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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-01 10:31:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-01 10:31:17 -0800
commitf6cff79f1d122f78a4b35bf4b2f0112afcd89ea4 (patch)
treecf3a38576f9adbb3860982c25f72aebed2bb541a /Documentation/driver-api
parent47fcc0360cfb3fe82e4daddacad3c1cd80b0b75d (diff)
parent9ff6576e124b1227c27c1da43fe5f8ee908263e0 (diff)
Merge tag 'char-misc-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big pull request for char/misc drivers for 4.16-rc1. There's a lot of stuff in here. Three new driver subsystems were added for various types of hardware busses: - siox - slimbus - soundwire as well as a new vboxguest subsystem for the VirtualBox hypervisor drivers. There's also big updates from the FPGA subsystem, lots of Android binder fixes, the usual handful of hyper-v updates, and lots of other smaller driver updates. All of these have been in linux-next for a long time, with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (155 commits) char: lp: use true or false for boolean values android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area android: binder: Use true and false for boolean values lkdtm: fix handle_irq_event symbol for INT_HW_IRQ_EN EISA: Delete error message for a failed memory allocation in eisa_probe() EISA: Whitespace cleanup misc: remove AVR32 dependencies virt: vbox: Add error mapping for VERR_INVALID_NAME and VERR_NO_MORE_FILES soundwire: Fix a signedness bug uio_hv_generic: fix new type mismatch warnings uio_hv_generic: fix type mismatch warnings auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE uio_hv_generic: add rescind support uio_hv_generic: check that host supports monitor page uio_hv_generic: create send and receive buffers uio: document uio_hv_generic regions doc: fix documentation about uio_hv_generic vmbus: add monitor_id and subchannel_id to sysfs per channel vmbus: fix ABI documentation uio_hv_generic: use ISR callback method ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/index.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/slimbus.rst127
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/index.rst15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/summary.rst207
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst26
5 files changed, 370 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
index d17a9876b473..e9b41b1634f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ available subsections can be seen below.
gpio
misc_devices
dmaengine/index
+ slimbus
+ soundwire/index
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/slimbus.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/slimbus.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7555ecd538de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/slimbus.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+============================
+Linux kernel SLIMbus support
+============================
+
+Overview
+========
+
+What is SLIMbus?
+----------------
+SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification developed by
+MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance. The bus uses master/slave
+configuration, and is a 2-wire multi-drop implementation (clock, and data).
+
+Currently, SLIMbus is used to interface between application processors of SoCs
+(System-on-Chip) and peripheral components (typically codec). SLIMbus uses
+Time-Division-Multiplexing to accommodate multiple data channels, and
+a control channel.
+
+The control channel is used for various control functions such as bus
+management, configuration and status updates. These messages can be unicast (e.g.
+reading/writing device specific values), or multicast (e.g. data channel
+reconfiguration sequence is a broadcast message announced to all devices)
+
+A data channel is used for data-transfer between 2 SLIMbus devices. Data
+channel uses dedicated ports on the device.
+
+Hardware description:
+---------------------
+SLIMbus specification has different types of device classifications based on
+their capabilities.
+A manager device is responsible for enumeration, configuration, and dynamic
+channel allocation. Every bus has 1 active manager.
+
+A generic device is a device providing application functionality (e.g. codec).
+
+Framer device is responsible for clocking the bus, and transmitting frame-sync
+and framing information on the bus.
+
+Each SLIMbus component has an interface device for monitoring physical layer.
+
+Typically each SoC contains SLIMbus component having 1 manager, 1 framer device,
+1 generic device (for data channel support), and 1 interface device.
+External peripheral SLIMbus component usually has 1 generic device (for
+functionality/data channel support), and an associated interface device.
+The generic device's registers are mapped as 'value elements' so that they can
+be written/read using SLIMbus control channel exchanging control/status type of
+information.
+In case there are multiple framer devices on the same bus, manager device is
+responsible to select the active-framer for clocking the bus.
+
+Per specification, SLIMbus uses "clock gears" to do power management based on
+current frequency and bandwidth requirements. There are 10 clock gears and each
+gear changes the SLIMbus frequency to be twice its previous gear.
