question about PMU interrupt in binding

Stuart Yoder stuart.yoder at freescale.com
Tue Feb 24 07:44:27 PST 2015


Stephen/Will,

Had a question about the definition of "interrupts" in the
PMU binding:

> commit d84c47837d800c0db1c9f2015a1565504417f812
> Author: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> Date:   Fri Feb 7 21:01:24 2014 +0000
> 
>     devicetree: bindings: Document Krait performance monitor units (PMU)
> 
>     Document the Krait PMU compatible string.
> 
>     Cc: <devicetree at vger.kernel.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt
> index 3e1e498..ce73144 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt
> @@ -16,7 +16,14 @@ Required properties:
>         "arm,arm11mpcore-pmu"
>         "arm,arm1176-pmu"
>         "arm,arm1136-pmu"
> -- interrupts : 1 combined interrupt or 1 per core.
> +       "qcom,krait-pmu"
> +- interrupts : 1 combined interrupt or 1 per core. If the interrupt is a per-cpu
> +               interrupt (PPI) then 1 interrupt should be specified.

If the interrupt is per-cpu do you mean 1 interrupt _per cpu_ should
be specified?  As written it seems to say _only_  "1 interrupt" should be
specificed.

Thanks,
Stuart



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