[PATCH 06/11] dt-bindings: add devicetree binding for describing arm64 SDEI firmware

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Mon May 15 10:43:54 PDT 2017


The Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI) is an ARM standard
for registering callbacks from the platform firmware into the OS.
This is typically used to implement RAS notifications.

Add a new devicetree binding to describe the SDE firmware interface.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sdei.txt | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sdei.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sdei.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sdei.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..69220d995286
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/sdei.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+* Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI)
+
+Firmware implementing the SDEI functions described in ARM document number
+ARM DEN 0054A ("Software Delegated Exception Interface") can be used by
+Linux to receive notification of events such as those generated by
+firmware-first error handling.
+
+The interface provides a number of API functions for registering callbacks
+and enabling/disabling events. Functions are invoked by trapping to the
+privilege level of the SDEI firmware (specified as part of the binding
+below) and passing arguments in a manner similar to that specified by AAPCS:
+
+	 r0		=> 32-bit Function ID / return value
+	{r1 - r3}	=> Parameters
+
+Note that the immediate field of the trapping instruction must be set
+to #0.
+
+The SDEI_EVENT_REGISTER function registers a callback in the kernel
+text to handle the specified event number.
+
+Main node required properties:
+
+ - compatible    : should contain:
+	* "arm,sdei-1.0" : For implementations complying to SDEI version 1.x.
+
+ - method        : The method of calling the SDEI firmware. Permitted
+                   values are:
+	* "smc" : SMC #0, with the register assignments specified in this
+	          binding.
+	* "hvc" : HVC #0, with the register assignments specified in this
+	          binding.
+Example:
+	sdei {
+		compatible	= "arm,sdei-1.0";
+		method		= "smc";
+	};
-- 
2.10.1




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