On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kis...@ti.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2014 07:41 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> On 12/18/2014 12:18 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 16 December 2014 02:20 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/2014 02:06 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>>>> The reset values for all the PCF lines are high and hence on shutdown
>>>>> we should drive all the lines high in order to bring it to the reset
>>>>> state.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is actually required since pcf doesn't have a reset line and even
>>>>> after
>>>>> warm reset (by invoking "reboot" in prompt) the pcf lines maintains it's
>>>>> previous programmed state. This becomes a problem if the boards are
>>>>> designed
>>>>> to work with the default initial state.
>>>>>
>>>>> DRA7XX_evm uses PCF8575 and one of the PCF output lines feeds to MMC/SD
>>>>> and
>>>>> this line should be driven high in order for the MMC/SD to be detected.
>>>>> This line is modelled as regulator and the hsmmc driver takes care of
>>>>> enabling
>>>>> and disabling it. In the case of 'reboot', during shutdown path as part
>>>>> of it's
>>>>> cleanup process the hsmmc driver disables this regulator. This makes MMC
>>>>> boot
>>>>> not functional.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixed it by driving high all the pcf lines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kis...@ti.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c
>>>>> index 236708a..00b15b2 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c
>>>>> @@ -448,6 +448,14 @@ static int pcf857x_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
>>>>> return status;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> +static void pcf857x_shutdown(struct i2c_client *client)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + struct pcf857x *gpio = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + /* Drive all the I/O lines high */
>>>>> + gpio->write(gpio->client, BIT(gpio->chip.ngpio) - 1);
>>>>
>>>> you might force a contention here - depending on System configuration.
>>>> example:
>>>> +-------+
>>>> | |
>>>> | U1 | +------+ +-----------+
>>>> | +---------> | | |
>>>> +-------+ | | | |
>>>> | Switch<-----+ SoC |
>>>> +-------+ | | | |
>>>> | | | | | |
>>>> | U2 <---------+--^---+ +-----------+
>>>> | | |
>>>> | | |
>>>> +-------+ |
>>>> +--+--+
>>>> | |
>>>> | PCF |
>>>> | |
>>>> +-----+
>>>>
>>>> At low, SoC pin is connected to U2 as drive. when reset to high, you
>>>> now have U1 driving to the same pin that SoC has, potentially
>>>> resulting in contention.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, at this level, you do not know what the state of the
>>>> system is, blindly forcing a pin level will potentially cause
>>>> contention risk depending on pin configuration.
>>>
>>> Assume we are doing a reset when the system is powered on, irrespective of
>>> the
>>> state of the system, we'll be forcing the pin level to the default state.
>>
>> Yes, I dont deny that system will be fine *after* reset sequence is
>> started or completed. However there is a duration between the pcf
>> shutdown handler is called and the final reset handler is invoked -
>> that is the duration when the contention might cause device behavior.
>> Essentially ignoring the state various drivers have asked PCF to setup
>> the pins and doing a hands down configuration may have side effects we
>> cant properly expect.
>
> The solution might be to invoke the shutdown handler of the various drivers
> using the PCF before the shutdown handler of the PCF driver itself gets
> invoked? But I'm not sure how can that be achieved in linux kernel :-(
#include <linux/reboot.h>
static int foo_reboot_handler(struct notifier_block *this,
unsigned long code,
void *unused)
{
pr_crit("do some last minute stuff\n");
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
static struct notifier_block foo_reboot_notifier = {
.notifier_call = foo_reboot_handler,
};
register_reboot_notifier(&foo_reboot_notifier);
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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