linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] firmware: psci: Read and use vendor reset types

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Message-ID: <20240619135143.kr2tx4ynxayc5v3a@bogus>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:51:43 +0100
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
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	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
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	Shivendra Pratap <quic_spratap@...cinc.com>,
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	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] firmware: psci: Read and use vendor reset types

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:18:09AM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
> SoC vendors have different types of resets and are controlled through
> various registers. For instance, Qualcomm chipsets can reboot to a
> "download mode" that allows a RAM dump to be collected. Another example
> is they also support writing a cookie that can be read by bootloader
> during next boot. PSCI offers a mechanism, SYSTEM_RESET2, for these
> vendor reset types to be implemented without requiring drivers for every
> register/cookie.
> 
> Add support in PSCI to statically map reboot mode commands from
> userspace to a vendor reset and cookie value using the device tree.
> 
> A separate initcall is needed to parse the devicetree, instead of using
> psci_dt_init because mm isn't sufficiently set up to allocate memory.
> 
> Reboot mode framework is close but doesn't quite fit with the
> design and requirements for PSCI SYSTEM_RESET2. Some of these issues can
> be solved but doesn't seem reasonable in sum:
>  1. reboot mode registers against the reboot_notifier_list, which is too
>     early to call SYSTEM_RESET2. PSCI would need to remember the reset
>     type from the reboot-mode framework callback and use it
>     psci_sys_reset.
>  2. reboot mode assumes only one cookie/parameter is described in the
>     device tree. SYSTEM_RESET2 uses 2: one for the type and one for
>     cookie.
>  3. psci cpuidle driver already registers a driver against the
>     arm,psci-1.0 compatible. Refactoring would be needed to have both a
>     cpuidle and reboot-mode driver.
>

I need to think through it but when you first introduced the generic
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.yaml bindings
I also looked at drivers/power/reset/reboot-mode.c

I assumed this extension to that binding would reuse the same and
PSCI would just do reboot_mode_register(). I didn't expect to see these
changes. I might have missing something but since the bindings is still
quite generic with additional cells that act as additional cookie for
reboot call, I still think that should be possible.

What am I missing here then ?

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep