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Subject[PATCH 14/14] IIO: Initial documentation
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>

This needs considerably more work, all comments / suggestions
welcomed.
---
Documentation/iio/device.txt | 49 ++++++++
Documentation/iio/iio_utils.h | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/iio/lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/iio/overview.txt | 62 ++++++++++
Documentation/iio/ring.txt | 62 ++++++++++
Documentation/iio/trigger.txt | 38 +++++++
Documentation/iio/userspace.txt | 60 ++++++++++
7 files changed, 606 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/device.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/iio_utils.h
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/overview.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/ring.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/trigger.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/userspace.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/iio/device.txt b/Documentation/iio/device.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6916cd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/device.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+IIO Device drivers
+
+This is not intended to provide a comprehensive guide to writing an
+IIO device driver. For further information see the drivers within the
+subsystem.
+
+The crucial structure for device drivers in iio is iio_dev.
+
+First allocate one using:
+
+struct iio_dev *indio_dev = iio_allocate_device();
+
+The fill in the following.
+
+indio_dev->dev.parent
+ the struct device associated with the underlying hardware.
+
+indio_dev->num_interrupt_lines
+ number of event triggering hardware lines the device has.
+
+indio_dev->event_attrs
+ attributes used to enable / disable hardware events - note the
+ attributes are embedded in iio_event_attr structures with an
+ associated iio_event_handler which may or may note be shared.
+ If num_interrupt_lines = 0, then no need to fill this in.
+
+indio_dev->attrs
+ general attributes such as polled access to device channels.
+
+indio_dev->dev_data
+ private device specific data.
+
+indio_dev->driver_module
+ typically set to THIS_MODULE. Used to specify ownership of some
+ iio created resources.
+
+indio_dev->modes
+ whether direct access and / or ring buffer access is supported.
+
+Once these are set up, a call to iio_device_register(indio_dev),
+will register the device with the iio core.
+
+Worth noting here is that, if a ring buffer is to be used, it can be
+allocated prior to registering the device with the iio-core, but must
+be registered afterwards (otherwise the whole parentage of devices
+gets confused)
+
+On remove iio_device_unregister(indio_dev) will remove the device from
+the core, and iio_free_device will clean up.
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/iio_utils.h b/Documentation/iio/iio_utils.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2801f86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/iio_utils.h
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/* IIO - useful set of util functionality
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Jonathan Cameron
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#define IIO_EVENT_CODE_RING_50_FULL 200
+#define IIO_EVENT_CODE_RING_75_FULL 201
+#define IIO_EVENT_CODE_RING_100_FULL 202
+
+struct iio_event_data {
+ int id;
+ __s64 timestamp;
+};
+
+
+inline char *find_ring_subelement(const char *directory, const char *subelement)
+{
+ DIR *dp;
+ const struct dirent *ent;
+ int pos;
+ char temp[100];
+ char *returnstring;
+ dp = opendir(directory);
+ if (dp ==NULL) {
