[PATCH v5 3/3] remoteproc: imx_rproc: detect and attach to pre-booted remote cores

Hiago De Franco
2025-06-17T19:36:13Z

From: Hiago De Franco <hiago.franco@toradex.com>

When the remote core is started before Linux boots (e.g., by the
bootloader), the driver currently is not able to attach because it only
checks for cores running in different partitions. If the core was kicked
by the bootloader, it is in the same partition as Linux and it is
already up and running.

This adds power mode verification through dev_pm_genpd_is_on(), enabling
the driver to detect when the remote core is already running and
properly attach to it if all the power domain devices are on.

To accomplish this, we need to avoid passing any attach_data or flags to
dev_pm_domain_attach_list(), letting the platform device become a
consumer of the power domain provider. With that the current power state
of the genpds will not change, allowing the detection of the remote core
power state.

We enable and sync the device runtime PM during probe to make sure the
power domains are correctly managed when the core is controlled by the
kernel.

Suggested-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Hiago De Franco <hiago.franco@toradex.com>
---
v4 -> v5:
- pm_runtime_get_sync() removed in favor of
pm_runtime_resume_and_get(). Now it also checks the return value of
this function.
- Added pm_runtime_disable() and pm_runtime_put() to imx_rproc_remove()
function.
v3 -> v4:
- Changed to use the new dev_pm_genpd_is_on() function instead, as
suggested by Ulf. This will now get the power status of the two
remote cores power domains to decided if imx_rpoc needs to attach or
not. In order to do that, pm_runtime_enable() and
pm_runtime_get_sync() were introduced and pd_data was removed.
v2 -> v3:
- Unchanged.
v1 -> v2:
- Dropped unecessary include. Removed the imx_rproc_is_on function, as
suggested.
---
drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
index 627e57a88db2..b53083f2553e 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/pm_domain.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/regmap.h>
#include <linux/remoteproc.h>
@@ -890,10 +891,8 @@ static int imx_rproc_partition_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
static int imx_rproc_attach_pd(struct imx_rproc *priv)
{
struct device *dev = priv->dev;
- int ret;
- struct dev_pm_domain_attach_data pd_data = {
- .pd_flags = PD_FLAG_DEV_LINK_ON,
- };
+ int ret, i;
+ bool detached = true;

/*
* If there is only one power-domain entry, the platform driver framework
@@ -902,7 +901,22 @@ static int imx_rproc_attach_pd(struct imx_rproc *priv)
if (dev->pm_domain)
return 0;

- ret = dev_pm_domain_attach_list(dev, &pd_data, &priv->pd_list);
+ ret = dev_pm_domain_attach_list(dev, NULL, &priv->pd_list);
+ /*
+ * If all the power domain devices are already turned on, the remote
+ * core is already up when the kernel booted (e.g. kicked by the
+ * bootloader). In this case attach to it.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
+ if (!dev_pm_genpd_is_on(priv->pd_list->pd_devs[i])) {
+ detached = false;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (detached)
+ priv->rproc->state = RPROC_DETACHED;
+
return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
}

@@ -1146,6 +1160,15 @@ static int imx_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
}
}

+ if (dcfg->method == IMX_RPROC_SCU_API) {
+ pm_runtime_enable(dev);
+ ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(dev);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(dev, "pm_runtime get failed: %d\n", ret);
+ goto err_put_clk;
+ }
+ }
+
ret = rproc_add(rproc);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "rproc_add failed\n");
@@ -1171,6 +1194,10 @@ static void imx_rproc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct rproc *rproc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct imx_rproc *priv = rproc->priv;

+ if (priv->dcfg->method == IMX_RPROC_SCU_API) {
+ pm_runtime_disable(priv->dev);
+ pm_runtime_put(priv->dev);
+ }
clk_disable_unprepare(priv->clk);
rproc_del(rproc);
imx_rproc_put_scu(rproc);
--
2.39.5