Add an ->apply() method to the pwm_ops struct to allow PWM drivers to
implement atomic updates. This method is preferred over the ->enable(),
->disable() and ->config() methods if available.
Add the pwm_apply_state() function to the PWM user API.
Note that the pwm_apply_state() does not guarantee the atomicity of the
update operation, it all depends on the availability and implementation
of the ->apply() method.
pwm_enable/disable/set_polarity/config() are now implemented as wrappers
around the pwm_apply_state() function.
pwm_adjust_config() is allowing smooth handover between the bootloader
and the kernel. This function tries to adapt the current PWM state to
the PWM arguments coming from a PWM lookup table or a DT definition
without changing the duty_cycle/period proportion.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
[thierry.reding@gmail.com: fix a couple of typos]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Add a ->get_state() function to the pwm_ops struct to let PWM drivers
initialize the PWM state attached to a PWM device.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Prepare the transition to PWM atomic update by moving the enabled and
disabled state into the pwm_state struct. This way we can easily update
the whole PWM state by copying the new state in the ->state field.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
The PWM state, represented by its period, duty_cycle and polarity is
currently directly stored in the PWM device. Declare a pwm_state
structure embedding those field so that we can later use this struct
to atomically update all the PWM parameters at once.
All pwm_get_xxx() helpers are now implemented as wrappers around
pwm_get_state().
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Before the introduction of pwm_args, the core was resetting the PWM
period and polarity states to the reference values (those provided
through the DT, a PWM lookup table or hardcoded in the driver).
Now that all PWM users are correctly using pwm_args to configure their
PWM device, we can safely remove the pwm_apply_args() call in pwm_get()
and of_pwm_get().
We can also get rid of the pwm_set_period() call in pwm_apply_args(),
because PWM users are now directly using pargs->period instead of
pwm_get_period(). By doing that we avoid messing with the current PWM
period.
The only remaining bit in pwm_apply_args() is the initial polarity
setting, and it should go away when all PWM users have been patched to
use the atomic API (with this API the polarity will be set along with
other PWM arguments when configuring the PWM).
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
PWM devices are not protected against concurrent accesses. The lock in
struct pwm_device might let PWM users think it is, but it's actually
only protecting the enabled state.
Removing this lock should be fine as long as all PWM users are aware
that accesses to the PWM device have to be serialized, which seems to be
the case for all of them except the sysfs interface. Patch the sysfs
code by adding a lock to the pwm_export struct and making sure it's
taken for all relevant accesses to the exported PWM device.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
pwm_apply_args() is supposed to initialize a PWM device according to the
arguments provided by the DT or the PWM lookup, but this function was
called inside pwm_device_request(), which in turn was called before the
core had a chance to initialize the pwm->args fields.
Fix that by calling pwm_apply_args directly in pwm_get() and of_pwm_get()
after initializing pwm->args field.
This commit also fixes an invalid pointer dereference introduced by
commit e39c0df1be ("pwm: Introduce the pwm_args concept").
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Fixes: e39c0df1be ("pwm: Introduce the pwm_args concept")
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Currently the PWM core mixes the current PWM state with the per-platform
reference config (specified through the PWM lookup table, DT definition
or directly hardcoded in PWM drivers).
Create a struct pwm_args to store this reference configuration, so that
PWM users can differentiate between the current and reference
configurations.
Patch all places where pwm->args should be initialized. We keep the
pwm_set_polarity/period() calls until all PWM users are patched to use
pwm_args instead of pwm_get_period/polarity().
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
[thierry.reding@gmail.com: reword kerneldoc comments]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Commit d1cd214277 ("pwm: Set enable state properly on failed call to
enable") introduced a mutex that is needed to protect internal state of
PWM devices. Since that mutex is acquired in pwm_set_polarity() and in
pwm_enable() and might potentially block, all PWM devices effectively
become "might sleep".
