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From: elder@linaro.org (Alex Elder)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/10] ARM: bcm: rewrite commentary for bcm_kona_do_smc()
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:53:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1398117191-2433-10-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398117191-2433-1-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org>

The block of comments in bcm_kona_do_smc() are somewhat confusing.
This patch attempts to clarify what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Mayer <markus.mayer@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Porter <mporter@linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c
index cc81c86..a55a7ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c
@@ -77,16 +77,34 @@ int __init bcm_kona_smc_init(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * Since interrupts are disabled in the open mode, we must keep
- * interrupts disabled in secure mode by setting R5=0x3. If interrupts
- * are enabled in open mode, we can set R5=0x0 to allow interrupts in
- * secure mode.  If we did this, the secure monitor would return back
- * control to the open mode to handle the interrupt prior to completing
- * the secure service. If this happened, R12 would not be
- * SEC_EXIT_NORMAL and we would need to call SMC again after resetting
- * R5 (it gets clobbered by the secure monitor) and setting R4 to
- * SSAPI_RET_FROM_INT_SERV to indicate that we want the secure monitor
- * to finish up the previous uncompleted secure service.
+ * int bcm_kona_do_smc(u32 service_id, u32 buffer_addr)
+ *
+ * Only core 0 can run the secure monitor code.  If an "smc" request
+ * is initiated on a different core it must be redirected to core 0
+ * for execution.  We rely on the caller to handle this.
+ *
+ * Each "smc" request supplies a service id and the address of a
+ * buffer containing parameters related to the service to be
+ * performed.  A flags value defines the behavior of the level 2
+ * cache and interrupt handling while the secure monitor executes.
+ *
+ * Parameters to the "smc" request are passed in r4-r6 as follows:
+ *     r4	service id
+ *     r5	flags (SEC_ROM_*)
+ *     r6	physical address of buffer with other parameters
+ *
+ * Execution of an "smc" request produces two distinct results.
+ *
+ * First, the secure monitor call itself (regardless of the specific
+ * service request) can succeed, or can produce an error.  When an
+ * "smc" request completes this value is found in r12; it should
+ * always be SEC_EXIT_NORMAL.
+ *
+ * In addition, the particular service performed produces a result.
+ * The values that should be expected depend on the service.  We
+ * therefore return this value to the caller, so it can handle the
+ * request result appropriately.  This result value is found in r0
+ * when the "smc" request completes.
  */
 static int bcm_kona_do_smc(u32 service_id, u32 buffer_phys)
 {
-- 
1.9.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-21 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-21 21:53 [PATCH v2 00/10] ARM: bcm: SCM and L2 cache code cleanup Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] ARM: bcm: use memory accessors for ioremapped area Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] ARM: bcm: err, don't BUG() on SMC init failures Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] ARM: bcm: clean up SMC code Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] ARM: bcm: have bcm_kona_smc() return request result Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] ARM: bcm: don't special-case CPU 0 in bcm_kona_smc() Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] ARM: bcm: config option for l2 cache support Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] ARM: bcm: tidy up a few includes Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] ARM: bcm: use inline assembly for "smc" request Alex Elder
2014-04-21 21:53 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2014-04-21 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] ARM: bcm: rename "kona.h" and "kona.c" Alex Elder
2014-04-25 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] ARM: bcm: SCM and L2 cache code cleanup Matt Porter

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