Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] dt-bindings: cpufreq: Introduce QCOM CPUFREQ Firmware bindings

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Tue Aug 07 2018 - 07:12:49 EST


On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 01:54:24PM -0700, skannan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2018-08-03 16:46, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >Quoting Taniya Das (2018-07-24 03:42:49)
> >>diff --git
> >>a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/cpufreq-qcom-hw.txt
> >>b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/cpufreq-qcom-hw.txt
> >>new file mode 100644
> >>index 0000000..22d4355
> >>--- /dev/null
> >>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/cpufreq-qcom-hw.txt
> >>@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
> >[...]
> >>+
> >>+ CPU7: cpu@700 {
> >>+ device_type = "cpu";
> >>+ compatible = "qcom,kryo385";
> >>+ reg = <0x0 0x700>;
> >>+ enable-method = "psci";
> >>+ next-level-cache = <&L2_700>;
> >>+ qcom,freq-domain = <&freq_domain_table1>;
> >>+ L2_700: l2-cache {
> >>+ compatible = "cache";
> >>+ next-level-cache = <&L3_0>;
> >>+ };
> >>+ };
> >>+ };
> >>+
> >>+ qcom,cpufreq-hw {
> >>+ compatible = "qcom,cpufreq-hw";
> >>+
> >>+ clocks = <&rpmhcc RPMH_CXO_CLK>;
> >>+ clock-names = "xo";
> >>+
> >>+ #address-cells = <2>;
> >>+ #size-cells = <2>;
> >>+ ranges;
> >>+ freq_domain_table0: freq_table0 {
> >>+ reg = <0 0x17d43000 0 0x1400>;
> >>+ };
> >>+
> >>+ freq_domain_table1: freq_table1 {
> >>+ reg = <0 0x17d45800 0 0x1400>;
> >>+ };
> >
> >Sorry, this is just not proper DT design. The whole node should have a
> >reg property, and it should contain two (or three if we're handling the
> >L3 clk domain?) different offsets for the different power clusters. The
> >problem seems to still be that we don't have a way to map the CPUs to
> >the clk domains they're in provided by this hardware block. Making
> >subnodes is not the solution.
>
> The problem is mapping clock domains to logical CPUs that CPUfreq uses. The
> physical CPU to logical CPU mapping can be changed by the kernel (even
> through DT if I'm not mistaken). So we need to have a way to tell in DT
> which physical CPUs are connected to which CPU freq clock domain.
>

How about passing CPU freq clock domain id as along with phandle in
qcom,freq-domain ?

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Regards,
Sudeep