins; 645 *num_pins = foo_groups[selector].num_pins; 646 return 0; 647 } 648 649 static struct pinctrl_ops foo_pctrl_ops = { 650 .get_groups_count = foo_get_groups_count, 651 .get_group_name = foo_get_group_name, 652 .get_group_pins = foo_get_group_pins, 653 }; 654 655 struct foo_pmx_func { 656 const char *name; 657 const char * const *groups; 658 const unsigned num_groups; 659 }; 660 661 static const char * const spi0_groups[] = { "spi0_0_grp", "spi0_1_grp" }; 662 static const char * const i2c0_groups[] = { "i2c0_grp" }; 663 static const char * const mmc0_groups[] = { "mmc0_1_grp", "mmc0_2_grp", 664 "mmc0_3_grp" }; 665 666 static const struct foo_pmx_func foo_functions[] = { 667 { 668 .name = "spi0", 669 .groups = spi0_groups, 670 .num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_groups), 671 }, 672 { 673 .name = "i2c0", 674 .groups = i2c0_groups, 675 .num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_groups), 676 }, 677 { 678 .name = "mmc0", 679 .groups = mmc0_groups, 680 .num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_groups), 681 }, 682 }; 683 684 static int foo_get_functions_count(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev) 685 { 686 return ARRAY_SIZE(foo_functions); 687 } 688 689 static const char *foo_get_fname(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector) 690 { 691 return foo_functions[selector].name; 692 } 693 694 static int foo_get_groups(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector, 695 const char * const **groups, 696 unsigned * const num_groups) 697 { 698 *groups = foo_functions[selector].groups; 699 *num_groups = foo_functions[selector].num_groups; 700 return 0; 701 } 702 703 static int foo_set_mux(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector, 704 unsigned group) 705 { 706 u8 regbit = (1 << selector + group); 707 708 writeb((readb(MUX)|regbit), MUX); 709 return 0; 710 } 711 712 static struct pinmux_ops foo_pmxops = { 713 .get_functions_count = foo_get_functions_count, 714 .get_function_name = foo_get_fname, 715 .get_function_groups = foo_get_groups, 716 .set_mux = foo_set_mux, 717 .strict = true, 718 }; 719 720 /* Pinmux operations are handled by some pin controller */ 721 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = { 722 ... 723 .pctlops = &foo_pctrl_ops, 724 .pmxops = &foo_pmxops, 725 }; 726 727In the example activating muxing 0 and 1 at the same time setting bits 7280 and 1, uses one pin in common so they would collide. 729 730The beauty of the pinmux subsystem is that since it keeps track of all 731pins and who is using them, it will already have denied an impossible 732request like that, so the driver does not need to worry about such 733things - when it gets a selector passed in, the pinmux subsystem makes 734sure no other device or GPIO assignment is already using the selected 735pins. Thus bits 0 and 1 in the control register will never be set at the 736same time. 737 738All the above functions are mandatory to implement for a pinmux driver. 739 740 741Pin control interaction with the GPIO subsystem 742=============================================== 743 744Note that the following implies that the use case is to use a certain pin 745from the Linux kernel using the API in <linux/gpio.h> with gpio_request() 746and similar functions. There are cases where you may be using something 747that your datasheet calls "GPIO mode", but actually is just an electrical 748configuration for a certain device. See the section below named 749"GPIO mode pitfalls" for more details on this scenario. 750 751The public pinmux API contains two functions named pinctrl_gpio_request() 752and pinctrl_gpio_free(). These two functions shall *ONLY* be called from 753gpiolib-based drivers as part of their gpio_request() and 754gpio_free() semantics. Likewise the pinctrl_gpio_direction_[input|output] 755shall only be called from within respective gpio_direction_[input|output] 756gpiolib implementation. 757 758NOTE that platforms and individual drivers shall *NOT* request GPIO pins to be 759controlled e.g. muxed in. Instead, implement a proper gpiolib driver and have 760that driver request proper muxing and other control for its pins. 761 762The function list could become long, especially if you can convert every 763individual pin into a GPIO pin independent of any other pins, and then try 764the approach to define every pin as a function. 765 766In this case, the function array would become 64 entries for each GPIO 767setting and then the device functions. 768 769For this reason there are two functions a pin control driver can implement 770to enable only GPIO on an individual pin: .gpio_request_enable() and 771.gpio_disable_free(). 772 773This function will pass in the affected GPIO range identified by the pin 774controller core, so you know which GPIO pins are being affected by the request 775operation. 