Re: [PATCH 4/9] dt-bindings: Add RISC-V incoming MSI controller bindings

Anup Patel
2022-11-14T12:29:17Z

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 8:18 PM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hey Anup,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 10:12:02AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > dt-bindings: Add RISC-V incoming MSI controller bindings
>
> nit: it looks like the usual prefix here is "dt-bindings:
> interrupt-controller".

Okay, I will update.

>
> > We add DT bindings document for RISC-V incoming MSI controller (IMSIC)
> > defined by the RISC-V advanced interrupt architecture (AIA) specification.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
> > ---
> > .../interrupt-controller/riscv,imsic.yaml | 174 ++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 174 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,imsic.yaml
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,imsic.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,imsic.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..05106eb1955e
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/riscv,imsic.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/interrupt-controller/riscv,imsic.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: RISC-V Incoming MSI Controller (IMSIC)
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > + - Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
> > +
> > +description:
>
> Is this one of the situations where we want to have a | after
> "description:" to preserve formatting?

Okay, I will update.

>
> > + The RISC-V advanced interrupt architecture (AIA) defines a per-CPU incoming
> > + MSI controller (IMSIC) for handling MSIs in a RISC-V platform. The RISC-V
> > + AIA specification can be found at https://github.com/riscv/riscv-aia.
> > +
> > + The IMSIC is a per-CPU (or per-HART) device with separate interrupt file
> > + for each privilege level (machine or supervisor). The configuration of
> > + a IMSIC interrupt file is done using AIA CSRs and it also has a 4KB MMIO
> > + space to receive MSIs from devices. Each IMSIC interrupt file supports a
> > + fixed number of interrupt identities (to distinguish MSIs from devices)
> > + which is same for given privilege level across CPUs (or HARTs).
> > +
> > + The arrangement of IMSIC interrupt files in MMIO space of a RISC-V platform
> > + follows a particular scheme defined by the RISC-V AIA specification. A IMSIC
> > + group is a set of IMSIC interrupt files co-located in MMIO space and we can
> > + have multiple IMSIC groups (i.e. clusters, sockets, chiplets, etc) in a
> > + RISC-V platform. The MSI target address of a IMSIC interrupt file at given
> > + privilege level (machine or supervisor) encodes group index, HART index,
> > + and guest index (shown below).
> > +
> > + XLEN-1 >=24 12 0
> > + | | | |
> > + -------------------------------------------------------------
> > + |xxxxxx|Group Index|xxxxxxxxxxx|HART Index|Guest Index| 0 |
> > + -------------------------------------------------------------
> > +
> > + The device tree of a RISC-V platform will have one IMSIC device tree node
> > + for each privilege level (machine or supervisor) which collectively describe
> > + IMSIC interrupt files at that privilege level across CPUs (or HARTs).
> > +
> > +allOf:
> > + - $ref: /schemas/interrupt-controller.yaml#
> > +
> > +properties:
> > + compatible:
> > + items:
> > + - enum:
> > + - vendor,chip-imsics
>
> Is it valid to have a dummy here? I did a bit of grepping & could not
> see a single other yaml binding which used a placeholder like this -
> other than the example schema itself. I assume you're trying to get
> across the point that using the bare riscv,imsics is not okay and a
> vendor should create a custom string for their implementation?

Yes, this dummy is a placeholder to mandate two compatible strings.
The dummy can eventually be replaced by some actual implementation
compatible string.

>
> Also, the file name says "riscv,imsic", the description says "IMSIC" but
> you've used "imsics" in the compatible. Is this a typo, or a plural?

Yes, the file name should be consistent. I will update the file name.