+ printf("could not directory: %s\n", directory);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ while (ent = readdir(dp), ent != NULL) {
+ if (strcmp(ent->d_name,".") != 0 &&
+ strcmp(ent->d_name,"..") != 0) {
+ if (strncmp(ent->d_name, subelement, strlen(subelement)) == 0) {
+ int length = sprintf(temp,"%s%s%s", directory, ent->d_name, "/");
+ returnstring = malloc(length+1);
+ strncpy(returnstring, temp, length+1);
+ return returnstring;
+
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
+char *find_type_by_name(const char *name, const char *type)
+{
+ const char *iio_dir = "/sys/class/iio/";
+ const struct dirent *ent;
+ int cnt, pos, pos2;
+
+ FILE *nameFile;
+ DIR *dp;
+ char thisname[100];
+ char temp[100];
+
+ char *returnstring = NULL;
+ struct stat Stat;
+ pos = sprintf(temp,"%s", iio_dir);
+ dp = opendir(iio_dir);
+ if(dp == NULL) {
+ printf("No industrialio devices available");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ while (ent = readdir(dp), ent != NULL) {
+ cnt++;
+ /*reject . and .. */
+ if (strcmp(ent->d_name,".") != 0 &&
+ strcmp(ent->d_name,"..") != 0) {
+ /*make sure it isn't a trigger!*/
+ if(strncmp(ent->d_name,type,strlen(type)) == 0) {
+ /* build full path to new file */
+ pos2 = pos + sprintf(temp+pos,"%s/", ent->d_name);
+ sprintf(temp+pos2, "name");
+ printf("search location %s\n", temp);
+ nameFile = fopen(temp, "r");
+ if (!nameFile) {
+ sprintf(temp + pos2,"modalias", ent->d_name);
+ nameFile = fopen(temp, "r");
+ if(!nameFile) {
+ printf("Failed to find a name for device\n");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ fscanf(nameFile, "%s", thisname);
+ if (strcmp(name, thisname) ==0) {
+ returnstring = malloc(strlen(temp) + 1);
+ sprintf(temp + pos2,"");
+ strcpy(returnstring, temp);
+ return returnstring;
+ }
+ fclose(nameFile);
+
+ }
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+int write_sysfs_int(char *filename, char *basedir, int val)
+{
+ int ret;
+ FILE *sysfsfp;
+ char temp[100];
+ sprintf(temp, "%s%s", basedir, filename);
+ sysfsfp = fopen(temp, "w");
+ if (sysfsfp == NULL) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+ fprintf(sysfsfp, "%d", val);
+ fclose(sysfsfp);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * write_sysfs_string_and_verify() - string write, readback and verify
+ * @filename: name of file to write to
+ * @basedir: the sysfs directory in which the file is to be found
+ * @val: the string to write
+ **/
+int write_sysfs_string_and_verify(char *filename, char *basedir, char *val)
+{
+ int ret;
+ FILE *sysfsfp;
+ char temp[100];
+ sprintf(temp, "%s%s", basedir, filename);
+ sysfsfp = fopen(temp, "w");
+ if (sysfsfp == NULL) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+ fprintf(sysfsfp, "%s", val);
+ fclose(sysfsfp);
+
+ sysfsfp = fopen(temp, "r");
+ if (sysfsfp == NULL) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+ fscanf(sysfsfp, "%s", temp);
+ if (strcmp(temp, val) != 0) {
+ printf("Possible failure in string write %s to %s%s \n",
+ val,
+ basedir,
+ filename);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int read_sysfs_posint(char *filename, char *basedir)
+{
+ int ret;
+ FILE *sysfsfp;
+ char temp[100];
+ sprintf(temp, "%s%s", basedir, filename);
+ sysfsfp = fopen(temp, "r");
+ if (sysfsfp == NULL) {
+ return -1;
+ }
+ fscanf(sysfsfp, "%d\n", &ret);
+ fclose(sysfsfp);
+ return ret;
+}
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c b/Documentation/iio/lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f129dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+/* Industrialio test ring buffer with a lis3l02dq acceleromter
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Jonathan Cameron
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Assumes suitable udev rules are used to create the dev nodes as named here.
