1 PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem
2 This document outlines the pin control subsystem in Linux
4 This subsystem deals with:
6 - Enumerating and naming controllable pins
8 - Multiplexing of pins, pads, fingers (etc) see below for details
10 - Configuration of pins, pads, fingers (etc), such as software-controlled
11 biasing and driving mode specific pins, such as pull-up/down, open drain,
17 Definition of PIN CONTROLLER:
19 - A pin controller is a piece of hardware, usually a set of registers, that
20 can control PINs. It may be able to multiplex, bias, set load capacitance,
21 set drive strength etc for individual pins or groups of pins.
25 - PINS are equal to pads, fingers, balls or whatever packaging input or
26 output line you want to control and these are denoted by unsigned integers
27 in the range 0..maxpin. This numberspace is local to each PIN CONTROLLER, so
28 there may be several such number spaces in a system. This pin space may
29 be sparse - i.e. there may be gaps in the space with numbers where no
32 When a PIN CONTROLLER is instantiated, it will register a descriptor to the
33 pin control framework, and this descriptor contains an array of pin descriptors
34 describing the pins handled by this specific pin controller.
36 Here is an example of a PGA (Pin Grid Array) chip seen from underneath:
56 To register a pin controller and name all the pins on this package we can do
59 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
61 const struct pinctrl_pin_desc foo_pins[] = {
66 PINCTRL_PIN(61, "F1"),
67 PINCTRL_PIN(62, "G1"),
68 PINCTRL_PIN(63, "H1"),
71 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
74 .npins = ARRAY_SIZE(foo_pins),
79 int __init foo_probe(void)
81 struct pinctrl_dev *pctl;
83 pctl = pinctrl_register(&foo_desc, <PARENT>, NULL);
85 pr_err("could not register foo pin driver\n");
88 To enable the pinctrl subsystem and the subgroups for PINMUX and PINCONF and
89 selected drivers, you need to select them from your machine's Kconfig entry,
90 since these are so tightly integrated with the machines they are used on.
91 See for example arch/arm/mach-u300/Kconfig for an example.
93 Pins usually have fancier names than this. You can find these in the dataheet
94 for your chip. Notice that the core pinctrl.h file provides a fancy macro
95 called PINCTRL_PIN() to create the struct entries. As you can see I enumerated
96 the pins from 0 in the upper left corner to 63 in the lower right corner.
97 This enumeration was arbitrarily chosen, in practice you need to think
98 through your numbering system so that it matches the layout of registers
99 and such things in your driver, or the code may become complicated. You must
100 also consider matching of offsets to the GPIO ranges that may be handled by
103 For a padring with 467 pads, as opposed to actual pins, I used an enumeration
104 like this, walking around the edge of the chip, which seems to be industry
105 standard too (all these pads had names, too):
119 Many controllers need to deal with groups of pins, so the pin controller
120 subsystem has a mechanism for enumerating groups of pins and retrieving the
121 actual enumerated pins that are part of a certain group.
123 For example, say that we have a group of pins dealing with an SPI interface
124 on { 0, 8, 16, 24 }, and a group of pins dealing with an I2C interface on pins
127 These two groups are presented to the pin control subsystem by implementing
128 some generic pinctrl_ops like this:
130 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
134 const unsigned int *pins;
135 const unsigned num_pins;
138 static const unsigned int spi0_pins[] = { 0, 8, 16, 24 };
139 static const unsigned int i2c0_pins[] = { 24, 25 };
141 static const struct foo_group foo_groups[] = {
145 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_pins),
150 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_pins),
155 static int foo_list_groups(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector)
157 if (selector >= ARRAY_SIZE(foo_groups))
162 static const char *foo_get_group_name(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
165 return foo_groups[selector].name;
168 static int foo_get_group_pins(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
169 unsigned ** const pins,
170 unsigned * const num_pins)
172 *pins = (unsigned *) foo_groups[selector].pins;
173 *num_pins = foo_groups[selector].num_pins;
177 static struct pinctrl_ops foo_pctrl_ops = {
178 .list_groups = foo_list_groups,
179 .get_group_name = foo_get_group_name,
180 .get_group_pins = foo_get_group_pins,
184 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
186 .pctlops = &foo_pctrl_ops,
189 The pin control subsystem will call the .list_groups() function repeatedly
190 beginning on 0 until it returns non-zero to determine legal selectors, then
191 it will call the other functions to retrieve the name and pins of the group.