776 777If your driver needs to have an indication from the framework of whether the 778GPIO pin shall be used for input or output you can implement the 779.gpio_set_direction() function. As described this shall be called from the 780gpiolib driver and the affected GPIO range, pin offset and desired direction 781will be passed along to this function. 782 783Alternatively to using these special functions, it is fully allowed to use 784named functions for each GPIO pin, the pinctrl_gpio_request() will attempt to 785obtain the function "gpioN" where "N" is the global GPIO pin number if no 786special GPIO-handler is registered. 787 788 789GPIO mode pitfalls 790================== 791 792Due to the naming conventions used by hardware engineers, where "GPIO" 793is taken to mean different things than what the kernel does, the developer 794may be confused by a datasheet talking about a pin being possible to set 795into "GPIO mode". It appears that what hardware engineers mean with 796"GPIO mode" is not necessarily the use case that is implied in the kernel 797interface <linux/gpio.h>: a pin that you grab from kernel code and then 798either listen for input or drive high/low to assert/deassert some 799external line. 800 801Rather hardware engineers think that "GPIO mode" means that you can 802software-control a few electrical properties of the pin that you would 803not be able to control if the pin was in some other mode, such as muxed in 804for a device. 805 806The GPIO portions of a pin and its relation to a certain pin controller 807configuration and muxing logic can be constructed in several ways. Here 808are two examples:: 809 810 (A) 811 pin config 812 logic regs 813 | +- SPI 814 Physical pins --- pad --- pinmux -+- I2C 815 | +- mmc 816 | +- GPIO 817 pin 818 multiplex 819 logic regs 820 821Here some electrical properties of the pin can be configured no matter 822whether the pin is used for GPIO or not. If you multiplex a GPIO onto a 823pin, you can also drive it high/low from "GPIO" registers. 824Alternatively, the pin can be controlled by a certain peripheral, while 825still applying desired pin config properties. GPIO functionality is thus 826orthogonal to any other device using the pin. 827 828In this arrangement the registers for the GPIO portions of the pin controller, 829or the registers for the GPIO hardware module are likely to reside in a 830separate memory range only intended for GPIO driving, and the register 831range dealing with pin config and pin multiplexing get placed into a 832different memory range and a separate section of the data sheet. 833 834A flag "strict" in struct pinmux_ops is available to check and deny 835simultaneous access to the same pin from GPIO and pin multiplexing 836consumers on hardware of this type. The pinctrl driver should set this flag 837accordingly. 838 839:: 840 841 (B) 842 843 pin config 844 logic regs 845 | +- SPI 846 Physical pins --- pad --- pinmux -+- I2C 847 | | +- mmc 848 | | 849 GPIO pin 850 multiplex 851 logic regs 852 853In this arrangement, the GPIO functionality can always be enabled, such that 854e.g. a GPIO input can be used to "spy" on the SPI/I2C/MMC signal while it is 855pulsed out. It is likely possible to disrupt the traffic on the pin by doing 856wrong things on the GPIO block, as it is never really disconnected. It is 857possible that the GPIO, pin config and pin multiplex registers are placed into 858the same memory range and the same section of the data sheet, although that 859need not be the case. 860 861In some pin controllers, although the physical pins are designed in the same 862way as (B), the GPIO function still can't be enabled at the same time as the 863peripheral functions. So again the "strict" flag should be set, denying 864simultaneous activation by GPIO and other muxed in devices. 865 866From a kernel point of view, however, these are different aspects of the 867hardware and shall be put into different subsystems: 868 869- Registers (or fields within registers) that control electrical 870 properties of the pin such as biasing and drive strength should be 871 exposed through the pinctrl subsystem, as "pin configuration" settings. 872 873- Registers (or fields within registers) that control muxing of signals 874 from various other HW blocks (e.g. I2C, MMC, or GPIO) onto pins should 875 be exposed through the pinctrl subsystem, as mux functions. 876 877- Registers (or fields within registers) that control GPIO functionality 878 such as setting a GPIO's output value, reading a GPIO's input value, or 879 setting GPIO pin direction should be exposed through the GPIO subsystem, 880 and if they also support interrupt capabilities, through the irqchip 881 abstraction. 