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Message-ID: <CAPDyKFr9V6iPJhXXrv5RxgAE-YvXDboN5GP8E=q2VHnjs8cL5w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:20:12 +0200
From:   Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>,
        Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Nikunj Kela <nkela@...cinc.com>,
        Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...cinc.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/11] cpufreq: scmi: Add support to parse domain-id
 using #power-domain-cells

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 16:37, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 01:52:17PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 17:24, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 04:17:36PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > > The performance domain-id can be described in DT using the power-domains
> > > > property or the clock property. The latter is already supported, so let's
> > > > add support for the power-domains too.
> > > >
> > >
> > > How is this supposed to work for the CPUs ? The CPU power domains are
> > > generally PSCI on most of the platforms and the one using OSI explicitly
> > > need to specify the details while ones using PC will not need to. Also they
> > > can never be performance domains too. So I am not sure if I am following this
> > > correctly.
> >
> > Your concerns are certainly correct, I completely forgot about this.
> > We need to specify what power-domain index belongs to what, by using
> > power-domain-names in DT. So a CPU node, that has both psci for power
> > and scmi for performance would then typically look like this:
> >
> > power-domains = <&CPU_PD0>, <&scmi_dvfs 4>;
> > power-domain-names = "psci", "scmi";
>
> That is completely backwards. Entries are named based on the consumer
> side. The function of each clock or interrupt for example. Here your
> entries are based on the provider which should be opaque to the
> consumer.

Okay, so you would rather prefer something along the lines of the below?

power-domain-names = "power", "perf";

The "psci" name is already part of the current cpus DT binding
(Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.yaml), so then it looks
like that deserves an update too. Right?

Kind regards
Uffe

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