Re: [PATCH 4/4] dt-bindings: cache: Add docs for StarFive StarLink-500 cache controller

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Mar 15 2024 - 12:36:18 EST


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 02:12:05PM +0800, Joshua Yeong wrote:
> Add DT binding documentation used by StarFive's
> Starlink-500 cache controller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Yeong <joshua.yeong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../cache/starfive,starlink-500-cache.yaml | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/starfive,starlink-500-cache.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/starfive,starlink-500-cache.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/starfive,starlink-500-cache.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..97ddf7db39e9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/starfive,starlink-500-cache.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/cache/starfive,starlink-500-cache.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: StarFive StarLink-500 Cache Controller
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Joshua Yeong <joshua.yeong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +
> +description:
> + StarFive's StarLink-500 controller manages cache shared between clusters of
> + CPU cores. The cache driver provides mechanism to perform invalidate and write
> + back functionality to the shared memory.

What a driver does is not relevant to the binding. You could describe
what the registers control though.

> +
> +allOf:
> + - $ref: /schemas/cache-controller.yaml#
> +
> +# We need a select here so we don't match all nodes with 'cache'
> +select:
> + properties:
> + compatible:
> + contains:
> + enum:
> + - starfive,starlink-500-cache
> +
> + required:
> + - compatible
> +
> +properties:
> + compatible:
> + items:
> + - const: starfive,starlink-500-cache
> + - const: cache
> +
> + reg:
> + maxItems: 1
> +
> + cache-size: true
> + cache-sets: true
> + cache-block-size: true
> + cache-level: true
> + cache-unified: true

Drop these and...

> +
> +additionalProperties: false

.. use 'unevaluatedProperties' instead.

> +
> +required:
> + - compatible
> + - reg

cache-unified should be required as I imagine the cache is always
unified. Perhaps other properties too (cache-level already is)?

> +
> +examples:
> + - |
> + cache-controller@15000000 {
> + compatible = "starfive,starlink-500-cache", "cache";
> + reg = <0x15000000 0x278>;
> + cache-block-size = <64>;
> + cache-level = <3>;
> + cache-sets = <8192>;
> + cache-size = <0x400000>;
> + cache-unified;
> + };
> --
> 2.25.1
>