[PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: firmware: arm,scmi: Document arm,no-completion-irq property
Cristian Marussi
cristian.marussi at arm.com
Mon Jan 19 08:53:45 PST 2026
On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 02:02:28AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Document new property arm,no-completion-irq . This optional property
> is intended for hardware that does not generate completion interrupts
> and can be used to unconditionally enable forced polling mode of
> operation.
>
> With this property set, such implementations which do not generate
> interrupts can be interacted with, until they are fixed to generate
> interrupts properly.
>
> Note that, because the original base protocol exchange also requires
> some sort of completion mechanism, it is not possible to query SCMI
> itself for this property and it must be described in DT. While this
> does look a bit like policy, the SCMI provider is part of the
> hardware, hence DT.
>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at mailbox.org>
> ---
> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt at kernel.org>
> Cc: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt at kernel.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> Cc: arm-scmi at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-renesas-soc at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> V2: s at mean@&t and limit poll transport to mailbox/shmem only
> V3: - Reformat the commit message, expand property description to
> explicitly spell out this is hardware description.
> - Rename property from arm,poll-transport to arm,no-completion-irq
> V4: - Update first paragraph of commit message and property description
> - Add RB from Rob
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> index be817fd9cc34b..d06cca9273c48 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ properties:
> this platform. If set, the value should be non-zero.
> minimum: 1
>
> + arm,no-completion-irq:
> + type: boolean
> + description:
Shouldn't these two points have to be swapped as per Sudeep and Rob
suggestions ?
description:
....
type: boolean
> + This optional property is intended for hardware that does not generate
> + completion interrupts and can be used to unconditionally enable forced
> + polling mode of operation.
> +
> arm,smc-id:
> $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> description:
> @@ -379,6 +386,9 @@ then:
> - shmem
>
> else:
> + properties:
> + arm,no-completion-irq: false
> +
> if:
> properties:
With the above corrected, LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
Thanks,
Cristian
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