Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] mfd: pruss mfd driver.

From: Subhasish Ghosh
Date: Tue Feb 22 2011 - 07:48:18 EST


I am not sure if I understood you correctly, but the current sizeof the structure da8xx_prusscore_regs is 0x500.

Here is a link to the PRUSS memory map:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/PRUSS_Memory_Map

The offset 0x00007000 is the PRU0 reg offset and 0x00007800 is the PRU1 reg offset.
We cannot have a register file larger than this, but lot of space is left out, possibly for future development.

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From: "Samuel Ortiz" <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:03 PM
To: "Wolfgang Grandegger" <wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Subhasish Ghosh" <subhasish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <sachi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <davinci-linux-open-source@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <nsekhar@xxxxxx>; "open list" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <m-watkins@xxxxxx>; <linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] mfd: pruss mfd driver.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:48:51AM +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
On 02/22/2011 11:31 AM, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Subhasish,
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:13:38AM +0530, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
>> Thank you for your comments.
> No problem.
>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>>> index fd01836..6c437df 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -81,6 +81,16 @@ config MFD_DM355EVM_MSP
>>>> boards. MSP430 firmware manages resets and power sequencing,
>>>> inputs from buttons and the IR remote, LEDs, an RTC, and more.
>>>>
>>>> +config MFD_DA8XX_PRUSS
>>>> + tristate "Texas Instruments DA8XX PRUSS support"
>>>> + depends on ARCH_DAVINCI && ARCH_DAVINCI_DA850
>>> Why are we depending on those ?
>>
>> SG -- The PRUSS core in only available within DA850 and DA830,
>> DA830 support is not yet implemented.
> Sure, but if there are no actual code dependencies, I'd like to get rid > of
> those depends.
>
>>>> +u32 pruss_disable(struct device *dev, u8 pruss_num)
>>>> +{
>>>> + struct da8xx_pruss *pruss = dev_get_drvdata(dev->parent);
>>>> + da8xx_prusscore_regs h_pruss;
>>>> + u32 temp_reg;
>>>> +
>>>> + if (pruss_num == DA8XX_PRUCORE_0) {
>>>> + /* Disable PRU0 */
>>>> + h_pruss = (da8xx_prusscore_regs)
>>>> + ((u32) pruss->ioaddr + 0x7000);
>>> So it seems you're doing this in several places, and I have a few
>>> comments:
>>>
>>> - You don't need the da8xx_prusscore_regs at all.
>>> - Define the register map through a set of #define in your header >>> file.
>>> - Use a static routine that takes the core number and returns the
>>> register map
>>> offset.
>>>
>>> Then routines like this one will look a lot more readable.
>>
>> SG -- There are a huge number of PRUSS registers. A lot of them are
>> reserved and are expected to change as development on the
>> controller is still ongoing.
> First of all, from what I read in your patch you're only using the > CONTROL
> offset.
>
>> If we use #defines to plot
>> all the registers, then first, there are too many array type
>> registers which will need to be duplicated.
> What I'm expecting is a small set of defines for the register offsets. > You
> have 13 fields in your da8xx_prusscore_regs, you only need to define 13
> register offsets.
>
> So, if you have a:
>
> static u32 reg_offset(struct device *dev, u8 pru_num)
> {
> struct da8xx_pruss *pru = dev_get_drvdata(dev->parent);
>
> switch (pru_num) {
> case DA8XX_PRUCORE_0:
> return (u32) pru->ioaddr + 0x7000;
> case DA8XX_PRUCORE_1:
> return (u32) pru->ioaddr + 0x7800;
> default:
> return 0;
> }
>
>
> then routines like pruss_enable (which should return an int, btw) would > look
> like:
>
> int pruss_enable(struct device *dev, u8 pruss_num)
> {
> u32 offset = reg_offset(dev, pruss_num);
>
> if (offset == 0)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> __raw_writel(DA8XX_PRUCORE_CONTROL_RESETVAL,
> offset + PRU_CORE_CONTROL);
>
> return 0;
> }

All registers are memory mapped and could nicely be described by
structures (and sub-structures). Therefore we asked to considerer
structs, at least for the Pruss SocketCAN drivers.

That would result in
much much clearer and better readable code. The code above would shrink to:

__raw_writel(DA8XX_PRUCORE_CONTROL_RESETVAL,
&prucore[pruss_num].control);
This driver seems to exclusively use the control offset, which is why I don't
see an absolute need for doing this mapping.
But if both maps are contiguous then doing the mapping would prevent us from
calling reg_offset() and would bring some advantage. I'd then be fine with it.
For now, da8xx_prusscore_regs seems to be larger than the 0x800 interval
between the 2 maps, so I have no idea if both maps are indeed contiguous.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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