Re: [PATCH v2 02/19] PM / devfreq: exynos: Add documentation for generic exynos bus frequency driver

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-12-10T00:39:38Z

On 09.12.2015 13:07, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> This patch adds the documentation for generic exynos bus frequency
> driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..54a1f9c46c88
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
> +* Generic Exynos Bus frequency device
> +
> +The Samsung Exynos SoC have many buses for data transfer between DRAM
> +and sub-blocks in SoC. Almost Exynos SoC have the common architecture
> +for buses. Generally, the each bus of Exynos SoC includes the source clock
> +and power line and then is able to change the clock according to the usage
> +of each buses on runtime. When gathering the usage of each buses on runtime,
> +thie driver uses the PPMU (Platform Performance Monitoring Unit) which

s/thie/the/

> +is able to measure the current load of sub-blocks.
> +
> +There are a little different composition among Exynos SoC because each Exynos
> +SoC has the different sub-blocks. So, this difference should be specified
> +in devicetree file instead of each device driver. In result, this driver
> +is able to support the bus frequency for all Exynos SoCs.
> +
> +Required properties for bus device:
> +- compatible: Should be "samsung,exynos-bus".
> +- clock-names : the name of clock used by the bus, "bus".
> +- clocks : phandles for clock specified in "clock-names" property.
> +- #clock-cells: should be 1.

This is a clock consumer, right? So the clock-cells is not valid here.

> +- operating-points-v2: the OPP table including frequency/voltage information
> + to support DVFS (Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling) feature.
> +- vdd-supply: the regulator to provide the buses with the voltage.
> +- devfreq-events: the devfreq-event device to monitor the curret utilization

s/curret/current/

> + of buses.
> +
> +Optional properties for bus device:
> +- exynos,saturation-ratio: the percentage value which is used to calibrate
> + the performance count againt total cycle count.

s/againt/against/

> +
> +Example1:
> + Show the AXI buses of Exynos3250 SoC. Exynos3250 divides the buses to
> + power line (regulator). The MIF (Memory Interface) AXI bus is used to
> + transfer data between DRAM and CPU and uses the VDD_MIF regualtor.
> +
> + - power line(VDD_MIF) --> bus for DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller) block
> +
> + - MIF bus's frequency/voltage table
> + -----------------------
> + |Lv| Freq | Voltage |
> + -----------------------
> + |L1| 50000 |800000 |
> + |L2| 100000 |800000 |
> + |L3| 134000 |800000 |
> + |L4| 200000 |800000 |
> + |L5| 400000 |875000 |
> + -----------------------
> +
> +Example2 :
> + The bus of DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller) block in exynos3250.dtsi
> + are listed below:

s/are/is/ (one bus is listed)

> +
> + bus_dmc: bus_dmc {
> + compatible = "samsung,exynos-bus";
> + clocks = <&cmu_dmc CLK_DIV_DMC>;
> + clock-names = "bus";
> + operating-points-v2 = <&bus_dmc_opp_table>;
> + status = "disabled";
> + };
> +
> + bus_dmc_opp_table: opp_table0 {
> + compatible = "operating-points-v2";
> + opp-shared;
> +
> + opp00 {

Maybe use convention with frequency, like:
opp@50000000
This also used in opp.txt examples.

> + opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <50000000>;
> + opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> + };
> + opp01 {
> + opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <100000000>;
> + opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> + };
> + opp02 {
> + opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <134000000>;
> + opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> + };
> + opp03 {
> + opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <200000000>;
> + opp-microvolt = <800000>;
> + };
> + opp04 {
> + opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <400000000>;
> + opp-microvolt = <875000>;
> + };
> + };
> +
> + Usage case to handle the frequency and voltage of bus on runtime
> + in exynos3250-rinato.dts are listed below:

s/are/is/

> +
> + &bus_dmc {
> + devfreq-events = <&ppmu_dmc0_3>, <&ppmu_dmc1_3>;
> + vdd-supply = <&buck1_reg>; /* VDD_MIF */
> + status = "okay";
> + };
>