An i2c bus can be divided into segments which can be selectively connected
and disconnected from the main bus. This is usually done to enable using
multiple slave devices having the same address, by isolating the devices
onto separate bus segments, only one of which is connected to the main bus
at once.
There are several types of i2c bus muxes, which break down into two general
categories...
- Muxes which are themselves i2c slaves. These devices respond to i2c
commands on their upstream bus, and based on those commands, connect
various downstream buses to the upstream. In newbus terms, they are both
a child of an iicbus and the parent of one or more iicbus instances.
- Muxes which are not i2c devices themselves. Such devices are part of the
i2c bus electrically, but in newbus terms their parent is some other
bus. The association with the upstream bus must be established by
separate metadata (such as FDT data).
In both cases, the mux driver has one or more iicbus child instances
representing the downstream buses. The mux driver implements the iicbus_if
interface, as if it were an iichb host bridge/i2c controller driver. It
services the IO requests sent to it by forwarding them to the iicbus
instance representing the upstream bus, after electrically connecting the
upstream bus to the downstream bus that hosts the i2c slave device which
made the IO request.
The net effect is automatic mux switching which is transparent to slaves on
the downstream buses. They just do i2c IO they way they normally do, and the
bus is electrically connected for the duration of the IO and then idled when
it is complete.
The existing iicbus_if callback() method is enhanced so that the parameter
passed to it can be a struct which contains a device_t for the requesting
bus and slave devices. This change is done by adding a flag that indicates
the extra values are present, and making the flags field the first field of
a new args struct. If the flag is set, the iichb or mux driver can recast
the pointer-to-flags into a pointer-to-struct and access the extra
fields. Thus abi compatibility with older drivers is retained (but a mux
cannot exist on the bus with the older iicbus driver in use.)
A new set of core support routines exists in iicbus.c. This code will help
implement mux drivers for any type of mux hardware by supplying all the
boilerplate code that forwards IO requests upstream. It also has code for
parsing metadata and instantiating the child iicbus instances based on it.
Two new hardware mux drivers are added. The ltc430x driver supports the
LTC4305/4306 mux chips which are controlled via i2c commands. The
iic_gpiomux driver supports any mux hardware which is controlled by
manipulating the state of one or more gpio pins. Test Plan
Tested locally using a variety of mux'd bus configurations involving both
ltc4305 and a homebrew gpio-controlled mux. Tested configurations included
cascaded muxes (unlikely in the real world, but useful to prove that 'it all
just works' in terms of the automatic switching and upstream forwarding of
IO requests).
Errors are communicated between the i2c controller layer and upper layers
(iicbus and slave device drivers) using a set of IIC_Exxxxxx constants which
effectively define a private number space separate from (and having values
that conflict with) the system errno number space. Sometimes it is necessary
to report a plain old system error (especially EINTR) from the controller or
bus layer and have that value make it back across the syscall interface
intact.
I initially considered replicating a few "crucial" errno values with similar
names and new numbers, e.g., IIC_EINTR, IIC_ERESTART, etc. It seemed like
that had the potential to grow over time until many of the errno names were
duplicated into the IIC_Exxxxx space.
So instead, this defines a mechanism to "encode" an errno into the IIC_Exxxx
space by setting the high bit and putting the errno into the lower-order
bits; a new errno2iic() function does this. The existing iic2errno()
recognizes the encoded values and extracts the original errno out of the
encoded value. An interesting wrinkle occurs with the pseudo-error values
such as ERESTART -- they aleady have the high bit set, and turning it off
would be the wrong thing to do. Instead, iic2errno() recognizes that lots of
high bits are on (i.e., it's a negative number near to zero) and just
returns that value as-is.
Thus, existing drivers continue to work without needing any changes, and
there is now a way to return errno values from the lower layers. The first
use of that is in iicbus_poll() which does mtx_sleep() with the PCATCH flag,
and needs to return the errno from that up the call chain.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20975
The recursive ownership support added in r321584 was unconditionally in
effect all the time -- whenever a given i2c slave device instance tried to
lock the i2c bus for exclusive use when it already owned the bus, the call
returned immediately without waiting. However, many i2c slave drivers use
bus ownership to enforce that only a single thread at a time can be using
the slave device. The recursive locking changes broke this use case.
Now there is a new flag, IIC_RECURSIVE, which can be mixed in with the
other flags passed to iicbus_acquire_bus() to allow drivers to indicate
when recursive locking is desired. Using the flag implies that the driver
is managing concurrent access to the device by different threads in some way.
This immediately fixes all existing i2c slave drivers except for the two
i2c RTC drivers which use the recursive locking feature; those will be
fixed in a followup commit.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
on i2c devices, where the "register" can be any length.
Many (perhaps most) common i2c devices are organized as a collection of
(usually 1-byte-wide) registers, and are accessed by first writing a 1-byte
register index/offset number, then by reading or writing the data.
Generally there is an auto-increment feature so the when multiple bytes
are read or written, multiple contiguous registers are accessed.
Most existing slave device drivers allocate an array of iic_msg structures,
fill in all the transfer info, and invoke iicbus_transfer(). These new
functions commonize all that and reduce register access to a simple call
with a few arguments.
while holding exclusive ownership of the bus. This is the routine most
slave drivers should use unless they have a need to acquire and hold the
bus across a series of related operations that involves multiple transfers.
these functions are thin wrappers around calling the hardware-layer driver,
but some of them do sanity checks and return an error. Since the hardware
layer can only return IIC_Exxxxx status values, the iicbus helper functions
must also adhere to that, so that drivers at higher layers can assume that
any non-zero status value is an IIC_Exxxx value that provides details about
what happened at the hardware layer (sometimes those details are important
for certain slave drivers).
errno values that are at least vaguely equivelent. Also add a new status
value, IIC_ERESOURCE, to indicate a failure to acquire memory or other
required resources to complete a transaction.
The IIC_Exxxxxx values are supposed to communicate low-level details of the
i2c transaction status between the lowest-layer hardware driver and
higher-layer bus protocol and device drivers for slave devices on the bus.
Most of those slave drivers just return all status values from the lower
layers directly to their callers, resulting in crazy error reporting from a
user's point of view (things like timeouts being reported as "no such
process"). Now there's a helper function to make it easier to start
cleaning up all those drivers.
Make it clearer what each one means in the comments that define them.
IIC_BUSBSY was used in many places to mean two different things, either
"someone else has reserved the bus so you have to wait until they're done"
or "the signal level on the bus was not in the state I expected before/after
issuing some command".
Now IIC_BUSERR is used consistantly to refer to protocol/signaling errors,
and IIC_BUSBSY refers to ownership/reservation of the bus.
forcing all transfers to do the start read/write stop by hand. Some
smart bridges prefer this sort of operation, and this allows us to
support their features more easily. When bridges don't support it, we
fall back to using the old-style opertaions. Expand the ioctl
interface to expose this function. Unlike the old-style interface,
this interface is thread safe, even on old bridges.
drivers that implemnt the i2c bit banging bus interface not have to
recompile iicbb in order to add an attachment for it.
This will mean the bktr and other definitions can go back to their
respective drivers.
devices dynamically. That means,
+ only one /dev/iic or /dev/smb device for each smb/iic bus to access
+ I2C/SMB device address must be given to any ioctl
+ new devices may be plugged and accessed after boot, which was
impossible previously (device addresses were hardcoded into
the kernel)
