Commit 54bb4a91 authored by Oleksandr Tyshchenko's avatar Oleksandr Tyshchenko Committed by Juergen Gross

dt-bindings: xen: Clarify "reg" purpose

Xen on Arm has gained new support recently to calculate and report
extended regions (unused address space) safe to use for external
mappings. These regions are reported via "reg" property under
"hypervisor" node in the guest device-tree. As region 0 is reserved
for grant table space (always present), the indexes for extended
regions are 1...N.

No device-tree bindings update is needed (except clarifying the text)
as guest infers the presence of extended regions from the number
of regions in "reg" property.

While at it, remove the following sentence:
"This property is unnecessary when booting Dom0 using ACPI."
for "reg" and "interrupts" properties as the initialization is not
done via device-tree "hypervisor" node in that case anyway.
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1639080336-26573-7-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
parent b2371587
......@@ -7,15 +7,17 @@ the following properties:
compatible = "xen,xen-<version>", "xen,xen";
where <version> is the version of the Xen ABI of the platform.
- reg: specifies the base physical address and size of a region in
memory where the grant table should be mapped to, using an
HYPERVISOR_memory_op hypercall. The memory region is large enough to map
the whole grant table (it is larger or equal to gnttab_max_grant_frames()).
This property is unnecessary when booting Dom0 using ACPI.
- reg: specifies the base physical address and size of the regions in memory
where the special resources should be mapped to, using an HYPERVISOR_memory_op
hypercall.
Region 0 is reserved for mapping grant table, it must be always present.
The memory region is large enough to map the whole grant table (it is larger
or equal to gnttab_max_grant_frames()).
Regions 1...N are extended regions (unused address space) for mapping foreign
GFNs and grants, they might be absent if there is nothing to expose.
- interrupts: the interrupt used by Xen to inject event notifications.
A GIC node is also required.
This property is unnecessary when booting Dom0 using ACPI.
To support UEFI on Xen ARM virtual platforms, Xen populates the FDT "uefi" node
under /hypervisor with following parameters:
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment