Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: berlin4ct: Add L2 cache topology

From: Jisheng Zhang
Date: Thu Jul 07 2016 - 01:52:32 EST


Dear Sebastian,

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:49:01 +0200 Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

> On 16.06.2016 10:40, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > This patch adds the L2 cache topology for berlin4ct which has 1MB L2
> > cache.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/berlin4ct.dtsi | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/berlin4ct.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/berlin4ct.dtsi
> > index 099ad93..c9e3a98 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/berlin4ct.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/berlin4ct.dtsi
> [...]
> > @@ -92,9 +95,14 @@
> > device_type = "cpu";
> > reg = <0x3>;
> > enable-method = "psci";
> > + next-level-cache = <&L2_0>;
> > cpu-idle-states = <&CPU_SLEEP_0>;
> > };
> >
> > + L2_0: l2-cache0 {
>
> Jisheng,
>
> The node name should just have a generic name that reflects
> the purpose of the unit it represents, i.e.
> s/l2-cache0/cache/

IMHO, "cache" is too generic, this is L2 cache topology, so in v2, I use
"l2-cache" instead. what do you think?

PS: I found other arm64 SoCs also use "l2-cache" as the node name.

>
> nits:
> - What is that "0" for? Please remove if there is no good reason.
> - Does the node label need to be upper-case? Please make it lower case.
>

oh yeah, thanks for the hints! will do in v2.

Thanks for reviewing,
Jisheng

> Sebastian
>
> > + compatible = "cache";
> > + };
> > +
> > idle-states {
> > entry-method = "psci";
> > CPU_SLEEP_0: cpu-sleep-0 {
> >
>