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From: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
To: Ilia Lin <ilia.lin@kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@kernel.org>,
	Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
	Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@intel.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] soc: qcom: smem: better track SMEM uninitialized state
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:33:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251029133323.24565-2-ansuelsmth@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251029133323.24565-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com>

There is currently a problem where, in the specific case of SMEM not
initialized by SBL, any SMEM API wrongly returns PROBE_DEFER
communicating wrong info to any user of this API.

A better way to handle this would be to track the SMEM state and return
a different kind of error than PROBE_DEFER.

Rework the __smem handle to always init it to the error pointer
-EPROBE_DEFER following what is already done by the SMEM API.
If we detect that the SBL didn't initialized SMEM, set the __smem handle
to the error pointer -ENODEV.
Also rework the SMEM API to handle the __smem handle to be an error
pointer and return it appropriately.

This way user of the API can react and return a proper error or use
fallback way for the failing API.

Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c
index 592819701809..d6136369262a 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c
@@ -353,8 +353,12 @@ static void *cached_entry_to_item(struct smem_private_entry *e)
 	return p - le32_to_cpu(e->size);
 }
 
-/* Pointer to the one and only smem handle */
-static struct qcom_smem *__smem;
+/*
+ * Pointer to the one and only smem handle.
+ * Init to -EPROBE_DEFER to signal SMEM still has to be probed.
+ * Can be set to -ENODEV if SMEM is not initialized by SBL.
+ */
+static struct qcom_smem *__smem = ERR_PTR_CONST(-EPROBE_DEFER);
 
 /* Timeout (ms) for the trylock of remote spinlocks */
 #define HWSPINLOCK_TIMEOUT	1000
@@ -508,8 +512,8 @@ int qcom_smem_alloc(unsigned host, unsigned item, size_t size)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!__smem)
-		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+	if (IS_ERR(__smem))
+		return PTR_ERR(__smem);
 
 	if (item < SMEM_ITEM_LAST_FIXED) {
 		dev_err(__smem->dev,
@@ -685,10 +689,10 @@ static void *qcom_smem_get_private(struct qcom_smem *smem,
 void *qcom_smem_get(unsigned host, unsigned item, size_t *size)
 {
 	struct smem_partition *part;
-	void *ptr = ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
+	void *ptr;
 
-	if (!__smem)
-		return ptr;
+	if (IS_ERR(__smem))
+		return __smem;
 
 	if (WARN_ON(item >= __smem->item_count))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
@@ -723,8 +727,8 @@ int qcom_smem_get_free_space(unsigned host)
 	struct smem_header *header;
 	unsigned ret;
 
-	if (!__smem)
-		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+	if (IS_ERR(__smem))
+		return PTR_ERR(__smem);
 
 	if (host < SMEM_HOST_COUNT && __smem->partitions[host].virt_base) {
 		part = &__smem->partitions[host];
@@ -1182,6 +1186,7 @@ static int qcom_smem_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (le32_to_cpu(header->initialized) != 1 ||
 	    le32_to_cpu(header->reserved)) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "SMEM is not initialized by SBL\n");
+		__smem = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.51.0


  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-29 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-29 13:33 [PATCH 1/3] err.h: add ERR_PTR_CONST macro Christian Marangi
2025-10-29 13:33 ` Christian Marangi [this message]
2025-10-29 15:27   ` [PATCH 2/3] soc: qcom: smem: better track SMEM uninitialized state Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-29 15:32     ` Christian Marangi
2025-10-29 16:11       ` Bjorn Andersson
2025-10-29 13:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: qcom-nvmem: add compatible fallback for ipq806x for no SMEM Christian Marangi
2025-10-29 15:30   ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-30  8:56   ` Konrad Dybcio
2025-10-30 10:28     ` Christian Marangi
2025-10-30 10:54       ` Konrad Dybcio
2025-10-30 11:11         ` Christian Marangi
2025-10-30 11:16           ` Konrad Dybcio
2025-10-29 15:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] err.h: add ERR_PTR_CONST macro Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-29 15:38   ` Christian Marangi
2025-10-30  8:27     ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-30  8:37       ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-30 10:22       ` Christian Marangi
2025-10-30 14:00         ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-10-30 14:15           ` Arnd Bergmann

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