linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] PM / devfreq: exynos: Add documentation for generic exynos bus frequency driver

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:39:26 +0900
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>, myungjoo.ham@...sung.com,
	kgene@...nel.org
Cc:	kyungmin.park@...sung.com, robh+dt@...nel.org, pawel.moll@....com,
	mark.rutland@....com, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
	galak@...eaurora.org, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	tjakobi@...h.uni-bielefeld.de, linux.amoon@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] PM / devfreq: exynos: Add documentation for
 generic exynos bus frequency driver

On 09.12.2015 13:07, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> This patch adds the documentation for generic exynos bus frequency
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt     | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 94 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..54a1f9c46c88
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
> +* Generic Exynos Bus frequency device
> +
> +The Samsung Exynos SoC have many buses for data transfer between DRAM
> +and sub-blocks in SoC. Almost Exynos SoC have the common architecture
> +for buses. Generally, the each bus of Exynos SoC includes the source clock
> +and power line and then is able to change the clock according to the usage
> +of each buses on runtime. When gathering the usage of each buses on runtime,
> +thie driver uses the PPMU (Platform Performance Monitoring Unit) which

s/thie/the/

> +is able to measure the current load of sub-blocks.
> +
> +There are a little different composition among Exynos SoC because each Exynos
> +SoC has the different sub-blocks. So, this difference should be specified
> +in devicetree file instead of each device driver. In result, this driver
> +is able to support the bus frequency for all Exynos SoCs.
> +
> +Required properties for bus device:
> +- compatible: Should be "samsung,exynos-bus".
> +- clock-names : the name of clock used by the bus, "bus".
> +- clocks : phandles for clock specified in "clock-names" property.
> +- #clock-cells: should be 1.

This is a clock consumer, right? So the clock-cells is not valid here.

> +- operating-points-v2: the OPP table including frequency/voltage information
> +  to support DVFS (Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling) feature.
> +- vdd-supply: the regulator to provide the buses with the voltage.
> +- devfreq-events: the devfreq-event device to monitor the curret utilization

s/curret/current/

> +  of buses.
> +
> +Optional properties for bus device:
> +- exynos,saturation-ratio: the percentage value which is used to calibrate
> +                   the performance count againt total cycle count.

s/againt/against/

> +
> +Example1:
> +	Show the AXI buses of Exynos3250 SoC. Exynos3250 divides the buses to
> +	power line (regulator). The MIF (Memory Interface) AXI bus is used to
> +	transfer data between DRAM and CPU and uses the VDD_MIF regualtor.
> +
> +	- power line(VDD_MIF) --> bus for DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller) block
> +
> +	- MIF bus's frequency/voltage table
> +	-----------------------
> +	|Lv| Freq   | Voltage |
> +	-----------------------
> +	|L1| 50000  |800000   |
> +	|L2| 100000 |800000   |
> +	|L3| 134000 |800000   |
> +	|L4| 200000 |800000   |
> +	|L5| 400000 |875000   |
> +	-----------------------
> +
> +Example2 :
> +	The bus of DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller) block in exynos3250.dtsi
> +	are listed below:

s/are/is/ (one bus is listed)

> +
> +	bus_dmc: bus_dmc {
> +		compatible = "samsung,exynos-bus";
> +		clocks = <&cmu_dmc CLK_DIV_DMC>;
> +		clock-names = "bus";
> +		operating-points-v2 = <&bus_dmc_opp_table>;
> +		status = "disabled";
> +	};
> +
> +	bus_dmc_opp_table: opp_table0 {
> +		compatible = "operating-points-v2";
> +		opp-shared;
> +
> +		opp00 {

Maybe use convention with frequency, like:
	opp@...00000
This also used in opp.txt examples.


> +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <50000000>;
> +			opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> +		};
> +		opp01 {
> +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <100000000>;
> +			opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> +		};
> +		opp02 {
> +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <134000000>;
> +			opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> +		};
> +		opp03 {
> +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <200000000>;
> +			opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> +		};
> +		opp04 {
> +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <400000000>;
> +			opp-microvolt = <875000>;
> +		};
> +	};
> +
> +	Usage case to handle the frequency and voltage of bus on runtime
> +	in exynos3250-rinato.dts are listed below:

s/are/is/

> +
> +	&bus_dmc {
> +		devfreq-events = <&ppmu_dmc0_3>, <&ppmu_dmc1_3>;
> +		vdd-supply = <&buck1_reg>;	/* VDD_MIF */
> +		status = "okay";
> +	};
> 

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