[PATCH v8 04/18] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V PLIC documentation

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

This patch adds documentation for the platform-level interrupt
controller (PLIC) found in all RISC-V systems. This interrupt
controller routes interrupts from all the devices in the system to each
hart-local interrupt controller.

Note: the DTS bindings for the PLIC aren't set in stone yet, as we might
want to change how we're specifying holes in the hart list.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
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+RISC-V Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+The RISC-V supervisor ISA specification allows for the presence of a
+platform-level interrupt controller (PLIC). The PLIC connects all external
+interrupts in the system to all hart contexts in the system, via the external
+interrupt source in each hart's hart-local interrupt controller (HLIC). A hart
+context is a privilege mode in a hardware execution thread. For example, in
+an 4 core system with 2-way SMT, you have 8 harts and probably at least two
+privilege modes per hart; machine mode and supervisor mode.
+
+Each interrupt can be enabled on per-context basis. Any context can claim
+a pending enabled interrupt and then release it once it has been handled.
+
+Each interrupt has a configurable priority. Higher priority interrupts are
+serviced firs. Each context can specify a priority threshold. Interrupts
+with priority below this threshold will not cause the PLIC to raise its
+interrupt line leading to the context.
+
+While the PLIC supports both edge-triggered and level-triggered interrupts,
+interrupt handlers are oblivious to this distinction and therefor it is not
+specific in the PLIC device-tree binding.
+
+While the RISC-V ISA doesn't specify a memory layout for the PLIC, the
+"riscv,plic0" device is a concrete implementation of the PLIC that contains a
+specific memory layout. More details about the memory layout of the
+"riscv,plic0" device can be found as a comment in the device driver, or as part
+of the SiFive U5 Coreplex Series Manual (page 22 of the PDF of version 1.0)
+<https://www.sifive.com/documentation/coreplex/u5-coreplex-series-manual/>
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : "riscv,plic0"
+- #address-cells : should be <0>
+- #interrupt-cells : should be <1>
+- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
+- reg : Should contain 1 register range (address and length)
+- interrupts-extended : Specifies which contexts are connected to the PLIC,
+ with "-1" specifying that a context is not present.
+
+Example:
+
+ plic: interrupt-controller@c000000 {
+ #address-cells = <0>;
+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
+ compatible = "riscv,plic0";
+ interrupt-controller;
+ interrupts-extended = <
+ &cpu0-intc 11
+ &cpu1-intc 11 &cpu1-intc 9
+ &cpu2-intc 11 &cpu2-intc 9
+ &cpu3-intc 11 &cpu3-intc 9
+ &cpu4-intc 11 &cpu4-intc 9>;
+ reg = <0xc000000 0x4000000>;
+ riscv,ndev = <10>;
+ };
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