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Message-ID: <20240823132918.GD32156@willie-the-truck>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:29:19 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
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	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@....com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
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	Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@...amperecomputing.com>,
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	Alper Gun <alpergun@...gle.com>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 04/19] firmware/psci: Add psci_early_test_conduit()

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:19:09PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>
> 
> Add a function to test early if PSCI is present and what conduit it
> uses. Because the PSCI conduit corresponds to the SMCCC one, this will
> let the kernel know whether it can use SMC instructions to discuss with
> the Realm Management Monitor (RMM), early enough to enable RAM and
> serial access when running in a Realm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
> ---
> v4: New patch
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/psci.h         |  5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c b/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> index 2328ca58bba6..2b308f97ef2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <linux/errno.h>
>  #include <linux/linkage.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/of_fdt.h>
>  #include <linux/pm.h>
>  #include <linux/printk.h>
>  #include <linux/psci.h>
> @@ -769,6 +770,30 @@ int __init psci_dt_init(void)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Test early if PSCI is supported, and if its conduit matches @conduit
> + */
> +bool __init psci_early_test_conduit(enum arm_smccc_conduit conduit)
> +{
> +	int len;
> +	int psci_node;
> +	const char *method;
> +	unsigned long dt_root;
> +
> +	/* DT hasn't been unflattened yet, we have to work with the flat blob */
> +	dt_root = of_get_flat_dt_root();
> +	psci_node = of_get_flat_dt_subnode_by_name(dt_root, "psci");
> +	if (psci_node <= 0)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	method = of_get_flat_dt_prop(psci_node, "method", &len);
> +	if (!method)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	return  (conduit == SMCCC_CONDUIT_SMC && strncmp(method, "smc", len) == 0) ||
> +		(conduit == SMCCC_CONDUIT_HVC && strncmp(method, "hvc", len) == 0);
> +}

This still looks incomplete to me as per my earlier comments:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240709104851.GE12978@willie-the-truck/

For the first implementation, can we punt the RIPAS_RAM to the bootloader
and drop support for earlycon? Even if we manage to shoe-horn enough code
into the early boot path, I think we'll regret it later on because there's
always something that wants to be first and it inevitably ends up being
a nightmare to maintain.

Will