2023-09-04 09:17:11

by Suzuki K Poulose

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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] dt-bindings: arm: coresight-tmc: Add "memory-region" property

On 04/09/2023 06:05, Linu Cherian wrote:
> memory-region 0: Reserved trace buffer memory
>
> TMC ETR: When available, use this reserved memory region for
> trace data capture. Same region is used for trace data
> retention after a panic or watchdog reset.
>
> TMC ETF: When available, use this reserved memory region for
> trace data retention synced from internal SRAM after a panic or
> watchdog reset.
>
> memory-region 1: Reserved meta data memory
>
> TMC ETR, ETF: When available, use this memory for register
> snapshot retention synced from hardware registers after a panic
> or watchdog reset.

Instead of having to use a number to map the memory regions, could
we use

memory-region-names property to describe the index ? That way it
is much easier to read and is less error prone.

Names could be something like:

tmc-reserved-trace
tmc-reserved-metadata

Suzuki

>
> Signed-off-by: Linu Cherian <[email protected]>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,coresight-tmc.yaml | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,coresight-tmc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,coresight-tmc.yaml
> index cb8dceaca70e..dce54978554a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,coresight-tmc.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,coresight-tmc.yaml
> @@ -101,6 +101,17 @@ properties:
> and ETF configurations.
> $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/port
>
> + memory-region:
> + items:
> + - description: Reserved trace buffer memory for ETR and ETF sinks.
> + For ETR, this reserved memory region is used for trace data capture.
> + Same region is used for trace data retention as well after a panic
> + or watchdog reset.
> + For ETF, this reserved memory region is used for retention of trace
> + data synced from internal SRAM after a panic or watchdog reset.
> +
> + - description: Reserved meta data memory. Used for ETR and ETF sinks.
> +
> required:
> - compatible
> - reg
> @@ -115,6 +126,8 @@ examples:
> etr@20070000 {
> compatible = "arm,coresight-tmc", "arm,primecell";
> reg = <0x20070000 0x1000>;
> + memory-region = <&etr_trace_mem_reserved>,
> + <&etr_mdata_mem_reserved>;
>
> clocks = <&oscclk6a>;
> clock-names = "apb_pclk";