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Message-ID: <be493536-aedd-4253-ad42-21821d080f41@foss.st.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:02:16 +0100
From: Arnaud POULIQUEN <arnaud.pouliquen@...s.st.com>
To: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
CC: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Jens Wiklander
	<jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "Krzysztof
 Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley
	<conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        <linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <op-tee@...ts.trustedfirmware.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 4/7] remoteproc: Introduce release_fw optional
 operation

hello Mathieu,

On 11/18/24 18:52, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 02:35:12PM +0100, Arnaud Pouliquen wrote:
>> This patch updates the rproc_ops struct to include an optional
>> release_fw function.
>>
>> The release_fw ops is responsible for releasing the remote processor
>> firmware image. The ops is called in the following cases:
>>
>>  - An error occurs in rproc_start() between the loading of the segments and
>>       the start of the remote processor.
>>  - after stopping the remote processor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@...s.st.com>
>> ---
>> Updates from version V11:
>> - fix typo in @release_fw comment
>> ---
>>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 5 +++++
>>  include/linux/remoteproc.h           | 3 +++
>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
>> index 7694817f25d4..46863e1ca307 100644
>> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
>> @@ -1258,6 +1258,9 @@ static int rproc_alloc_registered_carveouts(struct rproc *rproc)
>>  
>>  static void rproc_release_fw(struct rproc *rproc)
>>  {
>> +	if (rproc->ops->release_fw)
>> +		rproc->ops->release_fw(rproc);
>> +
>>  	/* Free the copy of the resource table */
>>  	kfree(rproc->cached_table);
>>  	rproc->cached_table = NULL;
>> @@ -1377,6 +1380,8 @@ static int rproc_start(struct rproc *rproc, const struct firmware *fw)
>>  unprepare_subdevices:
>>  	rproc_unprepare_subdevices(rproc);
>>  reset_table_ptr:
>> +	if (rproc->ops->release_fw)
>> +		rproc->ops->release_fw(rproc);
>>  	rproc->table_ptr = rproc->cached_table;
> 
> I suggest the following:
> 
> 1) Create two new functions, i.e rproc_load_fw() and rproc_release_fw().  The
> only thing those would do is call rproc->ops->load_fw() and
> rproc->ops->release_fw(), if they are present.  When a TEE interface is
> available, ->load_fw() and ->release_fw() become rproc_tee_load_fw() and
> rproc_tee_release_fw().
> 
> 2) Call rproc_load_fw() in rproc_boot(), just before rproc_fw_boot().  If the
> call to rproc_fw_boot() fails, call rproc_release_fw().
> 
> 3) The same logic applies to rproc_boot_recovery(), i.e call rproc_load_fw()
> before rproc_start() and call rproc_release_fw() if rproc_start() fails.
> 
> 4) Take rproc_tee_load_fw() out of rproc_tee_parse_fw().  It will now be called
> in rproc_load_fw().
> 
> 5) As stated above function rproc_release_fw() now calls rproc_tee_release_fw().
> The former is already called in rproc_shutdown() so we are good in that front.
> 
> With the above the cached_table management within the core remains the same and
> we can get rid of patch 3.7.

Thanks for your suggestion! I will try this in next revision.

Regards,
Arnaud

> 
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
> 
>>  
>>  	return ret;
>> diff --git a/include/linux/remoteproc.h b/include/linux/remoteproc.h
>> index 2e0ddcb2d792..08e0187a84d9 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/remoteproc.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/remoteproc.h
>> @@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ enum rsc_handling_status {
>>   * @panic:	optional callback to react to system panic, core will delay
>>   *		panic at least the returned number of milliseconds
>>   * @coredump:	  collect firmware dump after the subsystem is shutdown
>> + * @release_fw:	optional function to release the firmware image from ROM memories.
>> + *		This function is called after stopping the remote processor or in case of an error
>>   */
>>  struct rproc_ops {
>>  	int (*prepare)(struct rproc *rproc);
>> @@ -403,6 +405,7 @@ struct rproc_ops {
>>  	u64 (*get_boot_addr)(struct rproc *rproc, const struct firmware *fw);
>>  	unsigned long (*panic)(struct rproc *rproc);
>>  	void (*coredump)(struct rproc *rproc);
>> +	void (*release_fw)(struct rproc *rproc);
>>  };
>>  
>>  /**
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
>>