linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] firmware/psci: demote suspend-mode warning to info level

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Message-ID: <Y4b91JYeuToJ25LD@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:53:08 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] firmware/psci: demote suspend-mode warning to info
 level

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 03:54:45PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On some Qualcomm platforms, like SC8280XP, the attempt to set PC mode
> during boot fails with PSCI_RET_DENIED and since commit 998fcd001feb
> ("firmware/psci: Print a warning if PSCI doesn't accept PC mode") this
> is now logged at warning level:
> 
> 	psci: failed to set PC mode: -3
> 
> As there is nothing users can do about the firmware behaving this way,
> demote the warning to info level and clearly mark it as a firmware bug:
> 
> 	psci: [Firmware Bug]: failed to set PC mode: -3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c b/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> index e7bcfca4159f..f8fa32f0a130 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> @@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ int psci_set_osi_mode(bool enable)
>  
>  	err = invoke_psci_fn(PSCI_1_0_FN_SET_SUSPEND_MODE, suspend_mode, 0, 0);
>  	if (err < 0)
> -		pr_warn("failed to set %s mode: %d\n", enable ? "OSI" : "PC", err);
> +		pr_info(FW_BUG "failed to set %s mode: %d\n",
> +				enable ? "OSI" : "PC", err);
>  	return psci_to_linux_errno(err);
>  }

Mark and Lorenzo, I noticed this one hasn't been picked up yet. Is that
something you will do or is Arnd supposed to take it?

Johan