Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: sm8450: Add IMEM and PIL info region

[Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>]

On 2/14/23 6:34 AM, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> +@alex,
> 
> Please comment.
> 
> -Mukesh
> 
> On 2/7/2023 2:34 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:06:13PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/4/2023 3:07 AM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3.02.2023 18:04, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>>>> Add a simple-mfd representing IMEM on SM8450 and define the PIL
>>>>> relocation info region, so that post mortem tools will be able
>>>>> to locate the loaded remoteprocs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>   From XBL:
>>>>
>>>> 0x14680000, 0x0002A000, "IMEM Base"
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything in that wider address range that would interest
>>>> us? I recall Alex once dug into that when diving into IPA, but
>>>> I can not recall the conclusion..

So you're saying a boot loader defines "IMEM Base" as
a range of memory, size 0x2a000.

>>> Spec-wise, yes IPA do own these 0x146A8000 - 0x146AA000 .
>>> But, not sure what they use it for.

And a subset of that range (at offset 0x28000, size 0x2000) is
set aside for use by IPA.  IPA *does* use this memory area as
"fast" memory to hold certain frequently-accessed tables.
Details of that are under the modem's control, and I don't
have knowledge of that.

The IPA driver currently maps it's portion of this memory,
but does *not* reflect that use in DT.  (This is something
that will be corrected at some point, possibly soon.)


>> The DT should not reflect the organization structure. Let's see if Alex
>> have any input on this.

As I understand it there's an "imem" node in DT defined, but
it just defines the range of memory, and is something referred
to by other drivers (or other nodes in a DTS file).  This seems
reasonable, and it kind of matches the view I've seen in
documents.  IPA does *not* follow that pattern, and should.

I don't really have any strong input either way.  I can help
define the "problem" but I don't claim to know the correct
way to represent this.

It's a contiguous block of special memory.  By convention
(design) its range divided up, with portions intended to be
used for different purposes, by different hardware.  IPA is
one of the users.

					-Alex


>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bjorn
>>
>>> -Mukesh
>>>>
>>>> Konrad
>>>>>    arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8450.dtsi | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>>>>    1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8450.dtsi 
>>>>> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8450.dtsi
>>>>> index 5704750..474ea1b 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8450.dtsi
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8450.dtsi
>>>>> @@ -3536,6 +3536,21 @@
>>>>>                };
>>>>>            };
>>>>> +        sram@146aa000 {
>>>>> +            compatible = "qcom,sm8450-imem", "syscon", "simple-mfd";
>>>>> +            reg = <0 0x146aa000 0 0x1000>;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>> +            #size-cells = <1>;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            ranges = <0 0 0x146aa000 0x1000>;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +            pil-reloc@94c {
>>>>> +                compatible = "qcom,pil-reloc-info";
>>>>> +                reg = <0x94c 0xc8>;
>>>>> +            };
>>>>> +        };
>>>>> +
>>>>>            apps_rsc: rsc@17a00000 {
>>>>>                label = "apps_rsc";
>>>>>                compatible = "qcom,rpmh-rsc";