It's rather pointless to keep the .can_sleep field around, but given
that there are external users let's postpone the removal for the next
release cycle.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
When looking up a PWM using the lookup table, assume that all entries
will have been added already, so failure to find a match means that no
corresponding entry has been registered.
This fixes an issue where -EPROBE_DEFER would be returned if the PWM
lookup table is empty. After this fix, -EPROBE_DEFER is reserved for
situations where no provider has yet registered for a matching entry.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
The pwm_enable() function didn't clear the enabled bit if a call to the
driver's ->enable() callback returned an error. The result was that the
state of the PWM core was wrong. Clearing the bit when enable returns
an error ensures the state is properly set.
Tested-by: Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@broadcom.com>
[thierry.reding@gmail.com: add missing kerneldoc for the lock]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Some PWM drivers are testing the PWMF_ENABLED flag. Create a helper
function to hide the logic behind enabled test. This will allow us to
smoothly move from the current approach to an atomic PWM update
approach.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Add a new function to register a PWM chip with channels that have their
initial polarity as specified by an additional parameter. This benefits
drivers of controllers that by default operate with inversed polarity
by removing the need to modify the polarity during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@broadcom.com>
[thierry.reding@gmail.com: export pwmchip_add_with_polarity()]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
In case some drivers are unloading, they can remove lookup tables which
they had registered during their load time to avoid redundant entries if
loaded again.
CC: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
For platforms that don't support DT, some early MFD modules can register
lookup tables. Remove the __init annotation so that this works. This is
similar to gpio_add_lookup_table() which allows late additions.
CC: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
The of_node_put() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
With some versions of gcc (e.g. 4.1.2):
drivers/pwm/core.c: In function ‘pwm_get’:
drivers/pwm/core.c:610: warning: ‘polarity’ may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/pwm/core.c:609: warning: ‘period’ may be used uninitialized in this function
While these are false positives, we can get rid of them by refactoring
the code to store a pointer to the best match, as suggested before by
Thierry Reding. This does require moving the mutex_unlock() down.
Fixes: d717ea73e3 ("pwm: Fix period and polarity in pwm_get() for non-perfect matches")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Since we cannot make sure the 'chip->npwm' will always be none zero here,
and then if either equal to zero, the kzalloc() will return ZERO_SIZE_PTR,
which equals to ((void *)16).
So this patch fix this with just doing the zero check before calling kzalloc().
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <Li.Xiubo@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
If pwm_get() finds a look-up entry with a perfect match (both dev_id and
con_id match), the loop is aborted, and "p" still points to the correct
struct pwm_lookup.
If only an entry with a matching dev_id or con_id is found, the loop
terminates after traversing the whole list, and "p" now points to
arbitrary memory, not part of the pwm_lookup list.
Then pwm_set_period() and pwm_set_polarity() will set random values for
period resp. polarity.
To fix this, save period and polarity when finding a new best match,
just like is done for chip (for the provider) and index.
This fixes the LCD backlight on r8a7740/armadillo-legacy, which was fed
period 0 and polarity -1068821144 instead of 33333 resp. 1.
Fixes: 3796ce1d4d ("pwm: add period and polarity to struct pwm_lookup")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Add period and polarity members to struct pwm_lookup so that platforms
using the lookup table can be treated the same way as those using the
device tree.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
For a constant format without additional arguments, use seq_puts()
instead of seq_printf(). Also, the following checkpatch warning is
fixed.
WARNING: Prefer seq_puts to seq_printf
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Don't redefine a PWM_SPEC_POLARITY macro with a value identical to
PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED, use the PWM DT macro directly.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Add a simple sysfs interface to the generic PWM framework.
