Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] arm_scmi: vendors: Qualcomm Generic Vendor Extensions

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:03:30PM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 01:55:33PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > First, I expected the drivers to be loaded automatically when built as
> > modules, but that did not happen so something appears to be missing.

> Even though, module usage is tracked by the core AND when an SCMI Vendor
> driver tries to use protocol_X, it causes protocol_X to be initialized
> (calling its protocol_init), there is NO auto-loading for SCMI Vendor
> Protocols when bult as LKM...because there were really no ask till now
> and this stuff is in general needed so very early dburing boot...so the
> usecase of all these LKM modules is just debug/test as in your case
> (or in mine frequently)....
> 
> ...and I am NOT saying with this that is necessarily right or must be
> stay like this...just explaining how it is now....

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

> ....anyway...it is mostly trivial to add vendor/protocols autoloading
> transparently...today I was experimenting with a patch that triggers
> autoloading based on a generic common alias pattern in the form
> 'scmi-protocol-0x<NN>' (with NN the specific protocol ID of course)
> that triggers the loading as soon as the SCMI Vendor driver tries to
> access the protocol during its probe...
> 
> ....I will post it for the next cycle once it is clean.
> (unless I am missing something else that you want to add...)

Sounds like that would solve the issue. I was just expecting the memlat
client driver and its protocol dependency to be loaded automatically
when built as modules on machines that can use them (e.g. as we don't
want to have every vendor protocol driver built into distro kernels,
etc).

> > Second, after loading the protocol and client drivers manually (in that
> > order, shouldn't the client driver pull in the protocol?), I got:
> > 
> > 	scmi_module: Loaded SCMI Vendor Protocol 0x80 - Qualcomm  20000
> > 	arm-scmi arm-scmi.0.auto: QCOM Generic Vendor Version 1.0
> > 	scmi-qcom-generic-ext-memlat scmi_dev.5: error -EOPNOTSUPP: failed to configure common events
> > 	scmi-qcom-generic-ext-memlat scmi_dev.5: probe with driver scmi-qcom-generic-ext-memlat failed with error -95
> > 
> > which seems to suggest that the firmware on my CRD does not support this
> > feature. Is that the way this should be interpreted? And does that mean
> > that non of the commercial laptops supports this either?
> 
> This seems like FW rejecting the command, maybe just only for the specific
> Linux OSPM agent since it is not allowed to ask for that specific setup,
> and only Sibi can shed a light here :D
> 
> ...but this Vendor protocol, if I am not mistaken, AFAIU, uses a bunch
> of "algo strings" coming from tokens it picks from DT and use thsoe as
> params for the set_param() VendorProtocol ops...cannot be that a bad/missing
> DT value could cause the FW to reject the command due to the params ?
> (even if the command is supported)...
> 
> ...just a guess ah... I have no real knowledge of this venndor proto...

Yeah, hopefully Sibi can shed some light on this. I'm using the DT
patch (5/5) from this series, which according to the commit message is
supposed to enable bus scaling on the x1e80100 platform. So I guess
something is missing in my firmware.

Johan