i2c: gpio: fault-injector: add 'lose_arbitration' injector

Add a fault injector simulating 'arbitration lost' from multi-master
setups. Read the docs for its usage.

A helper function for future fault injectors using SCL interrupts is
created to achieve this.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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@@ -83,3 +83,28 @@ This is why bus recovery (up to 9 clock pulses) must either check SDA or send
additional STOP conditions to ensure the bus has been released. Otherwise
random data will be written to a device!
Lost arbitration
================
Here, we want to simulate the condition where the master under test loses the
bus arbitration against another master in a multi-master setup.
"lose_arbitration"
------------------
This file is write only and you need to write the duration of the arbitration
intereference (in µs, maximum is 100ms). The calling process will then sleep
and wait for the next bus clock. The process is interruptible, though.
Arbitration lost is achieved by waiting for SCL going down by the master under
test and then pulling SDA low for some time. So, the I2C address sent out
should be corrupted and that should be detected properly. That means that the
address sent out should have a lot of '1' bits to be able to detect corruption.
There doesn't need to be a device at this address because arbitration lost
should be detected beforehand. Also note, that SCL going down is monitored
using interrupts, so the interrupt latency might cause the first bits to be not
corrupted. A good starting point for using this fault injector on an otherwise
idle bus is:
# echo 200 > lose_arbitration &
# i2cget -y <bus_to_test> 0x3f