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Based on kernel version 3.9. Page generated on 2013-05-02 23:12 EST.

1	PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem
2	This document outlines the pin control subsystem in Linux
3	
4	This subsystem deals with:
5	
6	- Enumerating and naming controllable pins
7	
8	- Multiplexing of pins, pads, fingers (etc) see below for details
9	
10	- Configuration of pins, pads, fingers (etc), such as software-controlled
11	  biasing and driving mode specific pins, such as pull-up/down, open drain,
12	  load capacitance etc.
13	
14	Top-level interface
15	===================
16	
17	Definition of PIN CONTROLLER:
18	
19	- A pin controller is a piece of hardware, usually a set of registers, that
20	  can control PINs. It may be able to multiplex, bias, set load capacitance,
21	  set drive strength etc for individual pins or groups of pins.
22	
23	Definition of PIN:
24	
25	- PINS are equal to pads, fingers, balls or whatever packaging input or
26	  output line you want to control and these are denoted by unsigned integers
27	  in the range 0..maxpin. This numberspace is local to each PIN CONTROLLER, so
28	  there may be several such number spaces in a system. This pin space may
29	  be sparse - i.e. there may be gaps in the space with numbers where no
30	  pin exists.
31	
32	When a PIN CONTROLLER is instantiated, it will register a descriptor to the
33	pin control framework, and this descriptor contains an array of pin descriptors
34	describing the pins handled by this specific pin controller.
35	
36	Here is an example of a PGA (Pin Grid Array) chip seen from underneath:
37	
38	        A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H
39	
40	   8    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
41	
42	   7    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
43	
44	   6    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
45	
46	   5    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
47	
48	   4    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
49	
50	   3    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
51	
52	   2    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
53	
54	   1    o   o   o   o   o   o   o   o
55	
56	To register a pin controller and name all the pins on this package we can do
57	this in our driver:
58	
59	#include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
60	
61	const struct pinctrl_pin_desc foo_pins[] = {
62	      PINCTRL_PIN(0, "A8"),
63	      PINCTRL_PIN(1, "B8"),
64	      PINCTRL_PIN(2, "C8"),
65	      ...
66	      PINCTRL_PIN(61, "F1"),
67	      PINCTRL_PIN(62, "G1"),
68	      PINCTRL_PIN(63, "H1"),
69	};
70	
71	static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
72		.name = "foo",
73		.pins = foo_pins,
74		.npins = ARRAY_SIZE(foo_pins),
75		.maxpin = 63,
76		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
77	};
78	
79	int __init foo_probe(void)
80	{
81		struct pinctrl_dev *pctl;
82	
83		pctl = pinctrl_register(&foo_desc, <PARENT>, NULL);
84		if (IS_ERR(pctl))
85			pr_err("could not register foo pin driver\n");
86	}
87	
88	To enable the pinctrl subsystem and the subgroups for PINMUX and PINCONF and
89	selected drivers, you need to select them from your machine's Kconfig entry,
90	since these are so tightly integrated with the machines they are used on.
91	See for example arch/arm/mach-u300/Kconfig for an example.
92	
93	Pins usually have fancier names than this. You can find these in the dataheet
94	for your chip. Notice that the core pinctrl.h file provides a fancy macro
95	called PINCTRL_PIN() to create the struct entries. As you can see I enumerated
96	the pins from 0 in the upper left corner to 63 in the lower right corner.
97	This enumeration was arbitrarily chosen, in practice you need to think
98	through your numbering system so that it matches the layout of registers
99	and such things in your driver, or the code may become complicated. You must
100	also consider matching of offsets to the GPIO ranges that may be handled by
101	the pin controller.
102	
103	For a padring with 467 pads, as opposed to actual pins, I used an enumeration
104	like this, walking around the edge of the chip, which seems to be industry
105	standard too (all these pads had names, too):
106	
107	
108	     0 ..... 104
109	   466        105
110	     .        .
111	     .        .
112	   358        224
113	    357 .... 225
114	
115	
116	Pin groups
117	==========
118	
119	Many controllers need to deal with groups of pins, so the pin controller
120	subsystem has a mechanism for enumerating groups of pins and retrieving the
121	actual enumerated pins that are part of a certain group.
122	
123	For example, say that we have a group of pins dealing with an SPI interface
124	on { 0, 8, 16, 24 }, and a group of pins dealing with an I2C interface on pins
125	on { 24, 25 }.
126	
127	These two groups are presented to the pin control subsystem by implementing
128	some generic pinctrl_ops like this:
129	
130	#include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
131	
132	struct foo_group {
133		const char *name;
134		const unsigned int *pins;
135		const unsigned num_pins;
136	};
137	
138	static const unsigned int spi0_pins[] = { 0, 8, 16, 24 };
139	static const unsigned int i2c0_pins[] = { 24, 25 };
140	
141	static const struct foo_group foo_groups[] = {
142		{
143			.name = "spi0_grp",
144			.pins = spi0_pins,
145			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_pins),
146		},
147		{
148			.name = "i2c0_grp",
149			.pins = i2c0_pins,
150			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_pins),
151		},
152	};
153	
154	
155	static int foo_get_groups_count(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
156	{
157		return ARRAY_SIZE(foo_groups);
158	}
159	
160	static const char *foo_get_group_name(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
161					       unsigned selector)
162	{
163		return foo_groups[selector].name;
164	}
165	
166	static int foo_get_group_pins(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
167				       unsigned ** const pins,
168				       unsigned * const num_pins)
169	{
170		*pins = (unsigned *) foo_groups[selector].pins;
171		*num_pins = foo_groups[selector].num_pins;
172		return 0;
173	}
174	
175	static struct pinctrl_ops foo_pctrl_ops = {
176		.get_groups_count = foo_get_groups_count,
177		.get_group_name = foo_get_group_name,
178		.get_group_pins = foo_get_group_pins,
179	};
180	
181	
182	static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
183	       ...
