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Message-ID: <dc0055ca-b9eb-bcc6-1815-2aa482fa7c1f@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:29:34 -0800
From: Bo Yan <byan@...dia.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
CC: <jonathanh@...dia.com>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
<mark.rutland@....com>, <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: tegra: add topology data for Tegra194 cpu
On 1/31/19 2:25 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:35:54AM -0800, Bo Yan wrote:
>> The xavier CPU architecture includes 8 CPU cores organized in
>> 4 clusters. Add cpu-map data for topology initialization, add
>> cache data for cache node creation in sysfs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bo Yan <byan@...dia.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194.dtsi | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194.dtsi
>> index 6dfa1ca..7c2a1fb 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194.dtsi
>> @@ -870,63 +870,195 @@
>> #address-cells = <1>;
>> #size-cells = <0>;
> These don't seem to be well-defined. They are mentioned in a very weird
> locations (Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt) but there
> seem to be examples and other device tree files that use them so maybe
> those are all valid. It might be worth mentioning these in other places
> where people can more easily find them.
It might be logical to place a reference to this document
(booting-without-of.txt) in architecture specific documents, for
example, arm/cpus.txt. I see the need for improved documentation, but
this probably should be best done in a separate change.
>
> According to the above document, {i,d}-cache-line-size are deprecated in
> favour of {i,d}-cache-block-size.
Mostly, this seems to be derived from the oddity of PowerPC, which might
have different cache-line-size and cache-block-size. I don't know if
there are other examples? It looks like the {i,d}-cache-line-size are
being used in dts files for almost all architectures, the only exception
is arch/sh/boot/dts/j2_mimas_v2.dts. On ARM and ARM64, cache-line-size
is the same as cache-block-size. So I am wondering whether the
booting-without-of.txt should be fixed instead? just to keep it
consistent among dts files, especially in arm64.
>
> I also don't see any mention of {i,d}-cache_sets in the device tree
> bindings, though riscv/cpus.txt mentions {i,d}-cache-sets (note the
> hyphen instead of underscore) in the examples. arm/l2c2x0.txt and
> arm/uniphier/cache-unifier.txt describe cache-sets, though that's
> slightly different.
>
> Might make sense to document all these in more standard places. Maybe
> adding them to arm/cpus.txt. For consistency with other properties, I
> think there should be called {i,d}-cache-sets like for RISC-V.
>
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_0>;
>
> This seems to be called next-level-cache everywhere else, though it's
> only formally described in arm/uniphier/cache-uniphier.txt. So might
> also make sense to add this to arm/cpus.txt.
the improved documentation is certainly desired, I agree.
>
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@1 {
>> + cl0_1: cpu@1 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x10001>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_0>;
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@2 {
>> + cl1_0: cpu@2 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x100>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_1>;
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@3 {
>> + cl1_1: cpu@3 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x101>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_1>;
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@4 {
>> + cl2_0: cpu@4 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x200>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_2>;
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@5 {
>> + cl2_1: cpu@5 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x201>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_2>;
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@6 {
>> + cl3_0: cpu@6 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x10300>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_3>;
>> };
>>
>> - cpu@7 {
>> + cl3_1: cpu@7 {
>> compatible = "nvidia,tegra194-carmel", "arm,armv8";
>> device_type = "cpu";
>> reg = <0x10301>;
>> enable-method = "psci";
>> + i-cache-size = <131072>;
>> + i-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + i-cache-sets = <512>;
>> + d-cache-size = <65536>;
>> + d-cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + d-cache_sets = <256>;
>> + l2-cache = <&l2_3>;
>> };
>> };
>>
>> + l2_0: l2-cache0 {
>> + cache-size = <2097152>;
>> + cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + cache-sets = <2048>;
>> + next-level-cache = <&l3>;
>> + };
>
> Does this need a compatible string? Also, are there controllers behind
> these caches? I'm just wondering if these also need reg properties and
> unit-addresses.
No need for compatible string. No reg properties and addresses. These
will be parsed by drivers/of/base.c and drivers/base/cacheinfo.c, they
are generic.
>
> arm/l2c2x0.txt and arm/uniphier/cache-uniphier.txt describe an
> additional property that you don't specify here: cache-level. This
> sounds useful to have so that we don't have to guess the cache level
> from the name, which may or may not work depending on what people name
> the nodes.
the cache level property is implied in device tree hierarchy, so after
system boots up, I can find cache level in related sysfs nodes:
[root@...rm cache]# cat index*/level
1
1
2
3
>
> Also, similar to the L1 cache, cache-block-size is preferred over
> cache-line-size.
>
>> + l3: l3-cache {
>> + cache-size = <4194304>;
>> + cache-line-size = <64>;
>> + cache-sets = <4096>;
>> + };
>
> The same comments apply as for the L2 caches.
>
> Thierry
>
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