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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Master-aware devices and sideband ID data
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:02:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708160227.GJ9283@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150708133049.GD7025@leverpostej>

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:17:54AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 10:05:34AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > Mark: how do you see this co-existing/merging with the current bindings?
> > 
> > As I mentioned in my initial mail, it's not clear to me how this can be
> > reconciled with the current bindings. Everything I've been able to come
> > up with so far at best ends up describing the same thing repeatedly.
> > 
> > I'll see what I can come up with. Any sugestions are welcome!
> 
> I can't see a way of keeping the ID transformations explicit with the
> existing bindings, but I think we can simply fold these down into
> properties in the master nodes, given we expect each ID to be derived
> from some initial master ID anyway.
> 
> So, to cater for the ITS we would need to pass master IDs along with the
> MSI parent information, which we could do by extending msi-parent or by
> introducing a new msis property which behaves similarly to the iommus
> property, describing the MSI controllers the device can address (via any
> IOMMUs), along with any controller-specific identification data.
> 
> Which means we'd have DT fragments like the following for an arbitrary
> platform device:
> 
> its0: its {
> 	...
> 	msi-controller;
> 	#msi-cells = <1>; // DeviceId
> };
> 
> its1: its {
> 	...
> 	msi-controller;
> 	#msi-cells = <1>; // DeviceId
> };
> 
> smmu: smmu {
> 	...
> 	iommu-cells = <1>; // StreamId
> };
> 
> device {
> 	...
> 	iommus = <&its 0>;
> 	/* Can use either ITS, but has a different ID at each */
> 	msis = <&its0 0x0>, <&its1 0x400>;
> };
> 
> That doesn't allow you to describe a device with multiple mater ports
> where each master port might want to generate MSIs, but I'm not sure if
> that's a real case.

In this case, I think we'd need something extra to define precisely how
those master ports relate to the rest of the system anyway. That would
likely be a device-specific property, I reckon.

> For PCIe root complexes, we'd need to describe the BDF -> iommu-cells
> and BDF -> msi-cells translations separately with new properties on the
> node for the root complex itself.
> 
> Is there anything obviously broken with the above approach?

Works for me. Can you write this up as a binding extension to msi-parent,
please?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-24 15:50 Master-aware devices and sideband ID data Mark Rutland
2015-05-07 17:49 ` Stuart Yoder
2015-05-08 15:49   ` Will Deacon
2015-05-08 19:30     ` Stuart Yoder
2015-05-11  9:52       ` Will Deacon
2015-05-26 22:20 ` Chalamarla, Tirumalesh
2015-05-27 17:39   ` Mark Rutland
2015-05-29 17:46     ` Chalamarla, Tirumalesh
2015-06-01 10:22       ` Mark Rutland
2015-06-04 22:19         ` Chalamarla, Tirumalesh
2015-06-05  9:05           ` Will Deacon
2015-06-09 10:17             ` Mark Rutland
2015-06-10  8:11               ` Will Deacon
2015-07-08 13:30               ` Mark Rutland
2015-07-08 16:02                 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2015-07-16 13:34                   ` Mark Rutland
2015-07-17 10:36                     ` Will Deacon

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