+
+Each device has a 6-byte enumeration-address and the manager assigns every
+device with a 1-byte logical address after the devices report presence on the
+bus.
+
+Software description:
+---------------------
+There are 2 types of SLIMbus drivers:
+
+slim_controller represents a 'controller' for SLIMbus. This driver should
+implement duties needed by the SoC (manager device, associated
+interface device for monitoring the layers and reporting errors, default
+framer device).
+
+slim_device represents the 'generic device/component' for SLIMbus, and a
+slim_driver should implement driver for that slim_device.
+
+Device notifications to the driver:
+-----------------------------------
+Since SLIMbus devices have mechanisms for reporting their presence, the
+framework allows drivers to bind when corresponding devices report their
+presence on the bus.
+However, it is possible that the driver needs to be probed
+first so that it can enable corresponding SLIMbus device (e.g. power it up and/or
+take it out of reset). To support that behavior, the framework allows drivers
+to probe first as well (e.g. using standard DeviceTree compatibility field).
+This creates the necessity for the driver to know when the device is functional
+(i.e. reported present). device_up callback is used for that reason when the
+device reports present and is assigned a logical address by the controller.
+
+Similarly, SLIMbus devices 'report absent' when they go down. A 'device_down'
+callback notifies the driver when the device reports absent and its logical
+address assignment is invalidated by the controller.
+
+Another notification "boot_device" is used to notify the slim_driver when
+controller resets the bus. This notification allows the driver to take necessary
+steps to boot the device so that it's functional after the bus has been reset.
+
+Driver and Controller APIs:
+--------------------------
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/slimbus.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/slimbus.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/core.c
+ :export:
+
+Clock-pause:
+------------
+SLIMbus mandates that a reconfiguration sequence (known as clock-pause) be
+broadcast to all active devices on the bus before the bus can enter low-power
+mode. Controller uses this sequence when it decides to enter low-power mode so
+that corresponding clocks and/or power-rails can be turned off to save power.
+Clock-pause is exited by waking up framer device (if controller driver initiates
+exiting low power mode), or by toggling the data line (if a slave device wants
+to initiate it).
+
+Clock-pause APIs:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/sched.c
+ :export:
+
+Messaging:
+----------
+The framework supports regmap and read/write apis to exchange control-information
+with a SLIMbus device. APIs can be synchronous or asynchronous.
+The header file <linux/slimbus.h> has more documentation about messaging APIs.
+
+Messaging APIs:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/slimbus/messaging.c
+ :export:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..647e94654752
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+=======================
+SoundWire Documentation
+=======================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ summary
+
+.. only:: subproject
+
+ Indices
+ =======
+
+ * :ref:`genindex`
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/summary.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/summary.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8193125a2bfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/summary.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+===========================
+SoundWire Subsystem Summary
+===========================
+
+SoundWire is a new interface ratified in 2015 by the MIPI Alliance.
+SoundWire is used for transporting data typically related to audio
+functions. SoundWire interface is optimized to integrate audio devices in
+mobile or mobile inspired systems.
+
+SoundWire is a 2-pin multi-drop interface with data and clock line. It
+facilitates development of low cost, efficient, high performance systems.
+Broad level key features of SoundWire interface include:
+
+ (1) Transporting all of payload data channels, control information, and setup
+ commands over a single two-pin interface.
+
+ (2) Lower clock frequency, and hence lower power consumption, by use of DDR
+ (Dual Data Rate) data transmission.
+
+ (3) Clock scaling and optional multiple data lanes to give wide flexibility
+ in data rate to match system requirements.
+
+ (4) Device status monitoring, including interrupt-style alerts to the Master.
+
+The SoundWire protocol supports up to eleven Slave interfaces. All the
+interfaces share the common Bus containing data and clock line. Each of the
+Slaves can support up to 14 Data Ports. 13 Data Ports are dedicated to audio
+transport. Data Port0 is dedicated to transport of Bulk control information,
+each of the audio Data Ports (1..14) can support up to 8 Channels in
+transmit or receiving mode (typically fixed direction but configurable
+direction is enabled by the specification). Bandwidth restrictions to
+~19.2..24.576Mbits/s don't however allow for 11*13*8 channels to be
+transmitted simultaneously.
