Re: [PATCH V3 01/10] Documentation: dt-bindings: mailbox: tegra: Add binding for HSP mailbox

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 19/07/16 10:17, Joseph Lo wrote:
> Add DT binding for the Hardware Synchronization Primitives (HSP). The
> HSP is designed for the processors to share resources and communicate
> together. It provides a set of hardware synchronization primitives for
> interprocessor communication. So the interprocessor communication (IPC)
> protocols can use hardware synchronization primitive, when operating
> between two processors not in an SMP relationship.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>
> ---
> Sorry. Please allow me just update the binding patches of this series.
> Want to make sure the binding is acceptable first.
> Thanks.
> 
> Changes in V3:
> - use two cells for mboxes property
> Changes in V2:
> - revise the compatible string, interrupt-names, interrupts, and #mbox-cells
>   properties
> - remove "nvidia,hsp-function" property
> - fix the header file name
> - the binding supports the concept of multiple HSP sub-modules on one HSP HW
>   block now.
> ---
>  .../bindings/mailbox/nvidia,tegra186-hsp.txt       | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/dt-bindings/mailbox/tegra186-hsp.h         | 20 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/nvidia,tegra186-hsp.txt
>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/mailbox/tegra186-hsp.h
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/nvidia,tegra186-hsp.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/nvidia,tegra186-hsp.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a9152380642d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/nvidia,tegra186-hsp.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
> +NVIDIA Tegra Hardware Synchronization Primitives (HSP)
> +
> +The HSP modules are used for the processors to share resources and communicate
> +together. It provides a set of hardware synchronization primitives for
> +interprocessor communication. So the interprocessor communication (IPC)
> +protocols can use hardware synchronization primitives, when operating between
> +two processors not in an SMP relationship.
> +
> +The features that HSP supported are shared mailboxes, shared semaphores,
> +arbitrated semaphores and doorbells.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- name : Should be hsp
> +- compatible
> +    Array of strings.
> +    one of:
> +    - "nvidia,tegra186-hsp"
> +- reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device.
> +- interrupt-names
> +    Array of strings.
> +    Contains a list of names for the interrupts described by the interrupt
> +    property. May contain the following entries, in any order:
> +    - "doorbell"
> +    Users of this binding MUST look up entries in the interrupt property
> +    by name, using this interrupt-names property to do so.
> +- interrupts
> +    Array of interrupt specifiers.
> +    Must contain one entry per entry in the interrupt-names property,
> +    in a matching order.
> +- #mbox-cells : Should be 2.
> +
> +The mbox specifier of the "mboxes" property in the client node should
> +contain two data. The first one should be the HSP type and the second
> +one should be the ID that the client is going to use. Those information
> +can be found in the following file.
> +
> +- <dt-bindings/mailbox/tegra186-hsp.h>.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +hsp_top0: hsp@3c00000 {
> +	compatible = "nvidia,tegra186-hsp";
> +	reg = <0x0 0x03c00000 0x0 0xa0000>;
> +	interrupts = <GIC_SPI 176 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
> +	interrupt-names = "doorbell";
> +	#mbox-cells = <2>;
> +};
> +
> +client {
> +	...
> +	mboxes = <&hsp_top0 HSP_MBOX_TYPE_DB HSP_DB_MASTER_XXX>;
> +};
> diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/mailbox/tegra186-hsp.h b/include/dt-bindings/mailbox/tegra186-hsp.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..d1c1432707cd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/dt-bindings/mailbox/tegra186-hsp.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +/*
> + * This header provides constants for binding nvidia,tegra186-hsp.
> + *
> + * The number with HSP_DB_MASTER prefix indicates the bit that is
> + * associated with a master ID in the doorbell registers.
> + */
> +
> +
> +#ifndef _DT_BINDINGS_MAILBOX_TEGRA186_HSP_H
> +#define _DT_BINDINGS_MAILBOX_TEGRA186_HSP_H
> +
> +#define HSP_MBOX_TYPE_DB 0x0
> +#define HSP_MBOX_TYPE_SM 0x1
> +#define HSP_MBOX_TYPE_SS 0x2
> +#define HSP_MBOX_TYPE_AS 0x3

Nit ... may be we should add a comment that describes what the above are?

> +
> +#define HSP_DB_MASTER_CCPLEX 17
> +#define HSP_DB_MASTER_BPMP 19

Nit ... I would be tempted to move the comment in the header to above
these defines, as I missed it on my first pass of this.

Otherwise ...

Acked-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Cheers
Jon

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