Re: [RFC PATCH] edac: add support for ARM PL310 L2 cache parity

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Apr 09 2014 - 07:33:04 EST


On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 08:02:40PM +0530, Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri wrote:
> Add support for ARM Pl310 L2 cache controller parity error
>
> Signed-off-by: Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri <punnaia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/edac/pl310_edac_l2.txt | 19 ++
> drivers/edac/Kconfig | 7 +
> drivers/edac/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/edac/pl310_edac_l2.c | 236 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/pl310_edac_l2.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/edac/pl310_edac_l2.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/pl310_edac_l2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/pl310_edac_l2.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..94fbb8d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/pl310_edac_l2.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +Pl310 L2 Cache EDAC driver, it does reports the data and tag ram parity errors.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: Should be "arm,pl310-cache".
> +- intterupts: Interrupt number to the cpu.
> +- reg: Physical base address and size of cache controller's memory mapped
> + registers
> +
> +Example:
> +++++++++
> +
> + L2: cache-controller {
> + compatible = "arm,pl310-cache";
> + interrupts = <0 2 4>;
> + reg = <0xf8f02000 0x1000>;
> + };
> +
> +PL310 L2 Cache EDAC driver detects the Parity enable state by reading the
> +appropriate control register.
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/Kconfig b/drivers/edac/Kconfig
> index 878f090..059ac31 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/edac/Kconfig
> @@ -326,6 +326,13 @@ config EDAC_TILE
> Support for error detection and correction on the
> Tilera memory controller.
>
> +config EDAC_PL310_L2
> + tristate "Pl310 L2 Cache Controller"
> + depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && ARM
> + help
> + Support for parity error detection on L2 cache controller
> + data and tag ram memory
> +


Ok, so I'm looking at this after having looked at the synopsys thing
and it looks very similar in functionality - it does the basic dance of
registering and setting up stuff, only using different devicetree nodes,
regs, etc.

However, it adds a new file under drivers/edac/ and I'm wondering if it
wouldn't be better to simply create a xilinx_edac.c and put all your
stuff in there, maybe even share code by abstracting it nicely. Having
a separate driver only for a single L2 cache controller seems kinda too
granulary for me.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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