882 883Depending on the exact HW register design, some functions exposed by the 884GPIO subsystem may call into the pinctrl subsystem in order to 885co-ordinate register settings across HW modules. In particular, this may 886be needed for HW with separate GPIO and pin controller HW modules, where 887e.g. GPIO direction is determined by a register in the pin controller HW 888module rather than the GPIO HW module. 889 890Electrical properties of the pin such as biasing and drive strength 891may be placed at some pin-specific register in all cases or as part 892of the GPIO register in case (B) especially. This doesn't mean that such 893properties necessarily pertain to what the Linux kernel calls "GPIO". 894 895Example: a pin is usually muxed in to be used as a UART TX line. But during 896system sleep, we need to put this pin into "GPIO mode" and ground it. 897 898If you make a 1-to-1 map to the GPIO subsystem for this pin, you may start 899to think that you need to come up with something really complex, that the 900pin shall be used for UART TX and GPIO at the same time, that you will grab 901a pin control handle and set it to a certain state to enable UART TX to be 902muxed in, then twist it over to GPIO mode and use gpio_direction_output() 903to drive it low during sleep, then mux it over to UART TX again when you 904wake up and maybe even gpio_request/gpio_free as part of this cycle. This 905all gets very complicated. 906 907The solution is to not think that what the datasheet calls "GPIO mode" 908has to be handled by the <linux/gpio.h> interface. Instead view this as 909a certain pin config setting. Look in e.g. <linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h> 910and you find this in the documentation: 911 912 PIN_CONFIG_OUTPUT: 913 this will configure the pin in output, use argument 914 1 to indicate high level, argument 0 to indicate low level. 915 916So it is perfectly possible to push a pin into "GPIO mode" and drive the 917line low as part of the usual pin control map. So for example your UART 918driver may look like this:: 919 920 #include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h> 921 922 struct pinctrl *pinctrl; 923 struct pinctrl_state *pins_default; 924 struct pinctrl_state *pins_sleep; 925 926 pins_default = pinctrl_lookup_state(uap->pinctrl, PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT); 927 pins_sleep = pinctrl_lookup_state(uap->pinctrl, PINCTRL_STATE_SLEEP); 928 929 /* Normal mode */ 930 retval = pinctrl_select_state(pinctrl, pins_default); 931 /* Sleep mode */ 932 retval = pinctrl_select_state(pinctrl, pins_sleep); 933 934And your machine configuration may look like this: 935-------------------------------------------------- 936 937:: 938 939 static unsigned long uart_default_mode[] = { 940 PIN_CONF_PACKED(PIN_CONFIG_DRIVE_PUSH_PULL, 0), 941 }; 942 943 static unsigned long uart_sleep_mode[] = { 944 PIN_CONF_PACKED(PIN_CONFIG_OUTPUT, 0), 945 }; 946 947 static struct pinctrl_map pinmap[] __initdata = { 948 PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("uart", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", 949 "u0_group", "u0"), 950 PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("uart", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", 951 "UART_TX_PIN", uart_default_mode), 952 PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("uart", PINCTRL_STATE_SLEEP, "pinctrl-foo", 953 "u0_group", "gpio-mode"), 954 PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("uart", PINCTRL_STATE_SLEEP, "pinctrl-foo", 955 "UART_TX_PIN", uart_sleep_mode), 956 }; 957 958 foo_init(void) { 959 pinctrl_register_mappings(pinmap, ARRAY_SIZE(pinmap)); 960 } 961 962Here the pins we want to control are in the "u0_group" and there is some 963function called "u0" that can be enabled on this group of pins, and then 964everything is UART business as usual. But there is also some function 965named "gpio-mode" that can be mapped onto the same pins to move them into 966GPIO mode. 967 968This will give the desired effect without any bogus interaction with the 969GPIO subsystem. It is just an electrical configuration used by that device 970when going to sleep, it might imply that the pin is set into something the 971datasheet calls "GPIO mode", but that is not the point: it is still used 972by that UART device to control the pins that pertain to that very UART 973driver, putting them into modes needed by the UART. GPIO in the Linux 974kernel sense are just some 1-bit line, and is a different use case. 975 976How the registers are poked to attain the push or pull, and output low 977configuration and the muxing of the "u0" or "gpio-mode" group onto these 978pins is a question for the driver. 