Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] remoteproc: restructure the remoteproc VirtIO device

[Arnaud POULIQUEN <arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com>]

Hi Mathieu,

On 9/20/22 00:30, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 01:52:28PM +0200, Arnaud Pouliquen wrote:
>> 1) Update from V7 [1]:
>>
>> - rebase on rproc-next branch [2], commit 729c16326b7f ("remoteproc: imx_dsp_rproc: fix argument 2 of rproc_mem_entry_init")
>>   The updates take into account the integration of the
>>   commit 1404acbb7f68 ("remoteproc: Fix dma_mem leak after rproc_shutdown")
>> - add Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> according to reviews on V7
>>
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/7/13/663
>> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/remoteproc/linux.git/log/?h=for-next
>>
>> 2) Patchset description:
>>
>> This series is a part of the work initiated a long time ago in 
>> the series "remoteproc: Decorelate virtio from core"[3]
>>
>> Objective of the work:
>> - Update the remoteproc VirtIO device creation (use platform device)
>> - Allow to declare remoteproc VirtIO device in DT
>>     - declare resources associated to a remote proc VirtIO
>>     - declare a list of VirtIO supported by the platform.
>> - Prepare the enhancement to more VirtIO devices (e.g I2C, audio, video, ...).
>>   For instance be able to declare a I2C device in a virtio-i2C node.
>> - Keep the legacy working!
>> - Try to improve the picture about concerns reported by Christoph Hellwing [4][5]
>>
>> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/16/1817
>> [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/23/607
>> [5] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-remoteproc/patch/AOKowLclCbOCKxyiJ71WeNyuAAj2q8EUtxrXbyky5E@cp7-web-042.plabs.ch/
>>
>> In term of device tree this would result in such hierarchy (stm32mp1 example with 2 virtio RPMSG):
>>
>> 	m4_rproc: m4@10000000 {
>> 		compatible = "st,stm32mp1-m4";
>> 		reg = <0x10000000 0x40000>,
>> 		      <0x30000000 0x40000>,
>> 		      <0x38000000 0x10000>;
>>         memory-region = <&retram>, <&mcuram>,<&mcuram2>;
>>         mboxes = <&ipcc 2>, <&ipcc 3>;
>>         mbox-names = "shutdown", "detach";
>>         status = "okay";
>>
>>         #address-cells = <1>;
>>         #size-cells = <0>;
>>         
>>         vdev@0 {
>> 		compatible = "rproc-virtio";
>> 		reg = <0>;
>> 		virtio,id = <7>;  /* RPMSG */
>> 		memory-region = <&vdev0vring0>, <&vdev0vring1>, <&vdev0buffer>;
>> 		mboxes = <&ipcc 0>, <&ipcc 1>;
>> 		mbox-names = "vq0", "vq1";
>> 		status = "okay";
>>         };
>>
>>         vdev@1 {
>> 		compatible = "rproc-virtio";
>> 		reg = <1>;
>> 		virtio,id = <7>;  /*RPMSG */
>> 		memory-region = <&vdev1vring0>, <&vdev1vring1>, <&vdev1buffer>;
>> 		mboxes = <&ipcc 4>, <&ipcc 5>;
>> 		mbox-names = "vq0", "vq1";
>> 		status = "okay";
>>         };
>> };
> 
> I was in the process of applying this set when the last patch gave me a
> checkpatch warning about "virtio,rproc" not being documented.
> 
> I suggest to introduce a new "virtio-rproc.yaml" based on this work[1], with the
> above in the example sections.

Yes I saw the warning, but for this first series it is not possible to declare
the associated "rproc-virtio" device  in device tree.
So at this step it seems not make senses to create the devicetree bindings file.
More than that I don't know how I could justify the properties in bindings if
there is not driver code associated.

So i would be in favor of not adding the bindings in this series but to define
bindings in the first patch of my "step 2" series; as done on my github:
https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commit/9616d89a4f478cf78865a244efcde108d900f69f

Please let me know your preference.

Regards,
Arnaud


> 
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
> 
> [1]. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0-rc6/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/virtio/virtio-device.yaml
> 
> 
>>
>> I have divided the work in 4 steps to simplify the review, This series implements only
>> the step 1:
>> step 1: Redefine the remoteproc VirtIO device as a platform device
>>   - migrate rvdev management in remoteproc virtio.c,
>>   - create a remotproc virtio config ( can be disabled for platform that not use VirtIO IPC.
>> step 2: Add possibility to declare and probe a VirtIO sub node
>>   - VirtIO bindings declaration,
>>   - multi DT VirtIO devices support,
>>   - introduction of a remote proc virtio bind device mechanism ,
>> => https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commits/step2-virtio-in-DT
>> step 3: Add memory declaration in VirtIO subnode
>> => https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commits/step3-virtio-memories
>> step 4: Add mailbox declaration in VirtIO subnode
>> => https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commits/step4-virtio-mailboxes
>>
>> Arnaud Pouliquen (4):
>>   remoteproc: core: Introduce rproc_rvdev_add_device function
>>   remoteproc: core: Introduce rproc_add_rvdev function
>>   remoteproc: Move rproc_vdev management to remoteproc_virtio.c
>>   remoteproc: virtio: Create platform device for the remoteproc_virtio
>>
>>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c     | 154 +++---------------
>>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h |  23 ++-
>>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c   | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>>  include/linux/remoteproc.h               |   6 +-
>>  4 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.24.3
>>