[Skiboot] [PATCH v13 2/9] skiboot/doc: Add devicetree binding document for IMC

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jun 19 17:05:40 AEST 2017


Add a device tree binding documentation for the In Memory
Collection counter infrastructure.

Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 doc/device-tree/imc.rst | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/device-tree/imc.rst

diff --git a/doc/device-tree/imc.rst b/doc/device-tree/imc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8533cc12d3e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/device-tree/imc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+.. _device-tree/imc:
+
+===========================
+IMC Device Tree Bindings
+===========================
+
+See :ref:`imc` for general In-Memory Collection (IMC) counter information.
+
+imc-counters top-level node
+----------------------------
+.. code-block:: dts
+
+      imc-counters {
+        compatible = "ibm,opal-in-memory-counters";
+        #address-cells = <0x1>;
+        #size-cells = <0x1>;
+        phandle = <0x1000023a>;
+        version-id = <0xd>;
+	/* Denote IMC Events Catalog version used to build this DTS file. */
+
+      };
+
+IMC device/units bindings
+-------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: dts
+
+        mcs3 {
+                compatible = "ibm,imc-counters";
+                events-prefix = "PM_MCS3_"; /* denotes event name to be prefixed to get complete event name supported by this device */
+
+                phandle = <0x10000241>;
+                events = <0x10000242>; /* phandle of the events node supported by this device */
+
+                unit = "MiB";
+                scale = "4"; /* unit and scale for all the events for this device */
+
+                reg = <0x118 0x8>; /* denotes base address for device event updates */
+                type = <0x10>;
+                size = 0x40000;
+                offset = 0x180000;
+                base_addr = <Base address of the counter in reserve memory>
+                /* This is per-chip memory field and OPAL files it based on the no of chip in the system */
+                /* base_addr property also indicates (or hints) kernel whether to memory */
+                /* should be mmapped or allocated at system start for the counters */
+                chipids = <chip-id for the base_addr >
+        };
+
+
+IMC device event bindings
+-------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: dts
+
+        nest-mcs-events {
+                #address-cells = <0x1>;
+                #size-cells = <0x1>;
+                phandle = <0x10000242>;
+
+                event at 98 {
+                      desc = "Total Write Bandwidth seen on both MCS"; /* event description */
+
+                      phandle = <0x1000023d>;
+                      reg = <0x98 0x8>; /* event offset,when added with (nest-offset-address + device reg) will point to actual counter memory */
+
+                      event-name = "DOWN_128B_DATA_XFER"; /* denotes the actual event name */
+
+                };
+
+		/* List of events supported */
+
+        };
-- 
2.7.4



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