From: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Clause-22/Clause-45 MDIO regmap support
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:06:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fd1501f247e77c579a209cbf6a554aa3c8b73d2.camel@svanheule.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210607115448.GB5705@sirena.org.uk>
Hi Mark,
On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 12:54 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 08:16:53PM +0200, Sander Vanheule wrote:
> > On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 18:25 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > I think these registers are in practice going to either need to be
> > > volatile (how most of them work at the minute) or otherwise handled in
> > > regmap (eg, the page support we've got). Having two different names for
> > > the same register feels like it's asking for bugs if any of the higher
> > > level functions of regmap get used.
>
> > This is actually an issue with a GPIO chip that I'm trying to implement [1].
> > To
> > set an output, data is written to the register. To get an input value, data
> > is
> > read from the register. Since a register contains data for 16 GPIO lines, a
> > regular read-modify-write could erroneously overwrite output values. A pin
> > outside of the RMW mask could've changed to an input, and may now be reading
> > a
> > different value. The issue I was running into, had to do with a RMW not
> > being
> > written because the pin value apparently hadn't changed.
>
> If the hardware isn't able to read back the status of the pins in output
> mode (even if it's always reading back from the input circuit where is
> it getting other inputs from?) you're probably better off with just
> having an open coded cache separately than trying to make up fake
> registers that rely on current implementation details to work.
>
> > I didn't use the existing paging mechanism for this, since (I think) then I
> > would need to specify a register that contains the page index. But as I
> > don't
> > have an actual page register, I would have to specify another existing
> > register
> > with an empty mask. This could lead to useless bus activity if I
> > accidentally
> > chose a volatile register.
>
> This is clearly not paging, it would be totally inappropraite to use
> paging for this.
Thank you for the input. I'll take this to the RTL8231 thread, to see what I can
come up with as a cleaner solution, without abusing the regmap interface.
Best regards,
Sander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-07 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 18:25 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Clause-22/Clause-45 MDIO regmap support Sander Vanheule
2021-06-03 18:25 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] regmap: mdio: Clean up invalid clause-22 addresses Sander Vanheule
2021-06-03 18:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] regmap: mdio: Add clause-45 support Sander Vanheule
2021-06-04 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Clause-22/Clause-45 MDIO regmap support Mark Brown
2021-06-04 18:16 ` Sander Vanheule
2021-06-07 11:54 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-07 12:06 ` Sander Vanheule [this message]
2021-06-07 12:14 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-06-04 20:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-06-04 23:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-06-05 8:31 ` [PATCH] regmap: mdio: Reject invalid clause-22 addresses Sander Vanheule
2021-06-07 11:03 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-07 11:12 ` Sander Vanheule
2021-06-09 11:51 ` Sander Vanheule
2021-06-08 16:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Clause-22/Clause-45 MDIO regmap support Mark Brown
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