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authorRojhalat Ibrahim <imr@rtschenk.de>2014-11-04 17:12:06 +0100
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2014-11-27 15:01:18 +0100
commit5f42424354f5b0ca5413b4fb8528d150692c85b7 (patch)
tree23ba183fa9976595adda4bceb006842a15eb3e19 /Documentation/gpio
parentb5b7b487431b01619f2947d91dadd7c7a233692e (diff)
gpiolib: allow simultaneous setting of multiple GPIO outputs
Introduce new functions gpiod_set_array & gpiod_set_raw_array to the consumer interface which allow setting multiple outputs with just one function call. Also add an optional set_multiple function to the driver interface. Without an implementation of that function in the chip driver outputs are set sequentially. Implementing the set_multiple function in a chip driver allows for: - Improved performance for certain use cases. The original motivation for this was the task of configuring an FPGA. In that specific case, where 9 GPIO lines have to be set many times, configuration time goes down from 48 s to 20 s when using the new function. - Simultaneous glitch-free setting of multiple pins on any kind of parallel bus attached to GPIOs provided they all reside on the same chip and bank. Limitations: Performance is only improved for normal high-low outputs. Open drain and open source outputs are always set separately from each other. Those kinds of outputs could probably be accelerated in a similar way if we could forgo the error checking when setting GPIO directions. Change log: v6: - rebase on current linux-gpio devel branch v5: - check can_sleep property per chip - remove superfluous checks - supplement documentation v4: - add gpiod_set_array function for setting logical values - change interface of the set_multiple driver function to use unsigned long as type for the bit fields - use generic bitops (which also use unsigned long for bit fields) - do not use ARCH_NR_GPIOS any more v3: - add documentation - change commit message v2: - use descriptor interface - allow arbitrary groups of GPIOs spanning multiple chips Signed-off-by: Rojhalat Ibrahim <imr@rtschenk.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt b/Documentation/gpio/consumer.txt
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@@ -199,6 +199,33 @@ The active-low state of a GPIO can also be queried using the following call:
Note that these functions should only be used with great moderation ; a driver
should not have to care about the physical line level.
+
+Set multiple GPIO outputs with a single function call
+-----------------------------------------------------
+The following functions set the output values of an array of GPIOs:
+
+ void gpiod_set_array(unsigned int array_size,
+ struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+ int *value_array)
+ void gpiod_set_raw_array(unsigned int array_size,
+ struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+ int *value_array)
+ void gpiod_set_array_cansleep(unsigned int array_size,
+ struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+ int *value_array)
+ void gpiod_set_raw_array_cansleep(unsigned int array_size,
+ struct gpio_desc **desc_array,
+ int *value_array)
+
+The array can be an arbitrary set of GPIOs. The functions will try to set
+GPIOs belonging to the same bank or chip simultaneously if supported by the
+corresponding chip driver. In that case a significantly improved performance
+can be expected. If simultaneous setting is not possible the GPIOs will be set
+sequentially.
+Note that for optimal performance GPIOs belonging to the same chip should be
+contiguous within the array of descriptors.
+
+
GPIOs mapped to IRQs
--------------------
GPIO lines can quite often be used as IRQs. You can get the IRQ number