Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753712Ab3J3HTG (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 03:19:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:39729 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752216Ab3J3HTD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 03:19:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] edac: Document Krait L1/L2 EDAC driver binding Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: <20131030003805.GC3268@kartoffel> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:19:00 -0500 Cc: Stephen Boyd , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <302FC9DF-1149-4B71-AFC6-7DE05885F2CE@codeaurora.org> References: <1383006690-6754-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> <1383006690-6754-5-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> <90D2FDE5-C43F-4ACF-B287-4E0AD8617892@codeaurora.org> <526FF7DB.5040805@codeaurora.org> <20131030003805.GC3268@kartoffel> To: Mark Rutland X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3255 Lines: 76 On Oct 29, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:00:59PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote: >> On 10/29/13 01:21, Kumar Gala wrote: >>> On Oct 28, 2013, at 7:31 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote: >>> >>>> The Krait L1/L2 error reporting device is made up of two >>>> interrupts, one per-CPU interrupt for the L1 caches and one >>>> interrupt for the L2 cache. >>>> >>>> Cc: >>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd >>>> --- >>>> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/qcom,krait-cache-erp.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ >>>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) >>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/qcom,krait-cache-erp.txt >>>> >>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/qcom,krait-cache-erp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/qcom,krait-cache-erp.txt >>>> new file mode 100644 >>>> index 0000000..01fe8a8 >>>> --- /dev/null >>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/qcom,krait-cache-erp.txt >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ >>>> +* Qualcomm Krait L1 / L2 cache error reporting >>>> + >>>> +Required properties: >>>> +- compatible: Should be "qcom,krait-cache-erp" >>>> +- interrupts: Should contain the L1/CPU error interrupt number and >>>> + then the L2 cache error interrupt number >>>> + >>>> +Optional properties: >>>> +- interrupt-names: Should contain the interrupt names "l1_irq" and >>>> + "l2_irq" >>>> + >>>> +Example: >>>> + edac { >>>> + compatible = "qcom,krait-cache-erp"; >>>> + interrupts = <1 9 0xf04>, <0 2 0x4>; >>>> + }; >>> Why wouldn't we have these as part of cache nodes in the dts? (which begs the question why we don't have cache nodes?) >>> >> >> I can certainly add cache nodes and cpu nodes and then put the >> interrupts in those nodes. I was thinking along those same lines when I >> ported this driver but figured it would be good to get something out >> there. The only question I have is how am I supposed to hook that up >> into the linux device model? Will the edac driver bind to the device >> created for the cpus node and the cache node? I guess it will have to be >> a driver that binds to two devices. >> >> One could argue that we should put the cp15 based architected timers in >> the cpus node also but so far nobody has done that and I think there was >> some reasoning behind that, Mark? > > The architected timer binding was created at a time I wasn't involved in kernel > development, and I'm not aware of any particular reasoning. I've heard that > there was a decision to not duplicate banked resources, which would explain not > having the timer under /cpus/cpu@N, but doesn't imply that having it under > /cpus is bad. > > Do we have precedent for putting any devices other than CPUs in /cpus? On PPC we had core cache's (depending on topology) that would be there, and thus why I raised the suggestion. - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/