/sys/class/pwm/
`-- pwmchipN/ for each PWM chip
|-- export (w/o) ask the kernel to export a PWM channel
|-- npwm (r/o) number of PWM channels in this PWM chip
|-- pwmX/ for each exported PWM channel
| |-- duty_cycle (r/w) duty cycle (in nanoseconds)
| |-- enable (r/w) enable/disable PWM
| |-- period (r/w) period (in nanoseconds)
| `-- polarity (r/w) polarity of PWM (normal/inversed)
`-- unexport (w/o) return a PWM channel to the kernel
Based on work by Lars Poeschel.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
The allocated object should be the size of what the pointer is pointing
to and not the size of the pointer itself.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
A new driver has been added to support the PWM mode of the timer counter
blocks found on Atmel AT91 SoCs. The VT8500 driver now supports changing
the PWM signal polarity and the TI drivers (EHRPWM and ECAP) gained
suspend and resume functionality.
User drivers can now query the core for whether access to a PWM device
will sleep (if the PWM chip is on a slow bus such as I2C or SPI).
The pwm-backlight driver now handles the backlight BL_CORE_FBBLANK state
in addition to the FB layer's blanking states.
To round things off, a few fixes and cleanups are also included.
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Merge tag 'for-3.9-rc1' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm
Pull PWM changes from Thierry Reding:
"A new driver has been added to support the PWM mode of the timer
counter blocks found on Atmel AT91 SoCs. The VT8500 driver now
supports changing the PWM signal polarity and the TI drivers (EHRPWM
and ECAP) gained suspend and resume functionality.
User drivers can now query the core for whether access to a PWM device
will sleep (if the PWM chip is on a slow bus such as I2C or SPI).
The pwm-backlight driver now handles the backlight BL_CORE_FBBLANK
state in addition to the FB layer's blanking states.
To round things off, a few fixes and cleanups are also included"
* tag 'for-3.9-rc1' of git://gitorious.org/linux-pwm/linux-pwm:
pwm: twl: Use to_twl() instead of container_of()
pwm: tegra: assume CONFIG_OF
pwm_backlight: Validate dft_brightness in main probe function
pwm: Export pwm_{set,get}_chip_data()
pwm: Make Kconfig entries more consistent
pwm: Add can_sleep property to drivers
pwm: Add pwm_can_sleep() as exported API to users
pwm-backlight: handle BL_CORE_FBBLANK state
pwm: pwm-tiecap: Low power sleep support
pwm: pwm-tiehrpwm: Low power sleep support
pwm: pwm-tiehrpwm: Update the clock handling of pwm-tiehrpwm driver
pwm: vt8500: Add polarity support
pwm: vt8500: Register write busy test performed incorrectly
pwm: atmel: add Timer Counter Block PWM driver
When booted with DT users can use devm version of of_pwm_get() to benefit
from automatic resource release.
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
Allow client driver to use of_pwm_get() to get the PWM they need. This
is needed for drivers which handle more than one PWM separately, like
leds-pwm driver, which have:
pwmleds {
compatible = "pwm-leds";
kpad {
label = "omap4::keypad";
pwms = <&twl_pwm 0 7812500>;
max-brightness = <127>;
};
charging {
label = "omap4:green:chrg";
pwms = <&twl_pwmled 0 7812500>;
max-brightness = <255>;
};
};
in the dts files.
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
When building a driver as a module, these functions need to be exported
for linking to succeed.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Calls to some external PWM chips can sleep. To help users,
add pwm_can_sleep() API.
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Vaussard <florian.vaussard@epfl.ch>
Reviewed-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Drivers may want to use this function if they support any of the flags
that can be passed via a third cell in the DT specifier. Since those
drivers may be built as modules the symbol needs to be exported to make
sure that it can be accessed.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Add support for encoding PWM properties in bit encoded form with
of_pwm_xlate_with_flags() function support. Platforms require platform
specific PWM properties has to populate in 3rd cell of the pwm-specifier
and PWM driver should also set .of_xlate support with this function.
Currently PWM property polarity encoded in bit position 0 of the third
cell in pwm-specifier.
