本文将介绍SPI子系统。内核版本为2.6.30。如有错误欢迎指正。
预备知识要求：1.SPI总线
2. platfrom平台
3. sysfs子系统
4. 阅读过LDD3第3，5，6，7，9，10，11章的内容。
NOTE：如果没有看过LDD3的相关内容，直接看内核源码将非常吃力！！！
PC主机：Ubuntu 和 redhat 9.0
目标板：TQ2440开发板 cpu:s3c2440 linux内核:2.6.30
0.引言
本系列文章对Linux设备模型中的SPI子系统进行讲解。SPI子系统的讲解将分为4个部分。
第一部分，即本篇文章，将对SPI子系统整体进行描述，同时给出SPI的相关数据结构，最后描述SPI总线的注册。
第二部分，该文将对SPI的主控制器(master)驱动进行描述。 基于S3C2440的嵌入式Linux驱动——SPI子系统解读（二）
第三部分，该文将对SPI设备驱动，也称protocol 驱动，进行讲解。基于S3C2440的嵌入式Linux驱动——SPI子系统解读（三）
第四部分，通过SPI设备驱动留给用户层的API，我们将从上到下描述数据是如何通过SPI的protocol 驱动，由bitbang中转，最后由master驱动将数据传输出去。
基于S3C2440的嵌入式Linux驱动——SPI子系统解读（四）
1.SPI子系统综述
SPI子系统从上到下分为：spi设备驱动层，核心层和master驱动层。其中master驱动抽象出spi控制器的相关操作，而spi设备驱动层抽象出了用户空间API。
platform_device结构中描述了SPI控制器的相关资源，同时在板级信息中将会添加spi设备的相关信息。master驱动将以platform_driver形式体现出来，也就是说
在主控制器(master)和主控制器驱动将挂载到platform总线上。platform_driver的probe函数中将注册spi_master，同时将会获取在板级信息中添加的spi设备，将该
信息转换成spi_device，然后注册spi_device到spi总线上。spi_driver结构用于描述spi设备驱动，也将挂载到spi总线上。连同spi_driver一起注册的是字符设备，该
字符设备将提供5个API给用户空间。通过API，用户空间可以执行半双工读、半双工写和全双工读写。
2. SPI的相关数据结构
这里将介绍内核所用到的关键数据结构，还有些结构将在用到时加以说明。
2.1 spi_master
该结构用于描述SOC的SPI控制器，S3C2440共有两个SPI控制器。
/**
* struct spi_master - interface to SPI master controller
* @dev: device interface to this driver
* @bus_num: board-specific (and often SOC-specific) identifier for a
* given SPI controller.
* @num_chipselect: chipselects are used to distinguish individual
* SPI slaves, and are numbered from zero to num_chipselects.
* each slave has a chipselect signal, but it's common that not
* every chipselect is connected to a slave.
* @dma_alignment: SPI controller constraint on DMA buffers alignment.
* @setup: updates the device mode and clocking records used by a
* device's SPI controller; protocol code may call this. This
* must fail if an unrecognized or unsupported mode is requested.
* It's always safe to call this unless transfers are pending on
* the device whose settings are being modified.
* @transfer: adds a message to the controller's transfer queue.
* @cleanup: frees controller-specific state
*
* Each SPI master controller can communicate with one or more @spi_device
* children. These make a small bus, sharing MOSI, MISO and SCK signals
* but not chip select signals. Each device may be configured to use a
* different clock rate, since those shared signals are ignored unless
* the chip is selected.
*
* The driver for an SPI controller manages access to those devices through
* a queue of spi_message transactions, copying data between CPU memory and
* an SPI slave device. For each such message it queues, it calls the
* message's completion function when the transaction completes.
*/
struct spi_master {
struct device dev;
/* other than negative (== assign one dynamically), bus_num is fully
* board-specific. usually that simplifies to being SOC-specific.
* example: one SOC has three SPI controllers, numbered 0..2,
* and one board's schematics might show it using SPI-2. software
* would normally use bus_num=2 for that controller.
*/
s16 bus_num;
/* chipselects will be integral to many controllers; some others
* might use board-specific GPIOs.
*/
u16 num_chipselect; //该值不能为0，否则会注册失败
/* some SPI controllers pose alignment requirements on DMAable
* buffers; let protocol drivers know about these requirements.
*/
u16 dma_alignment;
/* Setup mode and clock, etc (spi driver may call many times).
*
* IMPORTANT: this may be called when transfers to another
* device are active. DO NOT UPDATE SHARED REGISTERS in ways
* which could break those transfers.
