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diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/driver.txt b/Documentation/gpio/driver.txt index 9da0bfa7478..f73cc7b5dc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpio/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/gpio/driver.txt @@ -62,6 +62,37 @@ Any debugfs dump method should normally ignore signals which haven't been requested as GPIOs. They can use gpiochip_is_requested(), which returns either NULL or the label associated with that GPIO when it was requested. + +GPIO drivers providing IRQs +--------------------------- +It is custom that GPIO drivers (GPIO chips) are also providing interrupts, +most often cascaded off a parent interrupt controller, and in some special +cases the GPIO logic is melded with a SoC's primary interrupt controller. + +The IRQ portions of the GPIO block are implemented using an irqchip, using +the header <linux/irq.h>. So basically such a driver is utilizing two sub- +systems simultaneously: gpio and irq. + +It is legal for any IRQ consumer to request an IRQ from any irqchip no matter +if that is a combined GPIO+IRQ driver. The basic premise is that gpio_chip and +irq_chip are orthogonal, and offering their services independent of each +other. + +gpiod_to_irq() is just a convenience function to figure out the IRQ for a +certain GPIO line and should not be relied upon to have been called before +the IRQ is used. + +So always prepare the hardware and make it ready for action in respective +callbacks from the GPIO and irqchip APIs. Do not rely on gpiod_to_irq() having +been called first. + +This orthogonality leads to ambiguities that we need to solve: if there is +competition inside the subsystem which side is using the resource (a certain +GPIO line and register for example) it needs to deny certain operations and +keep track of usage inside of the gpiolib subsystem. This is why the API +below exists. + + Locking IRQ usage ----------------- Input GPIOs can be used as IRQ signals. When this happens, a driver is requested @@ -73,3 +104,7 @@ This will prevent the use of non-irq related GPIO APIs until the GPIO IRQ lock is released: void gpiod_unlock_as_irq(struct gpio_desc *desc) + +When implementing an irqchip inside a GPIO driver, these two functions should +typically be called in the .startup() and .shutdown() callbacks from the +irqchip. |