From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54443C7618B for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229981AbjCQMhj (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:37:39 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:35844 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229604AbjCQMhg (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:37:36 -0400 Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc2:55:216:3eff:fef7:d647]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31DE3AD31; Fri, 17 Mar 2023 05:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.15] (91-154-32-225.elisa-laajakaista.fi [91.154.32.225]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 932665B6; Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:36:28 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1679056589; bh=EvLTNZd1r7ZkfQDY14BCMttegUAqYVO14FTeWKB9xmY=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=lye5Gpx950Nh/PkRLTGli6cN/nw81MFgDV4r6q+UUU797/lw2wRi27hevxSloXtmZ k155fZ7MZpYfL97VqC4oC/TJP3oiHFubrlBeSfBiC9LISr0NG94zsoD/r7mlNT0T/G UAdgQDFWQIlIyVdgN08H06zTqlR848j0mqF7BSP8= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:36:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/8] i2c: add I2C Address Translator (ATR) support To: Luca Ceresoli , Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Andy Shevchenko , Matti Vaittinen , Laurent Pinchart , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Peter Rosin , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Sakari Ailus , Michael Tretter , Hans Verkuil , Mike Pagano , =?UTF-8?Q?Krzysztof_Ha=c5=82asa?= , Marek Vasut , Satish Nagireddy , Luca Ceresoli References: <20230222132907.594690-1-tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com> <20230222132907.594690-2-tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com> <20230317101606.69602bba@booty> Content-Language: en-US From: Tomi Valkeinen In-Reply-To: <20230317101606.69602bba@booty> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 17/03/2023 11:16, Luca Ceresoli wrote: > Hi Tomi, Wolfram, > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:29:00 +0200 > Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > >> From: Luca Ceresoli >> >> An ATR is a device that looks similar to an i2c-mux: it has an I2C >> slave "upstream" port and N master "downstream" ports, and forwards >> transactions from upstream to the appropriate downstream port. But it >> is different in that the forwarded transaction has a different slave >> address. The address used on the upstream bus is called the "alias" >> and is (potentially) different from the physical slave address of the >> downstream chip. >> >> Add a helper file (just like i2c-mux.c for a mux or switch) to allow >> implementing ATR features in a device driver. The helper takes care or >> adapter creation/destruction and translates addresses at each transaction. >> >> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli >> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen > > Wolfram, I think Tomi improved this work as much as currently possible > and this patch now looks extremely good to me. I wish we had this in > mainline soon. Does it make sense for me to send a Reviewed-by tag, > given I already have a S-o-b one? > > I have a few _extremely_ minor notes below, but I hope they won't > slow down merging this work. They can definitely be addressed as a > follow-up patch after merging this. > > Thank you a lot Tomi for having persisted in improving the ATR code! > >> diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/muxes/i2c-atr.rst b/Documentation/i2c/muxes/i2c-atr.rst >> new file mode 100644 >> index 000000000000..da226fd4de63 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/Documentation/i2c/muxes/i2c-atr.rst >> @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ >> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 >> + >> +===================== >> +Kernel driver i2c-atr >> +===================== >> + >> +Author: Luca Ceresoli >> +Author: Tomi Valkeinen >> + >> +Description >> +----------- >> + >> +An I2C Address Translator (ATR) is a device with an I2C slave parent >> +("upstream") port and N I2C master child ("downstream") ports, and >> +forwards transactions from upstream to the appropriate downstream port >> +with a modified slave address. The address used on the parent bus is >> +called the "alias" and is (potentially) different from the physical >> +slave address of the child bus. Address translation is done by the >> +hardware. >> + >> +An ATR looks similar to an i2c-mux except: >> + - the address on the parent and child busses can be different >> + - there is normally no need to select the child port; the alias used on the >> + parent bus implies it >> + >> +The ATR functionality can be provided by a chip with many other >> +features. This file provides a helper to implement an ATR within your >> +driver. >> + >> +The ATR creates a new I2C "child" adapter on each child bus. Adding >> +devices on the child bus ends up in invoking the driver code to select >> +an available alias. Maintaining an appropriate pool of available aliases >> +and picking one for each new device is up to the driver implementer. The >> +ATR maintains an table of currently assigned alias and uses it to modify > > s/an table/a table/ Right. >> +all I2C transactions directed to devices on the child buses. >> + >> +A typical example follows. >> + >> +Topology:: >> + >> + Slave X @ 0x10 >> + .