On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:45:40PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> This patch adds a check for the GPIOs property existence, before the
> GPIO is requested. This fixes an issue seen when the 8250 mctrl_gpio
> support is added (2nd patch in this patch series) on x86 platforms using
> ACPI.
>
> Here Mika's comments from 2016-08-09:
>
> "
> I noticed that with v4.8-rc1 serial console of some of our Broxton
> systems does not work properly anymore. I'm able to see output but input
> does not work.
>
> I bisected it down to commit 4ef03d328769eddbfeca1f1c958fdb181a69c341
> ("tty/serial/8250: use mctrl_gpio helpers").
>
> The reason why it fails is that in ACPI we do not have names for GPIOs
> (except when _DSD is used) so we use the "idx" to index into _CRS GPIO
> resources. Now mctrl_gpio_init_noauto() goes through a list of GPIOs
> calling devm_gpiod_get_index_optional() passing "idx" of 0 for each. The
> UART device in Broxton has following (simplified) ACPI description:
>
> Device (URT4)
> {
> ...
> Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () {
> GpioIo (Exclusive, PullDefault, 0x0000, 0x0000,
> IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
> "\\_SB.GPO0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer)
> {
> 0x003A
> }
> GpioIo (Exclusive, PullDefault, 0x0000, 0x0000,
> IoRestrictionOutputOnly,
> "\\_SB.GPO0", 0x00, ResourceConsumer)
> {
> 0x003D
> }
> })
>
> In this case it finds the first GPIO (0x003A which happens to be RX pin
> for that UART), turns it into GPIO which then breaks input for the UART
> device. This also breaks systems with bluetooth connected to UART (those
> typically have some GPIOs in their _CRS).
>
> Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> We cannot just drop the _CRS index lookup fallback because that would
> break many existing machines out there so maybe we can limit this to
> only DT enabled machines. Or alternatively probe if the property first
> exists before trying to acquire the GPIOs (using
> device_property_present()).
> "
>
> This patch implements the fix suggested by Mika in his statement above.
>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerb...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerb...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Yegor Yefremov <yegorsli...@googlemail.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Giulio Benetti <giulio.bene...@micronovasrl.com>
> ---
> v6:
> - No change
>
> v5:
> - Simplified the code a bit (Andy)
> - Added gpio_str == NULL handling (Andy)
>
> v4:
> - Add missing free() calls (Johan)
> - Added Mika's reviewed by tag
> - Added Johan to Cc
>
> v3:
> - No change
>
> v2:
> - Include the problem description and analysis from Mika into the commit
> text, as suggested by Greg.
>
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c
> b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c
> index 39ed56214cd3..65348887a749 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c
> @@ -116,6 +116,19 @@ struct mctrl_gpios *mctrl_gpio_init_noauto(struct device
> *dev, unsigned int idx)
>
> for (i = 0; i < UART_GPIO_MAX; i++) {
> enum gpiod_flags flags;
> + char *gpio_str;
> + bool present;
> +
> + /* Check if GPIO property exists and continue if not */
> + gpio_str = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s-gpios",
> + mctrl_gpios_desc[i].name);
> + if (!gpio_str)
> + continue;
> +
> + present = device_property_present(dev, gpio_str);
> + kfree(gpio_str);
> + if (!present)
> + continue;
>
> if (mctrl_gpios_desc[i].dir_out)
> flags = GPIOD_OUT_LOW;
> --
> 2.22.0
>
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
