Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] of: reserved_mem: add support for named reserved mem nodes

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Hi Rob,

On 2015-12-31 00:25, Rob Herring wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This patch allows device drivers to initialize more than one reserved
memory region assigned to given device. When driver needs to use more
than one reserved memory region, it should allocate child devices and
initialize regions by index or name for each of its child devices.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  .../bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt   |   2 +
  .../devicetree/bindings/resource-names.txt         |   1 +
  drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c                       | 104 +++++++++++++++++----
  include/linux/of_reserved_mem.h                    |  31 +++++-
  4 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt
index 3da0ebdba8d9..43a14957fd64 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ Regions in the /reserved-memory node may be referenced by other device
  nodes by adding a memory-region property to the device node.

  memory-region (optional) - phandle, specifier pairs to children of /reserved-memory
+memory-region-names (optional) - supplemental names property, provide array of
+                                names to identify memory regions

  Example
  -------
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/resource-names.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/resource-names.txt
index e280fef6f265..51823e99b983 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/resource-names.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/resource-names.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Resource Property     Supplemental Names Property
  reg                    reg-names
  clocks                 clock-names
  interrupts             interrupt-names
+memory-region          memory-region-names
The other cases of *-names should correspond to actual h/w names for a
h/w block. memory-regions are not really h/w. So I'd prefer to not add
memory-region-names. If you want a name for the region, put it in the
region node. The name for each client node is not going to be
different.

There is a difference between a name in the region node and a name assigned
in client node. Reserved memory region bindings already allows assigning
given region to more than one device. In such case the name put in the
region itself is not really useful.

In my case (Exynos MFC device) the names are related to HW names. The memory
regions are named in the hw documentation (referred as 'left memory bank'
and 'right memory bank'). Using those names in the binding is also simply
convenient (no need to remember which regions is at which index number).

Those names might be also convenient for describing Android's ION related
regions, although I didn't look deep into details of such use case.

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

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