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-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/firmware/other_interfaces.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst79
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/index.rst1
8 files changed, 164 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/other_interfaces.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/other_interfaces.rst
index b81794e0cfbb..06ac89adaafb 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/other_interfaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/other_interfaces.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ EDD Interfaces
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/firmware/edd.c
:internal:
+Generic System Framebuffers Interface
+-------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/firmware/sysfb.c
+ :export:
+
Intel Stratix10 SoC Service Layer
---------------------------------
Some features of the Intel Stratix10 SoC require a level of privilege
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst
index 4e3adf31c8d1..b33aa04f213f 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/board.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This document explains how GPIOs can be assigned to given devices and functions.
Note that it only applies to the new descriptor-based interface. For a
description of the deprecated integer-based GPIO interface please refer to
-gpio-legacy.txt (actually, there is no real mapping possible with the old
+legacy.rst (actually, there is no real mapping possible with the old
interface; you just fetch an integer from somewhere and request the
corresponding GPIO).
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
index 47869ca8ccf0..72bcf5f5e3a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/consumer.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GPIO Descriptor Consumer Interface
This document describes the consumer interface of the GPIO framework. Note that
it describes the new descriptor-based interface. For a description of the
-deprecated integer-based GPIO interface please refer to gpio-legacy.txt.
+deprecated integer-based GPIO interface please refer to legacy.rst.
Guidelines for GPIOs consumers
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ whether the line is configured active high or active low (see
The two last flags are used for use cases where open drain is mandatory, such
as I2C: if the line is not already configured as open drain in the mappings
-(see board.txt), then open drain will be enforced anyway and a warning will be
+(see board.rst), then open drain will be enforced anyway and a warning will be
printed that the board configuration needs to be updated to match the use case.
Both functions return either a valid GPIO descriptor, or an error code checkable
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ driven.
The same is applicable for open drain or open source output lines: those do not
actively drive their output high (open drain) or low (open source), they just
switch their output to a high impedance value. The consumer should not need to
-care. (For details read about open drain in driver.txt.)
+care. (For details read about open drain in driver.rst.)
With this, all the gpiod_set_(array)_value_xxx() functions interpret the
parameter "value" as "asserted" ("1") or "de-asserted" ("0"). The physical line
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst
index 2e924fb5b3d5..c9c19243b97f 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/gpio/intro.rst
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ Due to the history of GPIO interfaces in the kernel, there are two different
ways to obtain and use GPIOs:
- The descriptor-based interface is the preferred way to manipulate GPIOs,
- and is described by all the files in this directory excepted gpio-legacy.txt.
+ and is described by all the files in this directory excepted legacy.rst.
- The legacy integer-based interface which is considered deprecated (but still
- usable for compatibility reasons) is documented in gpio-legacy.txt.
+ usable for compatibility reasons) is documented in legacy.rst.
The remainder of this document applies to the new descriptor-based interface.
-gpio-legacy.txt contains the same information applied to the legacy
+legacy.rst contains the same information applied to the legacy
integer-based interface.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..153f3233c100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+============================================
+The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE)
+============================================
+
+:Author: Dipen Patel
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Certain devices have built in hardware timestamping engines which can
+monitor sets of system signals, lines, buses etc... in realtime for state
+change; upon detecting the change they can automatically store the timestamp at
+the moment of occurrence. Such functionality may help achieve better accuracy
+in obtaining timestamps than using software counterparts i.e. ktime and
+friends.
+
+This document describes the API that can be used by hardware timestamping
+engine provider and consumer drivers that want to use the hardware timestamping
+engine (HTE) framework. Both consumers and providers must include
+``#include <linux/hte.h>``.
+
+The HTE framework APIs for the providers
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/hte/hte.c
+ :functions: devm_hte_register_chip hte_push_ts_ns
+
+The HTE framework APIs for the consumers
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/hte/hte.c
+ :functions: hte_init_line_attr hte_ts_get hte_ts_put devm_hte_request_ts_ns hte_request_ts_ns hte_enable_ts hte_disable_ts of_hte_req_count hte_get_clk_src_info
+
+The HTE framework public structures
+-----------------------------------
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/hte.h
+
+More on the HTE timestamp data
+------------------------------
+The ``struct hte_ts_data`` is used to pass timestamp details between the
+consumers and the providers. It expresses timestamp data in nanoseconds in
+u64. An example of the typical timestamp data life cycle, for the GPIO line is
+as follows::
+
+ - Monitors GPIO line change.