-----. | >> + .-----. | |---+---- B >> + | CPU |--A--| ATR | >> + `-----' | |---+---- C >> + `-----' | >> + Slave Y @ 0x10 >> + >> +Alias table: >> + >> +A, B and C are three physical I2C busses, electrically independent from >> +each other. The ATR receives the transactions initiated on bus A and >> +propagates them on bus B or bus C or none depending on the device address >> +in the transaction and based on the alias table. >> + >> +Alias table: >> + >> +.. table:: >> + >> + =============== ===== >> + Client Alias >> + =============== ===== >> + X (bus B, 0x10) 0x20 >> + Y (bus C, 0x10) 0x30 >> + =============== ===== >> + >> +Transaction: >> + >> + - Slave X driver sends a transaction (on adapter B), slave address 0x10 > > s/sends/requests/ is possibly better to clarify there is still no > electrical transaction yet at this step, as we are still in software. I don't like "requests" too much either, but I see your point and I think it's better than "sends". >> + - ATR driver finds slave X is on bus B and has alias 0x20, rewrites >> + messages with address 0x20, forwards to adapter A >> + - Physical I2C transaction on bus A, slave address 0x20 >> + - ATR chip detects transaction on address 0x20, finds it in table, >> + propagates transaction on bus B with address translated to 0x10, >> + keeps clock streched on bus A waiting for reply >> + - Slave X chip (on bus B) detects transaction at its own physical >> + address 0x10 and replies normally >> + - ATR chip stops clock stretching and forwards reply on bus A, >> + with address translated back to 0x20 >> + - ATR driver receives the reply, rewrites messages with address 0x10 >> + as they were initially >> + - Slave X driver gets back the msgs[], with reply and address 0x10 >> + >> +Usage: >> + >> + 1. In your driver (typically in the probe function) add an ATR by >> + calling i2c_atr_new() passing your attach/detach callbacks >> + 2. When the attach callback is called pick an appropriate alias, >> + configure it in your chip and return the chosen alias in the >> + alias_id parameter >> + 3. When the detach callback is called, deconfigure the alias from >> + your chip and put it back in the pool for later usage >> + >> +I2C ATR functions and data structures >> +------------------------------------- >> + >> +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/i2c-atr.h > > ... > >> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c >> new file mode 100644 >> index 000000000000..5ab890b83670 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c >> @@ -0,0 +1,548 @@ >> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 >> +/* >> + * I2C Address Translator >> + * >> + * Copyright (c) 2019,2022 Luca Ceresoli >> + * Copyright (c) 2022,2023 Tomi Valkeinen >> + * >> + * Originally based on i2c-mux.c > > Not quite anymore I think... should this line be removed? Well, it still originally based on i2c-mux. Maybe it doesn't resemble i2c-mux much anymore, but the above line is a kind of thanks for the original authors. >> +/** >> + * struct i2c_atr - The I2C ATR instance >> + * @parent: The parent &struct i2c_adapter >> + * @dev: The device that owns the I2C ATR instance >> + * @ops: &struct i2c_atr_ops >> + * @priv: Private driver data, set with i2c_atr_set_driver_data() >> + * @algo: The &struct i2c_algorithm for adapters >> + * @lock: Lock for the I2C bus segment (see &struct i2c_lock_operations) >> + * @max_adapters: Maximum number of adapters this I2C ATR can have >> + * @adapter: Array of adapters >> + */ >> +struct i2c_atr { >> + struct i2c_adapter *parent; >> + struct device *dev; >> + const struct i2c_atr_ops *ops; >> + >> + void *priv; >> + >> + struct i2c_algorithm algo; >> + /* lock for the I2C bus segment (see struct i2c_lock_operations) */ > > This comment is identical to the one in the kerneldoc comments just > above, I'd just remove it. checkpatch wants an explicit comment for each lock. >> + struct mutex lock; >> + int max_adapters; >> + >> + struct notifier_block i2c_nb; > > Undocumented? Indeed, I'll add something here. > ... > >> +void i2c_atr_delete(struct i2c_atr *atr) >> +{ > > Maybe here we could iterate over atr->adapter[] and if any is != NULL > just call BUG_ON() or WARN()? Yes, good idea. >> + bus_unregister_notifier(&i2c_bus_type, &atr->i2c_nb); >> + mutex_destroy(&atr->lock); >> + kfree(atr); >> +} >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(i2c_atr_delete, I2C_ATR); > > ... > >> diff --git a/include/linux/i2c-atr.h b/include/linux/i2c-atr.h >> new file mode 100644 >> index 000000000000..7596f70ce1ab >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/include/linux/i2c-atr.h >> @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ >> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ >> +/* >> + * I2C Address Translator >> + * >> + * Copyright (c) 2019,2022 Luca Ceresoli >> + * Copyright (c) 2022,2023 Tomi Valkeinen >> + * >> + * Based on i2c-mux.h > > As above, this does not apply very much anymore as it did in v1. > > ... > >> +/** >> + * i2c_atr_delete - Delete an I2C ATR helper. >> + * @atr: I2C ATR helper to be deleted. >> + * >> + * Precondition: all the adapters added with i2c_atr_add_adapter() mumst be > > s/mumst/must/ Yep. Thanks for the comments! Tomi