linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] Documentation: devicetree: add PPMU events description

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Message-ID: <20190430223629.GA22317@bogus>
Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:36:29 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Lukasz Luba <l.luba@...tner.samsung.com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, b.zolnierkie@...sung.com,
        krzk@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, cw00.choi@...sung.com,
        kyungmin.park@...sung.com, m.szyprowski@...sung.com,
        s.nawrocki@...sung.com, myungjoo.ham@...sung.com, kgene@...nel.org,
        willy.mh.wolff.ml@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] Documentation: devicetree: add PPMU events
 description

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 03:48:07PM +0200, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> Extend the documenation by events description with new 'event-data-type'
> field. Add example how the event might be defined in DT.

Why do we need event types in DT? We don't do this for other h/w such as 
ARM PMU.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <l.luba@...tner.samsung.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.txt  | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.txt
> index 3e36c1d..47feb5f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/event/exynos-ppmu.txt
> @@ -145,3 +145,21 @@ Example3 : PPMUv2 nodes in exynos5433.dtsi are listed below.
>  			reg = <0x104d0000 0x2000>;
>  			status = "disabled";
>  		};
> +
> +The 'event' type specified in the PPMU node defines 'event-name'
> +which also contains 'id' number and optionally 'event-data-type'.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +		events {
> +			ppmu_leftbus_0: ppmu-event0-leftbus {
> +				event-name = "ppmu-event0-leftbus";
> +				event-data-type = <PPMU_RO_DATA_CNT>;
> +			};
> +		};
> +
> +The 'event-data-type' defines the type of data which shell be counted
> +by the counter. You can check include/dt-bindings/pmu/exynos_ppmu.h for
> +all possible type, i.e. count read requests, count write data in bytes,
> +etc. This field is optional and when it is missing, the driver code will
> +use default data type.
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>