17/06/2024 19.57, Conor Dooley пишет:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 11:21:30AM +0300, Viacheslav wrote:
Thanks for review.
13/06/2024 19.42, Rob Herring wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:07:28PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 01:25:11PM +0300, Viacheslav wrote:
Hi!
10/06/2024 19.08, Conor Dooley wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:39:49AM +0300, Viacheslav Bocharov wrote:
Add secure-monitor property to schema for meson-gx-socinfo-sm driver.
"bindings are for hardware, not drivers". Why purpose does the "secure
monitor" serve that the secure firmware needs a reference to it?
This driver is an extension to the meson-gx-socinfo driver: it supplements
information obtained from the register with information from the
SM_GET_CHIP_ID secure monitor call. Due to the specifics of the module
loading order, we cannot do away with meson-gx-socinfo, as it is used for
platform identification in some drivers. Therefore, the extended information
is formatted as a separate driver, which is loaded after the secure-monitor
driver.
Please stop talking about drivers, this is a binding which is about
hardware. Please provide, in your next version, a commit message that
justifies adding this property without talking about driver probing
order etc, and instead focuses on what service the "secure monitor"
provides etc.
To put it another way, how many secure monitors does 1 system have?
One per system in current device tree.
One per system, or one is currently described per system, but more might
be added later?
it turns out to be one per system. It's either there or it's not.
What do you do if the property is not present? You didn't make it
required which is good because that would be an ABI break.
We need an indication of the ability to use the secure-monitor to obtain
additional information within the soc driver. It seemed to me that using an
explicit reference to the secure-monitor is the best choice.
You only need a link in DT if there are different possible providers or
some per consumer information to describe (e.g. an interrupt number or
clock ID). You don't have the latter and likely there is only 1 possible
provider.
Would replacing the reference to sm with an option, for example,
use-secure-monitor = <1>; look more appropriate in this case?
Perhaps a silly question, but (provided there's only one per system, why
can't the secure-monitor driver expose a function that you can call to get
a reference to the system-monitor? I did something similar before with
a call to in mpfs_sys_controller_get() mpfs_rng_probe(). Granted,
mpfs-rng is probed from software so it's slightly different to your
case, but the principle is the same and it's not unheard of for code in
drivers/soc to expose interfaces to other drivers like this. You can
just call a function like that, and know whether there's a secure
monitor, without having to retrofit a DT property.
That could be an option. But again, nothing prevents me from searching
for the secure-monitor node throughout the entire DT array.
The question is more about something else, let me try to explain from
the beginning:
We currently have a soc driver that uses only the register to get basic
information and it must be loaded early because other modules' behavior
depends on its information.
There is an option to supplement the register information with
information from the secure-monitor.
For this, we had to write a new driver that uses the same register
information as a fallback but can wait for the secure-monitor driver to
load and add its information to soc.
It seemed logical to me to keep the DT structure the same and just add a
reference to the secure-monitor (or as a second option, create a
variable indicating support) for those SoCs that have been tested and
can provide this information.
Not all Amlogic SoCs support this call, in some (mostly newer
generations of SoCs), this call returns incorrect information and we and
colleagues are still figuring out what has changed. But most established
platforms support this.
We could add this information retrieval to the secure-monitor itself,
but that would be a completely different story and would not constitute
a soc driver.
In the end, we need information about the support of the secure-monitor
call for obtaining information for the soc driver. In my opinion, this
can only be done by specifying it in the DT in specific files for
Amlogic platforms: either by referencing the SM or by an option that
allows checking the SM.
Thanks,
Conor.
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