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Message-Id: <20190320012251.2728-2-atish.patra@wdc.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:22:48 -0700
From: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
Dmitriy Cherkasov <dmitriy@...-tech.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>,
linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
Otto Sabart <ottosabart@...erm.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
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"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
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Subject: [RFT/RFC PATCH v2 1/4] dt-binding: cpu-topology: Move cpu-map to a common binding.
cpu-map binding can be used to described cpu topology for both
RISC-V & ARM. It makes more sense to move the binding to document
to a common place.
The relevant discussion can be found here.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/6/19
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
---
.../topology.txt => cpu/cpu-topology.txt} | 82 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/topology.txt => cpu/cpu-topology.txt} (86%)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpu/cpu-topology.txt
similarity index 86%
rename from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
rename to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpu/cpu-topology.txt
index 3b8febb4..069addcc 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpu/cpu-topology.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
===========================================
-ARM topology binding description
+CPU topology binding description
===========================================
===========================================
1 - Introduction
===========================================
-In an ARM system, the hierarchy of CPUs is defined through three entities that
+In a SMP system, the hierarchy of CPUs is defined through three entities that
are used to describe the layout of physical CPUs in the system:
- socket
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ are used to describe the layout of physical CPUs in the system:
- core
- thread
-The cpu nodes (bindings defined in [1]) represent the devices that
-correspond to physical CPUs and are to be mapped to the hierarchy levels.
-
The bottom hierarchy level sits at core or thread level depending on whether
symmetric multi-threading (SMT) is supported or not.
@@ -25,33 +22,31 @@ threads existing in the system and map to the hierarchy level "thread" above.
In systems where SMT is not supported "cpu" nodes represent all cores present
in the system and map to the hierarchy level "core" above.
-ARM topology bindings allow one to associate cpu nodes with hierarchical groups
+CPU topology bindings allow one to associate cpu nodes with hierarchical groups
corresponding to the system hierarchy; syntactically they are defined as device
tree nodes.
-The remainder of this document provides the topology bindings for ARM, based
-on the Devicetree Specification, available from:
+Currently, only ARM/RISC-V intend to use this cpu topology binding but it may be
+used for any other architecture as well.
-https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/
+The cpu nodes, as per bindings defined in [4], represent the devices that
+correspond to physical CPUs and are to be mapped to the hierarchy levels.
-If not stated otherwise, whenever a reference to a cpu node phandle is made its
-value must point to a cpu node compliant with the cpu node bindings as
-documented in [1].
A topology description containing phandles to cpu nodes that are not compliant
-with bindings standardized in [1] is therefore considered invalid.
+with bindings standardized in [4] is therefore considered invalid.
===========================================
2 - cpu-map node
===========================================
-The ARM CPU topology is defined within the cpu-map node, which is a direct
+The ARM/RISC-V CPU topology is defined within the cpu-map node, which is a direct
child of the cpus node and provides a container where the actual topology
nodes are listed.
- cpu-map node
- Usage: Optional - On ARM SMP systems provide CPUs topology to the OS.
- ARM uniprocessor systems do not require a topology
+ Usage: Optional - On SMP systems provide CPUs topology to the OS.
+ Uniprocessor systems do not require a topology
description and therefore should not define a
cpu-map node.
@@ -494,8 +489,63 @@ cpus {
};
};
+Example 3: HiFive Unleashed (RISC-V 64 bit, 4 core system)
+
+{
+ #address-cells = <2>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+ compatible = "sifive,fu540g", "sifive,fu500";
+ model = "sifive,hifive-unleashed-a00";
+
+ ...
+ cpus {
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <0>;
+ cpu-map {
+ cluster0 {
+ core0 {
+ cpu = <&CPU1>;
+ };
+ core1 {
+ cpu = <&CPU2>;
+ };
+ core2 {
+ cpu0 = <&CPU2>;
+ };
+ core3 {
+ cpu0 = <&CPU3>;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+
+ CPU1: cpu@1 {
+ device_type = "cpu";
+ compatible = "sifive,rocket0", "riscv";
+ reg = <0x1>;
+ }
+
+ CPU2: cpu@2 {
+ device_type = "cpu";
+ compatible = "sifive,rocket0", "riscv";
+ reg = <0x2>;
+ }
+ CPU3: cpu@3 {
+ device_type = "cpu";
+ compatible = "sifive,rocket0", "riscv";
+ reg = <0x3>;
+ }
+ CPU4: cpu@4 {
+ device_type = "cpu";
+ compatible = "sifive,rocket0", "riscv";
+ reg = <0x4>;
+ }
+ }
+};
===============================================================================
[1] ARM Linux kernel documentation
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.yaml
[2] Devicetree NUMA binding description
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt
+[3] RISC-V Linux kernel documentation
+ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.txt
+[4] https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/
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