192 Maintaining the data structure of the groups is up to the driver, this is
193 just a simple example - in practice you may need more entries in your group
194 structure, for example specific register ranges associated with each group
201 Pins can sometimes be software-configured in an various ways, mostly related
202 to their electronic properties when used as inputs or outputs. For example you
203 may be able to make an output pin high impedance, or "tristate" meaning it is
204 effectively disconnected. You may be able to connect an input pin to VDD or GND
205 using a certain resistor value - pull up and pull down - so that the pin has a
206 stable value when nothing is driving the rail it is connected to, or when it's
209 For example, a platform may do this:
211 ret = pin_config_set("foo-dev", "FOO_GPIO_PIN", PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP);
213 To pull up a pin to VDD. The pin configuration driver implements callbacks for
214 changing pin configuration in the pin controller ops like this:
216 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
217 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinconf.h>
218 #include "platform_x_pindefs.h"
220 static int foo_pin_config_get(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
222 unsigned long *config)
224 struct my_conftype conf;
226 ... Find setting for pin @ offset ...
228 *config = (unsigned long) conf;
231 static int foo_pin_config_set(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
233 unsigned long config)
235 struct my_conftype *conf = (struct my_conftype *) config;
238 case PLATFORM_X_PULL_UP:
244 static int foo_pin_config_group_get (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
246 unsigned long *config)
251 static int foo_pin_config_group_set (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
253 unsigned long config)
258 static struct pinconf_ops foo_pconf_ops = {
259 .pin_config_get = foo_pin_config_get,
260 .pin_config_set = foo_pin_config_set,
261 .pin_config_group_get = foo_pin_config_group_get,
262 .pin_config_group_set = foo_pin_config_group_set,
265 /* Pin config operations are handled by some pin controller */
266 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
268 .confops = &foo_pconf_ops,
271 Since some controllers have special logic for handling entire groups of pins
272 they can exploit the special whole-group pin control function. The
273 pin_config_group_set() callback is allowed to return the error code -EAGAIN,
274 for groups it does not want to handle, or if it just wants to do some
275 group-level handling and then fall through to iterate over all pins, in which
276 case each individual pin will be treated by separate pin_config_set() calls as
280 Interaction with the GPIO subsystem
281 ===================================
283 The GPIO drivers may want to perform operations of various types on the same
284 physical pins that are also registered as pin controller pins.
286 Since the pin controller subsystem have its pinspace local to the pin
287 controller we need a mapping so that the pin control subsystem can figure out
288 which pin controller handles control of a certain GPIO pin. Since a single
289 pin controller may be muxing several GPIO ranges (typically SoCs that have
290 one set of pins but internally several GPIO silicon blocks, each modeled as
291 a struct gpio_chip) any number of GPIO ranges can be added to a pin controller
294 struct gpio_chip chip_a;
295 struct gpio_chip chip_b;
297 static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range_a = {
306 static struct pinctrl_gpio_range gpio_range_b = {
316 struct pinctrl_dev *pctl;
318 pinctrl_add_gpio_range(pctl, &gpio_range_a);
319 pinctrl_add_gpio_range(pctl, &gpio_range_b);
322 So this complex system has one pin controller handling two different
323 GPIO chips. "chip a" has 16 pins and "chip b" has 8 pins. The "chip a" and
324 "chip b" have different .pin_base, which means a start pin number of the
327 The GPIO range of "chip a" starts from the GPIO base of 32 and actual
328 pin range also starts from 32. However "chip b" has different starting
329 offset for the GPIO range and pin range. The GPIO range of "chip b" starts
330 from GPIO number 48, while the pin range of "chip b" starts from 64.
332 We can convert a gpio number to actual pin number using this "pin_base".
333 They are mapped in the global GPIO pin space at:
336 - GPIO range : [32 .. 47]
337 - pin range : [32 .. 47]
339 - GPIO range : [48 .. 55]
340 - pin range : [64 .. 71]
342 When GPIO-specific functions in the pin control subsystem are called, these
343 ranges will be used to look up the appropriate pin controller by inspecting
344 and matching the pin to the pin ranges across all controllers. When a
345 pin controller handling the matching range is found, GPIO-specific functions
346 will be called on that specific pin controller.