184	       .pctlops = &foo_pctrl_ops,
185	};
186	
187	The pin control subsystem will call the .get_groups_count() function to
188	determine total number of legal selectors, then it will call the other functions
189	to retrieve the name and pins of the group. Maintaining the data structure of
190	the groups is up to the driver, this is just a simple example - in practice you
191	may need more entries in your group structure, for example specific register
192	ranges associated with each group and so on.
193	
194	
195	Pin configuration
196	=================
197	
198	Pins can sometimes be software-configured in an various ways, mostly related
199	to their electronic properties when used as inputs or outputs. For example you
200	may be able to make an output pin high impedance, or "tristate" meaning it is
201	effectively disconnected. You may be able to connect an input pin to VDD or GND
202	using a certain resistor value - pull up and pull down - so that the pin has a
203	stable value when nothing is driving the rail it is connected to, or when it's
204	unconnected.
205	
206	Pin configuration can be programmed either using the explicit APIs described
207	immediately below, or by adding configuration entries into the mapping table;
208	see section "Board/machine configuration" below.
209	
210	For example, a platform may do the following to pull up a pin to VDD:
211	
212	#include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h>
213	
214	ret = pin_config_set("foo-dev", "FOO_GPIO_PIN", PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP);
215	
216	The format and meaning of the configuration parameter, PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP
217	above, is entirely defined by the pin controller driver.
218	
219	The pin configuration driver implements callbacks for changing pin
220	configuration in the pin controller ops like this:
221	
222	#include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
223	#include <linux/pinctrl/pinconf.h>
224	#include "platform_x_pindefs.h"
225	
226	static int foo_pin_config_get(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
227			    unsigned offset,
228			    unsigned long *config)
229	{
230		struct my_conftype conf;
231	
232		... Find setting for pin @ offset ...
233	
234		*config = (unsigned long) conf;
235	}
236	
237	static int foo_pin_config_set(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
238			    unsigned offset,
239			    unsigned long config)
240	{
241		struct my_conftype *conf = (struct my_conftype *) config;
242	
243		switch (conf) {
244			case PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP:
245			...
246			}
247		}
248	}
249	
250	static int foo_pin_config_group_get (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
251			    unsigned selector,
252			    unsigned long *config)
253	{
254		...
255	}
256	
257	static int foo_pin_config_group_set (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
258			    unsigned selector,
259			    unsigned long config)
260	{
261		...
262	}
263	
264	static struct pinconf_ops foo_pconf_ops = {
265		.pin_config_get = foo_pin_config_get,
266		.pin_config_set = foo_pin_config_set,
267		.pin_config_group_get = foo_pin_config_group_get,
268		.pin_config_group_set = foo_pin_config_group_set,
269	};
270	
271	/* Pin config operations are handled by some pin controller */
272	static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
273		...
274		.confops = &foo_pconf_ops,
275	};
276	
277	Since some controllers have special logic for handling entire groups of pins
278	they can exploit the special whole-group pin control function. The
279	pin_config_group_set() callback is allowed to return the error code -EAGAIN,
280	for groups it does not want to handle, or if it just wants to do some
281	group-level handling and then fall through to iterate over all pins, in which
282	case each individual pin will be treated by separate pin_config_set() calls as
283	well.
284	
285	
286	Interaction with the GPIO subsystem
287	===================================
288	
289	The GPIO drivers may want to perform operations of various types on the same
290	physical pins that are also registered as pin controller pins.
291	
292	First and foremost, the two subsystems can be used as completely orthogonal,
293	see the section named "pin control requests from drivers" and
294	"drivers needing both pin control and GPIOs" below for details. But in some
295	situations a cross-subsystem mapping between pins and GPIOs is needed.
296	
297	Since the pin controller subsystem have its pinspace local to the pin
298	controller we need a mapping so that the pin control subsystem can figure out
299	which pin controller handles control of a certain GPIO pin. Since a single
300	pin controller may be muxing several GPIO ranges (typically SoCs that have
301	one set of pins but internally several GPIO silicon blocks, each modeled as
302	a struct gpio_chip) any number of GPIO ranges can be added to a pin controller
303	instance like this:
304	
305	struct gpio_chip chip_a;
306	struct gpio_chip chip_b;
307	
308	static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range_a = {
309		.name = "chip a",
310		.id = 0,
311		.base = 32,
312		.pin_base = 32,
313		.npins = 16,
314		.gc = &chip_a;
315	};
316	
317	static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range_b = {
318		.name = "chip b",
319		.id = 0,
320		.base = 48,
321		.pin_base = 64,
322		.npins = 8,
323		.gc = &chip_b;
324	};
325	
326	{
327		struct pinctrl_dev *pctl;
328		...
329		pinctrl_add_gpio_range(pctl, &gpio_range_a);
330		pinctrl_add_gpio_range(pctl, &gpio_range_b);
331	}
332	
333	So this complex system has one pin controller handling two different
334	GPIO chips. "chip a" has 16 pins and "chip b" has 8 pins. The "chip a" and
335	"chip b" have different .pin_base, which means a start pin number of the
336	GPIO range.
337	
338	The GPIO range of "chip a" starts from the GPIO base of 32 and actual
339	pin range also starts from 32. However "chip b" has different starting
340	offset for the GPIO range and pin range. The GPIO range of "chip b" starts
341	from GPIO number 48, while the pin range of "chip b" starts from 64.
