dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: RISC-V local interrupt controller
Add documentation on the RISC-V local interrupt controller, which is a per-hart interrupt controller that manages all interrupts entering a RISC-V hart. This interrupt controller is present on all RISC-V systems. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> [hch: minor cleanups] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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RISC-V Hart-Level Interrupt Controller (HLIC)
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RISC-V cores include Control Status Registers (CSRs) which are local to each
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CPU core (HART in RISC-V terminology) and can be read or written by software.
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Some of these CSRs are used to control local interrupts connected to the core.
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Every interrupt is ultimately routed through a hart's HLIC before it
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interrupts that hart.
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The RISC-V supervisor ISA manual specifies three interrupt sources that are
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attached to every HLIC: software interrupts, the timer interrupt, and external
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interrupts. Software interrupts are used to send IPIs between cores. The
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timer interrupt comes from an architecturally mandated real-time timer that is
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controller via Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) calls and CSR reads. External
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interrupts connect all other device interrupts to the HLIC, which are routed
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via the platform-level interrupt controller (PLIC).
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All RISC-V systems that conform to the supervisor ISA specification are
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required to have a HLIC with these three interrupt sources present. Since the
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interrupt map is defined by the ISA it's not listed in the HLIC's device tree
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entry, though external interrupt controllers (like the PLIC, for example) will
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need to define how their interrupts map to the relevant HLICs. This means
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a PLIC interrupt property will typically list the HLICs for all present HARTs
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in the system.
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Required properties:
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- compatible : "riscv,cpu-intc"
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- #interrupt-cells : should be <1>
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- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
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Furthermore, this interrupt-controller MUST be embedded inside the cpu
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definition of the hart whose CSRs control these local interrupts.
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An example device tree entry for a HLIC is show below.
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cpu1: cpu@1 {
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compatible = "riscv";
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...
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cpu1-intc: interrupt-controller {
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#interrupt-cells = <1>;
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compatible = "riscv,cpu-intc", "sifive,fu540-c000-cpu-intc";
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interrupt-controller;
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};
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};
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