Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: pru: Fix firmware loading crashes on K3 SoCs

[Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>]

On 3/25/21 12:36 PM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 11:09, Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/23/21 6:20 PM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 03:58:59PM -0500, Suman Anna wrote:
>>>> The K3 PRUs are 32-bit processors and in general have some limitations
>>>> in using the standard ARMv8 memcpy function for loading firmware segments,
>>>> so the driver already uses a custom memcpy implementation. This added
>>>> logic however is limited to only IRAMs at the moment, but the loading
>>>> into Data RAMs is not completely ok either and does generate a kernel
>>>> crash for unaligned accesses.
>>>>
>>>> Fix these crashes by removing the existing IRAM logic limitation and
>>>> extending the custom memcpy usage to Data RAMs as well for all K3 SoCs.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 1d39f4d19921 ("remoteproc: pru: Add support for various PRU cores on K3 AM65x SoCs")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
>>>
>>> Probably a good idea to CC stable as well...
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
>>
>> Thanks Mathieu. This patch is already staged on Bjorn's rproc-fixes branch
>> though and part of linux-next since next-20210319. I have posted an additional
>> 3-patch series for some more PRU fixes. Do you want me to post a v2 for those
>> with stable Cc'd?
> 
> I didn't notice Bjorn had already picked it up.  Since the object is
> now public there is no need to send a V2 for this one.  I haven't
> looked at your other 3-patch series but if you think it is stable
> material then yes, please send a new revision that CC stable.

Alright, will do.

regards
Suman

> 
> Mathieu
> 
>>
>> regards
>> Suman
>>
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c | 2 +-
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c
>>>> index 2667919d76b3..16979c1cd2f4 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/pru_rproc.c
>>>> @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ pru_rproc_load_elf_segments(struct rproc *rproc, const struct firmware *fw)
>>>>                      break;
>>>>              }
>>>>
>>>> -            if (pru->data->is_k3 && is_iram) {
>>>> +            if (pru->data->is_k3) {
>>>>                      ret = pru_rproc_memcpy(ptr, elf_data + phdr->p_offset,
>>>>                                             filesz);
>>>>                      if (ret) {
>>>> --
>>>> 2.30.1
>>>>
>>