Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] PM / AVS: rockchip-cpu-avs: add driver handling Rockchip cpu avs

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Aug 19 2016 - 09:36:43 EST


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:38:59AM +0800, Finlye Xiao wrote:
> From: Finley Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch supports adjusting opp's voltage according to leakage
>
> Signed-off-by: Finley Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/power/rockchip-cpu-avs.txt | 37 +++
> drivers/power/avs/Kconfig | 8 +
> drivers/power/avs/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/power/avs/rockchip-cpu-avs.c | 314 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 360 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/rockchip-cpu-avs.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/power/avs/rockchip-cpu-avs.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/rockchip-cpu-avs.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/rockchip-cpu-avs.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..90f6b08
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/rockchip-cpu-avs.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
> +Rockchip cpu avs device tree bindings
> +-------------------------------------
> +
> +Under the same frequency, the operating voltage tends to decrease with
> +increasing leakage. so it is necessary to adjust opp's voltage according
> +to leakage for power.
> +
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: Should be one of the following.
> + - "rockchip,rk3399-cpu-avs" - for RK3399 SoCs.
> +- leakage-volt-<name>: Named leakage-volt property. At runtime, the
> + platform can find a cpu's cluster_id according to it's cpu_id and match
> + leakage-volt-<name> property. The property is an array of 3-tuples
> + items, and each item consists of leakage and voltage like
> + <min-leakage-mA max-leakage-mA vol-uV>.
> + min-leakage: minimum leakage in mA.
> + max-leakage: maximum leakage in mA.
> + vol: voltage in microvolt.

How do you determine these values? When do they vary?

> +
> +Example:
> +
> + cpu_avs: cpu-avs {
> + compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-cpu-avs";

This isn't really a hardware block. For the same reasons we don't have
cpufreq nodes. So I don't think this belongs in DT.

Rob