342	
343	We can convert a gpio number to actual pin number using this "pin_base".
344	They are mapped in the global GPIO pin space at:
345	
346	chip a:
347	 - GPIO range : [32 .. 47]
348	 - pin range  : [32 .. 47]
349	chip b:
350	 - GPIO range : [48 .. 55]
351	 - pin range  : [64 .. 71]
352	
353	When GPIO-specific functions in the pin control subsystem are called, these
354	ranges will be used to look up the appropriate pin controller by inspecting
355	and matching the pin to the pin ranges across all controllers. When a
356	pin controller handling the matching range is found, GPIO-specific functions
357	will be called on that specific pin controller.
358	
359	For all functionalities dealing with pin biasing, pin muxing etc, the pin
360	controller subsystem will subtract the range's .base offset from the passed
361	in gpio number, and add the ranges's .pin_base offset to retrive a pin number.
362	After that, the subsystem passes it on to the pin control driver, so the driver
363	will get an pin number into its handled number range. Further it is also passed
364	the range ID value, so that the pin controller knows which range it should
365	deal with.
366	
367	Calling pinctrl_add_gpio_range from pinctrl driver is DEPRECATED. Please see
368	section 2.1 of Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt on how to bind
369	pinctrl and gpio drivers.
370	
371	PINMUX interfaces
372	=================
373	
374	These calls use the pinmux_* naming prefix.  No other calls should use that
375	prefix.
376	
377	
378	What is pinmuxing?
379	==================
380	
381	PINMUX, also known as padmux, ballmux, alternate functions or mission modes
382	is a way for chip vendors producing some kind of electrical packages to use
383	a certain physical pin (ball, pad, finger, etc) for multiple mutually exclusive
384	functions, depending on the application. By "application" in this context
385	we usually mean a way of soldering or wiring the package into an electronic
386	system, even though the framework makes it possible to also change the function
387	at runtime.
388	
389	Here is an example of a PGA (Pin Grid Array) chip seen from underneath:
390	
391	        A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H
392	      +---+
393	   8  | o | o   o   o   o   o   o   o
394	      |   |
395	   7  | o | o   o   o   o   o   o   o
396	      |   |
397	   6  | o | o   o   o   o   o   o   o
398	      +---+---+
399	   5  | o | o | o   o   o   o   o   o
400	      +---+---+               +---+
401	   4    o   o   o   o   o   o | o | o
402	                              |   |
403	   3    o   o   o   o   o   o | o | o
404	                              |   |
405	   2    o   o   o   o   o   o | o | o
406	      +-------+-------+-------+---+---+
407	   1  | o   o | o   o | o   o | o | o |
408	      +-------+-------+-------+---+---+
409	
410	This is not tetris. The game to think of is chess. Not all PGA/BGA packages
411	are chessboard-like, big ones have "holes" in some arrangement according to
412	different design patterns, but we're using this as a simple example. Of the
413	pins you see some will be taken by things like a few VCC and GND to feed power
414	to the chip, and quite a few will be taken by large ports like an external
415	memory interface. The remaining pins will often be subject to pin multiplexing.
416	
417	The example 8x8 PGA package above will have pin numbers 0 thru 63 assigned to
418	its physical pins. It will name the pins { A1, A2, A3 ... H6, H7, H8 } using
419	pinctrl_register_pins() and a suitable data set as shown earlier.
420	
421	In this 8x8 BGA package the pins { A8, A7, A6, A5 } can be used as an SPI port
422	(these are four pins: CLK, RXD, TXD, FRM). In that case, pin B5 can be used as
423	some general-purpose GPIO pin. However, in another setting, pins { A5, B5 } can
424	be used as an I2C port (these are just two pins: SCL, SDA). Needless to say,
425	we cannot use the SPI port and I2C port at the same time. However in the inside
426	of the package the silicon performing the SPI logic can alternatively be routed
427	out on pins { G4, G3, G2, G1 }.
428	
429	On the botton row at { A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, H1 } we have something
430	special - it's an external MMC bus that can be 2, 4 or 8 bits wide, and it will
431	consume 2, 4 or 8 pins respectively, so either { A1, B1 } are taken or
432	{ A1, B1, C1, D1 } or all of them. If we use all 8 bits, we cannot use the SPI
433	port on pins { G4, G3, G2, G1 } of course.
434	
435	This way the silicon blocks present inside the chip can be multiplexed "muxed"
436	out on different pin ranges. Often contemporary SoC (systems on chip) will
437	contain several I2C, SPI, SDIO/MMC, etc silicon blocks that can be routed to
438	different pins by pinmux settings.
439	
440	Since general-purpose I/O pins (GPIO) are typically always in shortage, it is
441	common to be able to use almost any pin as a GPIO pin if it is not currently
442	in use by some other I/O port.
443	
444	
445	Pinmux conventions
446	==================
447	
448	The purpose of the pinmux functionality in the pin controller subsystem is to
449	abstract and provide pinmux settings to the devices you choose to instantiate
450	in your machine configuration. It is inspired by the clk, GPIO and regulator
451	subsystems, so devices will request their mux setting, but it's also possible
452	to request a single pin for e.g. GPIO.
