[RFC PATCH 1/8] Documentation: add DT binding for ARM System Control and Management Interface(SCMI) protocol

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 12:11:56 EST


This patch adds devicetree binding for System Control and Management
Interface (SCMI) Message Protocol used between the Application Cores(AP)
and the System Control Processor(SCP). The MHU peripheral provides a
mechanism for inter-processor communication between SCP's M3 processor
and AP.

SCP offers control and management of the core/cluster power states,
various power domain DVFS including the core/cluster, certain system
clocks configuration, thermal sensors and many others.

SCMI protocol is developed as better replacement to the existing SCPI
which is not flexible and easily extensible.

Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
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+System Control and Management Interface (SCMI) Message Protocol
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+The SCMI is intended to allow agents such as OSPM to manage various functions
+that are provided by the hardware platform it is running on, including power
+and performance functions.
+
+This binding is intended to define the interface the firmware implementing
+the SCMI as described in ARM document number ARM DUI 0922B ("ARM System Control
+and Management Interface Platform Design Document")[0] provide for OSPM in
+the device tree.
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible : shall be "arm,scmi"
+- method : The method of calling the SCMI firmware. Only permitted value
+ currently is:
+ "mailbox-doorbell" : When mailbox doorbell is used as a mechanism
+ to alert the presence of a messages and/or
+ notification
+- mboxes: List of phandle and mailbox channel specifiers. It should contain
+ exactly one or two mailboxes, one for transmitting messages("tx")
+ and another optional for receiving the notifications("rx") if
+ supported.
+- mbox-names: shall be "tx" or "rx"
+- shmem : List of phandle pointing to the shared memory(SHM) area between the
+ processors using these mailboxes for IPC, one for each mailbox
+ SHM can be any memory reserved for the purpose of this communication
+ between the processors.
+
+See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt for more details
+about the generic mailbox controller and client driver bindings.
+
+Each protocol supported shall have a sub-node with corresponding compatible
+as described in the following sections. If the platform supports dedicated
+communication channel for a particular protocol, the 3 properties namely:
+mboxes, mbox-names and shmem shall be present in the sub-node corresponding
+to that protocol.
+
+Clock/Performance bindings for the clocks/OPPs based on SCMI Message Protocol
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This binding uses the common clock binding[1].
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : shall be "arm,scmi-clocks" or "arm,scmi-perf-domains"
+ arm,scmi-clocks:
+ These clocks either provide an entire range of values
+ between the limits or only discrete points each at fixed
+ step size between the limits. The firmware provides
+ mechanism to discover them.
+ arm,scmi-perf-domains:
+ These are OPPs(not just simple clocks), i.e. discrete
+ performance levels that are supported by the platform.
+ Again the firmware provides mechanism to discover the
+ performance and other attributes associated with the
+ levels.
+
+Other required properties for all clocks(all from common clock binding):
+- #clock-cells : Should be 1. Contains the Clock ID value used by SCMI commands.
+- clock-indices: The identifying number for the clocks(i.e.clock_id) in the
+ node. It can be non linear and hence provide the mapping of
+ identifiers.
+
+Power domain bindings for the power domains based on SCMI Message Protocol
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This binding uses the generic power domain binding[4].
+
+PM domain providers
+===================
+
+Required properties:
+ - #power-domain-cells : Should be 1. Contains the device or the power
+ domain ID value used by SCMI commands.
+
+PM domain consumers
+===================
+
+Required properties:
+ - power-domains : A phandle and PM domain specifier as defined by bindings of
+ the power controller specified by phandle.
+
+Sensor bindings for the sensors based on SCMI Message Protocol
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+SCMI provides an API to access the various sensors on the SoC.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : should be "arm,scmi-sensors".
+- #thermal-sensor-cells: should be set to 1. This property follows the
+ thermal device tree bindings[2].
+
+ Valid cell values are raw identifiers (Sensor ID)
+ as used by the firmware. Refer to platform details
+ for your implementation for the IDs to use.
+
+SRAM and Shared Memory for SCMI
+-------------------------------
+
+A small area of SRAM is reserved for SCMI communication between application
+processors and SCP.
+
+The properties should follow the generic mmio-sram description found in [3]
+
+Each sub-node represents the reserved area for SCMI.
+
+Required sub-node properties:
+- reg : The base offset and size of the reserved area with the SRAM
+- compatible : should be "arm,scp-shmem" for Non-secure SRAM based
+ shared memory
+
+[0] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0056a/index.html
+[1] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
+[2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt
+[3] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sram/sram.txt
+[4] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/power_domain.txt
+
+Example:
+
+sram: sram@50000000 {
+ compatible = "arm,juno-sram-ns", "mmio-sram";
+ reg = <0x0 0x50000000 0x0 0x10000>;
+
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+ ranges = <0 0x0 0x50000000 0x10000>;
+
+ cpu_scp_lpri: scp-shmem@0 {
+ compatible = "arm,juno-scp-shmem";
+ reg = <0x0 0x200>;
+ };
+
+ cpu_scp_hpri: scp-shmem@200 {
+ compatible = "arm,juno-scp-shmem";
+ reg = <0x200 0x200>;
+ };
+};
+
+mailbox: mailbox0@40000000 {
+ ....
+ #mbox-cells = <1>;
+};
+
+scmi_protocol: scmi@2e000000 {
+ compatible = "arm,scmi";
+ mboxes = <&mailbox 0 &mailbox 1>;
+ shmem = <&cpu_scp_lpri &cpu_scp_hpri>;
+
+ scmi_dvfs: clocks@0 {
+ compatible = "arm,scmi-perf-domains";
+ #clock-cells = <1>;
+ clock-indices = <0>, <1>, <2>;
+ };
+ scmi_clk: clocks@3 {
+ compatible = "arm,scmi-clocks";
+ #clock-cells = <1>;
+ clock-indices = <3>, <4>;
+ };
+
+ scmi_sensors: sensors {
+ compatible = "arm,scmi-sensors";
+ #thermal-sensor-cells = <1>;
+ };
+
+ scmi_devpd: power-domains {
+ compatible = "arm,scmi-power-domains";
+ #power-domain-cells = <1>;
+ };
+};
+
+cpu@0 {
+ ...
+ reg = <0 0>;
+ clocks = <&scmi_dvfs 0>;
+};
+
+hdlcd@7ff60000 {
+ ...
+ reg = <0 0x7ff60000 0 0x1000>;
+ clocks = <&scmi_clk 4>;
+ power-domains = <&scmi_devpd 1>;
+};
+
+thermal-zones {
+ soc_thermal {
+ polling-delay-passive = <100>;
+ polling-delay = <1000>;
+
+ /* sensor ID */
+ thermal-sensors = <&scmi_sensors0 3>;
+ ...
+ };
+};
--
2.7.4