Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] dt-bindings: cpufreq: Introduce QCOM CPUFREQ Firmware bindings

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 01:54:24PM -0700, skannan@codeaurora.org wrote:
> On 2018-08-03 16:46, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >Quoting Taniya Das (2018-07-24 03:42:49)
> >>diff --git
> >>a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/cpufreq-qcom-hw.txt
> >>b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/cpufreq-qcom-hw.txt
> >>new file mode 100644
> >>index 0000000..22d4355
> >>--- /dev/null
> >>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpufreq/cpufreq-qcom-hw.txt
> >>@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
> >[...]
> >>+
> >>+               CPU7: cpu@700 {
> >>+                       device_type = "cpu";
> >>+                       compatible = "qcom,kryo385";
> >>+                       reg = <0x0 0x700>;
> >>+                       enable-method = "psci";
> >>+                       next-level-cache = <&L2_700>;
> >>+                       qcom,freq-domain = <&freq_domain_table1>;
> >>+                       L2_700: l2-cache {
> >>+                               compatible = "cache";
> >>+                               next-level-cache = <&L3_0>;
> >>+                       };
> >>+               };
> >>+       };
> >>+
> >>+       qcom,cpufreq-hw {
> >>+               compatible = "qcom,cpufreq-hw";
> >>+
> >>+               clocks = <&rpmhcc RPMH_CXO_CLK>;
> >>+               clock-names = "xo";
> >>+
> >>+               #address-cells = <2>;
> >>+               #size-cells = <2>;
> >>+               ranges;
> >>+               freq_domain_table0: freq_table0 {
> >>+                       reg = <0 0x17d43000 0 0x1400>;
> >>+               };
> >>+
> >>+               freq_domain_table1: freq_table1 {
> >>+                       reg = <0 0x17d45800 0 0x1400>;
> >>+               };
> >
> >Sorry, this is just not proper DT design. The whole node should have a
> >reg property, and it should contain two (or three if we're handling the
> >L3 clk domain?) different offsets for the different power clusters. The
> >problem seems to still be that we don't have a way to map the CPUs to
> >the clk domains they're in provided by this hardware block. Making
> >subnodes is not the solution.
> 
> The problem is mapping clock domains to logical CPUs that CPUfreq uses. The
> physical CPU to logical CPU mapping can be changed by the kernel (even
> through DT if I'm not mistaken). So we need to have a way to tell in DT
> which physical CPUs are connected to which CPU freq clock domain.
> 

How about passing CPU freq clock domain id as along with phandle in
qcom,freq-domain ?

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Regards,
Sudeep