>
> Thanks,
> Conor.
>
> > + - const: riscv,imsics
> > +
> > + reg:
> > + minItems: 1
> > + maxItems: 128
> > + description:
> > + Base address of each IMSIC group.
> > +
> > + interrupt-controller: true
> > +
> > + "#interrupt-cells":
> > + const: 0
> > +
> > + msi-controller: true
> > +
> > + interrupts-extended:
> > + minItems: 1
> > + maxItems: 32768
> > + description:
> > + This property represents the set of CPUs (or HARTs) for which given
> > + device tree node describes the IMSIC interrupt files. Each node pointed
> > + to should be a riscv,cpu-intc node, which has a riscv node (i.e. RISC-V
> > + HART) as parent.
> > +
> > + riscv,num-ids:
> > + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > + minimum: 63
> > + maximum: 2047
> > + description:
> > + Specifies how many interrupt identities are supported by IMSIC interrupt
> > + file.
> > +
> > + riscv,num-guest-ids:
> > + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > + minimum: 63
> > + maximum: 2047
> > + description:
> > + Specifies how many interrupt identities are supported by IMSIC guest
> > + interrupt file. When not specified the number of interrupt identities
> > + supported by IMSIC guest file is assumed to be same as specified by
> > + the riscv,num-ids property.
> > +
> > + riscv,slow-ipi:
> > + type: boolean
> > + description:
> > + The presence of this property implies that software interrupts (i.e.
> > + IPIs) using IMSIC software injected MSIs is slower compared to other
> > + software interrupt mechanisms (such as SBI IPI) on the underlying
> > + RISC-V platform.
> > +
> > + riscv,guest-index-bits:
> > + minimum: 0
> > + maximum: 7
> > + description:
> > + Specifies number of guest index bits in the MSI target address. When
> > + not specified it is assumed to be 0.
> > +
> > + riscv,hart-index-bits:
> > + minimum: 0
> > + maximum: 15
> > + description:
> > + Specifies number of HART index bits in the MSI target address. When
> > + not specified it is estimated based on the interrupts-extended property.
> > +
> > + riscv,group-index-bits:
> > + minimum: 0
> > + maximum: 7
> > + description:
> > + Specifies number of group index bits in the MSI target address. When
> > + not specified it is assumed to be 0.
> > +
> > + riscv,group-index-shift:
> > + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > + minimum: 24
> > + maximum: 55
> > + description:
> > + Specifies the least significant bit of the group index bits in the
> > + MSI target address. When not specified it is assumed to be 24.
> > +
> > +additionalProperties: false
> > +
> > +required:
> > + - compatible
> > + - reg
> > + - interrupt-controller
> > + - msi-controller
> > + - interrupts-extended
> > + - riscv,num-ids
> > +
> > +examples:
> > + - |
> > + // Example 1 (Machine-level IMSIC files with just one group):
> > +
> > + imsic_mlevel: interrupt-controller@24000000 {
> > + compatible = "vendor,chip-imsics", "riscv,imsics";
> > + interrupts-extended = <&cpu1_intc 11>,
> > + <&cpu2_intc 11>,
> > + <&cpu3_intc 11>,
> > + <&cpu4_intc 11>;
> > + reg = <0x28000000 0x4000>;
> > + interrupt-controller;
> > + #interrupt-cells = <0>;
> > + msi-controller;
> > + riscv,num-ids = <127>;
> > + };
> > +
> > + - |
> > + // Example 2 (Supervisor-level IMSIC files with two groups):
> > +
> > + imsic_slevel: interrupt-controller@28000000 {
> > + compatible = "vendor,chip-imsics", "riscv,imsics";
> > + interrupts-extended = <&cpu1_intc 9>,
> > + <&cpu2_intc 9>,
> > + <&cpu3_intc 9>,
> > + <&cpu4_intc 9>;
> > + reg = <0x28000000 0x2000>, /* Group0 IMSICs */
> > + <0x29000000 0x2000>; /* Group1 IMSICs */
> > + interrupt-controller;
> > + #interrupt-cells = <0>;
> > + msi-controller;
> > + riscv,num-ids = <127>;
> > + riscv,group-index-bits = <1>;
> > + riscv,group-index-shift = <24>;
> > + };
> > +...
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
> >
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Regards,
Anup