+ */
+
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/dir.h>
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include "iio_util.h"
+
+static const char *ring_access = "/dev/iio/lis3l02dq_ring_access";
+static const char *ring_event = "/dev/iio/lis3l02dq_ring_event";
+static const char *device_name = "lis3l02dq";
+static const char *trigger_name = "lis3l02dq-dev0";
+static int NumVals = 3;
+static int scan_ts = 1;
+static int RingLength = 128;
+
+/*
+ * Could get this from ring bps, but only after starting the ring
+ * which is a bit late for it to be useful
+ */
+int size_from_scanmode(int numVals, int timestamp)
+{
+ if (numVals && timestamp)
+ return 16;
+ else if (timestamp)
+ return 8;
+ else
+ return numVals*2;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ int i, j, k, toread;
+ FILE *fp_ev;
+ int fp;
+ char *data;
+ size_t read_size;
+ struct iio_event_data dat;
+
+ char *BaseDirectoryName,
+ *TriggerDirectoryName,
+ *RingBufferDirectoryName;
+
+ BaseDirectoryName = find_type_by_name(device_name, "device");
+ if (BaseDirectoryName == NULL) {
+ printf("Failed to find the %s \n", device_name);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ TriggerDirectoryName = find_type_by_name(trigger_name, "trigger");
+ if (TriggerDirectoryName == NULL) {
+ printf("Failed to find the %s\n", trigger_name);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ RingBufferDirectoryName = find_ring_subelement(BaseDirectoryName,
+ "ring_buffer");
+ if (RingBufferDirectoryName == NULL) {
+ printf("Failed to find ring buffer\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (write_sysfs_string_and_verify("trigger/current_trigger",
+ BaseDirectoryName,
+ (char *)trigger_name) < 0) {
+ printf("Failed to write current_trigger file \n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Setup ring buffer parameters */
+ if (write_sysfs_int("length", RingBufferDirectoryName,
+ RingLength) < 0) {
+ printf("Failed to open the ring buffer length file \n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Enable the ring buffer */
+ if (write_sysfs_int("ring_enable", RingBufferDirectoryName, 1) < 0) {
+ printf("Failed to open the ring buffer control file \n");
+ return -1;
+ };
+
+ data = malloc(size_from_scanmode(NumVals, scan_ts)*RingLength);
+ if (!data) {
+ printf("Could not allocate space for usespace data store\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Attempt to open non blocking the access dev */
+ fp = open(ring_access, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
+ if (fp == -1) { /*If it isn't there make the node */
+ printf("Failed to open %s\n", ring_access);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ /* Attempt to open the event access dev (blocking this time) */
+ fp_ev = fopen(ring_event, "rb");
+ if (fp_ev == NULL) {
+ printf("Failed to open %s\n", ring_event);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Wait for events 10 times */
+ for(j = 0; j < 10; j++)
+ {
+ read_size = fread(&dat, 1, sizeof(struct iio_event_data),
+ fp_ev);
+ switch(dat.id) {
+ case IIO_EVENT_CODE_RING_100_FULL:
+ toread = RingLength;
+ break;
+ case IIO_EVENT_CODE_RING_75_FULL:
+ toread = RingLength*3/4;
+ break;
+ case IIO_EVENT_CODE_RING_50_FULL:
+ toread = RingLength/2;
+ break;
+ default:
+ printf("Unexpecteded event code\n");
+ continue;
+ }
+ read_size = read(fp,
+ data,
+ toread*size_from_scanmode(NumVals, scan_ts));
+ if (read_size == -EAGAIN) {
+ printf("nothing available \n");
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0;
+ i < read_size/size_from_scanmode(NumVals, scan_ts);
+ i++) {
+ for (k = 0; k < NumVals; k++) {
+ __s16 val = *(__s16 *)(&data[i*size_from_scanmode(NumVals, scan_ts)
+ + (k)*2]);
+ printf("%05d ", val);
+ }
+ printf(" %lld\n",
+ *(__s64 *)(&data[(i+1)*size_from_scanmode(NumVals,scan_ts)
+ - sizeof(__s64)]));
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Stop the ring buffer */
+ if (write_sysfs_int("ring_enable", RingBufferDirectoryName, 0) < 0) {
+ printf("Failed to open the ring buffer control file \n");
+ return -1;
+ };
+
+ /* Disconnect from the trigger - writing something that doesn't exist.*/
+ write_sysfs_string_and_verify("trigger/current_trigger",
+ BaseDirectoryName, "NULL");
+ free(BaseDirectoryName);
+ free(TriggerDirectoryName);
+ free(RingBufferDirectoryName);
+ free(data);
+
+ return 0;
+}
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/overview.txt b/Documentation/iio/overview.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c77945
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/overview.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Overview of IIO
+
+The Industrial I/O subsytem is intended to provide support for devices
+that in some sense are analog to digital convertors (ADCs). As many
+actual devices combine some ADCs with digital to analog convertors
+(DACs) the intention is to add that functionality at a future date
+(hence the name).
