Re: [RFT 1/2] RISC-V: handle missing "no-map" properties for OpenSBI's PMP protected regions

From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
To: "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>, <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	<apatel@ventanamicro.com>, <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>,
	Bjorn Topel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>, <suagrfillet@gmail.com>,
	<jeeheng.sia@starfivetech.com>, <petrtesarik@huaweicloud.com>,
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	<prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFT 1/2] RISC-V: handle missing "no-map" properties for OpenSBI's PMP protected regions
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:11:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231207-buffalo-varmint-de843c8a12bb@wendy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+V-a8s3MjvpD8gAE7-mOUc6PEytbPOR6x_PHuw0J0hOLkaz-w@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 01:02:00PM +0000, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 2:26 PM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 04:52:11AM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:07:10 PDT (-0700), Conor Dooley wrote:

> > > > I'm perfectly happy to drop this series though, if people generally are
> > > > of the opinion that this sort of firmware workaround is ill-advised.
> > > > We are unaffected by it, so I certainly have no pressure to have
> > > > something working here. It's my desire not to be user-hostile that
> > > > motivated this patch.
> > >
> > > IIUC you guys and Reneas are the only ones who have hardware that might be
> > > in a spot where users aren't able to update the firmware (ie, it's out in
> > > production somewhere).
> >
> > I dunno if we can really keep thinking like that though. In terms of
> > people who have devicetrees in the kernel and stuff available in western
> > catalog distribution, sure.
> > I don't think we can assume that that covers all users though, certainly
> > the syntacore folks pop up every now and then, and I sure hope that
> > Andes etc have larger customer bases than the in-kernel users would
> > suggest.
> >
> > > So I'm adding Geert, though he probably saw this
> > > months ago...
> >
> > Prabhakar might be a good call on that front. I'm not sure if the
> > Renesas stuff works on affected versions of OpenSBI though, guess it
> > depends on the sequencing of the support for the non-coherent stuff and
> > when this bug was fixed.
> >
> ATM, I dont think there are any users who are using the upstream
> kernel + OpenSBI (apart from me and Geert!). Currently the customers
> are using the BSP releases.

That doesn't really answer whether or not you (and your customers) are
using an affected version of the vendor OpenSBI?
The affected range for OpenSBI itself is [v0.8 to v1.3).

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