Need suggestions for smp related properties in cpus.yaml to support smpboot for cortex-r52 based platform

[Ayan Kumar Halder]

Hi Device Tree engineers,


Recently I have ported Xen on Cortex-R52 (AArch32-V8R processor) for our 
AMD platform.

I was discussing with xen-devel community about how we can properly 
support smpboot when I was suggested that this might be the correct 
forum for discussion.

Please refer 
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2023-05/msg00224.html 
and the follow-ups for context.


The way smpboot works on our platform is as follows:-

1. core0 writes to register (say regA) the address of the secondary core 
initialization routine.

2. core0 writes to another register (say regB) the value "0x1" to put 
the secondary core in reset mode.

3. core0 writes to regB the value "0x0" to pull the secondary core out 
of reset mode.

regA, regB will differ for core1, core2, core3 and so on.


Currently, I am trying to bringup core1 only.


I am thinking to use "enable-method=spin-table" in the cpu node for 
core1.  So that I can use "cpu-release-address" for regA.

For regB, I am thinking of introducing a new property 
"amd-cpu-reset-addr" in the cpu node.

Please let me know your thoughts on this approach. I am also open to any 
alternative suggestions.


Also I see that in 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.4-rc1/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.yaml#L87 
, "arm,cortex-r52" is missing.

Can I submit a patch (a one line change) to add this ?


Kind regards,

Ayan