Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] drivers: misc: Add Support for TMR Manager

["Rao, Appana Durga Kedareswara" <appanad@amd.com>]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the review.

On 09/09/22 2:10 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 11:49:14AM +0530, Appana Durga Kedareswara rao wrote:
>> Triple Modular Redundancy(TMR) subsystem contains three microblaze cores,
>> subsystem is fault-tolerant and continues to operate nominally after
>> encountering an error. Together with the capability to detect and recover
>> from errors, the implementation ensures the reliability of the entire
>> subsystem.  TMR Manager is responsible for performing recovery of the
>> subsystem detects the fault via a break signal it invokes microblaze
>> software break handler which calls the tmr manager driver api to
>> update the error count and status, added support for fault detection
>> feature via sysfs interface.
>>
>> Usage:
>> To know the break handler count(Error count):
>> cat /sys/devices/platform/amba_pl/44a10000.tmr_manager/errcnt
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Appana Durga Kedareswara rao <appana.durga.kedareswara.rao@amd.com>
>> ---
>> Changes for v4:
>> --> None.
>> Changes for v3:
>> --> Corrected month in the sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager file
>> --> Updated the Kconfig to compile the driver as a module
>> --> Removed unneeded status sysfs attribute
>> Changes for v2:
>> --> Fixed Month in the sysfs description.
>> --> Fixed line over 80 char in driver.
>> --> Replaced kstrtol with kstrtoul as suggested by Michal.
>> --> Added error check for xlnx,magic1 value.
>>
>>   .../testing/sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager   |  16 ++
>>   MAINTAINERS                                   |   7 +
>>   drivers/misc/Kconfig                          |  10 +
>>   drivers/misc/Makefile                         |   3 +-
>>   drivers/misc/xilinx_tmr_manager.c             | 222 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   5 files changed, 257 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/misc/xilinx_tmr_manager.c
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..2a97be6ae849
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager
>> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
>> +What:		/sys/devices/platform/amba_pl/<dev>/errcnt
>> +Date:		Sep 2022
>> +Contact:	appana.durga.kedareswara.rao@amd.com
>> +Description:	This control file provides the fault detection count.
>> +		This file cannot be written.
>> +		Example:
>> +		# cat /sys/devices/platform/amba_pl/44a10000.tmr_manager/errcnt
>> +		  1
>> +
>> +What:		/sys/devices/platform/amba_pl/<dev>/dis_block_break
>> +Date:		Sep 2022
>> +Contact:	appana.durga.kedareswara.rao@amd.com
>> +Description:	Write any value to it, This control file enables the break signal.
>> +		This file is write only.
>> +		Example:
>> +		# echo <any value> > /sys/devices/platform/amba_pl/44a10000.tmr_manager/dis_block_break
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index f1390b8270b2..5fc5ec13985e 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -13277,6 +13277,13 @@ W:	http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/
>>   T:	git git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze.git
>>   F:	arch/microblaze/
>>   
>> +MICROBLAZE TMR MANAGER
>> +M:	Appana Durga Kedareswara rao <appana.durga.kedareswara.rao@amd.com>
>> +S:	Supported
>> +F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-xilinx-tmr-manager
>> +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/xlnx,tmr-manager.yaml
>> +F:	drivers/misc/xilinx_tmr_manager.c
>> +
>>   MICROCHIP AT91 DMA DRIVERS
>>   M:	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>
>>   M:	Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
>> index 94e9fb4cdd76..1508cc29b05a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
>> @@ -496,6 +496,16 @@ config VCPU_STALL_DETECTOR
>>   
>>   	  If you do not intend to run this kernel as a guest, say N.
>>   
>> +config TMR_MANAGER
>> +	tristate "Select TMR Manager"
>> +	depends on MICROBLAZE && MB_MANAGER
>> +	help
>> +	  This option enables the driver developed for TMR Manager. The Triple
>> +	  Modular Redundancy(TMR) manager provides support for fault detection
>> +	  via sysfs interface.
> 
> What is the module name?
> 
> And the fault detection api is in debugfs, not sysfs, right?

Fault injection happens via debugfs in the tmr-inject driver (4/4 patch 
- xilinx_tmr_inject.c) patch, Fault detection is tracked using tmr 
manager errcnt sysfs entry (/sys/devices/platform/amba_pl/<dev>/errcnt).
TMR Manager is responsible for performing recovery of the subsystem 
detects the fault via a break signal it invokes microblaze
software break handler which calls the tmr manager driver api to
update the error count.


Regards,
Kedar.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

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