+ - Detects the state change on GPIO line.
+ - Converts timestamps in nanoseconds.
+ - Stores GPIO raw level in raw_level variable if the provider has that
+ hardware capability.
+ - Pushes this hte_ts_data object to HTE subsystem.
+ - HTE subsystem increments seq counter and invokes consumer provided callback.
+ Based on callback return value, the HTE core invokes secondary callback in
+ the thread context.
+
+HTE subsystem debugfs attributes
+--------------------------------
+HTE subsystem creates debugfs attributes at ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/``.
+It also creates line/signal-related debugfs attributes at
+``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/<label or line id>/``. Note that these
+attributes are read-only.
+
+`ts_requested`
+ The total number of entities requested from the given provider,
+ where entity is specified by the provider and could represent
+ lines, GPIO, chip signals, buses etc...
+ The attribute will be available at
+ ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/``.
+
+`total_ts`
+ The total number of entities supported by the provider.
+ The attribute will be available at
+ ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/``.
+
+`dropped_timestamps`
+ The dropped timestamps for a given line.
+ The attribute will be available at
+ ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/<label or line id>/``.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9f43301c05dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============================================
+The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE)
+============================================
+
+The HTE Subsystem
+=================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ hte
+
+HTE Tegra Provider
+==================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ tegra194-hte
+
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..41983e04d2a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra194-hte.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+HTE Kernel provider driver
+==========================
+
+Description
+-----------
+The Nvidia tegra194 HTE provider driver implements two GTE
+(Generic Timestamping Engine) instances: 1) GPIO GTE and 2) LIC
+(Legacy Interrupt Controller) IRQ GTE. Both GTE instances get the
+timestamp from the system counter TSC which has 31.25MHz clock rate, and the
+driver converts clock tick rate to nanoseconds before storing it as timestamp
+value.
+
+GPIO GTE
+--------
+
+This GTE instance timestamps GPIO in real time. For that to happen GPIO
+needs to be configured as input. The always on (AON) GPIO controller instance
+supports timestamping GPIOs in real time and it has 39 GPIO lines. The GPIO GTE
+and AON GPIO controller are tightly coupled as it requires very specific bits
+to be set in GPIO config register before GPIO GTE can be used, for that GPIOLIB
+adds two optional APIs as below. The GPIO GTE code supports both kernel
+and userspace consumers. The kernel space consumers can directly talk to HTE
+subsystem while userspace consumers timestamp requests go through GPIOLIB CDEV
+framework to HTE subsystem.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+ :functions: gpiod_enable_hw_timestamp_ns gpiod_disable_hw_timestamp_ns
+
+For userspace consumers, GPIO_V2_LINE_FLAG_EVENT_CLOCK_HTE flag must be
+specified during IOCTL calls. Refer to ``tools/gpio/gpio-event-mon.c``, which
+returns the timestamp in nanoseconds.
+
+LIC (Legacy Interrupt Controller) IRQ GTE
+-----------------------------------------
+
+This GTE instance timestamps LIC IRQ lines in real time. There are 352 IRQ
+lines which this instance can add timestamps to in real time. The hte
+devicetree binding described at ``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/``
+provides an example of how a consumer can request an IRQ line. Since it is a
+one-to-one mapping with IRQ GTE provider, consumers can simply specify the IRQ
+number that they are interested in. There is no userspace consumer support for
+this GTE instance in the HTE framework.
+
+The provider source code of both IRQ and GPIO GTE instances is located at
+``drivers/hte/hte-tegra194.c``. The test driver
+``drivers/hte/hte-tegra194-test.c`` demonstrates HTE API usage for both IRQ
+and GPIO GTE.
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
index d76a60d95b58..a6d525cd9fc4 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ available subsections can be seen below.
xilinx/index
xillybus
zorro
+ hte/index
.. only:: subproject and html