Signed-off-by: Philip, Avinash <avinashphilip@ti.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Make sure the duty-cycle and period passed in are not negative. This
should eventually be made implicit by making them unsigned. While at
it, the drivers' .config() implementations can have the equivalent
checks removed.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Philip, Avinash" <avinashphilip@ti.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia@ti.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Add resource managed variants of pwm_get() and pwm_put() for
convenience. Code is largely inspired by the equivalent devm functions
of the regulator framework.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Some hardware supports inverting the polarity of the PWM signal. This
commit adds support to the PWM framework to allow users of the PWM API
to configure the polarity. Note that in order to reduce complexity,
changing the polarity of a PWM signal is only allowed while the PWM is
disabled.
A practical example where this can prove useful is to simulate inversion
of the duty cycle. While inversion of polarity and duty cycle are not
exactly the same, the differences for most use-cases are negligible.
Signed-off-by: Philip, Avinash <avinashphilip@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Fixes the following:
WARNING: line over 80 characters
ERROR: spaces required around that ':' (ctx:VxW)
WARNING: Prefer pr_warn(... to pr_warning(...
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Fixes the following sparse warnings:
drivers/pwm/core.c:152:6: warning:
symbol 'of_pwmchip_add' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/pwm/core.c:165:6: warning:
symbol 'of_pwmchip_remove' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Some versions of GCC don't seem no notice that the initialization of the
index variable is tied to that of the chip variable and falsely report
it as potentially being used uninitialized. However, to save anybody
else from tripping over this, we now initialize the index variable
unconditionally.
Originally-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
This patch adds helpers to support device tree bindings for the generic
PWM API. Device tree binding documentation for PWM controllers is also
provided.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
In order to get rid of the global namespace for PWM devices, this commit
provides an alternative method, similar to that of the regulator or
clock frameworks, for registering a static mapping for PWM devices. This
works by providing a table with a provider/consumer map in the board
setup code.
With the new pwm_get() and pwm_put() functions available, usage of
pwm_request() and pwm_free() becomes deprecated.
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
This commit adds a debugfs interface that can be used to list the
current internal state of the PWM devices registered with the PWM
framework.
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Many PWM controllers provide access to more than a single PWM output and
may even share some resource among them. Allowing a PWM chip to provide
multiple PWM devices enables better sharing of those resources. As a
side-effect this change allows easy integration with the device tree
where a given PWM can be looked up based on the PWM chip's phandle and a
corresponding index.
This commit modifies the PWM core to support multiple PWMs per struct
pwm_chip. It achieves this in a similar way to how gpiolib works, by
allowing PWM ranges to be requested dynamically (pwm_chip.base == -1) or
starting at a given offset (pwm_chip.base >= 0). A chip specifies how
many PWMs it controls using the npwm member. Each of the functions in
the pwm_ops structure gets an additional argument that specified the PWM
number (it can be converted to a per-chip index by subtracting the
chip's base).
The total maximum number of PWM devices is currently fixed to 1024 while
the data is actually stored in a radix tree, thus saving resources if
not all of them are used.
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
[eric@eukrea.com: fix error handling in pwmchip_add]
Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric@eukrea.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
This patch adds framework support for PWM (pulse width modulation) devices.
The is a barebone PWM API already in the kernel under include/linux/pwm.h,
but it does not allow for multiple drivers as each of them implements the
pwm_*() functions.
There are other PWM framework patches around from Bill Gatliff. Unlike
his framework this one does not change the existing API for PWMs so that
this framework can act as a drop in replacement for the existing API.
Why another framework?
Several people argue that there should not be another framework for PWMs
but they should be integrated into one of the existing frameworks like led
or hwmon. Unlike these frameworks the PWM framework is agnostic to the
purpose of the PWM. In fact, a PWM can drive a LED, but this makes the
LED framework a user of a PWM, like already done in leds-pwm.c. The gpio
framework also is not suitable for PWMs. Every gpio could be turned into
a PWM using timer based toggling, but on the other hand not every PWM hardware
device can be turned into a gpio due to the lack of hardware capabilities.
This patch does not try to improve the PWM API yet, this could be done in
subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
[thierry.reding@avionic-design.de: fixup typos, kerneldoc comments]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Boris Brezillon