+
+Below figure shows an example of connectivity between a SoundWire Master and
+two Slave devices. ::
+
+ +---------------+ +---------------+
+ | | Clock Signal | |
+ | Master |-------+-------------------------------| Slave |
+ | Interface | | Data Signal | Interface 1 |
+ | |-------|-------+-----------------------| |
+ +---------------+ | | +---------------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +--+-------+--+
+ | |
+ | Slave |
+ | Interface 2 |
+ | |
+ +-------------+
+
+
+Terminology
+===========
+
+The MIPI SoundWire specification uses the term 'device' to refer to a Master
+or Slave interface, which of course can be confusing. In this summary and
+code we use the term interface only to refer to the hardware. We follow the
+Linux device model by mapping each Slave interface connected on the bus as a
+device managed by a specific driver. The Linux SoundWire subsystem provides
+a framework to implement a SoundWire Slave driver with an API allowing
+3rd-party vendors to enable implementation-defined functionality while
+common setup/configuration tasks are handled by the bus.
+
+Bus:
+Implements SoundWire Linux Bus which handles the SoundWire protocol.
+Programs all the MIPI-defined Slave registers. Represents a SoundWire
+Master. Multiple instances of Bus may be present in a system.
+
+Slave:
+Registers as SoundWire Slave device (Linux Device). Multiple Slave devices
+can register to a Bus instance.
+
+Slave driver:
+Driver controlling the Slave device. MIPI-specified registers are controlled
+directly by the Bus (and transmitted through the Master driver/interface).
+Any implementation-defined Slave register is controlled by Slave driver. In
+practice, it is expected that the Slave driver relies on regmap and does not
+request direct register access.
+
+Programming interfaces (SoundWire Master interface Driver)
+==========================================================
+
+SoundWire Bus supports programming interfaces for the SoundWire Master
+implementation and SoundWire Slave devices. All the code uses the "sdw"
+prefix commonly used by SoC designers and 3rd party vendors.
+
+Each of the SoundWire Master interfaces needs to be registered to the Bus.
+Bus implements API to read standard Master MIPI properties and also provides
+callback in Master ops for Master driver to implement its own functions that
+provides capabilities information. DT support is not implemented at this
+time but should be trivial to add since capabilities are enabled with the
+``device_property_`` API.
+
+The Master interface along with the Master interface capabilities are
+registered based on board file, DT or ACPI.
+
+Following is the Bus API to register the SoundWire Bus:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ int sdw_add_bus_master(struct sdw_bus *bus)
+ {
+ if (!bus->dev)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ mutex_init(&bus->lock);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bus->slaves);
+
+ /* Check ACPI for Slave devices */
+ sdw_acpi_find_slaves(bus);
+
+ /* Check DT for Slave devices */
+ sdw_of_find_slaves(bus);
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+This will initialize sdw_bus object for Master device. "sdw_master_ops" and
+"sdw_master_port_ops" callback functions are provided to the Bus.
+
+"sdw_master_ops" is used by Bus to control the Bus in the hardware specific
+way. It includes Bus control functions such as sending the SoundWire
+read/write messages on Bus, setting up clock frequency & Stream
+Synchronization Point (SSP). The "sdw_master_ops" structure abstracts the
+hardware details of the Master from the Bus.
+
+"sdw_master_port_ops" is used by Bus to setup the Port parameters of the
+Master interface Port. Master interface Port register map is not defined by
+MIPI specification, so Bus calls the "sdw_master_port_ops" callback
+function to do Port operations like "Port Prepare", "Port Transport params
+set", "Port enable and disable". The implementation of the Master driver can
+then perform hardware-specific configurations.
+
+Programming interfaces (SoundWire Slave Driver)
+===============================================
+
+The MIPI specification requires each Slave interface to expose a unique
+48-bit identifier, stored in 6 read-only dev_id registers. This dev_id
+identifier contains vendor and part information, as well as a field enabling
+to differentiate between identical components. An additional class field is
+currently unused. Slave driver is written for a specific vendor and part
+identifier, Bus enumerates the Slave device based on these two ids.
