From patchwork Mon Feb 12 18:45:05 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Sudeep Holla X-Patchwork-Id: 872311 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming-dt@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming-dt@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org (client-ip=209.132.180.67; helo=vger.kernel.org; envelope-from=devicetree-owner@vger.kernel.org; receiver=) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3zgFCP5JkYz9t3Z for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:52:17 +1100 (AEDT) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753916AbeBLSpp (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:45:45 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:47106 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753588AbeBLSpo (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:45:44 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E5E164F; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from e107155-lin.cambridge.arm.com (e107155-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.210.28]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3ED713F24D; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:45:42 -0800 (PST) From: Sudeep Holla To: ALKML , LKML , DTML Cc: Sudeep Holla , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann , Alexey Klimov , Mark Rutland Subject: [PATCH v5 01/20] dt-bindings: mailbox: add support for mailbox client shared memory Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:45:05 +0000 Message-Id: <1518461124-17371-2-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1518461124-17371-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> References: <1518461124-17371-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> Sender: devicetree-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Many users of the mailbox controllers depend on the shared memory between the two end points to exchange the main data while using simple doorbell mechanism to alert the end points of the presence of a message. This patch defines device tree bindings to represent such shared memory in a generic way. Cc: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla --- .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt index be05b9746c69..af8ecee2ac68 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mailbox.txt @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ assign appropriate mailbox channel to client drivers. Optional property: - mbox-names: List of identifier strings for each mailbox channel. +- shmem : List of phandle pointing to the shared memory(SHM) area between the + users of these mailboxes for IPC, one for each mailbox. This shared + memory can be part of any memory reserved for the purpose of this + communication between the mailbox client and the remote. + Example: pwr_cntrl: power { @@ -30,3 +35,26 @@ assign appropriate mailbox channel to client drivers. mbox-names = "pwr-ctrl", "rpc"; mboxes = <&mailbox 0 &mailbox 1>; }; + +Example with shared memory(shmem): + + sram: sram@50000000 { + compatible = "mmio-sram"; + reg = <0x50000000 0x10000>; + + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <1>; + ranges = <0 0x50000000 0x10000>; + + cl_shmem: shmem@0 { + compatible = "client-shmem"; + reg = <0x0 0x200>; + }; + }; + + client@2e000000 { + ... + mboxes = <&mailbox 0>; + shmem = <&cl_shmem>; + .. + };