348 For all functionalities dealing with pin biasing, pin muxing etc, the pin
349 controller subsystem will subtract the range's .base offset from the passed
350 in gpio number, and add the ranges's .pin_base offset to retrive a pin number.
351 After that, the subsystem passes it on to the pin control driver, so the driver
352 will get an pin number into its handled number range. Further it is also passed
353 the range ID value, so that the pin controller knows which range it should
359 These calls use the pinmux_* naming prefix. No other calls should use that
366 PINMUX, also known as padmux, ballmux, alternate functions or mission modes
367 is a way for chip vendors producing some kind of electrical packages to use
368 a certain physical pin (ball, pad, finger, etc) for multiple mutually exclusive
369 functions, depending on the application. By "application" in this context
370 we usually mean a way of soldering or wiring the package into an electronic
371 system, even though the framework makes it possible to also change the function
374 Here is an example of a PGA (Pin Grid Array) chip seen from underneath:
378 8 | o | o o o o o o o
380 7 | o | o o o o o o o
382 6 | o | o o o o o o o
384 5 | o | o | o o o o o o
386 4 o o o o o o | o | o
388 3 o o o o o o | o | o
390 2 o o o o o o | o | o
391 +-------+-------+-------+---+---+
392 1 | o o | o o | o o | o | o |
393 +-------+-------+-------+---+---+
395 This is not tetris. The game to think of is chess. Not all PGA/BGA packages
396 are chessboard-like, big ones have "holes" in some arrangement according to
397 different design patterns, but we're using this as a simple example. Of the
398 pins you see some will be taken by things like a few VCC and GND to feed power
399 to the chip, and quite a few will be taken by large ports like an external
400 memory interface. The remaining pins will often be subject to pin multiplexing.
402 The example 8x8 PGA package above will have pin numbers 0 thru 63 assigned to
403 its physical pins. It will name the pins { A1, A2, A3 ... H6, H7, H8 } using
404 pinctrl_register_pins() and a suitable data set as shown earlier.
406 In this 8x8 BGA package the pins { A8, A7, A6, A5 } can be used as an SPI port
407 (these are four pins: CLK, RXD, TXD, FRM). In that case, pin B5 can be used as
408 some general-purpose GPIO pin. However, in another setting, pins { A5, B5 } can
409 be used as an I2C port (these are just two pins: SCL, SDA). Needless to say,
410 we cannot use the SPI port and I2C port at the same time. However in the inside
411 of the package the silicon performing the SPI logic can alternatively be routed
412 out on pins { G4, G3, G2, G1 }.
414 On the botton row at { A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, H1 } we have something
415 special - it's an external MMC bus that can be 2, 4 or 8 bits wide, and it will
416 consume 2, 4 or 8 pins respectively, so either { A1, B1 } are taken or
417 { A1, B1, C1, D1 } or all of them. If we use all 8 bits, we cannot use the SPI
418 port on pins { G4, G3, G2, G1 } of course.
420 This way the silicon blocks present inside the chip can be multiplexed "muxed"
421 out on different pin ranges. Often contemporary SoC (systems on chip) will
422 contain several I2C, SPI, SDIO/MMC, etc silicon blocks that can be routed to
423 different pins by pinmux settings.
425 Since general-purpose I/O pins (GPIO) are typically always in shortage, it is
426 common to be able to use almost any pin as a GPIO pin if it is not currently
427 in use by some other I/O port.
433 The purpose of the pinmux functionality in the pin controller subsystem is to
434 abstract and provide pinmux settings to the devices you choose to instantiate
435 in your machine configuration. It is inspired by the clk, GPIO and regulator
436 subsystems, so devices will request their mux setting, but it's also possible
437 to request a single pin for e.g. GPIO.
441 - FUNCTIONS can be switched in and out by a driver residing with the pin
442 control subsystem in the drivers/pinctrl/* directory of the kernel. The
443 pin control driver knows the possible functions. In the example above you can
444 identify three pinmux functions, one for spi, one for i2c and one for mmc.
446 - FUNCTIONS are assumed to be enumerable from zero in a one-dimensional array.