453	
454	Definitions:
455	
456	- FUNCTIONS can be switched in and out by a driver residing with the pin
457	  control subsystem in the drivers/pinctrl/* directory of the kernel. The
458	  pin control driver knows the possible functions. In the example above you can
459	  identify three pinmux functions, one for spi, one for i2c and one for mmc.
460	
461	- FUNCTIONS are assumed to be enumerable from zero in a one-dimensional array.
462	  In this case the array could be something like: { spi0, i2c0, mmc0 }
463	  for the three available functions.
464	
465	- FUNCTIONS have PIN GROUPS as defined on the generic level - so a certain
466	  function is *always* associated with a certain set of pin groups, could
467	  be just a single one, but could also be many. In the example above the
468	  function i2c is associated with the pins { A5, B5 }, enumerated as
469	  { 24, 25 } in the controller pin space.
470	
471	  The Function spi is associated with pin groups { A8, A7, A6, A5 }
472	  and { G4, G3, G2, G1 }, which are enumerated as { 0, 8, 16, 24 } and
473	  { 38, 46, 54, 62 } respectively.
474	
475	  Group names must be unique per pin controller, no two groups on the same
476	  controller may have the same name.
477	
478	- The combination of a FUNCTION and a PIN GROUP determine a certain function
479	  for a certain set of pins. The knowledge of the functions and pin groups
480	  and their machine-specific particulars are kept inside the pinmux driver,
481	  from the outside only the enumerators are known, and the driver core can:
482	
483	  - Request the name of a function with a certain selector (>= 0)
484	  - A list of groups associated with a certain function
485	  - Request that a certain group in that list to be activated for a certain
486	    function
487	
488	  As already described above, pin groups are in turn self-descriptive, so
489	  the core will retrieve the actual pin range in a certain group from the
490	  driver.
491	
492	- FUNCTIONS and GROUPS on a certain PIN CONTROLLER are MAPPED to a certain
493	  device by the board file, device tree or similar machine setup configuration
494	  mechanism, similar to how regulators are connected to devices, usually by
495	  name. Defining a pin controller, function and group thus uniquely identify
496	  the set of pins to be used by a certain device. (If only one possible group
497	  of pins is available for the function, no group name need to be supplied -
498	  the core will simply select the first and only group available.)
499	
500	  In the example case we can define that this particular machine shall
501	  use device spi0 with pinmux function fspi0 group gspi0 and i2c0 on function
502	  fi2c0 group gi2c0, on the primary pin controller, we get mappings
503	  like these:
504	
505	  {
506	    {"map-spi0", spi0, pinctrl0, fspi0, gspi0},
507	    {"map-i2c0", i2c0, pinctrl0, fi2c0, gi2c0}
508	  }
509	
510	  Every map must be assigned a state name, pin controller, device and
511	  function. The group is not compulsory - if it is omitted the first group
512	  presented by the driver as applicable for the function will be selected,
513	  which is useful for simple cases.
514	
515	  It is possible to map several groups to the same combination of device,
516	  pin controller and function. This is for cases where a certain function on
517	  a certain pin controller may use different sets of pins in different
518	  configurations.
519	
520	- PINS for a certain FUNCTION using a certain PIN GROUP on a certain
521	  PIN CONTROLLER are provided on a first-come first-serve basis, so if some
522	  other device mux setting or GPIO pin request has already taken your physical
523	  pin, you will be denied the use of it. To get (activate) a new setting, the
524	  old one has to be put (deactivated) first.
525	
526	Sometimes the documentation and hardware registers will be oriented around
527	pads (or "fingers") rather than pins - these are the soldering surfaces on the
528	silicon inside the package, and may or may not match the actual number of
529	pins/balls underneath the capsule. Pick some enumeration that makes sense to
530	you. Define enumerators only for the pins you can control if that makes sense.
531	
532	Assumptions:
533	
534	We assume that the number of possible function maps to pin groups is limited by
535	the hardware. I.e. we assume that there is no system where any function can be
536	mapped to any pin, like in a phone exchange. So the available pins groups for
537	a certain function will be limited to a few choices (say up to eight or so),
538	not hundreds or any amount of choices. This is the characteristic we have found
539	by inspecting available pinmux hardware, and a necessary assumption since we
540	expect pinmux drivers to present *all* possible function vs pin group mappings
541	to the subsystem.
542	
543	
544	Pinmux drivers
545	==============
546	
547	The pinmux core takes care of preventing conflicts on pins and calling
548	the pin controller driver to execute different settings.
549	
550	It is the responsibility of the pinmux driver to impose further restrictions
551	(say for example infer electronic limitations due to load etc) to determine
552	whether or not the requested function can actually be allowed, and in case it
553	is possible to perform the requested mux setting, poke the hardware so that
554	this happens.
555	
556	Pinmux drivers are required to supply a few callback functions, some are
557	optional. Usually the enable() and disable() functions are implemented,
558	writing values into some certain registers to activate a certain mux setting
559	for a certain pin.
