Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] mfd: intel-m10-bmc: Manage access to MAX 10 fw handshake registers

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On some MAX 10 cards, the BMC firmware is not available to service
> > handshake registers during secure update erase and write phases at
> > normal speeds. This problem affects at least hwmon driver. When the MAX
> > 10 hwmon driver tries to read the sensor values during a secure update,
> > the reads are slowed down (e.g., reading all D5005 sensors takes ~24s
> > which is magnitudes worse than the normal <0.02s).
> > 
> > Manage access to the handshake registers using a rw semaphore and a FW
> > state variable to prevent accesses during those secure update phases
> > and return -EBUSY instead.
> > 
> > If handshake_sys_reg_nranges == 0, don't update bwcfw_state as it is not
> > used. This avoids the locking cost.
> > 
> > Co-developed-by: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
> > Co-developed-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/fpga/intel-m10-bmc-sec-update.c | 17 +++++--
> >  drivers/mfd/intel-m10-bmc-core.c        | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  drivers/mfd/intel-m10-bmc-spi.c         | 14 ++++++
> >  include/linux/mfd/intel-m10-bmc.h       | 28 +++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Applied, thanks

Did these end up falling throught the cracks as I've not been able to 
locate where they were applied?


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