Re: [RFC PATCH v3 06/11] dt-bindings: timer: Update SiFive CLINT bindings for IPI support

[Anup Patel]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 6:59 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 09:47:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > The Linux RISC-V now treats IPIs as regular per-CPU IRQs. This means
> > we have to create a IPI interrupt domain to use CLINT IPI functionality
> > hence requiring a "interrupt-controller" and "#interrupt-cells" DT
> > property in CLINT DT nodes.
> >
> > Impact of this CLINT DT bindings change only affects Linux RISC-V
> > NoMMU kernel and has no effect of existing M-mode runtime firmwares
> > (i.e. OpenSBI).
>
> It appears to me you should fix Linux to not need these 2 useless
> properties. I say useless because #interrupt-cells being 0 is pretty
> useless.

Linux IRQCHIP framework only probes IRQCHIP DT nodes which
have "interrupt-controller" DT property. The "interrupt-cells" DT property
can be removed because as an interrupt controller SiFive CLINT
will only provide IPIs to arch code.

Regards,
Anup

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml          | 20 ++++++++++++++-----
> >  arch/riscv/boot/dts/canaan/k210.dtsi          |  2 ++
> >  .../boot/dts/microchip/microchip-mpfs.dtsi    |  2 ++
> >  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml
> > index a35952f48742..9c8ef9f4094f 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml
> > @@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ properties:
> >
> >    interrupts-extended:
> >      minItems: 1
> > +    maxItems: 4095
> > +
> > +  "#interrupt-cells":
> > +    const: 0
> > +
> > +  interrupt-controller: true
> >
> >  additionalProperties: false
> >
> > @@ -50,15 +56,19 @@ required:
> >    - compatible
> >    - reg
> >    - interrupts-extended
> > +  - interrupt-controller
> > +  - "#interrupt-cells"
> >
> >  examples:
> >    - |
> >      timer@2000000 {
> >        compatible = "sifive,fu540-c000-clint", "sifive,clint0";
> > -      interrupts-extended = <&cpu1intc 3 &cpu1intc 7
> > -                             &cpu2intc 3 &cpu2intc 7
> > -                             &cpu3intc 3 &cpu3intc 7
> > -                             &cpu4intc 3 &cpu4intc 7>;
> > -       reg = <0x2000000 0x10000>;
> > +      interrupts-extended = <&cpu1intc 3>, <&cpu1intc 7>,
> > +                            <&cpu2intc 3>, <&cpu2intc 7>,
> > +                            <&cpu3intc 3>, <&cpu3intc 7>,
> > +                            <&cpu4intc 3>, <&cpu4intc 7>;
> > +      reg = <0x2000000 0x10000>;
> > +      interrupt-controller;
> > +      #interrupt-cells = <0>;
> >      };
> >  ...
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/canaan/k210.dtsi b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/canaan/k210.dtsi
> > index 5e8ca8142482..67dcda1efadb 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/canaan/k210.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/canaan/k210.dtsi
> > @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ clint0: timer@2000000 {
> >                       reg = <0x2000000 0xC000>;
> >                       interrupts-extended = <&cpu0_intc 3 &cpu0_intc 7
> >                                             &cpu1_intc 3 &cpu1_intc 7>;
> > +                     #interrupt-cells = <0>;
> > +                     interrupt-controller;
> >               };
> >
> >               plic0: interrupt-controller@c000000 {
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/microchip/microchip-mpfs.dtsi b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/microchip/microchip-mpfs.dtsi
> > index b9819570a7d1..67fb41439f20 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/microchip/microchip-mpfs.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/microchip/microchip-mpfs.dtsi
> > @@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ &cpu1_intc 3 &cpu1_intc 7
> >                                               &cpu2_intc 3 &cpu2_intc 7
> >                                               &cpu3_intc 3 &cpu3_intc 7
> >                                               &cpu4_intc 3 &cpu4_intc 7>;
> > +                     #interrupt-cells = <0>;
> > +                     interrupt-controller;
> >               };
> >
> >               plic: interrupt-controller@c000000 {
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
> >