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gpiolib: Avoid calling chip->request() for unused gpios

Message ID 1533626118-26583-1-git-send-email-biju.das@bp.renesas.com
State New
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Series gpiolib: Avoid calling chip->request() for unused gpios | expand

Commit Message

Biju Das Aug. 7, 2018, 7:15 a.m. UTC 
Add a check for unused gpios to avoid chip->request() call to client
driver for unused gpios.

Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@bp.renesas.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Geert Uytterhoeven Aug. 7, 2018, 7:52 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Biju,

Thanks for your patch!

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:21 AM Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com> wrote:
> Add a check for unused gpios to avoid chip->request() call to client
> driver for unused gpios.

"... so not every driver has to do this in its chip->request() callback."

Note that currently no driver seems to check for this.
I was mistaken in my earlier report about msm_pinmux_request
(this is pinmux_ops.request(), not gpio_chip.request()).

> Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com>
> Reviewed-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@bp.renesas.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Linus Walleij Aug. 10, 2018, 9:06 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:21 AM Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com> wrote:

> Add a check for unused gpios to avoid chip->request() call to client
> driver for unused gpios.
>
> Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com>
> Reviewed-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@bp.renesas.com>

Patch applied with Geert's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 20fe531..1ffe17b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -2261,6 +2261,7 @@  static int gpiod_request_commit(struct gpio_desc *desc, const char *label)
 	struct gpio_chip	*chip = desc->gdev->chip;
 	int			status;
 	unsigned long		flags;
+	unsigned		offset;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
 
@@ -2279,7 +2280,11 @@  static int gpiod_request_commit(struct gpio_desc *desc, const char *label)
 	if (chip->request) {
 		/* chip->request may sleep */
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);
-		status = chip->request(chip, gpio_chip_hwgpio(desc));
+		offset = gpio_chip_hwgpio(desc);
+		if (gpiochip_line_is_valid(chip, offset))
+			status = chip->request(chip, offset);
+		else
+			status = -EINVAL;
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);
 
 		if (status < 0) {