Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] dt-bindings: firmware: arm,scmi: Add atomic-threshold-us optional property

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 07:58:28PM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> SCMI protocols in the platform can optionally signal to the OSPM agent
> the expected execution latency for a specific resource/operation pair.
> 
> Introduce an SCMI system wide optional property to describe a global time
> threshold which can be configured on a per-platform base to determine the
> opportunity, or not, for an SCMI command advertised to have a higher
> latency than the threshold, to be considered for atomic operations:
> high-latency SCMI synchronous commands should be preferably issued in the
> usual non-atomic mode.
> 
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
> ---
> v3 --> v4
> - renamed property to atomic-threshold-us
> v1 --> v2
> - rephrased the property description
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml        | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> index eae15df36eef..3ffa669b91af 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/arm,scmi.yaml
> @@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ properties:
>    '#size-cells':
>      const: 0
>  
> +  atomic-threshold-us:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description:
> +      An optional time value, expressed in microseconds, representing, on this
> +      platform, the threshold above which any SCMI command, advertised to have
> +      an higher-than-threshold execution latency, should not be considered for
> +      atomic mode of operation, even if requested.

> +      If left unconfigured defaults to zero.

This can be expressed as 'default: 0'.

> +
>    arm,smc-id:
>      $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>      description:
> @@ -264,6 +273,8 @@ examples:
>              #address-cells = <1>;
>              #size-cells = <0>;
>  
> +            atomic_threshold = <10000>;
> +
>              scmi_devpd: protocol@11 {
>                  reg = <0x11>;
>                  #power-domain-cells = <1>;
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
>