447 In this case the array could be something like: { spi0, i2c0, mmc0 }
448 for the three available functions.
450 - FUNCTIONS have PIN GROUPS as defined on the generic level - so a certain
451 function is *always* associated with a certain set of pin groups, could
452 be just a single one, but could also be many. In the example above the
453 function i2c is associated with the pins { A5, B5 }, enumerated as
454 { 24, 25 } in the controller pin space.
456 The Function spi is associated with pin groups { A8, A7, A6, A5 }
457 and { G4, G3, G2, G1 }, which are enumerated as { 0, 8, 16, 24 } and
458 { 38, 46, 54, 62 } respectively.
460 Group names must be unique per pin controller, no two groups on the same
461 controller may have the same name.
463 - The combination of a FUNCTION and a PIN GROUP determine a certain function
464 for a certain set of pins. The knowledge of the functions and pin groups
465 and their machine-specific particulars are kept inside the pinmux driver,
466 from the outside only the enumerators are known, and the driver core can:
468 - Request the name of a function with a certain selector (>= 0)
469 - A list of groups associated with a certain function
470 - Request that a certain group in that list to be activated for a certain
473 As already described above, pin groups are in turn self-descriptive, so
474 the core will retrieve the actual pin range in a certain group from the
477 - FUNCTIONS and GROUPS on a certain PIN CONTROLLER are MAPPED to a certain
478 device by the board file, device tree or similar machine setup configuration
479 mechanism, similar to how regulators are connected to devices, usually by
480 name. Defining a pin controller, function and group thus uniquely identify
481 the set of pins to be used by a certain device. (If only one possible group
482 of pins is available for the function, no group name need to be supplied -
483 the core will simply select the first and only group available.)
485 In the example case we can define that this particular machine shall
486 use device spi0 with pinmux function fspi0 group gspi0 and i2c0 on function
487 fi2c0 group gi2c0, on the primary pin controller, we get mappings
491 {"map-spi0", spi0, pinctrl0, fspi0, gspi0},
492 {"map-i2c0", i2c0, pinctrl0, fi2c0, gi2c0}
495 Every map must be assigned a symbolic name, pin controller and function.
496 The group is not compulsory - if it is omitted the first group presented by
497 the driver as applicable for the function will be selected, which is
498 useful for simple cases.
500 The device name is present in map entries tied to specific devices. Maps
501 without device names are referred to as SYSTEM pinmuxes, such as can be taken
502 by the machine implementation on boot and not tied to any specific device.
504 It is possible to map several groups to the same combination of device,
505 pin controller and function. This is for cases where a certain function on
506 a certain pin controller may use different sets of pins in different
509 - PINS for a certain FUNCTION using a certain PIN GROUP on a certain
510 PIN CONTROLLER are provided on a first-come first-serve basis, so if some
511 other device mux setting or GPIO pin request has already taken your physical
512 pin, you will be denied the use of it. To get (activate) a new setting, the
513 old one has to be put (deactivated) first.
515 Sometimes the documentation and hardware registers will be oriented around
516 pads (or "fingers") rather than pins - these are the soldering surfaces on the
517 silicon inside the package, and may or may not match the actual number of
518 pins/balls underneath the capsule. Pick some enumeration that makes sense to
519 you. Define enumerators only for the pins you can control if that makes sense.
523 We assume that the number of possible function maps to pin groups is limited by
524 the hardware. I.e. we assume that there is no system where any function can be
525 mapped to any pin, like in a phone exchange. So the available pins groups for
526 a certain function will be limited to a few choices (say up to eight or so),
527 not hundreds or any amount of choices. This is the characteristic we have found
528 by inspecting available pinmux hardware, and a necessary assumption since we
529 expect pinmux drivers to present *all* possible function vs pin group mappings
536 The pinmux core takes care of preventing conflicts on pins and calling
537 the pin controller driver to execute different settings.
