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Message-ID: <b31d2e68-e4e0-97e6-158c-1b9ab8308551@quicinc.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:15:39 +0530
From: Sibi Sankar <quic_sibis@...cinc.com>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
CC: <cristian.marussi@....com>, <andersson@...nel.org>,
        <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <quic_rgottimu@...cinc.com>,
        <quic_kshivnan@...cinc.com>, <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        <arm-scmi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/5] dt-bindings: firmware: Document bindings for QCOM
 SCMI Generic Extension



On 12/5/24 20:57, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 11:40:19AM +0530, Sibi Sankar wrote:
>> Document the various memory buses that can be monitored and scaled by
>> the memory latency governor hosted by the QCOM SCMI Generic Extension
>> Protocol v1.0.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sibi Sankar <quic_sibis@...cinc.com>
>> ---
>>
>> v3:
>> * Restructure the bindings to mimic IMX [Christian]
>>
>>   .../bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml           |   1 +
>>   .../bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml   | 246 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   .../dt-bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.h   |  22 ++
>>   3 files changed, 269 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml
>>   create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.h
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
>> index 54d7d11bfed4..1d405f429168 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ description: |
>>   
>>   anyOf:
>>     - $ref: /schemas/firmware/nxp,imx95-scmi.yaml
>> +  - $ref: /schemas/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml
>>   
>>   properties:
>>     $nodename:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..0e8ea6dacd6a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Qualcomm SCMI Memory Bus nodes
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> +  - Sibi Sankar <quic_sibis@...cinc.com>
>> +
>> +description:
>> +  This binding describes the various memory buses that can be monitored and scaled
>> +  by memory latency governor running on the CPU Control Processor (SCMI controller).
>> +
>> +properties:
>> +  protocol@80:
>> +    $ref: '/schemas/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml#/$defs/protocol-node'
>> +    unevaluatedProperties: false
>> +
>> +    properties:
>> +      reg:
>> +        const: 0x80
>> +
>> +    patternProperties:
>> +      '^memory-[0-9]$':
>> +        type: object
>> +        unevaluatedProperties: false
>> +        description:
>> +          The list of all memory buses that can be monitored and scaled by the
>> +          memory latency governor running on the SCMI controller.
>> +
>> +        properties:
>> +          qcom,memory-type:
>> +            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>> +            enum: [0, 1, 2]
>> +            description: |
>> +              Memory Bus Identifier
>> +              0 = QCOM_MEM_TYPE_DDR
>> +              1 = QCOM_MEM_TYPE_LLCC
>> +              2 = QCOM_MEM_TYPE_DDR_QOS
>> +
>> +          freq-table-hz:
>> +            items:
>> +              items:
>> +                - description: Minimum frequency of the memory bus in Hz
>> +                - description: Maximum frequency of the memory bus in Hz
>> +
>> +        patternProperties:
>> +          '^monitor-[0-9]$':
>> +            type: object
>> +            unevaluatedProperties: false
>> +            description:
>> +              The list of all monitors detecting the memory latency bound workloads using
>> +              various counters.
>> +
>> +            properties:
>> +              qcom,compute-type:
>> +                description:
>> +                  Monitors of type compute perform bus dvfs based on a rudimentary CPU
>> +                  frequency to memory frequency map.
>> +                type: boolean
>> +
>> +              qcom,ipm-ceil:
>> +                $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>> +                description:
>> +                  Monitors having this property perform bus dvfs based on the same
>> +                  rudimentary table but the scaling is performed only if the calculated
>> +                  IPM (Instruction Per Misses) exceeds the given ceiling.
>> +
>> +              cpus:
>> +                $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/phandle-array
>> +                description:
>> +                  Should be a list of phandles to CPU nodes (as described in
>> +                  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.yaml).
> 
> And what exactly this list of cpu phandles represent here ?
> 
>> +
>> +              operating-points-v2: true
> 
> Can you elaborate why the protocol can't add a command to fetch this from
> the firmware to avoid any possible mismatch between the DT and firmware.
> 
>> +              opp-table:
>> +                type: object
>> +
>> +            required:
>> +              - cpus
>> +              - operating-points-v2
>> +
>> +            oneOf:
>> +              - required: [ 'qcom,compute-type' ]
>> +              - required: [ 'qcom,ipm-ceil' ]
>> +
>> +        required:
>> +          - qcom,memory-type
>> +          - freq-table-hz
>> +
>> +additionalProperties: true
>> +
>> +examples:
>> +  - |
>> +    #include <dt-bindings/firmware/qcom,scmi-memlat.h>
>> +
>> +    firmware {
>> +        scmi {
>> +            compatible = "arm,scmi";
>> +            mboxes = <&cpucp_mbox 0>, <&cpucp_mbox 2>;
>> +            mbox-names = "tx", "rx";
>> +            shmem = <&cpu_scp_lpri0>, <&cpu_scp_lpri1>;
>> +
>> +            #address-cells = <1>;
>> +            #size-cells = <0>;
>> +
>> +            protocol@80 {
>> +                reg = <0x80>;
>> +
>> +                memory-0 {


Hey Sudeep,

Thanks for taking time to review the series :)

> 
> I am not sure if it is just me, but I find this binding hard to understand.
> Hence I thought I will look and the example and get better understanding
> instead.
> 
> So these monitors are numbered ? If there were any meaningful name it would

A memory type can have a variable number of monitors. The
monitors take in a table and memory type. They track the freq
of a group of cpus and put in requests to scale the memory
according to the table. The naming is just arbitrary here
and we can choose whatever that makes the most sense.


> have been slightly better but irrespective of that I find it hard as why
> the communication with firmware is not based on index and why they are not
> part of the bindings though I see indices used in the driver.
> 
>> +                    qcom,memory-type = <QCOM_MEM_TYPE_DDR>;
> 
> Also I see that the type can be easily derived from the index, care to
> elaborate why the firmware expects it to be sent, if not why is that
> information needed here in the DT ?

The firmware doesn't have any information on the memory available
for it to scale and relies of the linux telling it everything in
order to function.


-Sibi


> 

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