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From: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org>
To: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
Cc: bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, agross@kernel.org,
	swboyd@chromium.org, saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org,
	tsoni@codeaurora.org, sidgup@codeaurora.org,
	psodagud@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] Restructure, improve target support for qcom_scm driver
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:56:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200104015654.GA30866@onstation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0101016efb7349c0-3c8f33b3-f7d2-46df-9bbb-c8f4401c5bf2-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 06:51:07PM +0000, Elliot Berman wrote:
> This series improves support for 32-bit Qualcomm targets on qcom_scm driver and cleans
> up the driver for 64-bit implementations.
> 
> Currently, the qcom_scm driver supports only 64-bit Qualcomm targets and very
> old 32-bit Qualcomm targets. Newer 32-bit targets use ARM's SMC Calling
> Convention to communicate with secure world. Older 32-bit targets use a
> "buffer-based" legacy approach for communicating with secure world (as
> implemented in qcom_scm-32.c). All arm64 Qualcomm targets use ARM SMCCC.
> Currently, SMCCC-based communication is enabled only on ARM64 config and
> buffer-based communication only on ARM config. This patch-series combines SMCCC
> and legacy conventions and selects the correct convention by querying the secure
> world [1].
> 
> We decided to take the opportunity as well to clean up the driver rather than
> try to patch together qcom_scm-32 and qcom_scm-64.
> 
> Patches 1-3 and 15 improve macro names, reorder macros/functions, and prune unused
>             macros/functions. No functional changes were introduced.
> Patches 4-8 clears up the SCM abstraction in qcom_scm-64.
> Patches 9-14 clears up the SCM abstraction in qcom_scm-32.
> Patches 16-17 enable dynamically using the different calling conventions.

I tested this whole series on arm32 (msm8974) and everything looks good
from my vantage point. Feel free to add my:

Tested-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> # arm32

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-04  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-12 18:51 [PATCH v4 00/17] Restructure, improve target support for qcom_scm driver Elliot Berman
2020-01-04  1:56 ` Brian Masney [this message]
2020-01-04  2:08   ` Bjorn Andersson
2020-01-06 11:29 ` Stephan Gerhold

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