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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/1] iommu/arm-smmu: Add support for multiple TBU child devices
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 05:31:07PM +0530, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> ARM MMU-500 implements a TBU (uTLB) for each connected master
> besides a single TCU which controls and manages the address
> translations. Each of these TBUs can either be in the same
> power domain as the master, or they can have a independent
> power switch.
> This design addresses the challenges to control TBU power.
> Adding child devices for each TBUs present in the configuration
> lets us control the power and clocks to TLBs having individual
> power domains. The device link between master devices (such as,
> display, and GPU) and TBU devices ensures that the master takes
> care of powering the smmu as long as it's available.
> When the master is not available, the TBUs are identified with
> sid and powered on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>
> - The idea behind this patch is to handle the distributed smmu
> architectures, similar to MMU-500.
> - Untested yet.
> - There are still few instances where the correct tbu device has
> to be referenced and thus powered on to handle TLB maintenance
> operations.
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt | 27 +++
> drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 191 +++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> index d97a6bc8e608..7cf67e75022e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> @@ -98,6 +98,18 @@ conditions.
> accessed before master gets enabled and linked to its
> SMMU.
>
> +- child nodes: ARM MMU-500 implements a TBU (page table cache or TLB) for
> + each connected master besides a single TCU that controls
> + and manages the address translations.
> + Each of the child nodes represents a TBU that is attached to
> + the master. This child node will have following property:
> +
> + - compatibe: must be "arm,mmu-500-tbu" for TBU child nodes of arm,mmu-500
> + smmu.
> + - stream-id-range: array representing the starting stream id and the number
> + of supported stream-ids. This gives information about
> + the range of stream-ids that are supported by this TBU.

Needs a vendor prefix.

Also need to document reg property. What does reg represent? If just an
index with no correlation to h/w numbering, then perhaps stream ids
could be put into reg instead.

Rob

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