Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: rockchip: add core dtsi file for RK3399 SoCs

[Marc Zyngier]

On 25/04/16 11:06, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 25/04/16 10:48, Huang, Tao wrote:
>> Hi, Marc:
>> On 2016å04æ21æ 19:30, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:47:20 +0800
>>> "Huang, Tao" <huangtao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Mark:
>>>> On 2016å04æ21æ 18:19, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:58:12AM +0800, Jianqun Xu wrote:
>>>>>> +		cpu_l0: cpu@0 {
>>>>>> +			device_type = "cpu";
>>>>>> +			compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
>>>>>> +			reg = <0x0 0x0>;
>>>>>> +			enable-method = "psci";
>>>>>> +			#cooling-cells = <2>; /* min followed by max */
>>>>>> +			clocks = <&cru ARMCLKL>;
>>>>>> +		};
>>>>>> +		cpu_b0: cpu@100 {
>>>>>> +			device_type = "cpu";
>>>>>> +			compatible = "arm,cortex-a72", "arm,armv8";
>>>>>> +			reg = <0x0 0x100>;
>>>>>> +			enable-method = "psci";
>>>>>> +			#cooling-cells = <2>; /* min followed by max */
>>>>>> +			clocks = <&cru ARMCLKB>;
>>>>>> +		};
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +	arm-pmu {
>>>>>> +		compatible = "arm,armv8-pmuv3";
>>>>>> +		interrupts = <GIC_PPI 7 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
>>>>>> +	};
>>>>> This is wrong, and must go. There should be a separate node for the PMU
>>>>> of each microarchitecture, with the appropriate compatible string to
>>>>> represent that (see the juno dts).
>>>> You are right. The first version we wrote is:
>>>>     pmu_a53 {
>>>>         compatible = "arm,cortex-a53-pmu";
>>>>         interrupts = <GIC_PPI 7 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
>>>>         interrupt-affinity = <&cpu_l0>,
>>>>                      <&cpu_l1>,
>>>>                      <&cpu_l2>,
>>>>                      <&cpu_l3>;
>>>>     };
>>>>
>>>>     pmu_a72 {
>>>>         compatible = "arm,cortex-a72-pmu";
>>>>         interrupts = <GIC_PPI 7 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
>>>>         interrupt-affinity = <&cpu_b0>,
>>>>                      <&cpu_b1>;
>>>>     };
>>>> but unfortunately, the arm pmu driver do not support PPI in two cluster
>>>> well,
>>>> so we have to replace with this implementation.
>>>>> In this case things are messier as the same PPI number is being used
>>>>> across clusters. Marc (Cc'd) has been working on PPI partitions, which
>>>>> should allow us to support that.
>>>> Great! So what we can do right now? Wait this feature, and delete
>>>> arm-pmu node?
>>> I'd rather you have a look at the patches, test them with your HW,
>>> and comment on what doesn't work!
>>>
>>> You can find the patches over there:
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/11/182
>>>
>>> and on the following branch:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git
>>> irq/percpu-partition
>>
>> I tested these patches. Because our kernel is based on v4.4, so I back
>> port most changes about
>> include/linux/irqdomain.h
>> kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
>> and change rk3399.dtsi base on your arm,gic-v3.txt:
>>
>>      gic: interrupt-controller@fee00000 {
>>          compatible = "arm,gic-v3";
>> -        #interrupt-cells = <3>;
>> +        #interrupt-cells = <4>;
>>          #address-cells = <2>;
>>          #size-cells = <2>;
>> ...
>> +
>> +        ppi-partitions {
>> +            part0: interrupt-partition-0 {
>> +                affinity = <&cpu_l0 &cpu_l1 &cpu_l2 &cpu_l3>;
>> +            };
>> +
>> +            part1: interrupt-partition-1 {
>> +                affinity = <&cpu_b0 &cpu_b1>;
>> +            };
>> +        };
>>
>> and change every interrupts from three cells to four cells, such as
>>      saradc: saradc@ff100000 {
>>          compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-saradc";
>>          reg = <0x0 0xff100000 0x0 0x100>;
>> -        interrupts = <GIC_SPI 62 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>> +        interrupts = <GIC_SPI 62 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH 0>;
>>          #io-channel-cells = <1>;
>>          clocks = <&cru SCLK_SARADC>, <&cru PCLK_SARADC>;
>>          clock-names = "saradc", "apb_pclk";
>>
>> and pmu define as:
>>     pmu_a53 {
>>         compatible = "arm,cortex-a53-pmu";
>>         interrupts = <GIC_PPI 7 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW &part0>;
>>         interrupt-affinity = <&cpu_l0>,
>>                      <&cpu_l1>,
>>                      <&cpu_l2>,
>>                      <&cpu_l3>;
>>     };
>>
>>     pmu_a72 {
>>         compatible = "arm,cortex-a72-pmu", "arm,cortex-a57-pmu";
>>         interrupts = <GIC_PPI 7 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW &part1>;
>>         interrupt-affinity = <&cpu_b0>,
>>                      <&cpu_b1>;
>>     };
>>
>> It can boot. And I test with Android simpleperf stat and perf top, it works!
>> So these patches work on RK3399.
> 
> Good, thanks for testing.
> 
>> But as I mentioned, we must change every interrupt in dts, do you think
>> this is acceptable?
> 
> I can't see why not.
> 
>>>
>>> Of course, you'll have to hack a bit in the PMU code to make it
>>> understand per-PMU affinity together with percpu interrupts, but it
>>> wouldn't be fun if there was nothing to do...
>> I don't change drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c, it just work.
> 
> Having had a look with Mark, it may work, but it is rather unsafe. I may
> have a go at it, but I'm going to have to rely on you to test it (or you
> can send me a board ;-).

I came up with the following (untested) patch. Please let me know if this
works for you.

Thanks,

	M.