*/
int (*setup)(struct spi_device *spi);
/* bidirectional bulk transfers
*
* + The transfer() method may not sleep; its main role is
* just to add the message to the queue.
* + For now there's no remove-from-queue operation, or
* any other request management
* + To a given spi_device, message queueing is pure fifo
*
* + The master's main job is to process its message queue,
* selecting a chip then transferring data
* + If there are multiple spi_device children, the i/o queue
* arbitration algorithm is unspecified (round robin, fifo,
* priority, reservations, preemption, etc)
*
* + Chipselect stays active during the entire message
* (unless modified by spi_transfer.cs_change != 0).
* + The message transfers use clock and SPI mode parameters
* previously established by setup() for this device
*/
int (*transfer)(struct spi_device *spi,
struct spi_message *mesg);
/* called on release() to free memory provided by spi_master */
void (*cleanup)(struct spi_device *spi);
};
2.2 spi_device该结构用于描述SPI设备，也就是从设备的相关信息。
NOTE：SPI子系统只支持主模式，也就是说S3C2440的SPI只能工作在master模式，外围设备只能为slave模式。
/**
* struct spi_device - Master side proxy for an SPI slave device
* @dev: Driver model representation of the device.
* @master: SPI controller used with the device.
* @max_speed_hz: Maximum clock rate to be used with this chip
* (on this board); may be changed by the device's driver.
* The spi_transfer.speed_hz can override this for each transfer.
* @chip_select: Chipselect, distinguishing chips handled by @master.
* @mode: The spi mode defines how data is clocked out and in.
* This may be changed by the device's driver.
* The "active low" default for chipselect mode can be overridden
* (by specifying SPI_CS_HIGH) as can the "MSB first" default for
* each word in a transfer (by specifying SPI_LSB_FIRST).
* @bits_per_word: Data transfers involve one or more words; word sizes
* like eight or 12 bits are common. In-memory wordsizes are
* powers of two bytes (e.g. 20 bit samples use 32 bits).
* This may be changed by the device's driver, or left at the
* default (0) indicating protocol words are eight bit bytes.
* The spi_transfer.bits_per_word can override this for each transfer.
* @irq: Negative, or the number passed to request_irq() to receive
* interrupts from this device.
* @controller_state: Controller's runtime state
* @controller_data: Board-specific definitions for controller, such as
* FIFO initialization parameters; from board_info.controller_data
* @modalias: Name of the driver to use with this device, or an alias
* for that name. This appears in the sysfs "modalias" attribute
* for driver coldplugging, and in uevents used for hotplugging
*
* A @spi_device is used to interchange data between an SPI slave
* (usually a discrete chip) and CPU memory.
*
* In @dev, the platform_data is used to hold information about this
* device that's meaningful to the device's protocol driver, but not
* to its controller. One example might be an identifier for a chip
* variant with slightly different functionality; another might be
* information about how this particular board wires the chip's pins.
*/
struct spi_device {
struct device dev;
struct spi_master *master;
u32 max_speed_hz;
u8 chip_select;
u8 mode;
#define SPI_CPHA 0x01 /* clock phase */
#define SPI_CPOL 0x02 /* clock polarity */
#define SPI_MODE_0 (0|0) /* (original MicroWire) */
#define SPI_MODE_1 (0|SPI_CPHA)
#define SPI_MODE_2 (SPI_CPOL|0)
#define SPI_MODE_3 (SPI_CPOL|SPI_CPHA)
#define SPI_CS_HIGH 0x04 /* chipselect active high? */
#define SPI_LSB_FIRST 0x08 /* per-word bits-on-wire */
#define SPI_3WIRE 0x10 /* SI/SO signals shared */
#define SPI_LOOP 0x20 /* loopback mode */
u8 bits_per_word;
int irq;
void *controller_state;
void *controller_data;
char modalias[32];
/*
* likely need more hooks for more protocol options affecting how
* the controller talks to each chip, like:
* - memory packing (12 bit samples into low bits, others zeroed)
* - priority
* - drop chipselect after each word
* - chipselect delays
* - ...
*/
};
2.3 spi_board_info
该结构也是对从设备的描述，只不过它是板级信息，最终该结构的所有信息将复制给spi_device。
* INTERFACE between board init code and SPI infrastructure.
*
* No SPI driver ever sees these SPI device table segments, but
* it's how the SPI core (or adapters that get hotplugged) grows
* the driver model tree.
*
* As a rule, SPI devices can't be probed. Instead, board init code
* provides a table listing the devices which are present, with enough
* information to bind and set up the device's driver. There's basic
* support for nonstatic configurations too; enough to handle adding
* parport adapters, or microcontrollers acting as USB-to-SPI bridges.