979 980Some datasheets will be more helpful and refer to the "GPIO mode" as 981"low power mode" rather than anything to do with GPIO. This often means 982the same thing electrically speaking, but in this latter case the 983software engineers will usually quickly identify that this is some 984specific muxing or configuration rather than anything related to the GPIO 985API. 986 987 988Board/machine configuration 989=========================== 990 991Boards and machines define how a certain complete running system is put 992together, including how GPIOs and devices are muxed, how regulators are 993constrained and how the clock tree looks. Of course pinmux settings are also 994part of this. 995 996A pin controller configuration for a machine looks pretty much like a simple 997regulator configuration, so for the example array above we want to enable i2c 998and spi on the second function mapping:: 999 1000 #include <linux/pinctrl/machine.h> 1001 1002 static const struct pinctrl_map mapping[] __initconst = { 1003 { 1004 .dev_name = "foo-spi.0", 1005 .name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1006 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1007 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1008 .data.mux.function = "spi0", 1009 }, 1010 { 1011 .dev_name = "foo-i2c.0", 1012 .name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1013 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1014 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1015 .data.mux.function = "i2c0", 1016 }, 1017 { 1018 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1019 .name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1020 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1021 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1022 .data.mux.function = "mmc0", 1023 }, 1024 }; 1025 1026The dev_name here matches to the unique device name that can be used to look 1027up the device struct (just like with clockdev or regulators). The function name 1028must match a function provided by the pinmux driver handling this pin range. 1029 1030As you can see we may have several pin controllers on the system and thus 1031we need to specify which one of them contains the functions we wish to map. 1032 1033You register this pinmux mapping to the pinmux subsystem by simply:: 1034 1035 ret = pinctrl_register_mappings(mapping, ARRAY_SIZE(mapping)); 1036 1037Since the above construct is pretty common there is a helper macro to make 1038it even more compact which assumes you want to use pinctrl-foo and position 10390 for mapping, for example:: 1040 1041 static struct pinctrl_map mapping[] __initdata = { 1042 PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("foo-i2c.o", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1043 "pinctrl-foo", NULL, "i2c0"), 1044 }; 1045 1046The mapping table may also contain pin configuration entries. It's common for 1047each pin/group to have a number of configuration entries that affect it, so 1048the table entries for configuration reference an array of config parameters 1049and values. An example using the convenience macros is shown below:: 1050 1051 static unsigned long i2c_grp_configs[] = { 1052 FOO_PIN_DRIVEN, 1053 FOO_PIN_PULLUP, 1054 }; 1055 1056 static unsigned long i2c_pin_configs[] = { 1057 FOO_OPEN_COLLECTOR, 1058 FOO_SLEW_RATE_SLOW, 1059 }; 1060 1061 static struct pinctrl_map mapping[] __initdata = { 1062 PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1063 "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", "i2c0"), 1064 PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1065 "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", i2c_grp_configs), 1066 PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1067 "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0scl", i2c_pin_configs), 1068 PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1069 "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0sda", i2c_pin_configs), 1070 }; 1071 1072Finally, some devices expect the mapping table to contain certain specific 1073named states. When running on hardware that doesn't need any pin controller 1074configuration, the mapping table must still contain those named states, in 1075order to explicitly indicate that the states were provided and intended to 1076be empty. Table entry macro PIN_MAP_DUMMY_STATE serves the purpose of defining 1077a named state without causing any pin controller to be programmed:: 1078 1079 static struct pinctrl_map mapping[] __initdata = { 1080 PIN_MAP_DUMMY_STATE("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT), 1081 }; 1082 1083 1084Complex mappings 1085================ 1086 1087As it is possible to map a function to different groups of pins an optional 1088.group can be specified like this:: 1089 1090 ... 1091 { 1092 .dev_name = "foo-spi.0", 1093 .name = "spi0-pos-A", 1094 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1095 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1096 .function = "spi0", 1097 .group = "spi0_0_grp", 1098 }, 1099 { 1100 .dev_name = "foo-spi.0", 1101 .name = "spi0-pos-B", 1102 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1103 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1104 .function = "spi0", 1105 .group = "spi0_1_grp", 1106 }, 1107 ... 