560	
561	A simple driver for the above example will work by setting bits 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4
562	into some register named MUX to select a certain function with a certain
563	group of pins would work something like this:
564	
565	#include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
566	#include <linux/pinctrl/pinmux.h>
567	
568	struct foo_group {
569		const char *name;
570		const unsigned int *pins;
571		const unsigned num_pins;
572	};
573	
574	static const unsigned spi0_0_pins[] = { 0, 8, 16, 24 };
575	static const unsigned spi0_1_pins[] = { 38, 46, 54, 62 };
576	static const unsigned i2c0_pins[] = { 24, 25 };
577	static const unsigned mmc0_1_pins[] = { 56, 57 };
578	static const unsigned mmc0_2_pins[] = { 58, 59 };
579	static const unsigned mmc0_3_pins[] = { 60, 61, 62, 63 };
580	
581	static const struct foo_group foo_groups[] = {
582		{
583			.name = "spi0_0_grp",
584			.pins = spi0_0_pins,
585			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_0_pins),
586		},
587		{
588			.name = "spi0_1_grp",
589			.pins = spi0_1_pins,
590			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_1_pins),
591		},
592		{
593			.name = "i2c0_grp",
594			.pins = i2c0_pins,
595			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_pins),
596		},
597		{
598			.name = "mmc0_1_grp",
599			.pins = mmc0_1_pins,
600			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_1_pins),
601		},
602		{
603			.name = "mmc0_2_grp",
604			.pins = mmc0_2_pins,
605			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_2_pins),
606		},
607		{
608			.name = "mmc0_3_grp",
609			.pins = mmc0_3_pins,
610			.num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_3_pins),
611		},
612	};
613	
614	
615	static int foo_get_groups_count(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
616	{
617		return ARRAY_SIZE(foo_groups);
618	}
619	
620	static const char *foo_get_group_name(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
621					       unsigned selector)
622	{
623		return foo_groups[selector].name;
624	}
625	
626	static int foo_get_group_pins(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
627				       unsigned ** const pins,
628				       unsigned * const num_pins)
629	{
630		*pins = (unsigned *) foo_groups[selector].pins;
631		*num_pins = foo_groups[selector].num_pins;
632		return 0;
633	}
634	
635	static struct pinctrl_ops foo_pctrl_ops = {
636		.get_groups_count = foo_get_groups_count,
637		.get_group_name = foo_get_group_name,
638		.get_group_pins = foo_get_group_pins,
639	};
640	
641	struct foo_pmx_func {
642		const char *name;
643		const char * const *groups;
644		const unsigned num_groups;
645	};
646	
647	static const char * const spi0_groups[] = { "spi0_0_grp", "spi0_1_grp" };
648	static const char * const i2c0_groups[] = { "i2c0_grp" };
649	static const char * const mmc0_groups[] = { "mmc0_1_grp", "mmc0_2_grp",
650						"mmc0_3_grp" };
651	
652	static const struct foo_pmx_func foo_functions[] = {
653		{
654			.name = "spi0",
655			.groups = spi0_groups,
656			.num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_groups),
657		},
658		{
659			.name = "i2c0",
660			.groups = i2c0_groups,
661			.num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_groups),
662		},
663		{
664			.name = "mmc0",
665			.groups = mmc0_groups,
666			.num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_groups),
667		},
668	};
669	
670	int foo_get_functions_count(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
671	{
672		return ARRAY_SIZE(foo_functions);
673	}
674	
675	const char *foo_get_fname(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector)
676	{
677		return foo_functions[selector].name;
678	}
679	
680	static int foo_get_groups(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
681				  const char * const **groups,
682				  unsigned * const num_groups)
683	{
684		*groups = foo_functions[selector].groups;
685		*num_groups = foo_functions[selector].num_groups;
686		return 0;
687	}
688	
689	int foo_enable(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
690			unsigned group)
691	{
692		u8 regbit = (1 << selector + group);
693	
694		writeb((readb(MUX)|regbit), MUX)
695		return 0;
696	}
697	
698	void foo_disable(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
699			unsigned group)
700	{
701		u8 regbit = (1 << selector + group);
702	
703		writeb((readb(MUX) & ~(regbit)), MUX)
704		return 0;
705	}
706	
707	struct pinmux_ops foo_pmxops = {
708		.get_functions_count = foo_get_functions_count,
709		.get_function_name = foo_get_fname,
710		.get_function_groups = foo_get_groups,
711		.enable = foo_enable,
712		.disable = foo_disable,
713	};
714	
715	/* Pinmux operations are handled by some pin controller */
716	static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
717		...
718		.pctlops = &foo_pctrl_ops,
719		.pmxops = &foo_pmxops,
720	};
721	
722	In the example activating muxing 0 and 1 at the same time setting bits
723	0 and 1, uses one pin in common so they would collide.
724	
725	The beauty of the pinmux subsystem is that since it keeps track of all
726	pins and who is using them, it will already have denied an impossible
727	request like that, so the driver does not need to worry about such
728	things - when it gets a selector passed in, the pinmux subsystem makes
729	sure no other device or GPIO assignment is already using the selected
730	pins. Thus bits 0 and 1 in the control register will never be set at the
731	same time.
732	
733	All the above functions are mandatory to implement for a pinmux driver.
734	
735	
736	Pin control interaction with the GPIO subsystem
737	===============================================
738	
739	The public pinmux API contains two functions named pinctrl_request_gpio()
740	and pinctrl_free_gpio(). These two functions shall *ONLY* be called from
741	gpiolib-based drivers as part of their gpio_request() and
742	gpio_free() semantics. Likewise the pinctrl_gpio_direction_[input|output]
743	shall only be called from within respective gpio_direction_[input|output]
744	gpiolib implementation.
745	
746	NOTE that platforms and individual drivers shall *NOT* request GPIO pins to be
747	controlled e.g. muxed in. Instead, implement a proper gpiolib driver and have
748	that driver request proper muxing and other control for its pins.
