From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>,
Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] firmware: arm_ffa: Register core as a platform driver
Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 18:54:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260508-b4-ffa_plat_dev-v1-2-c5a30f8cf7b8@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260508-b4-ffa_plat_dev-v1-0-c5a30f8cf7b8@kernel.org>
Move the FF-A core bring-up and teardown paths into platform driver
probe and remove callbacks, and register a synthetic arm-ffa platform
device to bind the driver.
This makes the FF-A core lifetime follow the driver model while keeping
the device creation internal to the FF-A core. Use normal platform driver
registration so the probe path has standard driver-core semantics.
The synthetic platform device is a temporary bridge until ACPI and
devicetree describe the FF-A core device or object. Once those firmware
description paths are defined, the internal platform device creation can
be dropped and the driver can bind to the firmware-described device
directly.
Since the transport selection now happens from the platform probe path,
drop the __init annotation from ffa_transport_init().
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
---
drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/common.h | 4 +--
drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/smccc.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/common.h b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/common.h
index 9c6425a81d0d..5cdf4bd222c6 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/common.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/common.h
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ bool ffa_device_is_valid(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev);
void ffa_device_match_uuid(struct ffa_device *ffa_dev, const uuid_t *uuid);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_FFA_SMCCC
-int __init ffa_transport_init(ffa_fn **invoke_ffa_fn);
+int ffa_transport_init(ffa_fn **invoke_ffa_fn);
#else
-static inline int __init ffa_transport_init(ffa_fn **invoke_ffa_fn)
+static inline int ffa_transport_init(ffa_fn **invoke_ffa_fn)
{
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c
index 6efb85787e6e..97ecdb5dac09 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/of_irq.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@
#define FFA_DRIVER_VERSION FFA_VERSION_1_2
#define FFA_MIN_VERSION FFA_VERSION_1_0
+#define FFA_PLATFORM_NAME "arm-ffa"
#define SENDER_ID_MASK GENMASK(31, 16)
#define RECEIVER_ID_MASK GENMASK(15, 0)
@@ -114,6 +116,7 @@ struct ffa_drv_info {
};
static struct ffa_drv_info *drv_info;
+static struct platform_device *ffa_pdev;
/*
* The driver must be able to support all the versions from the earliest
@@ -2029,7 +2032,7 @@ static void ffa_notifications_setup(void)
ffa_notifications_cleanup();
}
-static int __init ffa_init(void)
+static int ffa_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
int ret;
u32 buf_sz;
@@ -2042,6 +2045,7 @@ static int __init ffa_init(void)
drv_info = kzalloc_obj(*drv_info);
if (!drv_info)
return -ENOMEM;
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, drv_info);
ret = ffa_version_check(&drv_info->version);
if (ret)
@@ -2103,19 +2107,56 @@ static int __init ffa_init(void)
free_pages_exact(drv_info->tx_buffer, rxtx_bufsz);
free_pages_exact(drv_info->rx_buffer, rxtx_bufsz);
free_drv_info:
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
kfree(drv_info);
+ drv_info = NULL;
return ret;
}
-module_init(ffa_init);
-static void __exit ffa_exit(void)
+static void ffa_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
+ struct ffa_drv_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+
ffa_notifications_cleanup();
ffa_partitions_cleanup();
ffa_rxtx_unmap();
- free_pages_exact(drv_info->tx_buffer, drv_info->rxtx_bufsz);
- free_pages_exact(drv_info->rx_buffer, drv_info->rxtx_bufsz);
- kfree(drv_info);
+ free_pages_exact(info->tx_buffer, info->rxtx_bufsz);
+ free_pages_exact(info->rx_buffer, info->rxtx_bufsz);
+ kfree(info);
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
+ drv_info = NULL;
+}
+
+static struct platform_driver ffa_driver = {
+ .probe = ffa_probe,
+ .remove = ffa_remove,
+ .driver = {
+ .name = FFA_PLATFORM_NAME,
+ },
+};
+
+static int __init ffa_init(void)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ffa_pdev = platform_device_register_simple(FFA_PLATFORM_NAME,
+ PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE,
+ NULL, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(ffa_pdev))
+ return PTR_ERR(ffa_pdev);
+
+ ret = platform_driver_register(&ffa_driver);
+ if (ret)
+ platform_device_unregister(ffa_pdev);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+module_init(ffa_init);
+
+static void __exit ffa_exit(void)
+{
+ platform_device_unregister(ffa_pdev);
+ platform_driver_unregister(&ffa_driver);
}
module_exit(ffa_exit);
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/smccc.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/smccc.c
index 4d85bfff0a4e..e6125dd9f58f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/smccc.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/smccc.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ static void __arm_ffa_fn_hvc(ffa_value_t args, ffa_value_t *res)
arm_smccc_1_2_hvc(&args, res);
}
-int __init ffa_transport_init(ffa_fn **invoke_ffa_fn)
+int ffa_transport_init(ffa_fn **invoke_ffa_fn)
{
enum arm_smccc_conduit conduit;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-08 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-08 17:54 [PATCH 0/4] firmware: arm_ffa: Move core init to platform driver probe Sudeep Holla
2026-05-08 17:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] Revert "firmware: arm_ffa: Change initcall level of ffa_init() to rootfs_initcall" Sudeep Holla
2026-05-08 17:54 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2026-05-08 18:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] firmware: arm_ffa: Register core as a platform driver Yeoreum Yun
2026-05-08 17:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] firmware: arm_ffa: Set the core device as FF-A device parent Sudeep Holla
2026-05-08 18:42 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-05-08 17:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] firmware: arm_ffa: Defer probe until pKVM is initialized Sudeep Holla
2026-05-08 18:45 ` Yeoreum Yun
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