Re: [PATCH v9 07/20] PM / devfreq: exynos: Update documentation for bus devices using passive governor

From: Chanwoo Choi
Date: Tue Apr 12 2016 - 04:20:18 EST


On 2016ë 04ì 12ì 16:34, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 04/11/2016 05:57 AM, 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>
>> Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> .../devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt | 250 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 247 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>> index 78171b918e3f..03f13d38f1a1 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/exynos-bus.txt
>> @@ -8,22 +8,46 @@ of the bus in runtime. To monitor the usage of each bus in runtime,
>> the driver uses the PPMU (Platform Performance Monitoring Unit), which
>> is able to measure the current load of sub-blocks.
>>
>> +The Exynos SoC includes the various sub-blocks which have the each AXI bus.
>> +The each AXI bus has the owned source clock but, has not the only owned
>> +power line. The power line might be shared among one more sub-blocks.
>> +So, we can divide into two type of device as the role of each sub-block.
>> +There are two type of bus devices as following:
>> +- parent bus device
>> +- passive bus device
>> +
>> +Basically, parent and passive bus device share the same power line.
>> +The parent bus device can only change the voltage of shared power line
>> +and the rest bus devices (passive bus device) depend on the decision of
>> +the parent bus device. If there are three blocks which share the VDD_xxx
>> +power line, Only one block should be parent device and then the rest blocks
>> +should depend on the parent device as passive device.
>> +
>> + VDD_xxx |--- A block (parent)
>> + |--- B block (passive)
>> + |--- C block (passive)
>> +
>> There are a little different composition among Exynos SoC because each Exynos
>> SoC has different sub-blocks. Therefore, shch difference should be specified
>
> s/shch/such/

I'll fix it on patch2 because this typo happen on patch2.

>
>> 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.
>> - operating-points-v2: the OPP table including frequency/voltage information
>> to support DVFS (Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling) feature.
>> +
>> +Required properties only for parent bus device:
>> - vdd-supply: the regulator to provide the buses with the voltage.
>> - devfreq-events: the devfreq-event device to monitor the current utilization
>> of buses.
>>
>> -Optional properties for bus device:
>> +Required properties only for passive bus device:
>> +- devfreq: the parent bus device.
>> +
>> +Optional properties only for parent bus device:
>> - exynos,saturation-ratio: the percentage value which is used to calibrate
>> the performance count against total cycle count.
>> - exynos,voltage-tolerance: the percentage value for bus voltage tolerance
>> @@ -34,7 +58,20 @@ 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.
>
> s/regualtor/regulator/

ditto.

>
>
> Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your review.

Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi