Re: [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: sx150x: set multiple pins at once

[Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>]

On 11/22/2016 05:06 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have only tested this on an 8-bit sx1502, so I'm uncertain if
> the there needs to be locking for this to work as intended for
> the bigger chips with an oscio pin? Probably.
> 
> So, I didn't add (or rather, removed) these lines at the end of
> sx150x_gpio_set_multiple() and made the op optional instead.
> 
> 	if (*mask & pctl->oscio_mask)
> 		sx150x_gpio_oscio_set(pctl, *bits & pctl->oscio_mask);
> 
> I mean, what happens if there are two users writing multiple pins
> where one of the pins is the oscio pin, and this happens concurrently?
> I get the feeling that there is nothing stopping interleaving in that
> case, and you could end up with the desired values from user 1 for the
> normal pins, and the desired value for the oscio pin from user 2.
> 
> But for the easy case (no oscio) where the existing regmap locking
> holds, this is a nice speedup and desired behaviour without a lot
> of individual pin changes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> Peter Rosin (2):
>   pinctrl: sx150x: various spelling fixes and some white-space cleanup
>   pinctrl: sx150x: support setting multiple pins at once
> 
>  drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the patch, yes the oscio has a clearly separate register part of the clock management,
but it could be handled by the set_multiple by masking the oscio bit and managing it separately.

Using a simple integer to store the oscio pin number (or -1 for 456 devices) would simplify the process.

Neil