Re: [RFC v2 04/11] dt-bindings: Add HTE bindings

[Dipen Patel]

Hi Rob,


On 10/8/21 3:11 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:26:10PM -0700, Dipen Patel wrote:
>> Introduces HTE devicetree binding details for the HTE subsystem. It
>> includes examples for the consumers, binding details for the providers
>> and specific binding details for the Tegra194 based HTE providers.
>>
> This pattern of binding isn't easily checked completely by schema. You 
> need a dtc check added too. Should be a 2 line change. (And dtc changes 
> go upstream first).
Sorry, I could not understand your comment. Can you please elaborate?
>
>> Signed-off-by: Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Replace hte with hardware-timestamp for property names
>> - Renamed file
>> - Removed example from the common dt binding file.
>>
>>  .../hte/hardware-timestamps-common.yaml       | 29 +++++++
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/hte/hte-consumer.yaml | 48 +++++++++++
>>  .../bindings/hte/nvidia,tegra194-hte.yaml     | 79 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 156 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hardware-timestamps-common.yaml
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hte-consumer.yaml
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/nvidia,tegra194-hte.yaml
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hardware-timestamps-common.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hardware-timestamps-common.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..8b8db3bc4dcf
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hardware-timestamps-common.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> Dual license new bindings.
Do you mean to add SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause) instead?
>
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hte/hardware-timestamps-common.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Hardware timestamp providers
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> +  - Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +
>> +description: |
>> +  Some devices/SoCs have hardware time stamping engines which can use hardware
>> +  means to timestamp entity in realtime. The entity could be anything from
>> +  GPIOs, IRQs, Bus and so on. The hardware timestamp engine (HTE) present
>> +  itself as a provider with the bindings described in this document.
>> +
>> +properties:
>> +  $nodename:
>> +    pattern: "^hardware-timestamps(@.*|-[0-9a-f])*$"
> "^hardware-timestamp(@.*|-[0-9a-f])?$"
>
>> +
>> +  "#hardware-timestamps-cells":
> Double plural:
>
> #hardware-timestamp-cells
>
> Arguably, the same string everywhere would have been an easier design, 
> but let's keep consistency with (most) other flavors of this pattern.
>
>> +    description:
>> +      Number of cells in a HTE specifier.
>> +
>> +required:
>> +  - "#hardware-timestamps-cells"
>> +
>> +additionalProperties: true
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hte-consumer.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hte-consumer.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..cf65d1d44a18
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/hte-consumer.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hte/hte-consumer.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: HTE Consumer Device Tree Bindings
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> +  - Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +
>> +description: |
>> +  HTE properties should be named "hardware-timestamps". The exact meaning of
>> +  each hardware-timestamps property must be documented in the device tree
>> +  binding for each device. An optional property "hardware-timestamps-names" may
>> +  contain a list of strings to label each of the HTE devices listed in the
>> +  "hardware-timestamps" property.
>> +
>> +  The "hardware-timestamps-names" property if specified is used to map the name
>> +  of the HTE device requested by the devm_of_hte_request_ts() or of_hte_request_ts
>> +  call to an index into the list given by the "hardware-timestamps" property.
>> +
>> +properties:
>> +  hardware-timestamps:
>> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
>> +    description:
>> +      The list of HTE provider phandle. The provider must document the number
>> +      of cell that must be passed in this property along with phandle.
>> +
>> +  hardware-timestamps-names:
> hardware-timestamp-names
>
>
>> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string-array
>> +    description:
>> +      An optional string property.
>> +
>> +required:
>> +  - "hardware-timestamps"
> Don't need quotes.
>
>> +
>> +dependencies:
>> +  hardware-timestamps-names: [ hardware-timestamps ]
>> +
>> +additionalProperties: true
>> +
>> +examples:
>> +  - |
>> +    hte_irq_consumer {
>> +              hardware-timestamps = <&tegra_hte_lic 0x19>;
>> +              hardware-timestamps-names = "hte-irq";
>> +    };
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/nvidia,tegra194-hte.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/nvidia,tegra194-hte.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..529926118f35
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hte/nvidia,tegra194-hte.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hte/nvidia,tegra194-hte.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Tegra194 on chip generic hardware timestamping engine (HTE)
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> +  - Dipen Patel <dipenp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> +
>> +description: |
>> +  Tegra194 SoC has multiple generic hardware timestamping engines which can
>> +  monitor subset of GPIO and on chip IRQ lines for the state change, upon
>> +  detection it will record timestamp (taken from system counter) in its
>> +  internal hardware FIFO. It has bitmap array arranged in 32bit slices where
> has a bitmap
>
>> +  each bit represent signal/line to enable or disable for the hardware
>> +  timestamping.
>> +
>> +properties:
>> +  compatible:
>> +    enum:
>> +      - nvidia,tegra194-gte-aon
>> +      - nvidia,tegra194-gte-lic
>> +
>> +  reg:
>> +    maxItems: 1
>> +
>> +  interrupts:
>> +    maxItems: 1
>> +
>> +  int-threshold:
> nvidia,int-threshold unless this is common for all hw timestamps?
>
>> +    description:
>> +      HTE device generates its interrupt based on this u32 FIFO threshold
>> +      value. The recommended value is 1.
>> +    minimum: 1
>> +    maximum: 256
>> +
>> +  slices:
> nvidia,slices
>
> Needs a type.
>
>> +    description:
>> +      HTE lines are arranged in 32 bit slice where each bit represents different
>> +      line/signal that it can enable/configure for the timestamp. It is u32
>> +      property and depends on the HTE instance in the chip.
>> +    enum: [3, 11]
>> +
>> +  '#hardware-timestamps-cells':
>> +    const: 1
>> +
>> +required:
>> +  - compatible
>> +  - reg
>> +  - interrupts
>> +  - slices
>> +  - "#hardware-timestamps-cells"
>> +
>> +additionalProperties: false
>> +
>> +examples:
>> +  - |
>> +    tegra_hte_aon: hardware-timestamps@c1e0000 {
>> +              compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-gte-aon";
>> +              reg = <0xc1e0000 0x10000>;
>> +              interrupts = <0 13 0x4>;
>> +              int-threshold = <1>;
>> +              slices = <3>;
>> +              #hardware-timestamps-cells = <1>;
>> +    };
>> +
>> +  - |
>> +    tegra_hte_lic: hardware-timestamps@3aa0000 {
>> +              compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-gte-lic";
>> +              reg = <0x3aa0000 0x10000>;
>> +              interrupts = <0 11 0x4>;
>> +              int-threshold = <1>;
>> +              slices = <11>;
>> +              #hardware-timestamps-cells = <1>;
>> +    };
>> +
>> +...
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
>>