[RFC,v3,3/5] platform/chrome: Introduce device tree hardware prober

Some devices are designed and manufactured with some components having
multiple drop-in replacement options. These components are often
connected to the mainboard via ribbon cables, having the same signals
and pin assignments across all options. These may include the display
panel and touchscreen on laptops and tablets, and the trackpad on
laptops. Sometimes which component option is used in a particular device
can be detected by some firmware provided identifier, other times that
information is not available, and the kernel has to try to probe each
device.

This change attempts to make the "probe each device" case cleaner. The
current approach is to have all options added and enabled in the device
tree. The kernel would then bind each device and run each driver's probe
function. This works, but has been broken before due to the introduction
of asynchronous probing, causing multiple instances requesting "shared"
resources, such as pinmuxes, GPIO pins, interrupt lines, at the same
time, with only one instance succeeding. Work arounds for these include
moving the pinmux to the parent I2C controller, using GPIO hogs or
pinmux settings to keep the GPIO pins in some fixed configuration, and
requesting the interrupt line very late. Such configurations can be seen
on the MT8183 Krane Chromebook tablets, and the Qualcomm sc8280xp-based
Lenovo Thinkpad 13S.

Instead of this delicate dance between drivers and device tree quirks,
this change introduces a simple I2C component prober. For any given
class of devices on the same I2C bus, it will go through all of them,
doing a simple I2C read transfer and see which one of them responds.
It will then enable the device that responds.

This requires some minor modifications in the existing device tree.
The status for all the device nodes for the component options must be
set to "failed-needs-probe". This makes it clear that some mechanism is
needed to enable one of them, and also prevents the prober and device
drivers running at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
---
Changes since v2:
- Addressed Rob's comments
  - Move remaining driver code to drivers/platform/chrome/
  - Depend on rather than select CONFIG_I2C
  - Copy machine check to driver init function
- Addressed Andy's comments
  - Explicitly mention "device tree" or OF in driver name, description
    and Kconfig symbol
  - Drop filename from inside the file
  - Switch to passing "struct device *" to shorten lines
  - Move "ret = 0" to just before for_each_child_of_node(i2c_node, node)
  - Make loop variable size_t (instead of unsigned int as Andy asked)
  - Use PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE instead of raw -1
  - Use standard goto error path pattern in hw_prober_driver_init()

- Changes since v1:
  - New patch
---
 drivers/platform/chrome/Kconfig               | 11 +++
 drivers/platform/chrome/Makefile              |  1 +
 .../platform/chrome/chromeos_of_hw_prober.c   | 89 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_of_hw_prober.c

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 12:45 AM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> @@ -61,6 +61,17 @@ config CHROMEOS_TBMC
>           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
>           module will be called chromeos_tbmc.
>
> +config CHROMEOS_OF_HW_PROBER
> +       bool "ChromeOS Device Tree Hardware Prober"

Any reason that it can't be a module?


> +       depends on OF
> +       depends on I2C
> +       select OF_DYNAMIC
> +       default OF

You probably don't want "default OF". This means that everyone will
automatically get this new driver enabled which is unlikely to be
right.


> +static int chromeos_of_hw_prober_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +{
> +       for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(hw_prober_platforms); i++)
> +               if (of_machine_is_compatible(hw_prober_platforms[i].compatible)) {
> +                       int ret;
> +
> +                       ret = hw_prober_platforms[i].prober(&pdev->dev,
> +                                                           hw_prober_platforms[i].data);
> +                       if (ret)

Should it only check for -EPROBE_DEFER here? ...and then maybe warn
for other cases and go through the loop? If there's some error
enabling the touchscreen I'd still want the trackpad to probe...


> +                               return ret;
> +               }
> +
> +       return 0;

Random thought: once we get here, the driver is useless / just wasting
memory. Any way to have it freed? ;-)

On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 8:58 AM Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 12:45 AM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > @@ -61,6 +61,17 @@ config CHROMEOS_TBMC
> >           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> >           module will be called chromeos_tbmc.
> >
> > +config CHROMEOS_OF_HW_PROBER
> > +       bool "ChromeOS Device Tree Hardware Prober"
>
> Any reason that it can't be a module?