749	
750	The function list could become long, especially if you can convert every
751	individual pin into a GPIO pin independent of any other pins, and then try
752	the approach to define every pin as a function.
753	
754	In this case, the function array would become 64 entries for each GPIO
755	setting and then the device functions.
756	
757	For this reason there are two functions a pin control driver can implement
758	to enable only GPIO on an individual pin: .gpio_request_enable() and
759	.gpio_disable_free().
760	
761	This function will pass in the affected GPIO range identified by the pin
762	controller core, so you know which GPIO pins are being affected by the request
763	operation.
764	
765	If your driver needs to have an indication from the framework of whether the
766	GPIO pin shall be used for input or output you can implement the
767	.gpio_set_direction() function. As described this shall be called from the
768	gpiolib driver and the affected GPIO range, pin offset and desired direction
769	will be passed along to this function.
770	
771	Alternatively to using these special functions, it is fully allowed to use
772	named functions for each GPIO pin, the pinctrl_request_gpio() will attempt to
773	obtain the function "gpioN" where "N" is the global GPIO pin number if no
774	special GPIO-handler is registered.
775	
776	
777	Board/machine configuration
778	==================================
779	
780	Boards and machines define how a certain complete running system is put
781	together, including how GPIOs and devices are muxed, how regulators are
782	constrained and how the clock tree looks. Of course pinmux settings are also
783	part of this.
784	
785	A pin controller configuration for a machine looks pretty much like a simple
786	regulator configuration, so for the example array above we want to enable i2c
787	and spi on the second function mapping:
788	
789	#include <linux/pinctrl/machine.h>
790	
791	static const struct pinctrl_map mapping[] __initconst = {
792		{
793			.dev_name = "foo-spi.0",
794			.name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT,
795			.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
796			.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
797			.data.mux.function = "spi0",
798		},
799		{
800			.dev_name = "foo-i2c.0",
801			.name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT,
802			.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
803			.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
804			.data.mux.function = "i2c0",
805		},
806		{
807			.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
808			.name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT,
809			.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
810			.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
811			.data.mux.function = "mmc0",
812		},
813	};
814	
815	The dev_name here matches to the unique device name that can be used to look
816	up the device struct (just like with clockdev or regulators). The function name
817	must match a function provided by the pinmux driver handling this pin range.
818	
819	As you can see we may have several pin controllers on the system and thus
820	we need to specify which one of them that contain the functions we wish
821	to map.
822	
823	You register this pinmux mapping to the pinmux subsystem by simply:
824	
825	       ret = pinctrl_register_mappings(mapping, ARRAY_SIZE(mapping));
826	
827	Since the above construct is pretty common there is a helper macro to make
828	it even more compact which assumes you want to use pinctrl-foo and position
829	0 for mapping, for example:
830	
831	static struct pinctrl_map __initdata mapping[] = {
832		PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("foo-i2c.o", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", NULL, "i2c0"),
833	};
834	
835	The mapping table may also contain pin configuration entries. It's common for
836	each pin/group to have a number of configuration entries that affect it, so
837	the table entries for configuration reference an array of config parameters
838	and values. An example using the convenience macros is shown below:
839	
840	static unsigned long i2c_grp_configs[] = {
841		FOO_PIN_DRIVEN,
842		FOO_PIN_PULLUP,
843	};
844	
845	static unsigned long i2c_pin_configs[] = {
846		FOO_OPEN_COLLECTOR,
847		FOO_SLEW_RATE_SLOW,
848	};
849	
850	static struct pinctrl_map __initdata mapping[] = {
851		PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", "i2c0"),
852		PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_GROUP("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", i2c_grp_configs),
853		PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0scl", i2c_pin_configs),
854		PIN_MAP_CONFIGS_PIN("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT, "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0sda", i2c_pin_configs),
855	};
856	
857	Finally, some devices expect the mapping table to contain certain specific
858	named states. When running on hardware that doesn't need any pin controller
859	configuration, the mapping table must still contain those named states, in
860	order to explicitly indicate that the states were provided and intended to
861	be empty. Table entry macro PIN_MAP_DUMMY_STATE serves the purpose of defining
862	a named state without causing any pin controller to be programmed:
863	
864	static struct pinctrl_map __initdata mapping[] = {
865		PIN_MAP_DUMMY_STATE("foo-i2c.0", PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT),
866	};
867	
868	
869	Complex mappings
870	================
871	
872	As it is possible to map a function to different groups of pins an optional
873	.group can be specified like this:
874	
875	...
876	{
877		.dev_name = "foo-spi.0",
878		.name = "spi0-pos-A",
879		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
880		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
881		.function = "spi0",
882		.group = "spi0_0_grp",
883	},
884	{
885		.dev_name = "foo-spi.0",
886		.name = "spi0-pos-B",
887		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
888		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
889		.function = "spi0",
890		.group = "spi0_1_grp",
891	},
892	...
893	
894	This example mapping is used to switch between two positions for spi0 at
895	runtime, as described further below under the heading "Runtime pinmuxing".
896	
897	Further it is possible for one named state to affect the muxing of several
898	groups of pins, say for example in the mmc0 example above, where you can
899	additively expand the mmc0 bus from 2 to 4 to 8 pins. If we want to use all
900	three groups for a total of 2+2+4 = 8 pins (for an 8-bit MMC bus as is the
901	case), we define a mapping like this:
902	
903	...