1108 1109This example mapping is used to switch between two positions for spi0 at 1110runtime, as described further below under the heading "Runtime pinmuxing". 1111 1112Further it is possible for one named state to affect the muxing of several 1113groups of pins, say for example in the mmc0 example above, where you can 1114additively expand the mmc0 bus from 2 to 4 to 8 pins. If we want to use all 1115three groups for a total of 2+2+4 = 8 pins (for an 8-bit MMC bus as is the 1116case), we define a mapping like this:: 1117 1118 ... 1119 { 1120 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1121 .name = "2bit" 1122 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1123 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1124 .function = "mmc0", 1125 .group = "mmc0_1_grp", 1126 }, 1127 { 1128 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1129 .name = "4bit" 1130 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1131 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1132 .function = "mmc0", 1133 .group = "mmc0_1_grp", 1134 }, 1135 { 1136 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1137 .name = "4bit" 1138 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1139 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1140 .function = "mmc0", 1141 .group = "mmc0_2_grp", 1142 }, 1143 { 1144 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1145 .name = "8bit" 1146 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1147 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1148 .function = "mmc0", 1149 .group = "mmc0_1_grp", 1150 }, 1151 { 1152 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1153 .name = "8bit" 1154 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1155 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1156 .function = "mmc0", 1157 .group = "mmc0_2_grp", 1158 }, 1159 { 1160 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0", 1161 .name = "8bit" 1162 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1163 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1164 .function = "mmc0", 1165 .group = "mmc0_3_grp", 1166 }, 1167 ... 1168 1169The result of grabbing this mapping from the device with something like 1170this (see next paragraph):: 1171 1172 p = devm_pinctrl_get(dev); 1173 s = pinctrl_lookup_state(p, "8bit"); 1174 ret = pinctrl_select_state(p, s); 1175 1176or more simply:: 1177 1178 p = devm_pinctrl_get_select(dev, "8bit"); 1179 1180Will be that you activate all the three bottom records in the mapping at 1181once. Since they share the same name, pin controller device, function and 1182device, and since we allow multiple groups to match to a single device, they 1183all get selected, and they all get enabled and disable simultaneously by the 1184pinmux core. 1185 1186 1187Pin control requests from drivers 1188================================= 1189 1190When a device driver is about to probe the device core will automatically 1191attempt to issue pinctrl_get_select_default() on these devices. 1192This way driver writers do not need to add any of the boilerplate code 1193of the type found below. However when doing fine-grained state selection 1194and not using the "default" state, you may have to do some device driver 1195handling of the pinctrl handles and states. 1196 1197So if you just want to put the pins for a certain device into the default 1198state and be done with it, there is nothing you need to do besides 1199providing the proper mapping table. The device core will take care of 1200the rest. 1201 1202Generally it is discouraged to let individual drivers get and enable pin 1203control. So if possible, handle the pin control in platform code or some other 1204place where you have access to all the affected struct device * pointers. In 1205some cases where a driver needs to e.g. switch between different mux mappings 1206at runtime this is not possible. 1207 1208A typical case is if a driver needs to switch bias of pins from normal 1209operation and going to sleep, moving from the PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT to 1210PINCTRL_STATE_SLEEP at runtime, re-biasing or even re-muxing pins to save 1211current in sleep mode. 1212 1213A driver may request a certain control state to be activated, usually just the 1214default state like this:: 1215 1216 #include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h> 1217 1218 struct foo_state { 1219 struct pinctrl *p; 1220 struct pinctrl_state *s; 1221 ... 