[v3,1/5] coresight: bindings for debug module

Commit Message

Leo Yan March 3, 2017, 6 a.m. UTC

According to ARMv8 architecture reference manual (ARM DDI 0487A.k)
Chapter 'Part H: External debug', the CPU can integrate debug module
and it can support self-hosted debug and external debug. Especially
for supporting self-hosted debug, this means the program can access
the debug module from mmio region; and usually the mmio region is
integrated with coresight.

So add document for binding debug component, includes binding to APB
clock; and also need specify the CPU node which the debug module is
dedicated to specific CPU.

Suggested-by: Mike Leach <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <[e-mail]>
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 .../devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-debug.txt    | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-debug.txt

Comments

Suzuki K Poulose March 9, 2017, 1:27 p.m. UTC | #1

To be honest, coresight-debug sounds too generic and could be confusing with lot
of the other components. To be precise, the area is for External Debug to a CPU.
So "arm,coresight-cpu-debug" or even "arm,coresight-cpu-external-debug" sounds
more appropriate to me.

Suzuki

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-debug.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-debug.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92e5003
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+* CoreSight Debug Component:
+
+CoreSight debug component are compliant with the ARMv8 architecture reference
+manual (ARM DDI 0487A.k) Chapter 'Part H: External debug'. The external debug
+module is mainly used for two modes: self-hosted debug and external debug, and
+it can be accessed from mmio region from Coresight and eventually the debug
+module connects with CPU for debugging. And the debug module provides
+sample-based profiling extension, which can be used to sample CPU program
+counter, secure state and exception level, etc; usually every CPU has one
+dedicated debug module to be connected.
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible : should be
+	     * "arm,coresight-debug"; supplemented with "arm,primecell" since
+	       this driver is using the AMBA bus interface.
+
+- reg : physical base address and length of the register set.
+
+- clocks : the clock associated to this component.
+
+- clock-names : the name of the clock referenced by the code. Since we are
+                using the AMBA framework, the name of the clock providing
+		the interconnect should be "apb_pclk" and the clock is
+		mandatory. The interface between the debug logic and the
+		processor core is clocked by the internal CPU clock, so it
+		is enabled with CPU clock by default.
+
+- cpu : the cpu phandle the debug module is affined to. When omitted
+	the module is considered to belong to CPU0.
+
+Example:
+
+	debug@f6590000 {
+		compatible = "arm,coresight-debug","arm,primecell";
+		reg = <0 0xf6590000 0 0x1000>;
+		clocks = <&sys_ctrl HI6220_DAPB_CLK>;
+		clock-names = "apb_pclk";
+		cpu = <&cpu0>;
+	};