904	{
905		.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
906		.name = "2bit"
907		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
908		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
909		.function = "mmc0",
910		.group = "mmc0_1_grp",
911	},
912	{
913		.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
914		.name = "4bit"
915		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
916		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
917		.function = "mmc0",
918		.group = "mmc0_1_grp",
919	},
920	{
921		.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
922		.name = "4bit"
923		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
924		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
925		.function = "mmc0",
926		.group = "mmc0_2_grp",
927	},
928	{
929		.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
930		.name = "8bit"
931		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
932		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
933		.function = "mmc0",
934		.group = "mmc0_1_grp",
935	},
936	{
937		.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
938		.name = "8bit"
939		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
940		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
941		.function = "mmc0",
942		.group = "mmc0_2_grp",
943	},
944	{
945		.dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
946		.name = "8bit"
947		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
948		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
949		.function = "mmc0",
950		.group = "mmc0_3_grp",
951	},
952	...
953	
954	The result of grabbing this mapping from the device with something like
955	this (see next paragraph):
956	
957		p = devm_pinctrl_get(dev);
958		s = pinctrl_lookup_state(p, "8bit");
959		ret = pinctrl_select_state(p, s);
960	
961	or more simply:
962	
963		p = devm_pinctrl_get_select(dev, "8bit");
964	
965	Will be that you activate all the three bottom records in the mapping at
966	once. Since they share the same name, pin controller device, function and
967	device, and since we allow multiple groups to match to a single device, they
968	all get selected, and they all get enabled and disable simultaneously by the
969	pinmux core.
970	
971	
972	Pin control requests from drivers
973	=================================
974	
975	When a device driver is about to probe the device core will automatically
976	attempt to issue pinctrl_get_select_default() on these devices.
977	This way driver writers do not need to add any of the boilerplate code
978	of the type found below. However when doing fine-grained state selection
979	and not using the "default" state, you may have to do some device driver
980	handling of the pinctrl handles and states.
981	
982	So if you just want to put the pins for a certain device into the default
983	state and be done with it, there is nothing you need to do besides
984	providing the proper mapping table. The device core will take care of
985	the rest.
986	
987	Generally it is discouraged to let individual drivers get and enable pin
988	control. So if possible, handle the pin control in platform code or some other
989	place where you have access to all the affected struct device * pointers. In
990	some cases where a driver needs to e.g. switch between different mux mappings
991	at runtime this is not possible.
992	
993	A typical case is if a driver needs to switch bias of pins from normal
994	operation and going to sleep, moving from the PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT to
995	PINCTRL_STATE_SLEEP at runtime, re-biasing or even re-muxing pins to save
996	current in sleep mode.
997	
998	A driver may request a certain control state to be activated, usually just the
999	default state like this:
1000	
1001	#include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h>
1002	
1003	struct foo_state {
1004	       struct pinctrl *p;
1005	       struct pinctrl_state *s;
1006	       ...
1007	};
1008	
1009	foo_probe()
1010	{
1011		/* Allocate a state holder named "foo" etc */
1012		struct foo_state *foo = ...;
1013	
1014		foo->p = devm_pinctrl_get(&device);
1015		if (IS_ERR(foo->p)) {
1016			/* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */
1017			return PTR_ERR(foo->p);
1018		}
1019	
1020		foo->s = pinctrl_lookup_state(foo->p, PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT);
1021		if (IS_ERR(foo->s)) {
1022			/* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */
1023			return PTR_ERR(s);
1024		}
1025	
1026		ret = pinctrl_select_state(foo->s);
1027		if (ret < 0) {
1028			/* FIXME: clean up "foo" here */
1029			return ret;
1030		}
1031	}
1032	
1033	This get/lookup/select/put sequence can just as well be handled by bus drivers
1034	if you don't want each and every driver to handle it and you know the
1035	arrangement on your bus.
1036	
1037	The semantics of the pinctrl APIs are:
1038	
1039	- pinctrl_get() is called in process context to obtain a handle to all pinctrl
1040	  information for a given client device. It will allocate a struct from the
1041	  kernel memory to hold the pinmux state. All mapping table parsing or similar
1042	  slow operations take place within this API.
1043	
1044	- devm_pinctrl_get() is a variant of pinctrl_get() that causes pinctrl_put()
1045	  to be called automatically on the retrieved pointer when the associated
1046	  device is removed. It is recommended to use this function over plain
1047	  pinctrl_get().
1048	
1049	- pinctrl_lookup_state() is called in process context to obtain a handle to a
1050	  specific state for a the client device. This operation may be slow too.
1051	
1052	- pinctrl_select_state() programs pin controller hardware according to the
1053	  definition of the state as given by the mapping table. In theory this is a
1054	  fast-path operation, since it only involved blasting some register settings
1055	  into hardware. However, note that some pin controllers may have their
1056	  registers on a slow/IRQ-based bus, so client devices should not assume they
1057	  can call pinctrl_select_state() from non-blocking contexts.
1058	
1059	- pinctrl_put() frees all information associated with a pinctrl handle.
1060	
1061	- devm_pinctrl_put() is a variant of pinctrl_put() that may be used to
1062	  explicitly destroy a pinctrl object returned by devm_pinctrl_get().
1063	  However, use of this function will be rare, due to the automatic cleanup
1064	  that will occur even without calling it.
1065	
1066	  pinctrl_get() must be paired with a plain pinctrl_put().
1067	  pinctrl_get() may not be paired with devm_pinctrl_put().
1068	  devm_pinctrl_get() can optionally be paired with devm_pinctrl_put().
1069	  devm_pinctrl_get() may not be paired with plain pinctrl_put().