+
+The aim is to fill the gap between the somewhat similar hwmon and
+input subsystems. Hwmon is very much directed at low sample rate
+sensors used in applications such as fan speed control and temperature
+measurement. Input is, as it's name suggests focused on input
+devices. In some cases there is considerable overlap between these and
+IIO.
+
+A typical device falling into this category would be connected via SPI
+or I2C.
+
+Functionality of IIO
+
+* Basic device registration and handling. This is very similar to
+hwmon with simple polled access to device channels via sysfs.
+
+* Event chrdevs. These are similar to input in that they provide a
+route to user space for hardware triggered events. Such events include
+threshold detectors, free-fall detectors and more complex action
+detection. They events themselves are currently very simple with
+merely an event code and a timestamp. Any data associated with the
+event must be accessed via polling. Note a given device may have one
+or more event channel. These events are turned on or off (if possible)
+via sysfs interfaces.
+
+* Hardware ring buffer support. Some recent sensors have included
+fifo / ring buffers on the sensor chip. These greatly reduce the load
+on the host CPU by buffering relatively large numbers of data samples
+based on an internal sampling clock. Examples include VTI SCA3000
+series and Analog Device ADXL345 accelerometers. Each ring buffer
+typically has an event chrdev (similar to the more general ones above)
+to pass on events such as buffer 50% full and an access chrdev via
+which the raw data it self may be read back.
+
+* Trigger and software ring buffer support. In many data analysis
+applications it it useful to be able to capture data based on some
+external signal (trigger). These triggers might be a data ready
+signal, a gpio line connected to some external system or an on
+processor periodic interrupt. A single trigger many initialize data
+capture or reading from a number of sensors. These triggers are
+used in iio to fill software ring buffers acting in a very similar
+fashion to the hardware buffers described above.
+
+Other documentation:
+
+userspace.txt - overview of ring buffer reading form userspace
+
+device.txt - elemennts of a typical device driver.
+
+trigger.txt - elements of a typical trigger driver.
+
+ring.txt - additional elements required for ring buffer support
+
+
+
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/ring.txt b/Documentation/iio/ring.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e03b3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/ring.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Ring buffer support within IIO
+
+This document is intended as a general overview of the functionality
+a ring buffer may supply and how it is specified within IIO. For more
+specific information on a given ring buffer implementation, see the
+comments in the source code. Note that the intention is to allow
+some drivers to specify ring buffers choice at probe or runtime, but
+for now the selection is hard coded within a given driver.
+
+A given ring buffer implementation typically embedded a struct
+iio_ring_buffer and it is a pointer to this that is provided to the
+IIO core. Access to the embedding structure is typically done via
+container_of functions.
+
+struct iio_ring_buffer contains 4 function pointers
+(preenable, postenable, predisable, postdisable).
+These are used to perform implementation specific steps on either side
+of the core changing it's current mode to indicate that the ring buffer
+is enabled or disabled (along with enabling triggering etc as appropriate).
+
+Also in struct iio_ring_buffer is a struct iio_ring_access_funcs.
+The function pointers within here are used to allow the core to handle
+as much ring buffer functionality as possible. Note almost all of these
+are optional.
+
+mark_in_use, unmark_in_use
+ Basically indicate that not changes should be made to the ring
+ buffer state that will effect the form of the data being captures
+ (e.g. scan elements or length)
+
+store_to
+ If possible, push data to ring buffer.
+
+read_last
+ If possible get the most recent entry from the buffer (without removal).
+ This provides polling like functionality whilst the ring buffering is in
+ use without a separate read from the device.
+
+rip_lots
+ The primary ring buffer reading function. Note that it may well not return
+ as much data as requested. The deadoffset is used to indicate that some
+ initial data in the data array is not guaranteed to be valid.
+
+mark_param_changed
+ Used to indicate that something has changed. Used in conjunction with
+request_update
+ If parameters have changed that require reinitialization or configuration of
+ the ring buffer this will trigger it.