539 It is the responsibility of the pinmux driver to impose further restrictions
540 (say for example infer electronic limitations due to load etc) to determine
541 whether or not the requested function can actually be allowed, and in case it
542 is possible to perform the requested mux setting, poke the hardware so that
545 Pinmux drivers are required to supply a few callback functions, some are
546 optional. Usually the enable() and disable() functions are implemented,
547 writing values into some certain registers to activate a certain mux setting
550 A simple driver for the above example will work by setting bits 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4
551 into some register named MUX to select a certain function with a certain
552 group of pins would work something like this:
554 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
555 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinmux.h>
559 const unsigned int *pins;
560 const unsigned num_pins;
563 static const unsigned spi0_0_pins[] = { 0, 8, 16, 24 };
564 static const unsigned spi0_1_pins[] = { 38, 46, 54, 62 };
565 static const unsigned i2c0_pins[] = { 24, 25 };
566 static const unsigned mmc0_1_pins[] = { 56, 57 };
567 static const unsigned mmc0_2_pins[] = { 58, 59 };
568 static const unsigned mmc0_3_pins[] = { 60, 61, 62, 63 };
570 static const struct foo_group foo_groups[] = {
572 .name = "spi0_0_grp",
574 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_0_pins),
577 .name = "spi0_1_grp",
579 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_1_pins),
584 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_pins),
587 .name = "mmc0_1_grp",
589 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_1_pins),
592 .name = "mmc0_2_grp",
594 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_2_pins),
597 .name = "mmc0_3_grp",
599 .num_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_3_pins),
604 static int foo_list_groups(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector)
606 if (selector >= ARRAY_SIZE(foo_groups))
611 static const char *foo_get_group_name(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
614 return foo_groups[selector].name;
617 static int foo_get_group_pins(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
618 unsigned ** const pins,
619 unsigned * const num_pins)
621 *pins = (unsigned *) foo_groups[selector].pins;
622 *num_pins = foo_groups[selector].num_pins;
626 static struct pinctrl_ops foo_pctrl_ops = {
627 .list_groups = foo_list_groups,
628 .get_group_name = foo_get_group_name,
629 .get_group_pins = foo_get_group_pins,
632 struct foo_pmx_func {
634 const char * const *groups;
635 const unsigned num_groups;
638 static const char * const spi0_groups[] = { "spi0_1_grp" };
639 static const char * const i2c0_groups[] = { "i2c0_grp" };
640 static const char * const mmc0_groups[] = { "mmc0_1_grp", "mmc0_2_grp",
643 static const struct foo_pmx_func foo_functions[] = {
646 .groups = spi0_groups,
647 .num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(spi0_groups),
651 .groups = i2c0_groups,
652 .num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(i2c0_groups),
656 .groups = mmc0_groups,
657 .num_groups = ARRAY_SIZE(mmc0_groups),
661 int foo_list_funcs(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector)
663 if (selector >= ARRAY_SIZE(foo_functions))
668 const char *foo_get_fname(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector)
670 return foo_functions[selector].name;
673 static int foo_get_groups(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
674 const char * const **groups,
675 unsigned * const num_groups)
677 *groups = foo_functions[selector].groups;
678 *num_groups = foo_functions[selector].num_groups;
682 int foo_enable(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
685 u8 regbit = (1 << selector + group);
687 writeb((readb(MUX)|regbit), MUX)
691 void foo_disable(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned selector,
694 u8 regbit = (1 << selector + group);
696 writeb((readb(MUX) & ~(regbit)), MUX)
700 struct pinmux_ops foo_pmxops = {
701 .list_functions = foo_list_funcs,
702 .get_function_name = foo_get_fname,
703 .get_function_groups = foo_get_groups,
704 .enable = foo_enable,
705 .disable = foo_disable,
708 /* Pinmux operations are handled by some pin controller */
709 static struct pinctrl_desc foo_desc = {
711 .pctlops = &foo_pctrl_ops,
712 .pmxops = &foo_pmxops,
715 In the example activating muxing 0 and 1 at the same time setting bits
716 0 and 1, uses one pin in common so they would collide.
718 The beauty of the pinmux subsystem is that since it keeps track of all
719 pins and who is using them, it will already have denied an impossible
720 request like that, so the driver does not need to worry about such
721 things - when it gets a selector passed in, the pinmux subsystem makes
722 sure no other device or GPIO assignment is already using the selected
723 pins. Thus bits 0 and 1 in the control register will never be set at the
726 All the above functions are mandatory to implement for a pinmux driver.
729 Pinmux interaction with the GPIO subsystem
730 ==========================================
732 The public pinmux API contains two functions named pinmux_request_gpio()
733 and pinmux_free_gpio(). These two functions shall *ONLY* be called from
734 gpiolib-based drivers as part of their gpio_request() and
735 gpio_free() semantics. Likewise the pinmux_gpio_direction_[input|output]
736 shall only be called from within respective gpio_direction_[input|output]
737 gpiolib implementation.
