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
next prev parent 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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