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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1569824287-4263-3-git-send-email-peng.fan@nxp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Peng, On 9/29/19 11:20 PM, Peng Fan wrote: > From: Peng Fan > > This mailbox driver implements a mailbox which signals transmitted data > via an ARM smc (secure monitor call) instruction. The mailbox receiver > is implemented in firmware and can synchronously return data when it > returns execution to the non-secure world again. > An asynchronous receive path is not implemented. > This allows the usage of a mailbox to trigger firmware actions on SoCs > which either don't have a separate management processor or on which such > a core is not available. A user of this mailbox could be the SCP > interface. Sorry for not spotting this, or rather asking this earlier, but I do have one question below. [snip] > +static int arm_smc_send_data(struct mbox_chan *link, void *data) > +{ > + struct arm_smc_chan_data *chan_data = link->con_priv; > + struct arm_smccc_mbox_cmd *cmd = data; > + unsigned long ret; > + > + if (ARM_SMCCC_IS_64(chan_data->function_id)) { > + ret = chan_data->invoke_smc_mbox_fn(chan_data->function_id, > + cmd->args_smccc64[0], > + cmd->args_smccc64[1], > + cmd->args_smccc64[2], > + cmd->args_smccc64[3], > + cmd->args_smccc64[4], > + cmd->args_smccc64[5]); > + } else { > + ret = chan_data->invoke_smc_mbox_fn(chan_data->function_id, > + cmd->args_smccc32[0], > + cmd->args_smccc32[1], > + cmd->args_smccc32[2], > + cmd->args_smccc32[3], > + cmd->args_smccc32[4], > + cmd->args_smccc32[5]); > + } Why did not we use unsigned long for the args_smccc[] array to be bit width independent, this is what the PSCI infrastructure does and it looks a lot nicer IMHO. More question below. [snip] > + > +#ifndef _LINUX_ARM_SMCCC_MBOX_H_ > +#define _LINUX_ARM_SMCCC_MBOX_H_ > + > +#include > + > +/** > + * struct arm_smccc_mbox_cmd - ARM SMCCC message structure > + * @args_smccc32/64: actual usage of registers is up to the protocol > + * (within the SMCCC limits) > + */ > +struct arm_smccc_mbox_cmd { > + union { > + u32 args_smccc32[6]; > + u64 args_smccc64[6]; > + }; > +}; Why is this being moved to a separate header file and not within the driver's main file? It is not like we offer the ability for a driver to embed this ARM SMC mailbox driver as a library, and customize the values of the SMC arguments (maybe we should do that, as a later patch) except for the function_id. 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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1569824287-4263-3-git-send-email-peng.fan@nxp.com> Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20191108_093246_618549_7397A788 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 21.41 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , dl-linux-imx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hi Peng, On 9/29/19 11:20 PM, Peng Fan wrote: > From: Peng Fan > > This mailbox driver implements a mailbox which signals transmitted data > via an ARM smc (secure monitor call) instruction. The mailbox receiver > is implemented in firmware and can synchronously return data when it > returns execution to the non-secure world again. > An asynchronous receive path is not implemented. > This allows the usage of a mailbox to trigger firmware actions on SoCs > which either don't have a separate management processor or on which such > a core is not available. A user of this mailbox could be the SCP > interface. Sorry for not spotting this, or rather asking this earlier, but I do have one question below. [snip] > +static int arm_smc_send_data(struct mbox_chan *link, void *data) > +{ > + struct arm_smc_chan_data *chan_data = link->con_priv; > + struct arm_smccc_mbox_cmd *cmd = data; > + unsigned long ret; > + > + if (ARM_SMCCC_IS_64(chan_data->function_id)) { > + ret = chan_data->invoke_smc_mbox_fn(chan_data->function_id, > + cmd->args_smccc64[0], > + cmd->args_smccc64[1], > + cmd->args_smccc64[2], > + cmd->args_smccc64[3], > + cmd->args_smccc64[4], > + cmd->args_smccc64[5]); > + } else { > + ret = chan_data->invoke_smc_mbox_fn(chan_data->function_id, > + cmd->args_smccc32[0], > + cmd->args_smccc32[1], > + cmd->args_smccc32[2], > + cmd->args_smccc32[3], > + cmd->args_smccc32[4], > + cmd->args_smccc32[5]); > + } Why did not we use unsigned long for the args_smccc[] array to be bit width independent, this is what the PSCI infrastructure does and it looks a lot nicer IMHO. More question below. [snip] > + > +#ifndef _LINUX_ARM_SMCCC_MBOX_H_ > +#define _LINUX_ARM_SMCCC_MBOX_H_ > + > +#include > + > +/** > + * struct arm_smccc_mbox_cmd - ARM SMCCC message structure > + * @args_smccc32/64: actual usage of registers is up to the protocol > + * (within the SMCCC limits) > + */ > +struct arm_smccc_mbox_cmd { > + union { > + u32 args_smccc32[6]; > + u64 args_smccc64[6]; > + }; > +}; Why is this being moved to a separate header file and not within the driver's main file? It is not like we offer the ability for a driver to embed this ARM SMC mailbox driver as a library, and customize the values of the SMC arguments (maybe we should do that, as a later patch) except for the function_id. If you have a "public" header, there is usually a service or some configuration that your driver would offer, which is not the case here. -- Florian _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel