linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 20/20] gpu: nova-core: load and run FWSEC-FRTS

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Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 18:32:28 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 20/20] gpu: nova-core: load and run FWSEC-FRTS

On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 21:30 +0000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 15:45 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> 
> I noticed something interesting in this change to Gpu::new().
> 
> > +        // Check that the WPR2 region does not already exists - if it does, the GPU needs to be
> > +        // reset.
> > +        if regs::NV_PFB_PRI_MMU_WPR2_ADDR_HI::read(bar).hi_val() != 0 {
> > +            dev_err!(
> > +                pdev.as_ref(),
> > +                "WPR2 region already exists - GPU needs to be reset to proceed\n"
> > +            );
> > +            return Err(EBUSY);
> > +        }
> 
> You have a lot of checks in this code that display an error message and then return an Err().
> 
> But then ...
> 
> > +
> > +        // Reset falcon, load FWSEC-FRTS, and run it.
> > +        gsp_falcon.reset(bar)?;
> > +        gsp_falcon.dma_load(bar, &fwsec_frts)?;
> > +        let (mbox0, _) = gsp_falcon.boot(bar, Some(0), None)?;
> > +        if mbox0 != 0 {
> > +            dev_err!(pdev.as_ref(), "FWSEC firmware returned error {}\n", mbox0);
> > +            return Err(EINVAL);
> > +        }
> 
> There are several lines where you just terminate them with "?".  This means that no error message is
> displays. 
> 
> I think all of these ? should be replaced with something like:
> 
> 	gsp_falcon.reset(bar).inspect_err(|e| {
>             dev_err!(pdev.as_ref(), "Failed to reset GSP falcon: {:?}\n", e);
>         })?;
> 
> This feels like something that would benefit from a macro, but I can't imagine what that would look
> like.

Another option would be to just create our own error type that can be
converted into the kernel's standard error type, and then just pass that back
from this function so that we don't have to duplicate the error printing code
all over.

> 
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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