Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] nova-core: falcon: Move start functionality into separate helper

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2025-11-02 at 18:59 -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Move start functionality into a separate helper so we can use it from
> the sequencer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
> index dc883ce5f28b..1bcee06fdec2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
> @@ -553,7 +553,21 @@ pub(crate) fn wait_till_halted(&self, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<()> {
>          Ok(())
>      }
>  
> -    /// Runs the loaded firmware and waits for its completion.
> +    /// Start the falcon CPU.
> +    pub(crate) fn start(&self, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<()> {
> +        match regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_CPUCTL::read(bar, &E::ID).alias_en() {
> +            true => regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_CPUCTL_ALIAS::default()
> +                .set_startcpu(true)
> +                .write(bar, &E::ID),
> +            false => regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_CPUCTL::default()
> +                .set_startcpu(true)
> +                .write(bar, &E::ID),
> +        }
> +
> +        Ok(())
> +    }
> +
> +    /// Start running the loaded firmware.
>      ///
>      /// `mbox0` and `mbox1` are optional parameters to write into the `MBOX0` and `MBOX1` registers
>      /// prior to running.
> @@ -578,15 +592,7 @@ pub(crate) fn boot(
>                  .write(bar, &E::ID);
>          }
>  
> -        match regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_CPUCTL::read(bar, &E::ID).alias_en() {
> -            true => regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_CPUCTL_ALIAS::default()
> -                .set_startcpu(true)
> -                .write(bar, &E::ID),
> -            false => regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_CPUCTL::default()
> -                .set_startcpu(true)
> -                .write(bar, &E::ID),
> -        }
> -
> +        self.start(bar)?;
>          self.wait_till_halted(bar)?;
>  
>          let (mbox0, mbox1) = (

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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