1222 }; 1223 1224 foo_probe() 1225 { 1226 /* Allocate a state holder named "foo" etc */ 1227 struct foo_state *foo = ...; 1228 1229 foo->p = devm_pinctrl_get(&device); 1230 if (IS_ERR(foo->p)) { 1231 /* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */ 1232 return PTR_ERR(foo->p); 1233 } 1234 1235 foo->s = pinctrl_lookup_state(foo->p, PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT); 1236 if (IS_ERR(foo->s)) { 1237 /* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */ 1238 return PTR_ERR(foo->s); 1239 } 1240 1241 ret = pinctrl_select_state(foo->p, foo->s); 1242 if (ret < 0) { 1243 /* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */ 1244 return ret; 1245 } 1246 } 1247 1248This get/lookup/select/put sequence can just as well be handled by bus drivers 1249if you don't want each and every driver to handle it and you know the 1250arrangement on your bus. 1251 1252The semantics of the pinctrl APIs are: 1253 1254- pinctrl_get() is called in process context to obtain a handle to all pinctrl 1255 information for a given client device. It will allocate a struct from the 1256 kernel memory to hold the pinmux state. All mapping table parsing or similar 1257 slow operations take place within this API. 1258 1259- devm_pinctrl_get() is a variant of pinctrl_get() that causes pinctrl_put() 1260 to be called automatically on the retrieved pointer when the associated 1261 device is removed. It is recommended to use this function over plain 1262 pinctrl_get(). 1263 1264- pinctrl_lookup_state() is called in process context to obtain a handle to a 1265 specific state for a client device. This operation may be slow, too. 1266 1267- pinctrl_select_state() programs pin controller hardware according to the 1268 definition of the state as given by the mapping table. In theory, this is a 1269 fast-path operation, since it only involved blasting some register settings 1270 into hardware. However, note that some pin controllers may have their 1271 registers on a slow/IRQ-based bus, so client devices should not assume they 1272 can call pinctrl_select_state() from non-blocking contexts. 1273 1274- pinctrl_put() frees all information associated with a pinctrl handle. 1275 1276- devm_pinctrl_put() is a variant of pinctrl_put() that may be used to 1277 explicitly destroy a pinctrl object returned by devm_pinctrl_get(). 1278 However, use of this function will be rare, due to the automatic cleanup 1279 that will occur even without calling it. 1280 1281 pinctrl_get() must be paired with a plain pinctrl_put(). 1282 pinctrl_get() may not be paired with devm_pinctrl_put(). 1283 devm_pinctrl_get() can optionally be paired with devm_pinctrl_put(). 1284 devm_pinctrl_get() may not be paired with plain pinctrl_put(). 1285 1286Usually the pin control core handled the get/put pair and call out to the 1287device drivers bookkeeping operations, like checking available functions and 1288the associated pins, whereas select_state pass on to the pin controller 1289driver which takes care of activating and/or deactivating the mux setting by 1290quickly poking some registers. 1291 1292The pins are allocated for your device when you issue the devm_pinctrl_get() 1293call, after this you should be able to see this in the debugfs listing of all 1294pins. 1295 1296NOTE: the pinctrl system will return -EPROBE_DEFER if it cannot find the 1297requested pinctrl handles, for example if the pinctrl driver has not yet 1298registered. Thus make sure that the error path in your driver gracefully 1299cleans up and is ready to retry the probing later in the startup process. 1300 1301 1302Drivers needing both pin control and GPIOs 1303========================================== 1304 1305Again, it is discouraged to let drivers lookup and select pin control states 1306themselves, but again sometimes this is unavoidable. 1307 1308So say that your driver is fetching its resources like this:: 1309 1310 #include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h> 1311 #include <linux/gpio.h> 1312 1313 struct pinctrl *pinctrl; 1314 int gpio; 1315 1316 pinctrl = devm_pinctrl_get_select_default(&dev); 1317 gpio = devm_gpio_request(&dev, 14, "foo"); 1318 1319Here we first request a certain pin state and then request GPIO 14 to be 1320used. If you're using the subsystems orthogonally like this, you should 1321nominally always get your pinctrl handle and select the desired pinctrl 1322state BEFORE requesting the GPIO. This is a semantic convention to avoid 1323situations that can be electrically unpleasant, you will certainly want to 1324mux in and bias pins in a certain way before the GPIO subsystems starts to 1325deal with them. 1326 1327The above can be hidden: using the device core, the pinctrl core may be 1328setting up the config and muxing for the pins right before the device is 1329probing, nevertheless orthogonal to the GPIO subsystem. 