739 NOTE that platforms and individual drivers shall *NOT* request GPIO pins to be
740 muxed in. Instead, implement a proper gpiolib driver and have that driver
741 request proper muxing for its pins.
743 The function list could become long, especially if you can convert every
744 individual pin into a GPIO pin independent of any other pins, and then try
745 the approach to define every pin as a function.
747 In this case, the function array would become 64 entries for each GPIO
748 setting and then the device functions.
750 For this reason there are two functions a pinmux driver can implement
751 to enable only GPIO on an individual pin: .gpio_request_enable() and
752 .gpio_disable_free().
754 This function will pass in the affected GPIO range identified by the pin
755 controller core, so you know which GPIO pins are being affected by the request
758 If your driver needs to have an indication from the framework of whether the
759 GPIO pin shall be used for input or output you can implement the
760 .gpio_set_direction() function. As described this shall be called from the
761 gpiolib driver and the affected GPIO range, pin offset and desired direction
762 will be passed along to this function.
764 Alternatively to using these special functions, it is fully allowed to use
765 named functions for each GPIO pin, the pinmux_request_gpio() will attempt to
766 obtain the function "gpioN" where "N" is the global GPIO pin number if no
767 special GPIO-handler is registered.
770 Pinmux board/machine configuration
771 ==================================
773 Boards and machines define how a certain complete running system is put
774 together, including how GPIOs and devices are muxed, how regulators are
775 constrained and how the clock tree looks. Of course pinmux settings are also
778 A pinmux config for a machine looks pretty much like a simple regulator
779 configuration, so for the example array above we want to enable i2c and
780 spi on the second function mapping:
782 #include <linux/pinctrl/machine.h>
784 static const struct pinmux_map __initdata pmx_mapping[] = {
786 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
788 .dev_name = "foo-spi.0",
791 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
793 .dev_name = "foo-i2c.0",
796 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
798 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
802 The dev_name here matches to the unique device name that can be used to look
803 up the device struct (just like with clockdev or regulators). The function name
804 must match a function provided by the pinmux driver handling this pin range.
806 As you can see we may have several pin controllers on the system and thus
807 we need to specify which one of them that contain the functions we wish
808 to map. The map can also use struct device * directly, so there is no
809 inherent need to use strings to specify .dev_name or .ctrl_dev_name, these
810 are for the situation where you do not have a handle to the struct device *,
811 for example if they are not yet instantiated or cumbersome to obtain.
813 You register this pinmux mapping to the pinmux subsystem by simply:
815 ret = pinmux_register_mappings(pmx_mapping, ARRAY_SIZE(pmx_mapping));
817 Since the above construct is pretty common there is a helper macro to make
818 it even more compact which assumes you want to use pinctrl-foo and position
819 0 for mapping, for example:
821 static struct pinmux_map __initdata pmx_mapping[] = {
822 PINMUX_MAP("I2CMAP", "pinctrl-foo", "i2c0", "foo-i2c.0"),
829 As it is possible to map a function to different groups of pins an optional
830 .group can be specified like this:
834 .name = "spi0-pos-A",
835 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
837 .group = "spi0_0_grp",
838 .dev_name = "foo-spi.0",
841 .name = "spi0-pos-B",
842 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
844 .group = "spi0_1_grp",
845 .dev_name = "foo-spi.0",
849 This example mapping is used to switch between two positions for spi0 at
850 runtime, as described further below under the heading "Runtime pinmuxing".