*/
/**
* struct spi_board_info - board-specific template for a SPI device
* @modalias: Initializes spi_device.modalias; identifies the driver.
* @platform_data: Initializes spi_device.platform_data; the particular
* data stored there is driver-specific.
* @controller_data: Initializes spi_device.controller_data; some
* controllers need hints about hardware setup, e.g. for DMA.
* @irq: Initializes spi_device.irq; depends on how the board is wired.
* @max_speed_hz: Initializes spi_device.max_speed_hz; based on limits
* from the chip datasheet and board-specific signal quality issues.
* @bus_num: Identifies which spi_master parents the spi_device; unused
* by spi_new_device(), and otherwise depends on board wiring.
* @chip_select: Initializes spi_device.chip_select; depends on how
* the board is wired.
* @mode: Initializes spi_device.mode; based on the chip datasheet, board
* wiring (some devices support both 3WIRE and standard modes), and
* possibly presence of an inverter in the chipselect path.
*
* When adding new SPI devices to the device tree, these structures serve
* as a partial device template. They hold information which can't always
* be determined by drivers. Information that probe() can establish (such
* as the default transfer wordsize) is not included here.
*
* These structures are used in two places. Their primary role is to
* be stored in tables of board-specific device descriptors, which are
* declared early in board initialization and then used (much later) to
* populate a controller's device tree after the that controller's driver
* initializes. A secondary (and atypical) role is as a parameter to
* spi_new_device() call, which happens after those controller drivers
* are active in some dynamic board configuration models.
*/
struct spi_board_info {
/* the device name and module name are coupled, like platform_bus;
* "modalias" is normally the driver name.
*
* platform_data goes to spi_device.dev.platform_data,
* controller_data goes to spi_device.controller_data,
* irq is copied too
*/
char modalias[32];
const void *platform_data;
void *controller_data;
int irq;
/* slower signaling on noisy or low voltage boards */
u32 max_speed_hz;
/* bus_num is board specific and matches the bus_num of some
* spi_master that will probably be registered later.
*
* chip_select reflects how this chip is wired to that master;
* it's less than num_chipselect.
*/
u16 bus_num;
u16 chip_select;
/* mode becomes spi_device.mode, and is essential for chips
* where the default of SPI_CS_HIGH = 0 is wrong.
*/
u8 mode;
/* ... may need additional spi_device chip config data here.
* avoid stuff protocol drivers can set; but include stuff
* needed to behave without being bound to a driver:
* - quirks like clock rate mattering when not selected
*/
};
2.4 spi_driver
该结构用于描述SPI设备驱动。
驱动核心将根据driver.name和spi_board_info 的modalias进行匹配，如过modalia和name相等，则绑定驱动程序和SPI设备。
/**
* struct spi_driver - Host side "protocol" driver
* @probe: Binds this driver to the spi device. Drivers can verify
* that the device is actually present, and may need to configure
* characteristics (such as bits_per_word) which weren't needed for
* the initial configuration done during system setup.
* @remove: Unbinds this driver from the spi device
* @shutdown: Standard shutdown callback used during system state
* transitions such as powerdown/halt and kexec
* @suspend: Standard suspend callback used during system state transitions
* @resume: Standard resume callback used during system state transitions
* @driver: SPI device drivers should initialize the name and owner
* field of this structure.
*
* This represents the kind of device driver that uses SPI messages to
* interact with the hardware at the other end of a SPI link. It's called
* a "protocol" driver because it works through messages rather than talking
* directly to SPI hardware (which is what the underlying SPI controller
* driver does to pass those messages). These protocols are defined in the
* specification for the device(s) supported by the driver.
*
* As a rule, those device protocols represent the lowest level interface
* supported by a driver, and it will support upper level interfaces too.
* Examples of such upper levels include frameworks like MTD, networking,
* MMC, RTC, filesystem character device nodes, and hardware monitoring.
*/
struct spi_driver {
int (*probe)(struct spi_device *spi);
int (*remove)(struct spi_device *spi);
void (*shutdown)(struct spi_device *spi);
int (*suspend)(struct spi_device *spi, pm_message_t mesg);
int (*resume)(struct spi_device *spi);
struct device_driver driver;
};
2.5 spi_transfer
该数据结构是对一次完整的数据传输的描述。
/*
* I/O INTERFACE between SPI controller and protocol drivers
*
* Protocol drivers use a queue of spi_messages, each transferring data
* between the controller and memory buffers.
*
* The spi_messages themselves consist of a series of read+write transfer
* segments. Those segments always read the same number of bits as they
* write; but one or the other is easily ignored by passing a null buffer
* pointer. (This is unlike most types of I/O API, because SPI hardware
* is full duplex.)
