Re: [PATCH v20 06/10] power: reset: Add psci-reboot-mode driver

Lorenzo Pieralisi
2026-04-01T14:37:41Z

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 11:30:09PM +0530, Shivendra Pratap wrote:
>
>
> On 27-03-2026 19:25, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 11:33:06PM +0530, Shivendra Pratap wrote:
> > > PSCI supports different types of resets like COLD reset, ARCH WARM
> > > reset, vendor-specific resets. Currently there is no common driver that
> > > handles all supported psci resets at one place. Additionally, there is
> > > no common mechanism to issue the supported psci resets from userspace.
> > >
> > > Add a PSCI reboot mode driver and define two types of PSCI resets in the
> > > driver as reboot-modes: predefined resets controlled by Linux
> > > reboot_mode and customizable resets defined by SoC vendors in their
> > > device tree under the psci:reboot-mode node.
> > >
> > > Register the driver with the reboot-mode framework to interface these
> > > resets to userspace. When userspace initiates a supported command, pass
> > > the reset arguments to the PSCI driver to enable command-based reset.
> > >
> > > This change allows userspace to issue supported PSCI reset commands
> > > using the standard reboot system calls while enabling SoC vendors to
> > > define their specific resets for PSCI.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shivendra Pratap <shivendra.pratap@oss.qualcomm.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/power/reset/Kconfig | 10 +++
> > > drivers/power/reset/Makefile | 1 +
> > > drivers/power/reset/psci-reboot-mode.c | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 3 files changed, 130 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/power/reset/Kconfig b/drivers/power/reset/Kconfig
> > > index f6c1bcbb57deff3568d6b1b326454add3b3bbf06..529d6c7d3555601f7b7e6199acd29838030fcef2 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/power/reset/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/power/reset/Kconfig
> > > @@ -348,6 +348,16 @@ config NVMEM_REBOOT_MODE
> > > then the bootloader can read it and take different
> > > action according to the mode.
> > > +config PSCI_REBOOT_MODE
> > > + bool "PSCI reboot mode driver"
> > > + depends on OF && ARM_PSCI_FW
> > > + select REBOOT_MODE
> > > + help
> > > + Say y here will enable PSCI reboot mode driver. This gets
> > > + the PSCI reboot mode arguments and passes them to psci
> > > + driver. psci driver uses these arguments for issuing
> > > + device reset into different boot states.
> > > +
> > > config POWER_MLXBF
> > > tristate "Mellanox BlueField power handling driver"
> > > depends on (GPIO_MLXBF2 || GPIO_MLXBF3) && ACPI
> > > diff --git a/drivers/power/reset/Makefile b/drivers/power/reset/Makefile
> > > index 0e4ae6f6b5c55729cf60846d47e6fe0fec24f3cc..49774b42cdf61fd57a5b70f286c65c9d66bbc0cb 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/power/reset/Makefile
> > > +++ b/drivers/power/reset/Makefile
> > > @@ -40,4 +40,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_REBOOT_MODE) += reboot-mode.o
> > > obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCON_REBOOT_MODE) += syscon-reboot-mode.o
> > > obj-$(CONFIG_POWER_RESET_SC27XX) += sc27xx-poweroff.o
> > > obj-$(CONFIG_NVMEM_REBOOT_MODE) += nvmem-reboot-mode.o
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_PSCI_REBOOT_MODE) += psci-reboot-mode.o
> > > obj-$(CONFIG_POWER_MLXBF) += pwr-mlxbf.o
> > > diff --git a/drivers/power/reset/psci-reboot-mode.c b/drivers/power/reset/psci-reboot-mode.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86bef195228b0924704c2936b99f6801c14ff1b1
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/power/reset/psci-reboot-mode.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
> > > + */
> > > +
> > > +#include <linux/device/faux.h>
> > > +#include <linux/device.h>
> >
> > Nit: swap the two.
>
> Ack. thanks.
>
>
> > > +#include <linux/err.h>
> > > +#include <linux/of.h>
> > > +#include <linux/psci.h>
> > > +#include <linux/reboot.h>
> > > +#include <linux/reboot-mode.h>
> > > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * Predefined reboot-modes are defined as per the values
> > > + * of enum reboot_mode defined in the kernel: reboot.c.
> > > + */
> > > +static struct mode_info psci_resets[] = {
> > > + { .mode = "warm", .magic = REBOOT_WARM},
> > > + { .mode = "soft", .magic = REBOOT_SOFT},
> > > + { .mode = "cold", .magic = REBOOT_COLD},

These strings match the command userspace issue right ? I think that we
should make them match the corresponding PSCI reset types, the list above
maps command to reboot_mode values and those can belong to any reboot
mode driver to be honest they don't make much sense in a PSCI reboot
mode driver only.

