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.pouliq...@foss.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
>>
