linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] nova-core: falcon: Move mbox functionalities into helper

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Message-ID: <68a35fe3acb66bd8abe8df3cd41ff550fef73552.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:16:11 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 dakr@...nel.org, 	acourbot@...dia.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] nova-core: falcon: Move mbox functionalities
 into helper

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>

On Sun, 2025-11-02 at 18:59 -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Move falcon reading/writing to mbox functionality into helper so we can
> use it from the sequencer resume flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
> index 1bcee06fdec2..181347feb3ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/falcon.rs
> @@ -567,19 +567,13 @@ pub(crate) fn start(&self, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<()> {
>          Ok(())
>      }
>  
> -    /// Start running the loaded firmware.
> -    ///
> -    /// `mbox0` and `mbox1` are optional parameters to write into the `MBOX0` and `MBOX1` registers
> -    /// prior to running.
> -    ///
> -    /// Wait up to two seconds for the firmware to complete, and return its exit status read from
> -    /// the `MBOX0` and `MBOX1` registers.
> -    pub(crate) fn boot(
> +    /// Writes values to the mailbox registers if provided.
> +    pub(crate) fn write_mailboxes(
>          &self,
>          bar: &Bar0,
>          mbox0: Option<u32>,
>          mbox1: Option<u32>,
> -    ) -> Result<(u32, u32)> {
> +    ) -> Result<()> {
>          if let Some(mbox0) = mbox0 {
>              regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_MAILBOX0::default()
>                  .set_value(mbox0)
> @@ -591,18 +585,45 @@ pub(crate) fn boot(
>                  .set_value(mbox1)
>                  .write(bar, &E::ID);
>          }
> +        Ok(())
> +    }
>  
> -        self.start(bar)?;
> -        self.wait_till_halted(bar)?;
> +    /// Reads the value from mbox0 register.
> +    pub(crate) fn read_mailbox0(&self, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<u32> {
> +        Ok(regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_MAILBOX0::read(bar, &E::ID).value())
> +    }
>  
> -        let (mbox0, mbox1) = (
> -            regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_MAILBOX0::read(bar, &E::ID).value(),
> -            regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_MAILBOX1::read(bar, &E::ID).value(),
> -        );
> +    /// Reads the value from mbox1 register.
> +    pub(crate) fn read_mailbox1(&self, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<u32> {
> +        Ok(regs::NV_PFALCON_FALCON_MAILBOX1::read(bar, &E::ID).value())
> +    }
>  
> +    /// Reads values from both mailbox registers.
> +    pub(crate) fn read_mailboxes(&self, bar: &Bar0) -> Result<(u32, u32)> {
> +        let mbox0 = self.read_mailbox0(bar)?;
> +        let mbox1 = self.read_mailbox1(bar)?;
>          Ok((mbox0, mbox1))
>      }
>  
> +    /// Start running the loaded firmware.
> +    ///
> +    /// `mbox0` and `mbox1` are optional parameters to write into the `MBOX0` and `MBOX1` registers
> +    /// prior to running.
> +    ///
> +    /// Wait up to two seconds for the firmware to complete, and return its exit status read from
> +    /// the `MBOX0` and `MBOX1` registers.
> +    pub(crate) fn boot(
> +        &self,
> +        bar: &Bar0,
> +        mbox0: Option<u32>,
> +        mbox1: Option<u32>,
> +    ) -> Result<(u32, u32)> {
> +        self.write_mailboxes(bar, mbox0, mbox1)?;
> +        self.start(bar)?;
> +        self.wait_till_halted(bar)?;
> +        self.read_mailboxes(bar)
> +    }
> +
>      /// Returns the fused version of the signature to use in order to run a HS firmware on this
>      /// falcon instance. `engine_id_mask` and `ucode_id` are obtained from the firmware header.
>      pub(crate) fn signature_reg_fuse_version(

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

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