Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753226AbdI1NOI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:14:08 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:56922 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943AbdI1NOG (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:14:06 -0400 From: Sudeep Holla To: ALKML , LKML , DTML Cc: Sudeep Holla , Roy Franz , Harb Abdulhamid , Nishanth Menon , Arnd Bergmann , Loc Ho , Alexey Klimov , Ryan Harkin , Jassi Brar , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland Subject: [PATCH v3 01/22] dt-bindings: mailbox: add support for mailbox client shared memory Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:11:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1506604306-20739-2-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1506604306-20739-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> References: <1506604306-20739-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1907 Lines: 60 Many users of the mailbox controllers depend on the shared memory between the two end points to exchange the main data while using simple doorbell mechanism to alert the end points of the presence of a message. This patch defines device tree bindings to represent such shared memory in a generic way. Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla --- .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt index be05b9746c69..af8ecee2ac68 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ assign appropriate mailbox channel to client drivers. Optional property: - mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel. +- shmem : List of phandle pointing to the shared memory(SHM) area between the + users of these mailboxes for IPC, one for each mailbox. This shared + memory can be part of any memory reserved for the purpose of this + communication between the mailbox client and the remote. + Example: pwr_cntrl: power { @@ -30,3 +35,26 @@ assign appropriate mailbox channel to client drivers. mbox-names = "pwr-ctrl", "rpc"; mboxes = <&mailbox 0 &mailbox 1>; }; + +Example with shared memory(shmem): + + sram: sram@50000000 { + compatible = "mmio-sram"; + reg = <0x50000000 0x10000>; + + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <1>; + ranges = <0 0x50000000 0x10000>; + + cl_shmem: shmem@0 { + compatible = "client-shmem"; + reg = <0x0 0x200>; + }; + }; + + client@2e000000 { + ... + mboxes = <&mailbox 0>; + shmem = <&cl_shmem>; + .. + }; -- 2.7.4