*
* NOTE: Allocation of spi_transfer and spi_message memory is entirely
* up to the protocol driver, which guarantees the integrity of both (as
* well as the data buffers) for as long as the message is queued.
*/
/**
* struct spi_transfer - a read/write buffer pair
* @tx_buf: data to be written (dma-safe memory), or NULL
* @rx_buf: data to be read (dma-safe memory), or NULL
* @tx_dma: DMA address of tx_buf, if @spi_message.is_dma_mapped
* @rx_dma: DMA address of rx_buf, if @spi_message.is_dma_mapped
* @len: size of rx and tx buffers (in bytes)
* @speed_hz: Select a speed other than the device default for this
* transfer. If 0 the default (from @spi_device) is used.
* @bits_per_word: select a bits_per_word other than the device default
* for this transfer. If 0 the default (from @spi_device) is used.
* @cs_change: affects chipselect after this transfer completes
* @delay_usecs: microseconds to delay after this transfer before
* (optionally) changing the chipselect status, then starting
* the next transfer or completing this @spi_message.
* @transfer_list: transfers are sequenced through @spi_message.transfers
*
* SPI transfers always write the same number of bytes as they read.
* Protocol drivers should always provide @rx_buf and/or @tx_buf.
* In some cases, they may also want to provide DMA addresses for
* the data being transferred; that may reduce overhead, when the
* underlying driver uses dma.
*
* If the transmit buffer is null, zeroes will be shifted out
* while filling @rx_buf. If the receive buffer is null, the data
* shifted in will be discarded. Only "len" bytes shift out (or in).
* It's an error to try to shift out a partial word. (For example, by
* shifting out three bytes with word size of sixteen or twenty bits;
* the former uses two bytes per word, the latter uses four bytes.)
*
* In-memory data values are always in native CPU byte order, translated
* from the wire byte order (big-endian except with SPI_LSB_FIRST). So
* for example when bits_per_word is sixteen, buffers are 2N bytes long
* (@len = 2N) and hold N sixteen bit words in CPU byte order.
*
* When the word size of the SPI transfer is not a power-of-two multiple
* of eight bits, those in-memory words include extra bits. In-memory
* words are always seen by protocol drivers as right-justified, so the
* undefined (rx) or unused (tx) bits are always the most significant bits.
*
* All SPI transfers start with the relevant chipselect active. Normally
* it stays selected until after the last transfer in a message. Drivers
* can affect the chipselect signal using cs_change.
*
* (i) If the transfer isn't the last one in the message, this flag is
* used to make the chipselect briefly go inactive in the middle of the
* message. Toggling chipselect in this way may be needed to terminate
* a chip command, letting a single spi_message perform all of group of
* chip transactions together.
*
* (ii) When the transfer is the last one in the message, the chip may
* stay selected until the next transfer. On multi-device SPI busses
* with nothing blocking messages going to other devices, this is just
* a performance hint; starting a message to another device deselects
* this one. But in other cases, this can be used to ensure correctness.
* Some devices need protocol transactions to be built from a series of
* spi_message submissions, where the content of one message is determined
* by the results of previous messages and where the whole transaction
* ends when the chipselect goes intactive.
*
* The code that submits an spi_message (and its spi_transfers)
* to the lower layers is responsible for managing its memory.
* Zero-initialize every field you don't set up explicitly, to
* insulate against future API updates. After you submit a message
* and its transfers, ignore them until its completion callback.
*/
struct spi_transfer {
/* it's ok if tx_buf == rx_buf (right?)
* for MicroWire, one buffer must be null
* buffers must work with dma_*map_single() calls, unless
* spi_message.is_dma_mapped reports a pre-existing mapping
*/
const void *tx_buf;
void *rx_buf;
unsigned len;
dma_addr_t tx_dma;
dma_addr_t rx_dma;
unsigned cs_change:1;
u8 bits_per_word;
u16 delay_usecs;
u32 speed_hz;
struct list_head transfer_list;
};
2.6 spi_message
该结构就是对多个spi_transfer的封装。
/**
* struct spi_message - one multi-segment SPI transaction
* @transfers: list of transfer segments in this transaction
* @spi: SPI device to which the transaction is queued
* @is_dma_mapped: if true, the caller provided both dma and cpu virtual
* addresses for each transfer buffer
* @complete: called to report transaction completions
* @context: the argument to complete() when it's called
* @actual_length: the total number of bytes that were transferred in all
* successful segments
* @status: zero for success, else negative errno
* @queue: for use by whichever driver currently owns the message
* @state: for use by whichever driver currently owns the message
*
* A @spi_message is used to execute an atomic sequence of data transfers,
* each represented by a struct spi_transfer. The sequence is "atomic"
* in the sense that no other spi_message may use that SPI bus until that
* sequence completes. On some systems, many such sequences can execute as
* as single programmed DMA transfer. On all systems, these messages are
* queued, and might complete after transactions to other devices. Messages
* sent to a given spi_device are alway executed in FIFO order.