It is a question for everyone here: would it make sense to make these
predefined resets a set of strings, eg:

psci-system-reset
psci-system-reset2-arch-warm-reset

and then vendor resets:

psci-system-reset2-vendor-reset

at least we know what a string maps to ?

We can export a function from the PSCI driver to detect whether PSCI
SYSTEM_RESET2 is supported, an equivalent of psci_has_osi_support() for
instance that we can call from this driver to detect its presence.

> > > +};
> > > +
> > > +static void psci_reboot_mode_set_predefined_modes(struct reboot_mode_driver *reboot)
> > > +{
> > > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&reboot->predefined_modes);
> > > + for (u32 i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(psci_resets); i++) {
> > > + /* Prepare the magic with arg1 as 0 and arg2 as per pre-defined mode */
> > > + psci_resets[i].magic = REBOOT_MODE_MAGIC(0, psci_resets[i].magic);
> >
> > This looks weird to me, why can't we just initialize the array with the values
> > directly ?
>
> Ack. The idea was to avoid Typecasting. Will check on this.
>
> > > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&psci_resets[i].list);
> > > + list_add_tail(&psci_resets[i].list, &reboot->predefined_modes);
> > > + }
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * arg1 is reset_type(Low 32 bit of magic).
> > > + * arg2 is cookie(High 32 bit of magic).
> > > + * If reset_type is 0, cookie will be used to decide the reset command.
> > > + */
> > > +static int psci_reboot_mode_write(struct reboot_mode_driver *reboot, u64 magic)
> > > +{
> > > + u32 reset_type = REBOOT_MODE_ARG1(magic);
> > > + u32 cookie = REBOOT_MODE_ARG2(magic);
> > > +
> > > + if (reset_type == 0) {
> > > + if (cookie == REBOOT_WARM || cookie == REBOOT_SOFT)
> > > + psci_set_reset_cmd(true, 0, 0);
> > > + else
> > > + psci_set_reset_cmd(false, 0, 0);
> > > + } else {
> > > + psci_set_reset_cmd(true, reset_type, cookie);
> > > + }
> >
> > I don't think that psci_set_reset_cmd() has the right interface (and this
> > nested if is too complicated for my taste). All we need to pass is reset-type
> > and cookie (and if the reset is one of the predefined ones, reset-type is 0
> > and cookie is the REBOOT_* cookie).
> >
> > Then the PSCI firmware driver will take the action according to what
> > resets are available.
> >
> > How does it sound ?
>
> So we mean these checks will move to the psci driver? Sorry for re-iterating
> the question.

Given what I say above, I believe that something we can do is mapping the magic
to an enum like:

PSCI_SYSTEM_RESET
PSCI_SYSTEM_RESET2_ARCH_SYSTEM_WARM_RESET
PSCI_SYSTEM_RESET2_VENDOR_RESET

and can add a probe function into PSCI driver similar to psci_has_osi_support() but
to probe for SYSTEM_RESET2 and initialize the predefined strings accordingly,
depending on its presence.

It is getting a bit hairy, agreed, but I am not sure there is cleaner ways
of pulling this off.

Lorenzo

>
> > > +
> > > + return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int psci_reboot_mode_register_device(struct faux_device *fdev)
> > > +{
> > > + struct reboot_mode_driver *reboot;
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + reboot = devm_kzalloc(&fdev->dev, sizeof(*reboot), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + if (!reboot)
> > > + return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > + psci_reboot_mode_set_predefined_modes(reboot);
> > > + reboot->write = psci_reboot_mode_write;
> > > + reboot->dev = &fdev->dev;
> > > +
> > > + ret = devm_reboot_mode_register(&fdev->dev, reboot);
> > > + if (ret) {
> > > + dev_err_probe(&fdev->dev, ret, "devm_reboot_mode_register failed %d\n", ret);
> > > + return ret;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int __init psci_reboot_mode_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > + struct device_node *psci_np;
> > > + struct faux_device *fdev;
> > > + struct device_node *np;
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + psci_np = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "arm,psci-1.0");
> > > + if (!psci_np)
> > > + return -ENODEV;
> > > + /*
> > > + * Look for reboot-mode in the psci node. Even if the reboot-mode
> > > + * node is not defined in psci, continue to register with the
> > > + * reboot-mode driver and let the dev.ofnode be set as NULL.
> > > + */
> > > + np = of_find_node_by_name(psci_np, "reboot-mode");
> > > +
> > > + fdev = faux_device_create("psci-reboot-mode", NULL, NULL);
> >
> > Same comment as Bartosz (have you picked up his work and working towards
> > a solution) ?
> Working on this via MFD. Some issue as again MFD framework does not allows a
> fwnode based driver registration. Will update.
>
> thanks,
> Shivendra