+
+get_bpd, set_bpd
+ Get/set the number of bytes for a given reading (single element, not sample set)
+ The value of bps (bytes per set) is created from a combination of this and the
+ enabled scan elements.
+
+get_length / set_length
+ Get/set the number of sample sets that may be held by the buffer.
+
+is_enabled
+ Query if ring buffer is in use
+enable
+ Start the ring buffer.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/trigger.txt b/Documentation/iio/trigger.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..650157f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/trigger.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+IIO trigger drivers.
+
+Many triggers are provided by hardware that will also be registered as
+an IIO device. Whilst this can create device specific complexities
+such triggers are registered with the core in the same way as
+stand-alone triggers.
+
+struct iio_trig *trig = iio_allocate_trigger();
+
+allocates a trigger structure. The key elements to then fill in within
+a driver are:
+
+trig->control_attrs
+ Any sysfs attributes needed to control parameters of the trigger
+
+trig->private_data
+ Device specific private data.
+
+trig->owner
+ Typically set to THIS_MODULE. Used to ensure correct
+ ownership of core allocated resources.
+
+trig->name
+ A unique name for the trigger.
+
+When these have been set call:
+
+iio_trigger_register(trig);
+
+to register the trigger with the core, making it available to trigger
+consumers.
+
+
+Trigger Consumers
+
+Currently triggers are only used for the filling of software ring
+buffers and as such any device supporting INDIO_RING_TRIGGERED has the
+consumer interface automatically created.
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/userspace.txt b/Documentation/iio/userspace.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d3f264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/iio/userspace.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+Userspace access to IIO
+
+Example, ST Microelectronics LIS3L02DQ accelerometer.
+
+Typical sysfs entries (pruned for clarity)
+
+/sys/class/iio
+ device0 - iio_dev related elements
+ name - driver specific identifier (here lis3l02dq)
+ accel_x - polled (or from ring) raw readout of acceleration
+ accel_x_gain - hardware gain (calibration)
+ accel_x_offset - hardware offset (calibration)
+ available_sampling_frequency
+
+ available_sampling_frequency - what options are there
+ sampling_frequency - control of internal sampling frequency
+ scan_elements - controls which channels will be stored in the ring buffer
+ scan_en_accel_x
+ scan_en_accel_y
+ scan_en_timestamp
+ device - link to underlying hardware device
+ uevent - udev related element
+
+ thresh - unified threshold used for detection on all axis
+ event_line0_sources - which events are enabled
+ accel_x_high - enable x axis high threshold event
+ accel_x_low - enable x axis low threshold event
+
+ event_line0 - event interface
+ dev - major:minor for the chrdev (note major allocation dynamic)
+ trigger - consumer attachement
+ current_trigger - name based association with a trigger
+ ring_buffer0 - ring buffer interface
+ bps - byptes per sample (read only), dependant on scan element selection
+ length - (rw) specificy length fo software ring buffer (typically ro in hw case)
+ ring_enable - turn the ring on. If its the first to be enabled attached to this
+ trigger will also enable the trigger.
+ ring_access0
+ dev - major:minor for ring buffer access chrdev
+ ring_event_line0
+ dev - major:minor for ring buffer event chrdev
+
+ trigger0 - data ready trigger elements
+ name - unqiue name of trigger
+
+Udev will create the following entries under /dev by default:
+
+ring_access0 - ring access chrdev
+ring_event0 - ring event chrdev
+event_line0 - general event chrdev.
+
+For the example code we assume the following rules have been used to ensure
+unique and consistent naming of these for the lis3l02dq in question:
+
+KERNEL="ring_event_line*", ID="spi1.0", DRIVER="lis3l02dq", NAME="iio/lis3l02dq_ring_event"
+KERNEL="event_line*", ID="spi1.0", DRIVER="lis3l02dq", NAME="iio/lis3l02dq_event"
+KERNEL="ring_access*", ID="spi1.0", DRIVER="lis3l02dq", NAME="iio/lis3l02dq_ring_access"
+
+The files, lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c and iio_util.h in this directory provide an example
+of how to use the ring buffer and event interfaces.
--
1.6.2


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