[PATCH v5 2/4] devicetree: bindings: Document Krait CPU/L1 EDAC

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Tue Mar 11 17:03:50 EDT 2014


On 03/11, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:08:56PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Or should we be expressing the L1 cache as well? Something like:
> > 
> >         cpus {  
> >                 #address-cells = <1>;
> >                 #size-cells = <0>;
> > 
> >                 cpu at 0 { 
> >                         compatible = "qcom,krait";
> >                         device_type = "cpu";
> >                         reg = <0>;
> >                         next-level-cache = <&L1_0>;
> > 
> > 			L1_0: l1-cache {
> > 				compatible = "arm,arch-cache";
> > 				interrupts = <1 14 0x304>;
> > 				next-level-cache = <&L2>;
> > 			}
> >                 };
> > 
> >                 cpu at 1 { 
> >                         compatible = "qcom,krait";
> >                         device_type = "cpu";
> >                         reg = <1>;
> >                         next-level-cache = <&L1_1>;
> > 
> > 			L1_1: l1-cache {
> > 				compatible = "arm,arch-cache";
> > 				interrupts = <1 14 0x304>;
> > 				next-level-cache = <&L2>;
> > 			}
> >                 };
> > 
> >                 L2: l2-cache {
> >                         compatible = "arm,arch-cache";
> >                         interrupts = <0 2 0x4>;
> > 		};
> > 	};
> > 
> > (I'm also wondering if the 3rd cell of the interrupt binding
> > should only indicate the CPU that the interrupt property is
> > inside?)
> 
> I am not aware of interrupts associated with vanilla :) "arm,arch-cache"
> objects, so I think that should be handled as a "qcom,krait" specific property
> (in the cpu node), or you should add another cache binding (compatible) for
> that.
> 
> As you might have noticed (idle states thread) I am keen on defining objects
> for L1 caches explicitly, that patch still requires an ACK though (and
> you need to update it since you cannot add an interrupt property for all
> "arm,arch-cache" objects. I am sorry for being a pain, but I do not
> think that's correct from a HW description standpoint).
> 

Ok. s/arm,arch-cache/qcom,arch-cache/ then. I imagine it is easy
enough to add some bits in the cache binding once it's accepted.

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