[PATCH 02/18] arm64: GICv3 device tree binding documentation
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon Feb 17 11:57:11 EST 2014
On 17/02/14 01:21, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:30:34PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Add the necessary documentation to support GICv3.
>>
>> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..93852f6
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
>> +* ARM Generic Interrupt Controller, version 3
>> +
>> +AArch64 SMP cores are often associated with a GICv3, providing private
>> +peripheral interrupts (PPI), shared peripheral interrupts (SPI),
>> +software generated interrupts (SGI), and locality-specific peripheral
>> +Interrupts (LPI).
>
> Super-over-ridiculous-nit: capitalize the definitions, e.g. Private
> Peripheral Interrupts (PPI)
Sure.
>> +
>> +Main node required properties:
>> +
>> +- compatible : should at least contain "arm,gic-v3".
>> +- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
>> +- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
>> + interrupt source. Must be a single cell with a value of at least 3.
>> +
>> + The 1st cell is the interrupt type; 0 for SPI interrupts, 1 for PPI
>> + interrupts. Other values are reserved for future use.
>> +
>> + The 2nd cell contains the interrupt number for the interrupt type.
>> + SPI interrupts are in the range [0-987]. PPI interrupts are in the
>> + range [0-15].
>> +
>> + The 3rd cell is the flags, encoded as follows:
>> + bits[3:0] trigger type and level flags.
>> + 1 = edge triggered
>> + 2 = edge triggered (deprecated, for compatibility with GICv2)
>> + 4 = level triggered
>> + 8 = level triggered (deprecated, for compatibility with GICv2)
>> +
>> + Cells 4 and beyond are reserved for future use. Where the 1st cell
>> + has a value of 0 or 1, cells 4 and beyond act as padding, and may be
>> + ignored. It is recommended that padding cells have a value of 0.
>
> another-super-nit: Saying "If the 1st cell" or "When the 1st cell"
> sounds more clear to me, but I may be wrong.
Works for me.
>> +
>> +- reg : Specifies base physical address(s) and size of the GIC
>> + registers, in the following order:
>> + - GIC Distributor interface (GICD)
>> + - GIC Redistributors (GICR), one range per redistributor region
>> + - GIC CPU interface (GICC)
>> + - GIC Hypervisor interface (GICH)
>> + - GIC Virtual CPU interface (GICV)
>> +
>> + GICC, GICH and GICV are optional.
>> +
>> +- interrupts : Interrupt source of the VGIC maintenance interrupt.
>> +
>> +Optional
>> +
>> +- redistributor-stride : If using padding pages, specifies the stride
>> + of consecutive redistributors. Must be a multiple of 64kB.
>
> How is this going to be used? What would the size of the padding then
> be? I couldn't find anything about this in the specs.
>
> Or does this mean the total size of the set of contiguous pages for each
> of the redistributors? That seems to make the math in the example below
> work.
Indeed. This is to allow overriding of the size of a single
redistributor. The driver will follow the spec to the letter (two or
four 64k pages, depending on GICR_TYPER.VLPI), except when this
parameter is present.
>> +
>> +- #redistributor-regions: The number of independent contiguous regions
>> + occupied by the redistributors. Required if more than one such
>> + region is present.
>> +
>> +Examples:
>> +
>> + gic: interrupt-controller at 2cf00000 {
>> + compatible = "arm,gic-v3";
>> + #interrupt-cells = <3>;
>> + interrupt-controller;
>> + reg = <0x0 0x2f000000 0 0x10000>, // GICD
>> + <0x0 0x2f100000 0 0x200000>, // GICR
>> + <0x0 0x2c000000 0 0x2000>, // GICC
>> + <0x0 0x2c010000 0 0x2000>, // GICH
>> + <0x0 0x2c020000 0 0x2000>; // GICV
>> + interrupts = <1 9 4>;
>> + };
>> +
>> + gic: interrupt-controller at 2c010000 {
>> + compatible = "arm,gic-v3";
>> + #interrupt-cells = <3>;
>> + interrupt-controller;
>> + redistributor-stride = 0x40000; // 256kB stride
>
> I raised the point in patch 1 about the stide value being read as a
> 64-bit value, which would imply that the example should be the
> following, I think:
>
> + redistributor-stride = <0x0 0x40000>; // 256kB stride
Indeed. I'll fix this.
Thanks for the review,
M.
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