Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] dt-bindings: riscv: add MMU Standard Extensions support for Svpbmt

["Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 30. November 2021, 14:17:41 CET schrieb Jessica Clarke:
> On 30 Nov 2021, at 12:07, Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Am Montag, 29. November 2021, 13:06:23 CET schrieb Heiko Stübner:
> >> Am Montag, 29. November 2021, 09:54:39 CET schrieb Heinrich Schuchardt:
> >>> On 11/29/21 02:40, wefu@redhat.com wrote:
> >>>> From: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
> >>>> 
> >>>> Previous patch has added svpbmt in arch/riscv and add "riscv,svpmbt"
> >>>> in the DT mmu node. Update dt-bindings related property here.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
> >>>> Co-developed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> >>>> Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
> >>>> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
> >>>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 10 ++++++++++
> >>>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >>>> 
> >>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> >>>> index aa5fb64d57eb..9ff9cbdd8a85 100644
> >>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> >>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> >>>> @@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ properties:
> >>>>        - riscv,sv48
> >>>>        - riscv,none
> >>>> 
> >>>> +  mmu:
> >>> 
> >>> Shouldn't we keep the items be in alphabetic order, i.e. mmu before 
> >>> mmu-type?
> >>> 
> >>>> +    description:
> >>>> +      Describes the CPU's MMU Standard Extensions support.
> >>>> +      These values originate from the RISC-V Privileged
> >>>> +      Specification document, available from
> >>>> +      https://riscv.org/specifications/
> >>>> +    $ref: '/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string'
> >>>> +    enum:
> >>>> +      - riscv,svpmbt
> >>> 
> >>> The privileged specification has multiple MMU related extensions: 
> >>> Svnapot, Svpbmt, Svinval. Shall they all be modeled in this enum?
> >> 
> >> I remember in some earlier version some way back there was the
> >> suggestion of using a sub-node instead and then adding boolean
> >> properties for the supported extensions.
> >> 
> >> Aka something like
> >> 	mmu {
> >> 		riscv,svpbmt;	
> >> 	};
> > 
> > For the record, I'm talking about the mail from september
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAAeLtUChjjzG+P8yg45GLZMJy5UR2K5RRBoLFVZhtOaZ5pPtEA@mail.gmail.com/
> > 
> > So having a sub-node would make adding future extensions
> > way nicer.
> 
> Svpbmt is just an ISA extension, and should be treated like any other.
> Let’s not invent two different ways of representing that in the device
> tree.

Heinrich asked how the other extensions should be handled
(Svnapot, Svpbmt, Svinval), so what do you suggest to do with these?


Thanks
Heiko