852 Further it is possible to match several groups of pins to the same function
853 for a single device, say for example in the mmc0 example above, where you can
854 additively expand the mmc0 bus from 2 to 4 to 8 pins. If we want to use all
855 three groups for a total of 2+2+4 = 8 pins (for an 8-bit MMC bus as is the
856 case), we define a mapping like this:
861 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
863 .group = "mmc0_1_grp",
864 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
868 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
870 .group = "mmc0_1_grp",
871 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
875 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
877 .group = "mmc0_2_grp",
878 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
882 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
884 .group = "mmc0_1_grp",
885 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
889 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
891 .group = "mmc0_2_grp",
892 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
896 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
898 .group = "mmc0_3_grp",
899 .dev_name = "foo-mmc.0",
903 The result of grabbing this mapping from the device with something like
904 this (see next paragraph):
906 pmx = pinmux_get(&device, "8bit");
908 Will be that you activate all the three bottom records in the mapping at
909 once. Since they share the same name, pin controller device, funcion and
910 device, and since we allow multiple groups to match to a single device, they
911 all get selected, and they all get enabled and disable simultaneously by the
915 Pinmux requests from drivers
916 ============================
918 Generally it is discouraged to let individual drivers get and enable pinmuxes.
919 So if possible, handle the pinmuxes in platform code or some other place where
920 you have access to all the affected struct device * pointers. In some cases
921 where a driver needs to switch between different mux mappings at runtime
922 this is not possible.
924 A driver may request a certain mux to be activated, usually just the default
927 #include <linux/pinctrl/pinmux.h>
936 /* Allocate a state holder named "state" etc */
939 pmx = pinmux_get(&device, NULL);
949 pinmux_disable(state->pmx);
950 pinmux_put(state->pmx);
953 If you want to grab a specific mux mapping and not just the first one found for
954 this device you can specify a specific mapping name, for example in the above
955 example the second i2c0 setting: pinmux_get(&device, "spi0-pos-B");
957 This get/enable/disable/put sequence can just as well be handled by bus drivers
958 if you don't want each and every driver to handle it and you know the
959 arrangement on your bus.
961 The semantics of the get/enable respective disable/put is as follows:
963 - pinmux_get() is called in process context to reserve the pins affected with
964 a certain mapping and set up the pinmux core and the driver. It will allocate
965 a struct from the kernel memory to hold the pinmux state.
967 - pinmux_enable()/pinmux_disable() is quick and can be called from fastpath
968 (irq context) when you quickly want to set up/tear down the hardware muxing
969 when running a device driver. Usually it will just poke some values into a
972 - pinmux_disable() is called in process context to tear down the pin requests
973 and release the state holder struct for the mux setting.
975 Usually the pinmux core handled the get/put pair and call out to the device
976 drivers bookkeeping operations, like checking available functions and the
977 associated pins, whereas the enable/disable pass on to the pin controller
978 driver which takes care of activating and/or deactivating the mux setting by
979 quickly poking some registers.
981 The pins are allocated for your device when you issue the pinmux_get() call,
982 after this you should be able to see this in the debugfs listing of all pins.
985 System pinmux hogging
986 =====================
988 A system pinmux map entry, i.e. a pinmux setting that does not have a device
989 associated with it, can be hogged by the core when the pin controller is
990 registered. This means that the core will attempt to call pinmux_get() and
991 pinmux_enable() on it immediately after the pin control device has been
994 This is enabled by simply setting the .hog_on_boot field in the map to true,
999 .ctrl_dev_name = "pinctrl-foo",
1000 .function = "power_func",
1001 .hog_on_boot = true,
1004 Since it may be common to request the core to hog a few always-applicable
1005 mux settings on the primary pin controller, there is a convenience macro for
1008 PINMUX_MAP_PRIMARY_SYS_HOG("POWERMAP", "power_func")
1010 This gives the exact same result as the above construction.
1016 It is possible to mux a certain function in and out at runtime, say to move
1017 an SPI port from one set of pins to another set of pins. Say for example for
1018 spi0 in the example above, we expose two different groups of pins for the same
1019 function, but with different named in the mapping as described under
1020 "Advanced mapping" above. So we have two mappings named "spi0-pos-A" and
1023 This snippet first muxes the function in the pins defined by group A, enables
1024 it, disables and releases it, and muxes it in on the pins defined by group B:
1030 /* Enable on position A */
1031 pmx = pinmux_get(&device, "spi0-pos-A");
1033 return PTR_ERR(pmx);
1036 /* This releases the pins again */
1037 pinmux_disable(pmx);
1040 /* Enable on position B */
1041 pmx = pinmux_get(&device, "spi0-pos-B");
1043 return PTR_ERR(pmx);
1048 The above has to be done from process context.