1330 1331But there are also situations where it makes sense for the GPIO subsystem 1332to communicate directly with the pinctrl subsystem, using the latter as a 1333back-end. This is when the GPIO driver may call out to the functions 1334described in the section "Pin control interaction with the GPIO subsystem" 1335above. This only involves per-pin multiplexing, and will be completely 1336hidden behind the gpio_*() function namespace. In this case, the driver 1337need not interact with the pin control subsystem at all. 1338 1339If a pin control driver and a GPIO driver is dealing with the same pins 1340and the use cases involve multiplexing, you MUST implement the pin controller 1341as a back-end for the GPIO driver like this, unless your hardware design 1342is such that the GPIO controller can override the pin controller's 1343multiplexing state through hardware without the need to interact with the 1344pin control system. 1345 1346 1347System pin control hogging 1348========================== 1349 1350Pin control map entries can be hogged by the core when the pin controller 1351is registered. This means that the core will attempt to call pinctrl_get(), 1352lookup_state() and select_state() on it immediately after the pin control 1353device has been registered. 1354 1355This occurs for mapping table entries where the client device name is equal 1356to the pin controller device name, and the state name is PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT:: 1357 1358 { 1359 .dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1360 .name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, 1361 .type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP, 1362 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo", 1363 .function = "power_func", 1364 }, 1365 1366Since it may be common to request the core to hog a few always-applicable 1367mux settings on the primary pin controller, there is a convenience macro for 1368this:: 1369 1370 PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP_HOG_DEFAULT("pinctrl-foo", NULL /* group */, 1371 "power_func") 1372 1373This gives the exact same result as the above construction. 1374 1375 1376Runtime pinmuxing 1377================= 1378 1379It is possible to mux a certain function in and out at runtime, say to move 1380an SPI port from one set of pins to another set of pins. Say for example for 1381spi0 in the example above, we expose two different groups of pins for the same 1382function, but with different named in the mapping as described under 1383"Advanced mapping" above. So that for an SPI device, we have two states named 1384"pos-A" and "pos-B". 1385 1386This snippet first initializes a state object for both groups (in foo_probe()), 1387then muxes the function in the pins defined by group A, and finally muxes it in 1388on the pins defined by group B:: 1389 1390 #include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h> 1391 1392 struct pinctrl *p; 1393 struct pinctrl_state *s1, *s2; 1394 1395 foo_probe() 1396 { 1397 /* Setup */ 1398 p = devm_pinctrl_get(&device); 1399 if (IS_ERR(p)) 1400 ... 1401 1402 s1 = pinctrl_lookup_state(p, "pos-A"); 1403 if (IS_ERR(s1)) 1404 ... 1405 1406 s2 = pinctrl_lookup_state(p, "pos-B"); 1407 if (IS_ERR(s2)) 1408 ... 1409 } 1410 1411 foo_switch() 1412 { 1413 /* Enable on position A */ 1414 ret = pinctrl_select_state(p, s1); 1415 if (ret < 0) 1416 ... 1417 1418 ... 1419 1420 /* Enable on position B */ 1421 ret = pinctrl_select_state(p, s2); 1422 if (ret < 0) 1423 ... 1424 1425 ... 1426 } 1427 1428The above has to be done from process context. The reservation of the pins 1429will be done when the state is activated, so in effect one specific pin 1430can be used by different functions at different times on a running system. 1431 1432 1433Debugfs files 1434============= 1435These files are created in ``/sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl``: 1436 1437- ``pinctrl-devices``: prints each pin controller device along with columns to 1438 indicate support for pinmux and pinconf 1439 1440- ``pinctrl-handles``: prints each configured pin controller handle and the 1441 corresponding pinmux maps 1442 1443- ``pinctrl-maps``: print all pinctrl maps 1444 1445A sub-directory is created inside of ``/sys/kernel/debug/pinctrl`` for each pin 1446controller device containing these files: 1447 1448- ``pins``: prints a line for each pin registered on the pin controller. The 1449 pinctrl driver may add additional information such as register contents. 1450 1451- ``gpio-ranges``: print ranges that map gpio lines to pins on the controller 1452 1453- ``pingroups``: print all pin groups registered on the pin controller 1454 1455- ``pinconf-pins``: print pin config settings for each pin 1456 1457- ``pinconf-groups``: print pin config settings per pin group 1458 1459- ``pinmux-functions``: print each pin function along with the pin groups that 1460 map to the pin function 1461 1462- ``pinmux-pins``: iterate through all pins and print mux owner, gpio owner 1463 and if the pin is a hog 1464 1465- ``pinmux-select``: write to this file to activate a pin function for a group:: 1466 1467 echo "<group-name function-name>" > pinmux-select 1468