Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/6] dt-bindings: exynos-bus: Add documentation for interconnect properties

From: Sylwester Nawrocki
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 05:40:41 EST


Hi Chanwoo,

On 31.05.2020 02:01, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 1:32 AM Sylwester Nawrocki
> <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Add documentation for new optional properties in the exynos bus nodes:
>> samsung,interconnect-parent, #interconnect-cells.
>> These properties allow to specify the SoC interconnect structure which
>> then allows the interconnect consumer devices to request specific
>> bandwidth requirements.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Artur ÅwigoÅ <a.swigon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes for v5:
>> - exynos,interconnect-parent-node renamed to samsung,interconnect-parent
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt | 15 +++++++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>> index e71f752..e0d2daa 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>> @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ Optional properties only for parent bus device:
>> - exynos,saturation-ratio: the percentage value which is used to calibrate
>> the performance count against total cycle count.
>>
>> +Optional properties for interconnect functionality (QoS frequency constraints):
>> +- samsung,interconnect-parent: phandle to the parent interconnect node; for
>> + passive devices should point to same node as the exynos,parent-bus property.
>> +- #interconnect-cells: should be 0
>> +
>> Detailed correlation between sub-blocks and power line according to Exynos SoC:
>> - In case of Exynos3250, there are two power line as following:
>> VDD_MIF |--- DMC
>> @@ -185,8 +190,9 @@ Example1:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Example2 :
>> - The bus of DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller) block in exynos3250.dtsi
>> - is listed below:
>> + The bus of DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller) block in exynos3250.dtsi is
>> + listed below. An interconnect path "bus_lcd0 -- bus_leftbus -- bus_dmc"
>> + is defined for demonstration purposes.
>>
>> bus_dmc: bus_dmc {
>> compatible = "samsung,exynos-bus";
>> @@ -376,12 +382,15 @@ Example2 :
>> &bus_dmc {
>> devfreq-events = <&ppmu_dmc0_3>, <&ppmu_dmc1_3>;
>> vdd-supply = <&buck1_reg>; /* VDD_MIF */
>> + #interconnect-cells = <0>;
>> status = "okay";
>> };
>>
>> &bus_leftbus {
>> devfreq-events = <&ppmu_leftbus_3>, <&ppmu_rightbus_3>;
>> vdd-supply = <&buck3_reg>;
>> + samsung,interconnect-parent = <&bus_dmc>;
>> + #interconnect-cells = <0>;
>> status = "okay";
>> };
>>
>> @@ -392,6 +401,8 @@ Example2 :
>>
>> &bus_lcd0 {
>> devfreq = <&bus_leftbus>;
>> + samsung,interconnect-parent = <&bus_leftbus>;
>> + #interconnect-cells = <0>;
>> status = "okay";
>> };
>>
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
>
> If you add the usage example like the mixer device of patch5 to this
> dt-binding document,
> I think it is very beneficial and more helpful for user of
> exynos-bus/exynos-generic-icc.
>
> Acked-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for review. I will make sure the example includes a consumer
in next version. Will also mention ../interconnect/interconnect.txt
in description of the #interconnect-cells property.

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Regards,
Sylwester