Re: [PATCH 16/21] dt-bindings: ata: ahci: Add DWC AHCI SATA controller DT schema

[Serge Semin]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:06:27PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 03:16:23AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > Synopsys AHCI SATA controller is mainly compatible with the generic AHCI
> > SATA controller except a few peculiarities and the platform environment
> > requirements. In particular it can have one or two reference clocks to
> > feed up its AXI/AHB interface and SATA PHYs domain and at least one reset
> > control for the application clock domain. In addition to that the DMA
> > interface of each port can be tuned up to work with the predefined maximum
> > data chunk size. Note unlike generic AHCI controller DWC AHCI can't have
> > more than 8 ports. All of that is reflected in the new DWC AHCI SATA
> > device DT binding.
> > 
> > Note the DWC AHCI SATA controller DT-schema has been created in a way so
> > to be reused for the vendor-specific DT-schemas. One of which we are about
> > to introduce.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml           | 121 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 121 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..b443154b63aa
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: Synopsys DWC AHCI SATA controller
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > +
> > +description: |
> > +  This document defines device tree bindings for the Synopsys DWC
> > +  implementation of the AHCI SATA controller.
> > +
> > +allOf:
> > +  - $ref: ahci-common.yaml#
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    oneOf:
> > +      - description: Synopsys AHCI SATA-compatible devices
> > +        contains:
> > +          const: snps,dwc-ahci
> > +      - description: SPEAr1340 AHCI SATA device
> > +        const: snps,spear-ahci
> > +
> > +  reg:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  interrupts:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  clocks:
> > +    description:
> > +      Basic DWC AHCI SATA clock sources like application AXI/AHB BIU clock
> > +      and embedded PHYs reference clock together with vendor-specific set
> > +      of clocks.
> > +    minItems: 1
> > +    maxItems: 4
> > +
> > +  clock-names:
> > +    contains:
> > +      anyOf:
> > +        - description: Application AXI/AHB BIU clock source
> > +          enum:
> > +            - aclk
> > +            - sata
> > +        - description: SATA Ports reference clock
> > +          enum:
> > +            - ref
> > +            - sata_ref
> > +
> > +  resets:
> > +    description:
> > +      At least basic core and application clock domains reset is normally
> > +      supported by the DWC AHCI SATA controller. Some platform specific
> > +      clocks can be also specified though.
> > +
> > +  reset-names:
> > +    contains:
> > +      description: Core and application clock domains reset control
> > +      const: arst
> > +
> > +patternProperties:
> > +  "^sata-port@[0-9a-e]$":
> > +    type: object
> > +
> > +    properties:
> > +      reg:
> > +        minimum: 0
> > +        maximum: 7
> > +
> > +      snps,tx-ts-max:
> > +        $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +        description: Maximal size of Tx DMA transactions in FIFO words
> > +        minimum: 1
> > +        maximum: 1024
> > +
> > +      snps,rx-ts-max:
> > +        $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +        description: Maximal size of Rx DMA transactions in FIFO words
> > +        minimum: 1
> > +        maximum: 1024
> 

> Are you reading these somewhere? 

Yes I do read them in the DWC AHCI driver and use ilog2() to get
the corresponding power of two value.

> 
> Only powers of 2 are valid. (Guess what Calxeda's controller uses.)

Right and is limited to be within [1; 1024]. Do you suggest to add a
respective comment in the description or just manually enumerate the
POW2 values? I don't believe there is a ready-to-use power-of-2 type in
the /schemas/types.yaml file. BTW what about adding one seeing there are
many cases where it could be useful?

-Sergey

> 
> Rob