linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 4/4] firmware: arm_scmi: optee: use optee system invocation

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Message-Id: <20230512054222.2088837-5-etienne.carriere@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 12 May 2023 07:42:22 +0200
From:   Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@...aro.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        op-tee@...ts.trustedfirmware.org,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v7 4/4] firmware: arm_scmi: optee: use optee system invocation

Changes SCMI optee transport to call tee_client_system_session()
to request optee driver to provision an entry context in OP-TEE
for processing OP-TEE messages. This prevents possible deadlock
in case OP-TEE threads are all consumed while these may be waiting
for a clock or regulator to be enable which SCMI OP-TEE service which
requires a free thread context to execute.

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Signed-off-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@...aro.org>
---
No change since v6

Changes since v5:
- Applied Sudeep's review tag

Changes since v4:
- Updated to new API function tee_client_system_session() introduced
  in patch v5 2/3.

No change since v3

Changes since v2:
- Fixed syntax issues (missing ';' chars), reported by kernel test robot.

Changes since v1:
- Updated to use new tee API functions tee_client_request_system_context()
  and tee_client_release_system_context().
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/optee.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/optee.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/optee.c
index e123de6e8c67..25bfb465484d 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/optee.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/optee.c
@@ -440,6 +440,10 @@ static int scmi_optee_chan_setup(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo, struct device *de
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_free_shm;
 
+	ret = tee_client_system_session(scmi_optee_private->tee_ctx, channel->tee_session);
+	if (ret)
+		dev_warn(dev, "Could not switch to system session, do best effort\n");
+
 	ret = get_channel(channel);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_close_sess;
-- 
2.25.1