+Slave device and driver match is done based on these two ids . Probe
+of the Slave driver is called by Bus on successful match between device and
+driver id. A parent/child relationship is enforced between Master and Slave
+devices (the logical representation is aligned with the physical
+connectivity).
+
+The information on Master/Slave dependencies is stored in platform data,
+board-file, ACPI or DT. The MIPI Software specification defines additional
+link_id parameters for controllers that have multiple Master interfaces. The
+dev_id registers are only unique in the scope of a link, and the link_id
+unique in the scope of a controller. Both dev_id and link_id are not
+necessarily unique at the system level but the parent/child information is
+used to avoid ambiguity.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ static const struct sdw_device_id slave_id[] = {
+ SDW_SLAVE_ENTRY(0x025d, 0x700, 0),
+ {},
+ };
+ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(sdw, slave_id);
+
+ static struct sdw_driver slave_sdw_driver = {
+ .driver = {
+ .name = "slave_xxx",
+ .pm = &slave_runtime_pm,
+ },
+ .probe = slave_sdw_probe,
+ .remove = slave_sdw_remove,
+ .ops = &slave_slave_ops,
+ .id_table = slave_id,
+ };
+
+
+For capabilities, Bus implements API to read standard Slave MIPI properties
+and also provides callback in Slave ops for Slave driver to implement own
+function that provides capabilities information. Bus needs to know a set of
+Slave capabilities to program Slave registers and to control the Bus
+reconfigurations.
+
+Future enhancements to be done
+==============================
+
+ (1) Bulk Register Access (BRA) transfers.
+
+
+ (2) Multiple data lane support.
+
+Links
+=====
+
+SoundWire MIPI specification 1.1 is available at:
+https://members.mipi.org/wg/All-Members/document/70290
+
+SoundWire MIPI DisCo (Discovery and Configuration) specification is
+available at:
+https://www.mipi.org/specifications/mipi-disco-soundwire
+
+(publicly accessible with registration or directly accessible to MIPI
+members)
+
+MIPI Alliance Manufacturer ID Page: mid.mipi.org
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
index f73d660b2956..693e3bd84e79 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
@@ -667,27 +667,28 @@ Making the driver recognize the device
Since the driver does not declare any device GUID's, it will not get
loaded automatically and will not automatically bind to any devices, you
must load it and allocate id to the driver yourself. For example, to use
-the network device GUID::
+the network device class GUID::
modprobe uio_hv_generic
echo "f8615163-df3e-46c5-913f-f2d2f965ed0e" > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/new_id
If there already is a hardware specific kernel driver for the device,
the generic driver still won't bind to it, in this case if you want to
-use the generic driver (why would you?) you'll have to manually unbind
-the hardware specific driver and bind the generic driver, like this::
+use the generic driver for a userspace library you'll have to manually unbind
+the hardware specific driver and bind the generic driver, using the device specific GUID
+like this::
- echo -n vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/hv_netvsc/unbind
- echo -n vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/bind
+ echo -n ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/hv_netvsc/unbind
+ echo -n ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/bind
You can verify that the device has been bound to the driver by looking
for it in sysfs, for example like the following::
- ls -l /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver
+ ls -l /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver
Which if successful should print::
- .../vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver -> ../../../bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic
+ .../ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver -> ../../../bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic
Things to know about uio_hv_generic
-----------------------------------
@@ -697,6 +698,17 @@ prevents the device from generating further interrupts until the bit is
cleared. The userspace driver should clear this bit before blocking and
waiting for more interrupts.
+When host rescinds a device, the interrupt file descriptor is marked down
+and any reads of the interrupt file descriptor will return -EIO. Similar
+to a closed socket or disconnected serial device.
+
+The vmbus device regions are mapped into uio device resources:
+ 0) Channel ring buffers: guest to host and host to guest
+ 1) Guest to host interrupt signalling pages
+ 2) Guest to host monitor page
+ 3) Network receive buffer region
+ 4) Network send buffer region
+
Further information
===================