linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] soc: qcom: boot_stat: Add Driver Support for Boot Stats

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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2023 03:09:19 +0300
From:   Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Souradeep Chowdhury <quic_schowdhu@...cinc.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...ainline.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Sibi Sankar <quic_sibis@...cinc.com>,
        Rajendra Nayak <quic_rjendra@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] soc: qcom: boot_stat: Add Driver Support for Boot
 Stats

On 16/05/2023 11:19, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 12:52, Souradeep Chowdhury wrote:
>> All of Qualcomm's proprietary Android boot-loaders capture boot time
>> stats, like the time when the bootloader started execution and at what
>> point the bootloader handed over control to the kernel etc. in the IMEM
>> region. This information is captured in a specific format by this driver
>> by mapping a structure to the IMEM memory region and then accessing the
>> members of the structure to show the information within debugfs file.
>> This information is useful in verifying if the existing boot KPIs have
>> regressed or not. The information is shown in milliseconds, a sample
>> log from sm8450(waipio) device is as follows:-
>>
>> /sys/kernel/debug/qcom_boot_stats # cat abl_time
>> 17898 ms
>> /sys/kernel/debug/qcom_boot_stats # cat pre_abl_time
>> 2879 ms
>>
>> The Module Power Manager(MPM) sleep counter starts ticking at the PBL
>> stage and the timestamp generated by the sleep counter is logged by
>> the Qualcomm proprietary bootloader(ABL) at two points-> First when it
>> starts execution which is logged here as "pre_abl_time" and the second
>> when it is about to load the kernel logged as "abl_time". Documentation
>> details are also added in Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-driver-bootstat
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Souradeep Chowdhury <quic_schowdhu@...cinc.com>
>> ---
>>   .../ABI/testing/debugfs-driver-bootstat       |  17 +++
>>   drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig                      |  10 ++
>>   drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile                     |   1 +
>>   drivers/soc/qcom/boot_stats.c                 | 100 ++++++++++++++++++
> 
> As mentioned in my reply to the binding, I don't think this should
> be a driver at all. On top of that, even if it was a driver, it is
> clearly not a "soc" driver since nothing in it has any relevance to
> the hardware, rather than the first-stage loader, and drivers/soc/
> drivers should never have their own user space interface either.

I suppose that we should add a proper driver for imem rather than always 
using it through syscon.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry