[PATCH v2] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Convert fsl,mpic-msi to YAML

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Jun 26 06:12:32 AEST 2025


On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 11:42:09AM +0200, J. Neuschäfer wrote:
> As part of a larger effort to bring various PowerPC-related bindings
> into the YAML world, this patch converts msi-pic.txt to YAML and moves
> it into the bindings/interrupt-controller/ directory. The conversion may
> necessarily be a bit hard to read because the binding is quite verbose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: J. Neuschäfer <j.ne at posteo.net>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Rebase on v6.16-rc1
> - Address Conor Dooley's review comments:
>   - Add multiline marker (|) to preserve formatting
>   - Split 'reg' list in second example
>   - Rewrite version dependent information as an if/else schema
> 
> Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250403-msipic-yaml-v1-1-f4248475714f@posteo.net
> ---
> ---
>  .../interrupt-controller/fsl,mpic-msi.yaml         | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  .../devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/msi-pic.txt    | 111 --------------
>  2 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,mpic-msi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,mpic-msi.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..89db7742c28b3650207b361bfa6fbaf4e69ccc45
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/fsl,mpic-msi.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/interrupt-controller/fsl,mpic-msi.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Freescale MSI interrupt controller
> +
> +description: |
> +  The Freescale hypervisor and msi-address-64
> +  -------------------------------------------
> +
> +  Normally, PCI devices have access to all of CCSR via an ATMU mapping.  The
> +  Freescale MSI driver calculates the address of MSIIR (in the MSI register
> +  block) and sets that address as the MSI message address.
> +
> +  In a virtualized environment, the hypervisor may need to create an IOMMU
> +  mapping for MSIIR.  The Freescale ePAPR hypervisor has this requirement
> +  because of hardware limitations of the Peripheral Access Management Unit
> +  (PAMU), which is currently the only IOMMU that the hypervisor supports.
> +  The ATMU is programmed with the guest physical address, and the PAMU
> +  intercepts transactions and reroutes them to the true physical address.
> +
> +  In the PAMU, each PCI controller is given only one primary window.  The
> +  PAMU restricts DMA operations so that they can only occur within a window.
> +  Because PCI devices must be able to DMA to memory, the primary window must
> +  be used to cover all of the guest's memory space.
> +
> +  PAMU primary windows can be divided into 256 subwindows, and each
> +  subwindow can have its own address mapping ("guest physical" to "true
> +  physical").  However, each subwindow has to have the same alignment, which
> +  means they cannot be located at just any address.  Because of these
> +  restrictions, it is usually impossible to create a 4KB subwindow that
> +  covers MSIIR where it's normally located.
> +
> +  Therefore, the hypervisor has to create a subwindow inside the same
> +  primary window used for memory, but mapped to the MSIR block (where MSIIR
> +  lives).  The first subwindow after the end of guest memory is used for
> +  this.  The address specified in the msi-address-64 property is the PCI
> +  address of MSIIR.  The hypervisor configures the PAMU to map that address to
> +  the true physical address of MSIIR.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - J. Neuschäfer <j.ne at posteo.net>
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    oneOf:
> +      - enum:
> +          - fsl,mpic-msi
> +          - fsl,mpic-msi-v4.3
> +          - fsl,ipic-msi
> +          - fsl,vmpic-msi
> +          - fsl,vmpic-msi-v4.3
> +      - items:
> +          - enum:
> +              - fsl,mpc8572-msi
> +              - fsl,mpc8610-msi
> +              - fsl,mpc8641-msi
> +          - const: fsl,mpic-msi
> +
> +  reg:
> +    minItems: 1
> +    items:
> +      - description: Address and length of the shared message interrupt
> +          register set
> +      - description: Address of aliased MSIIR or MSIIR1 register for platforms
> +          that have such an alias. If using MSIIR1, the second region must be
> +          added because different MSI group has different MSIIR1 offset.
> +
> +  interrupts:
> +    minItems: 1
> +    maxItems: 16
> +    description:
> +      Each one of the interrupts here is one entry per 32 MSIs, and routed to
> +      the host interrupt controller. The interrupts should be set as edge
> +      sensitive. If msi-available-ranges is present, only the interrupts that
> +      correspond to available ranges shall be present.
> +
> +  msi-available-ranges:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-matrix
> +    items:
> +      items:
> +        - description: First MSI interrupt in this range
> +        - description: Number of MSI interrupts in this range
> +    description:
> +      Define which MSI interrupt can be used in the 256 MSI interrupts.
> +      If not specified, all the MSI interrupts can be used.
> +      Each available range must begin and end on a multiple of 32 (i.e. no
> +      splitting an individual MSI register or the associated PIC interrupt).
> +
> +  msi-address-64:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint64
> +    description:
> +      64-bit PCI address of the MSIIR register. The MSIIR register is used for
> +      MSI messaging.  The address of MSIIR in PCI address space is the MSI
> +      message address.
> +
> +      This property may be used in virtualized environments where the hypervisor
> +      has created an alternate mapping for the MSIR block.  See the top-level
> +      description for an explanation.
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - reg
> +  - interrupts
> +
> +anyOf:

allOf

> +  - if:
> +      properties:
> +        compatible:
> +          contains:
> +            enum:
> +              - fsl,mpic-msi-v4.3
> +              - fsl,vmpic-msi-v4.3
> +    then:
> +      properties:
> +        interrupts:
> +          maxItems: 16

Don't you mean 'minItems: 16'? Otherwise, this schema has no effect.

I can fix these up when applying.

> +          description:
> +            Version 4.3 implies that there are 16 shared interrupts, and they
> +            are configured through MSIIR1.


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