[PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: kernel: add device tree init map function

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Mon Nov 12 12:27:53 EST 2012


On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:34:11PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> When booting through a device tree, the kernel cpu logical id map can be
> initialized using device tree data passed by FW or through an embedded blob.
> 
> This patch adds a function that parses device tree "cpu" nodes and
> retrieves the corresponding CPUs hardware identifiers (MPIDR).
> It sets the possible cpus and the cpu logical map values according to
> the number of CPUs defined in the device tree and respective properties.
> 
> The device tree HW identifiers are considered valid if all CPU nodes contain
> a "reg" property and the DT defines a CPU node that matches the MPIDR[23:0]
> of the boot CPU.
> 
> The primary CPU is assigned cpu logical number 0 to keep the current convention
> valid.
> 
> Current bindings documentation is included in the patch:
> 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h                    |  2 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c                      | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 162 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..83cd98a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
> +* ARM CPUs binding description
> +
> +The device tree allows to describe the layout of CPUs in a system through
> +the "cpus" node, which in turn contains a number of subnodes (ie "cpu")
> +defining properties for every cpu.
> +
> +Bindings for CPU nodes follow the ePAPR standard, available from:
> +
> +http://devicetree.org
> +
> +For the ARM architecture every CPU node must contain the following properties:
> +
> +- reg : property matching the CPU MPIDR[23:0] register bits
> +- compatible: must be set to "arm, <cpu-model>"
> +              where <cpu-model> is the full processor name as used in the
> +              processor Technical Reference Manual, eg:
> +              - for a Cortex A9 processor
> +                compatible = <arm, cortex-a9>;
> +              - for a Cortex A15 processor
> +                compatible = <arm, cortex-a15>;
> +
> +List of possible "compatible" string ids:
> +
> +<arm, arm1020>
> +<arm, arm1020e>
> +<arm, arm1022>
> +<arm, arm1026>
> +<arm, arm720>
> +<arm, arm740>
> +<arm, arm7tdmi>
> +<arm, arm920>
> +<arm, arm922>
> +<arm, arm925>
> +<arm, arm926>
> +<arm, arm940>
> +<arm, arm946>
> +<arm, arm9tdmi>
> +<arm, fa526>
> +<arm, feroceon>
> +<arm, mohawk>
> +<arm, sa110>
> +<arm, sa1100>
> +<arm, xsc3>
> +<arm, xscale>
> +<arm, cortex-a5>
> +<arm, cortex-a7>
> +<arm, cortex-a8>
> +<arm, cortex-a9>
> +<arm, cortex-a15>
> +<arm, arm1136>
> +<arm, arm11-mpcore>
> +
> +Every cpu node is required to set its device_type to "cpu".
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +	cpus {
> +		#size-cells = <0>;
> +		#address-cells = <1>;
> +
> +		CPU0: cpu at 0 {
> +			device_type = "cpu";
> +			compatible = <arm, cortex-a15>;
> +			reg = <0x0>;
> +		};
> +
> +		CPU1: cpu at 1 {
> +			device_type = "cpu";
> +			compatible = <arm, cortex-a15>;
> +			reg = <0x1>;
> +		};
> +
> +		CPU2: cpu at 100 {
> +			device_type = "cpu";
> +			compatible = <arm, cortex-a7>;
> +			reg = <0x100>;
> +		};
> +
> +		CPU3: cpu at 101 {

Should we document the unit address convention as part of the binding
documentation?

Using the MPIDR value here is a bit cumbersome, but I'm not sure if
there's a better alternative, unless we make a multi-element vector
out of the MPIDR to use as the address -- sounds like overkill.

> +			device_type = "cpu";
> +			compatible = <arm, cortex-a7>;
> +			reg = <0x101>;
> +		};
> +	};
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h
> index aeae9c6..8dd51dc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>  
>  extern struct machine_desc *setup_machine_fdt(unsigned int dt_phys);
>  extern void arm_dt_memblock_reserve(void);
> +extern void __init arm_dt_init_cpu_maps(void);
>  
>  #else /* CONFIG_OF */
>  
> @@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ static inline struct machine_desc *setup_machine_fdt(unsigned int dt_phys)
>  }
>  
>  static inline void arm_dt_memblock_reserve(void) { }
> +static inline void arm_dt_init_cpu_maps(void) { }
>  
>  #endif /* CONFIG_OF */
>  #endif /* ASMARM_PROM_H */
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c b/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> index bee7f9d..d64d222 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c
> @@ -19,8 +19,10 @@
>  #include <linux/of_irq.h>
>  #include <linux/of_platform.h>
>  
> +#include <asm/cputype.h>
>  #include <asm/setup.h>
>  #include <asm/page.h>
> +#include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>  #include <asm/mach/arch.h>
>  #include <asm/mach-types.h>
>  
> @@ -61,6 +63,80 @@ void __init arm_dt_memblock_reserve(void)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * arm_dt_init_cpu_maps - Function retrieves cpu nodes from the device tree
> + * and builds the cpu logical map array containing MPIDR values related to
> + * logical cpus
> + *
> + * Updates the cpu possible mask with the number of parsed cpu nodes
> + */

Can this function sanity-check that we do not assign the same MPIDR
value for multiple logical CPUs?

It turns out to be surprisingly easy to write a DT with duplicate reg
properties in the CPUs node due to careless cut-and-paste.  (i.e., I
did it, but have been getting away with it up to now).

> +void __init arm_dt_init_cpu_maps(void)
> +{

[...]

Cheers
---Dave



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