Re: [PATCH v2 09/19] PM / devfreq: exynos: Update documentation for bus devices using passive governor

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Dec 10 2015 - 22:24:45 EST


On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:10:13AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:08:01PM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> >> This patch updates the documentation for passive bus devices and adds the
> >> detailed example of Exynos3250.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> .../devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt | 244 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> >> 1 file changed, 241 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> >> index 54a1f9c46c88..c4fdc70f8eac 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
> >> @@ -13,18 +13,23 @@ 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:
> >> +Required properties for all bus devices:
> >> - 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.
> >> - operating-points-v2: the OPP table including frequency/voltage information
> >> to support DVFS (Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling) feature.
> >> +
> >> +Required properties for only parent bus device:
> >> - vdd-supply: the regulator to provide the buses with the voltage.
> >> - devfreq-events: the devfreq-event device to monitor the curret utilization
> >> of buses.
> >>
> >> -Optional properties for bus device:
> >> +Required properties for only passive bus device:
> >> +- devfreq: the parent bus device.
> >> +
> >> +Optional properties for only parent bus device:
> >> - exynos,saturation-ratio: the percentage value which is used to calibrate
> >> the performance count againt total cycle count.
> >>
> >> @@ -33,7 +38,20 @@ Example1:
> >> 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 (Memory Interface) block
> >> + : VDD_MIF |--- DMC (Dynamic Memory Controller)
> >> +
> >> + - INT (Internal) block
> >> + : VDD_INT |--- LEFTBUS (parent device)
> >> + |--- PERIL
> >> + |--- MFC
> >> + |--- G3D
> >> + |--- RIGHTBUS
> >> + |--- FSYS
> >> + |--- LCD0
> >> + |--- PERIR
> >> + |--- ISP
> >> + |--- CAM
> >
> > This still has the same problem as before. I would expect that the bus
> > hierarchy in the dts match the hierarchy here. You just have flat nodes
> > in the example below. So all IP blocks affected by frequency scaling
> > should be under the bus node defining the OPPs. Something like this:
>
> The each bus of sub-block has not h/w dependency among sub-blocks
> and has the owned source clock / OPP table. Just they share the same
> power line. So, I think that flat nodes in the example below is not problem.

I'm talking about the peripherals not described here. Is the ISP block
not a child of the bus_isp node? Same for the display controller block
and bus_lcd0. And so on.

Rob

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