[RFC PATCH v2 10/17] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add bindings for RISC-V RPMI system MSI

Anup Patel apatel at ventanamicro.com
Sun May 4 03:44:03 PDT 2025


On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 02:18:59PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > Add device tree bindings for the system MSI service group based interrupt
> > controller defined by the RISC-V platform management interface (RPMI)
> > specification.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel at ventanamicro.com>
> > ---
> >  .../riscv,rpmi-system-msi.yaml                | 89 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 89 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,rpmi-system-msi.yaml
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,rpmi-system-msi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,rpmi-system-msi.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..e6c297e66c99
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,rpmi-system-msi.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/interrupt-controller/riscv,rpmi-system-msi.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: RISC-V RPMI system MSI service group based interrupt controller
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
> > +
> > +description: |
> > +  The RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI) [1] defines a
> > +  messaging protocol which is modular and extensible. The supervisor
> > +  software can send/receive RPMI messages via SBI MPXY extension [2]
> > +  or some dedicated supervisor-mode RPMI transport.
> > +
> > +  The RPMI specification [1] defines system MSI service group which
> > +  allow application processors to receive MSIs upon system events
> > +  such as P2A doorbell, graceful shutdown/reboot request, CPU hotplug
> > +  event, memory hotplug event, etc from the platform microcontroller.
>
> I'm confused by this description and what the binding has. This "device"
> is receiving interrupts and generating MSIs based on those interrupts?

The platform microcontroller receives/monitors system events and
sends MSI to application processors (RISC-V CPUs).

>
> > +
> > +  ===========================================
> > +  References
> > +  ===========================================
> > +
> > +  [1] RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI)
> > +      https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-rpmi/releases
> > +
> > +  [2] RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI)
> > +      https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/releases
> > +
> > +allOf:
> > +  - $ref: /schemas/interrupt-controller.yaml#
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    oneOf:
> > +      - description:
> > +          Intended for use by the SBI implementation in machine mode or
> > +          software in supervisor mode.
> > +        const: riscv,rpmi-system-msi
> > +
> > +      - description:
> > +          Intended for use by the SBI implementation in machine mode.
> > +        const: riscv,rpmi-mpxy-system-msi
> > +
> > +  mboxes:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +    description:
> > +      Mailbox channel of the underlying RPMI transport or SBI message proxy.
> > +
> > +  riscv,sbi-mpxy-channel-id:
> > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +    description:
> > +      The SBI MPXY channel id to be used for providing RPMI access to
> > +      the supervisor software. This property is mandatory when using
> > +      riscv,rpmi-mpxy-system-msi compatible string.
> > +
> > +  msi-parent: true
> > +
> > +  interrupt-controller: true
> > +
> > +  "#interrupt-cells":
> > +    const: 1
> > +
> > +required:
> > +  - compatible
> > +  - mboxes
> > +  - msi-parent
> > +  - interrupt-controller
> > +  - "#interrupt-cells"
> > +
> > +additionalProperties: false
> > +
> > +examples:
> > +  - |
> > +    mpxy_mbox: sbi-mpxy-mbox {
>
> mailbox {
>
> Though generally we don't show providers for a consumer schema.

Okay, I will drop the producer schema.

>
> > +          compatible = "riscv,sbi-mpxy-mbox";
> > +          #mbox-cells = <2>;
> > +    };
> > +    rpmi_sysmsi_intc: interrupt-controller {
> > +        compatible = "riscv,rpmi-system-msi";
> > +        mboxes = <&mpxy_mbox 0x2000 0x0>;
> > +        msi-parent = <&imsic_slevel>;
> > +        interrupt-controller;
> > +        #interrupt-cells = <1>;
> > +    };
> > +...
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >

Regards,
Anup



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