acrn-hypervisor/doc/developer-guides/hld/virtio-gpio.rst

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.. _virtio-gpio:
Virtio-GPIO
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virtio-gpio provides a virtual GPIO controller, which will map part of
native GPIOs to User VM, User VM can perform GPIO operations through it,
including setting values, including set/get value, set/get direction and
set configuration (only Open Source and Open Drain types are currently
supported). GPIOs quite often be used as IRQs, typically for wakeup
events, virtio-gpio supports level and edge interrupt trigger modes.
The virtio-gpio architecture is shown below
.. figure:: images/virtio-gpio-1.png
:align: center
:name: virtio-gpio-1
Virtio-gpio Architecture
Virtio-gpio is implemented as a virtio legacy device in the ACRN device
model (DM), and is registered as a PCI virtio device to the guest OS. No
changes are required in the frontend Linux virtio-gpio except that the
guest (User VM) kernel should be built with ``CONFIG_VIRTIO_GPIO=y``.
There are three virtqueues used between FE and BE, one for gpio
operations, one for IRQ request and one for IRQ event notification.
Virtio-gpio FE driver will register a gpiochip and irqchip when it is
probed, the base and number of gpio are generated by the BE. Each
gpiochip or irqchip operation(e.g. get_direction of gpiochip or
irq_set_type of irqchip) will trigger a virtqueue_kick on its own
virtqueue. If some gpio has been set to interrupt mode, the interrupt
events will be handled within the IRQ virtqueue callback.
GPIO Mapping
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.. figure:: images/virtio-gpio-2.png
:align: center
:name: virtio-gpio-2
GPIO mapping
- Each User VM has only one GPIO chip instance, its number of GPIO is
based on acrn-dm command line and GPIO base always start from 0.
- Each GPIO is exclusive, User VM can't map the same native gpio.
- Each acrn-dm maximum number of GPIO is 64.
Usage
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Add the following parameters into the command line::
-s <slot>,virtio-gpio,<@controller_name{offset|name[=mapping_name]:offset|name[=mapping_name]:...}@controller_name{...}...]>
- **controller_name**: Input ``ls /sys/bus/gpio/devices`` to check native
gpio controller information. Usually, the devices represent the
controller_name, you can use it as controller_name directly. You can
also input ``cat /sys/bus/gpio/device/XXX/dev`` to get device id that can
be used to match /dev/XXX, then use XXX as the controller_name. On MRB
and Intel NUC platforms, the controller_name are gpiochip0, gpiochip1,
gpiochip2.gpiochip3.
- **offset|name**: you can use gpio offset or its name to locate one
native gpio within the gpio controller.
- **mapping_name**: This is optional, if you want to use a customized
name for a FE gpio, you can set a new name for a FE virtual gpio.
Example
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- Map three native gpio to User VM, they are native gpiochip0 with
offset of 1 and 6, and with the name ``reset``. In User VM, the three
gpio has no name, and base from 0.::
-s 10,virtio-gpio,@gpiochip0{1:6:reset}
- Map four native gpio to User VM, native gpiochip0's gpio with offset 1
and offset 6 map to FE virtual gpio with offset 0 and offset 1
without names, native gpiochip0's gpio with name ``reset`` maps to FE
virtual gpio with offset 2 and its name is ``shutdown``, native
gpiochip1's gpio with offset 0 maps to FE virtual gpio with offset 3 and
its name is ``reset`` ::
-s 10,virtio-gpio,@gpiochip0{1:6:reset=shutdown}@gpiochip1{0=reset}