1070	
1071	Usually the pin control core handled the get/put pair and call out to the
1072	device drivers bookkeeping operations, like checking available functions and
1073	the associated pins, whereas the enable/disable pass on to the pin controller
1074	driver which takes care of activating and/or deactivating the mux setting by
1075	quickly poking some registers.
1076	
1077	The pins are allocated for your device when you issue the devm_pinctrl_get()
1078	call, after this you should be able to see this in the debugfs listing of all
1079	pins.
1080	
1081	NOTE: the pinctrl system will return -EPROBE_DEFER if it cannot find the
1082	requested pinctrl handles, for example if the pinctrl driver has not yet
1083	registered. Thus make sure that the error path in your driver gracefully
1084	cleans up and is ready to retry the probing later in the startup process.
1085	
1086	
1087	Drivers needing both pin control and GPIOs
1088	==========================================
1089	
1090	Again, it is discouraged to let drivers lookup and select pin control states
1091	themselves, but again sometimes this is unavoidable.
1092	
1093	So say that your driver is fetching its resources like this:
1094	
1095	#include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h>
1096	#include <linux/gpio.h>
1097	
1098	struct pinctrl *pinctrl;
1099	int gpio;
1100	
1101	pinctrl = devm_pinctrl_get_select_default(&dev);
1102	gpio = devm_gpio_request(&dev, 14, "foo");
1103	
1104	Here we first request a certain pin state and then request GPIO 14 to be
1105	used. If you're using the subsystems orthogonally like this, you should
1106	nominally always get your pinctrl handle and select the desired pinctrl
1107	state BEFORE requesting the GPIO. This is a semantic convention to avoid
1108	situations that can be electrically unpleasant, you will certainly want to
1109	mux in and bias pins in a certain way before the GPIO subsystems starts to
1110	deal with them.
1111	
1112	The above can be hidden: using the device core, the pinctrl core may be
1113	setting up the config and muxing for the pins right before the device is
1114	probing, nevertheless orthogonal to the GPIO subsystem.
1115	
1116	But there are also situations where it makes sense for the GPIO subsystem
1117	to communicate directly with with the pinctrl subsystem, using the latter
1118	as a back-end. This is when the GPIO driver may call out to the functions
1119	described in the section "Pin control interaction with the GPIO subsystem"
1120	above. This only involves per-pin multiplexing, and will be completely
1121	hidden behind the gpio_*() function namespace. In this case, the driver
1122	need not interact with the pin control subsystem at all.
1123	
1124	If a pin control driver and a GPIO driver is dealing with the same pins
1125	and the use cases involve multiplexing, you MUST implement the pin controller
1126	as a back-end for the GPIO driver like this, unless your hardware design
1127	is such that the GPIO controller can override the pin controller's
1128	multiplexing state through hardware without the need to interact with the
1129	pin control system.
1130	
1131	
1132	System pin control hogging
1133	==========================
1134	
1135	Pin control map entries can be hogged by the core when the pin controller
1136	is registered. This means that the core will attempt to call pinctrl_get(),
1137	lookup_state() and select_state() on it immediately after the pin control
1138	device has been registered.
1139	
1140	This occurs for mapping table entries where the client device name is equal
1141	to the pin controller device name, and the state name is PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT.
1142	
1143	{
1144		.dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
1145		.name = PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT,
1146		.type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_MUX_GROUP,
1147		.ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
1148		.function = "power_func",
1149	},
1150	
1151	Since it may be common to request the core to hog a few always-applicable
1152	mux settings on the primary pin controller, there is a convenience macro for
1153	this:
1154	
1155	PIN_MAP_MUX_GROUP_HOG_DEFAULT("pinctrl-foo", NULL /* group */, "power_func")
1156	
1157	This gives the exact same result as the above construction.
1158	
1159	
1160	Runtime pinmuxing
1161	=================
1162	
1163	It is possible to mux a certain function in and out at runtime, say to move
1164	an SPI port from one set of pins to another set of pins. Say for example for
1165	spi0 in the example above, we expose two different groups of pins for the same
1166	function, but with different named in the mapping as described under
1167	"Advanced mapping" above. So that for an SPI device, we have two states named
1168	"pos-A" and "pos-B".
1169	
1170	This snippet first muxes the function in the pins defined by group A, enables
1171	it, disables and releases it, and muxes it in on the pins defined by group B:
1172	
1173	#include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h>
1174	
1175	struct pinctrl *p;
1176	struct pinctrl_state *s1, *s2;
1177	
1178	foo_probe()
1179	{
1180		/* Setup */
1181		p = devm_pinctrl_get(&device);
1182		if (IS_ERR(p))
1183			...
1184	
1185		s1 = pinctrl_lookup_state(foo->p, "pos-A");
1186		if (IS_ERR(s1))
1187			...
1188	
1189		s2 = pinctrl_lookup_state(foo->p, "pos-B");
1190		if (IS_ERR(s2))
1191			...
1192	}
1193	
1194	foo_switch()
1195	{
1196		/* Enable on position A */
1197		ret = pinctrl_select_state(s1);
1198		if (ret < 0)
1199		    ...
1200	
1201		...
1202	
1203		/* Enable on position B */
1204		ret = pinctrl_select_state(s2);
1205		if (ret < 0)
1206		    ...
1207	
1208		...
1209	}
1210	
1211	The above has to be done from process context. The reservation of the pins
1212	will be done when the state is activated, so in effect one specific pin
1213	can be used by different functions at different times on a running system.
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