*
* The code that submits an spi_message (and its spi_transfers)
* to the lower layers is responsible for managing its memory.
* Zero-initialize every field you don't set up explicitly, to
* insulate against future API updates. After you submit a message
* and its transfers, ignore them until its completion callback.
*/
struct spi_message {
struct list_head transfers;
struct spi_device *spi;
unsigned is_dma_mapped:1;
/* REVISIT: we might want a flag affecting the behavior of the
* last transfer ... allowing things like "read 16 bit length L"
* immediately followed by "read L bytes". Basically imposing
* a specific message scheduling algorithm.
*
* Some controller drivers (message-at-a-time queue processing)
* could provide that as their default scheduling algorithm. But
* others (with multi-message pipelines) could need a flag to
* tell them about such special cases.
*/
/* completion is reported through a callback */
void (*complete)(void *context);
void *context;
unsigned actual_length;
int status;
/* for optional use by whatever driver currently owns the
* spi_message ... between calls to spi_async and then later
* complete(), that's the spi_master controller driver.
*/
struct list_head queue;
void *state;
};
2.7 spi_bitbang
struct spi_bitbang {
struct workqueue_struct *workqueue;
struct work_struct work;
spinlock_t lock;
struct list_head queue;
u8 busy;
u8 use_dma;
u8 flags; /* extra spi->mode support */
struct spi_master *master;
/* setup_transfer() changes clock and/or wordsize to match settings
* for this transfer; zeroes restore defaults from spi_device.
*/
int (*setup_transfer)(struct spi_device *spi,
struct spi_transfer *t);
void (*chipselect)(struct spi_device *spi, int is_on);
#define BITBANG_CS_ACTIVE 1 /* normally nCS, active low */
#define BITBANG_CS_INACTIVE 0
/* txrx_bufs() may handle dma mapping for transfers that don't
* already have one (transfer.{tx,rx}_dma is zero), or use PIO
*/
int (*txrx_bufs)(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_transfer *t);
/* txrx_word[SPI_MODE_*]() just looks like a shift register */
u32 (*txrx_word[4])(struct spi_device *spi,
unsigned nsecs,
u32 word, u8 bits);
};
3. 注册SPI总线
下列函数位于drivers/spi/spi.c中。
struct bus_type spi_bus_type = {
.name = "spi",
.dev_attrs = spi_dev_attrs,
.match = spi_match_device,
.uevent = spi_uevent,
.suspend = spi_suspend,
.resume = spi_resume,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_bus_type);
static struct class spi_master_class = {
.name = "spi_master",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.dev_release = spi_master_release,
};
/* portable code must never pass more than 32 bytes */
#define SPI_BUFSIZ max(32,SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
static u8 *buf;
static int __init spi_init(void)
{
int status;
buf = kmalloc(SPI_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf) {
status = -ENOMEM;
goto err0;
}
status = bus_register(&spi_bus_type); /*注册SPI总线*/
if (status < 0)
goto err1;
status = class_register(&spi_master_class);/*注册SPI类*/
if (status < 0)
goto err2;
return 0;
err2:
bus_unregister(&spi_bus_type);
err1:
kfree(buf);
buf = NULL;
err0:
return status;
}
/* board_info is normally registered in arch_initcall(),
* but even essential drivers wait till later
*
* REVISIT only boardinfo really needs static linking. the rest (device and
* driver registration) _could_ be dynamically linked (modular) ... costs
* include needing to have boardinfo data structures be much more public.
*/
postcore_initcall(spi_init);
spi_init函数注册SPI总线以及SPI类到内核中。该函数在内核初始化的postcore_initcall阶段被调用。
顺便看看下总线的匹配函数。
下列函数位于drivers/spi/spi.c中。
/* modalias support makes "modprobe $MODALIAS" new-style hotplug work,
* and the sysfs version makes coldplug work too.
*/
static int spi_match_device(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
{
const struct spi_device *spi = to_spi_device(dev);
return strcmp(spi->modalias, drv->name) == 0;
}
从这里我们可以看出，SPI设备和驱动的匹配是通过device的modalias字段和driver的name字段，这两个字段相等则绑定设备和驱动。