Re: [PATCH RFC] gpiolib: ensure that fwnode is properly set

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Wed Nov 16 2022 - 05:48:30 EST


On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 11:21:37AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> > Note that this is a RFC patch and not meant to be merged. I looked into
> > a problem with linux-next-20221110 on the Qualcomm SA8540P automotive
> > board (sc8280xp) where the UFS host controller would fail to probe due
> > to repeated probe deferrals when trying to get reset-gpios via
> > devm_gpiod_get_optional().
> >
> > of_get_named_gpiod_flags() returns -EPROBE_DEFER, which is caused by
> > of_gpiochip_match_node_and_xlate() returning 0 since the of_xlate function
> > pointer is not set for the qcom,sc8280xp-tlmm pinctrl driver. The
> > pinctrl driver doesn't define one, so of_gpiochip_add() should
> > automatically setup of_gpio_simple_xlate() on it's behalf. This doesn't
> > happen since the fwnode member on the struct gpiochip is set to null
> > when of_gpiochip_add() is called. Let's work around this by ensuring
> > that it's set if available.
> >
> > Note that this broke sometime within the last few weeks within
> > linux-next and I haven't bisected this. I'm posting this in the hopes
> > that someone may know offhand which patch(es) may have broken this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > index 11fb7ec883e9..8bec66008869 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> > @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
> > * Assign fwnode depending on the result of the previous calls,
> > * if none of them succeed, assign it to the parent's one.
> > */
> > - gdev->dev.fwnode = dev_fwnode(&gdev->dev) ?: fwnode;
> > + gc->fwnode = gdev->dev.fwnode = dev_fwnode(&gdev->dev) ?: fwnode;
>
> This doesn't look right to me. Looking at the documentation of
> gc->fwnode and how it is used, the purpose of this is to allow
> explicitly overriding the fwnode that the GPIO chip will use.
>
> So really this should not be used beyond the initial registration
> in gpiochip_add_data_with_key(). If the above patch fixes anything,
> then I suspect somebody is using gc->fwnode outside of this
> registration.
>
> Looking at gpiolib, the only remaining place that seems to do this is
> the gpio-reserved-ranges handling code, in which case, the below on top
> of my initial patch might fix that. That might explain why MSM is still
> seeing issues.
>
> --- >8 ---
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index 11fb7ec883e9..d692ad5c5a27 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -447,10 +447,11 @@ static unsigned long *gpiochip_allocate_mask(struct gpio_chip *gc)
>
> static unsigned int gpiochip_count_reserved_ranges(struct gpio_chip *gc)
> {
> + struct fwnode_handle *fwnode = dev_fwnode(&gc->gpiodev->dev);
> int size;
>
> /* Format is "start, count, ..." */
> - size = fwnode_property_count_u32(gc->fwnode, "gpio-reserved-ranges");
> + size = fwnode_property_count_u32(fwnode, "gpio-reserved-ranges");
> if (size > 0 && size % 2 == 0)
> return size;
>
> @@ -471,6 +472,7 @@ static int gpiochip_alloc_valid_mask(struct gpio_chip *gc)
>
> static int gpiochip_apply_reserved_ranges(struct gpio_chip *gc)
> {
> + struct fwnode_handle *fwnode = dev_fwnode(&gc->gpiodev->dev);
> unsigned int size;
> u32 *ranges;
> int ret;
> @@ -483,7 +485,7 @@ static int gpiochip_apply_reserved_ranges(struct gpio_chip *gc)
> if (!ranges)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - ret = fwnode_property_read_u32_array(gc->fwnode, "gpio-reserved-ranges", ranges, size);
> + ret = fwnode_property_read_u32_array(fwnode, "gpio-reserved-ranges", ranges, size);
> if (ret) {
> kfree(ranges);
> return ret;
> --- >8 ---
>
> I don't have a good idea about the Lenovo X13 issue, though, but I
> haven't looked at ACPI at all since I don't have any hardware to test
> on.

Ah... looks like that device was actually a Thinkpad X13*s*, which is
based on a Qualcomm chip, so maybe this patch fixes that one, too. It
does use gpio-reserved-ranges, so seems at least likely.

Thierry

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