Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] dt-bindings: arm: coresight-tmc: Add "memory-region" property

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 09:26:49AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 04/09/2023 06:05, Linu Cherian wrote:
> > memory-region 0: Reserved trace buffer memory
> > 
> >    TMC ETR: When available, use this reserved memory region for
> >    trace data capture. Same region is used for trace data
> >    retention after a panic or watchdog reset.
> > 
> >    TMC ETF: When available, use this reserved memory region for
> >    trace data retention synced from internal SRAM after a panic or
> >    watchdog reset.
> > 
> > memory-region 1: Reserved meta data memory
> > 
> >    TMC ETR, ETF: When available, use this memory for register
> >    snapshot retention synced from hardware registers after a panic
> >    or watchdog reset.
> 
> Instead of having to use a number to map the memory regions, could
> we use
> 
> memory-region-names property to describe the index ? That way it
> is much easier to read and is less error prone.

You can, but the order should still be defined.

> Names could be something like:
> 
> tmc-reserved-trace
> tmc-reserved-metadata

Names are local to the binding. So 'tmc' is redundant. And everything is 
a reserved region for 'memory-region', so that's redundant too.

Rob