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Message-ID: <a94ab8ed-e8e7-b239-d9f1-498f6f9348e1@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:34:27 -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

To make this simpler, I think it's best to isolate the cache information 
in its own patch. So I will amend this patch to include topology 
information only.

On 1/31/19 3:29 PM, Bo Yan wrote:
> 
> 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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