RE: [PATCH] gpiolib-acpi: Set gpiod flags for ACPI GPIO resources based on pullup and polarity

["Stanimir, Vasile-Laurentiu" <Vasile-Laurentiu.Stanimir@windriver.com>]

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From: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com [andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2019 4:08 PM
To: Stanimir, Vasile-Laurentiu
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org; linus.walleij@linaro.org; mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib-acpi: Set gpiod flags for ACPI GPIO resources based on pullup and polarity

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 01:44:04PM +0000, Stanimir, Vasile-Laurentiu wrote:
> ________________________________________
> From: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com [andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2019 3:05 PM
> To: Stanimir, Vasile-Laurentiu
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org; linus.walleij@linaro.org; mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib-acpi: Set gpiod flags for ACPI GPIO resources based on pullup and polarity
>
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 12:36:47PM +0000, Stanimir, Vasile-Laurentiu wrote:
> > From f8093f2c73c636b75fcf4dee4178af0e24c2f878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Vasile-Laurentiu Stanimir <vasile-laurentiu.stanimir@windriver.com>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 14:20:11 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] gpiolib-acpi: Set gpiod flags for ACPI GPIO resources based
> >  on pullup and polarity
> >
> > ACPI GPIO resources don't contain an initial value for the
> > GPIO. Therefore instead of deducting its value based on pullup field
> > we should deduce that value from the polarity and the pull field.
> > Typical scenario is when ACPI is defined in acpi-table and its polarity
> > is defined as ACTIVE-LOW in the following call:
> >
> > acpi_populate_gpio_lookup(struct acpi_resource *ares, void *data)
> >   acpi_gpio_to_gpiod_flags(const struct acpi_resource_gpio *agpio)
> >
> > it will return GPIOD_OUT_HIGH if pull_up is set no matter if
> > polarity is GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW, so it will return the current level instead
> > of the logical level.
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> I have question in general. If we have Active Low polarity and Pull Down,
> isn't it simple a bad ACPI table and rather quirk is needed here?
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>
> Hi,
>
> It may be, also it may be a bad hardware design but it is also a possible situation.
>
> In our case here we have an FPGA whose pcie link is held in reset by BIOS during
> boot, the reset pin is active low, and its configuration is specified in the Acpi DSDT
> table. When Linux starts, our userspace driver shall load the FPGA, and the first
> step is to request all GPIO's needed to configure the pcie phy on the FPGA side;
> the pcie link reset should be held active while this configuration (loading of the
> Altera fpp image) is ongoing.
> Now all active low pins have their initial value inverted by the kernel. This means
> that the pcie link reset is briefly released, which generates a pcie hot unplug event,
> which in turn delays start of a successful loading sequence, and so SW has to make
> a second reload attempt which will delay too much the normal boot sequence.
>
> Sorry for giving you too much details which probability are not important but I only
> wanted to emphasise that it may be a real situation whether or not it is a good
> design.

No need to sorry, the details are useful as well as knowing your use case.

Q1: who is providing DSDT?
Q2: why it can't be fixed?
Q3: how the GPIO lines are being requested?
Q4: how are they described, btw, in DSDT?

Side note, if it will be no other choice left, the above code still can be
added as a quirk (see code related to ACPI_GPIO_QUIRK_NO_IO_RESTRICTION
and ACPI_GPIO_QUIRK_ONLY_GPIOIO).

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

Hi, 

Unfortunately the DSDT is confidential, also I'm not the one that did the DSDT table, but I can say 
that the GpioIo macro is used to define the pins, and a label is assigned. This label is used for the 
lookup (gpiod_get(device, label, 0)). 
The requester knows nothing about the specific configuration and polarity of each pin, this is only 
available through DSDT, so it's not possible to supply flags in the gpiod_get-call.
The pin itself is a reset pin that must (as defined by rfc2119) be asserted during Linux boot (it controls
 the reset logic of a soc external device), the polarity is active low, which is why it's configured with a PullDown. 

Also we discussed here about using IoRestrictionNone/IoRestrictionNonePreserve as a potential solution to 
this problem, but this is a pure output pin, so that didn't seem right to us either.

In the end the main question, no matter the use case,  is how an active low pin, that's being 
asserted from BIOS, should be configured in the DSDT to be correctly represented by the code.
The patch was the result of not finding any solution to the problem above. Speaking strictly of the 
patch it should solve the problem of this case of active-low pins. 

Regards,
 vls