[PATCH v8 03/18] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V local interrupt controller docs

Palmer Dabbelt
2017-09-12T21:57:48Z

This patch adds documentation on the RISC-V local interrupt controller,
which is a per-hart interrupt controller that manages all interrupts
entering a RISC-V hart. This interrupt controller is present on all
RISC-V systems.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
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+RISC-V Hart-Level Interrupt Controller (HLIC)
+---------------------------------------------
+
+RISC-V cores include Control Status Registers (CSRs) which are local to each
+hart and can be read or written by software. Some of these CSRs are used to
+control local interrupts connected to the core. Every interrupt is ultimately
+routed through a hart's HLIC before it interrupts that hart.
+
+The RISC-V supervisor ISA manual specifies three interrupt sources that are
+attached to every HLIC: software interrupts, the timer interrupt, and external
+interrupts. Software interrupts are used to send IPIs between cores. The
+timer interrupt comes from an architecturally mandated real-time timer that is
+controller via SBI calls and CSR reads. External interrupts connect all other
+device interrupts to the HLIC, which are routed via the platform-level
+interrupt controller (PLIC).
+
+All RISC-V systems that conform to the supervisor ISA specification are
+required to have a HLIC with these three interrupt sources present. Since the
+interrupt map is defined by the ISA it's not listed in the HLIC's device tree
+entry, though external interrupt controllers (like the PLIC, for example) will
+need to define how their interrupts map to the relevant HLICs.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : "riscv,cpu-intc"
+- #interrupt-cells : should be <1>
+- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
+
+Furthermore, this interrupt-controller MUST be embedded inside the cpu
+definition of the hart whose CSRs control these local interrupts.
+
+An example device tree entry for a HLIC is show below.
+
+ cpu1: cpu@1 {
+ compatible = "riscv";
+ ...
+ cpu1-intc: interrupt-controller {
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ compatible = "riscv,cpu-intc";
+ interrupt-controller;
+ };
+ };
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