No technical one. However if it's a module, the user has to manually load
it. So I think it's more of a usability thing.

OOTH I think this needs to be a module if I2C is built as a module.
Somehow I had thought of it at one point but then it slipped my mind.

> > +       depends on OF
> > +       depends on I2C
> > +       select OF_DYNAMIC
> > +       default OF
>
> You probably don't want "default OF". This means that everyone will
> automatically get this new driver enabled which is unlikely to be
> right.

I thought this whole section was guarded behind KCONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS.
So if the user has CHROME_PLATFORMS enabled and has OF enabled, they
likely need the prober.

> > +static int chromeos_of_hw_prober_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > +{
> > +       for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(hw_prober_platforms); i++)
> > +               if (of_machine_is_compatible(hw_prober_platforms[i].compatible)) {
> > +                       int ret;
> > +
> > +                       ret = hw_prober_platforms[i].prober(&pdev->dev,
> > +                                                           hw_prober_platforms[i].data);
> > +                       if (ret)
>
> Should it only check for -EPROBE_DEFER here? ...and then maybe warn
> for other cases and go through the loop? If there's some error
> enabling the touchscreen I'd still want the trackpad to probe...

Makes sense. However there's no extra information to give in the
warning though.

> > +                               return ret;
> > +               }
> > +
> > +       return 0;
>
> Random thought: once we get here, the driver is useless / just wasting
> memory. Any way to have it freed? ;-)

I don't think there is a good way to do that, except maybe marking all
the functions as __init? But that likely doesn't work in combination
with deferred probing (say the i2c driver is a module).

ChenYu

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:24 PM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 8:58 AM Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 12:45 AM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > @@ -61,6 +61,17 @@ config CHROMEOS_TBMC
> > >           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> > >           module will be called chromeos_tbmc.
> > >
> > > +config CHROMEOS_OF_HW_PROBER
> > > +       bool "ChromeOS Device Tree Hardware Prober"
> >
> > Any reason that it can't be a module?
>
> No technical one. However if it's a module, the user has to manually load
> it. So I think it's more of a usability thing.

We could probably manually add module aliases. I thought about aliases
against the machine compatibles, but there doesn't seem to be a device
for it to trigger. Or target something common to ChromeOS devices like
the EC? It's really hacky though.

ChenYu

> OOTH I think this needs to be a module if I2C is built as a module.
> Somehow I had thought of it at one point but then it slipped my mind.
>
> > > +       depends on OF
> > > +       depends on I2C
> > > +       select OF_DYNAMIC
> > > +       default OF
> >
> > You probably don't want "default OF". This means that everyone will
> > automatically get this new driver enabled which is unlikely to be
> > right.
>
> I thought this whole section was guarded behind KCONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS.
> So if the user has CHROME_PLATFORMS enabled and has OF enabled, they
> likely need the prober.
>
> > > +static int chromeos_of_hw_prober_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > +{
> > > +       for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(hw_prober_platforms); i++)
> > > +               if (of_machine_is_compatible(hw_prober_platforms[i].compatible)) {
> > > +                       int ret;
> > > +
> > > +                       ret = hw_prober_platforms[i].prober(&pdev->dev,
> > > +                                                           hw_prober_platforms[i].data);
> > > +                       if (ret)
> >
> > Should it only check for -EPROBE_DEFER here? ...and then maybe warn
> > for other cases and go through the loop? If there's some error
> > enabling the touchscreen I'd still want the trackpad to probe...
>
> Makes sense. However there's no extra information to give in the
> warning though.
>
> > > +                               return ret;
> > > +               }
> > > +
> > > +       return 0;
> >
> > Random thought: once we get here, the driver is useless / just wasting
> > memory. Any way to have it freed? ;-)
>
> I don't think there is a good way to do that, except maybe marking all
> the functions as __init? But that likely doesn't work in combination
> with deferred probing (say the i2c driver is a module).
>
> ChenYu