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charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 4/18/2023 2:58 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:01:13AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 4/17/23 10:44, Nikunj Kela wrote: >>> This patch add support for passing shmem channel address as parameter >>> in smc/hvc call. This patch is useful when multiple scmi instances are >>> using same smc-id and firmware needs to distiguish among the instances. >> Typo: distinguish. >> >> It really would have been a lot clearer and made a whole lot more sense to >> encode a VM ID/channel number within some of the SMCCC parameters, possibly >> as part of the function ID itself. >> > Yes I was about to suggest this but then remembered one main reason I have > been given in the past against that: > If the system launches high number of VMs then that means loads of FID > needs to be reserved for SCMI and the hypervisor needs to support it. > Basically it is not scalable which I agree but not sure if such large > number of VMs are used in reality with SCMI. But I agree with the technical > reasoning. > > The other reason why I preferred the shmem address itself instead of some > custom VM ID/channel number is that it can easily becomes vendor specific > for no real good reason and then we need to add support for each such > different parameters. Nikunj suggested getting them from DT which I really > don't like if the sole reason is just to identify the channel. We don't > have standard SCMI SMC/HVC but allowing such deviations with params from > DT will just explode with various combinations for silly/no reason. > Would you be ok to pass the smc/hvc parameters via kernel parameters in commandline? If so, I can implement that. I just wanted to keep everything in one place hence suggested using DTB node. > [...] > >>> @@ -137,6 +144,8 @@ static int smc_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev, >>> if (ret < 0) >>> return ret; >>> + if (of_device_is_compatible(dev->of_node, "arm,scmi-smc-param")) >>> + scmi_info->param = res.start; >> There is not even a check that this is going to be part of the kernel's view >> of memory, that seems a bit brittle and possibly a security hole, too. Your >> hypervisor presumably needs to have carved out some amount of memory in >> order for the messages to be written to/read from, and so would the VM >> kernel, so eventually we should have a 'reserved-memory' entry of some sort, >> no? >> > Not disagreeing here. Just checking if my understanding is correct or not. > IIUC, we need reserved-memory if it is part of the memory presented to the > OS right ? You don't need that if it is dedicated memory like part of SRAM > or something similar. We are not using reserved-memory node. Instead using sram-mmio to carve out shmem for scmi instances. >>> /* >>> * If there is an interrupt named "a2p", then the service and >>> * completion of a message is signaled by an interrupt rather than by >>> @@ -156,6 +165,7 @@ static int smc_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *dev, >>> } >>> scmi_info->func_id = func_id; >>> + scmi_info->is_smc64 = ARM_SMCCC_IS_64(func_id); >>> scmi_info->cinfo = cinfo; >>> smc_channel_lock_init(scmi_info); >>> cinfo->transport_info = scmi_info; >>> @@ -188,7 +198,20 @@ static int smc_send_message(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, >>> shmem_tx_prepare(scmi_info->shmem, xfer, cinfo); >>> - arm_smccc_1_1_invoke(scmi_info->func_id, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, &res); >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64 >>> + /* >>> + * if SMC32 convention is used, pass 64 bit address in >>> + * two parameters >>> + */ >>> + if (!scmi_info->is_smc64) >> There is no need for scmi_info to store is_smc64, just check the func_id >> here and declare is_smc64 as a local variable to the function. >> > +1 ACK! >> Also, another way to approach this would be to encode the parameters region >> in 4KB units such that event on a 32-bit system with LPAE you are guaranteed >> to fit the region into a 32-bit unsigned long. AFAIR virtualization and LPAE >> are indistinguishable on real CPUs? >> > Agree with the idea. But can a single 4kB be used for multiple shmem across > VMs ? IIUC the hypervisor can deal with that, so I prefer it if it is possible > practically. We have multiple VMs and each VM has multiple instances. We will have quite a few domains and I am not sure if single page will suffice. > -- > Regards, > Sudeep _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel