Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] remoteproc: qcom: Add NOTIFY_FATAL event type to SSR subdevice

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:39:43AM GMT, Gokul Sriram Palanisamy wrote:
> From: Vignesh Viswanathan <quic_viswanat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently the SSR subdevice notifies the client driver on crash of the
> rproc from the recovery workqueue using the BEFORE_SHUTDOWN event.
> However, the client driver might be interested to know that the device
> has crashed immediately to pause any further transactions with the
> rproc. This calls for an event to be sent to the driver in the IRQ
> context as soon as the rproc crashes.
> 
> Add NOTIFY_FATAL event to SSR subdevice to atomically notify rproc has
> crashed to the client driver. The client driver in this scenario is a
> ath Wi-Fi driver which is continuously queuing data to the remoteproc and
> needs to know if remoteproc crashes as soon as possible to stop queuing
> further data and also dump some debug statistics on the driver side that
> could potentially help in debug of why the remoteproc crashed.
> 
> Validated the event in IPQ9574 and IPQ5332 by forcing the rproc to crash
> and ensuring the registered notifier function receives the notification
> in IRQ context.
> 
> The client driver in this scenario is a Wi-Fi driver which is continuously
> queuing data to the remoteproc and needs to know if remoteproc crashes
> as soon as possible to stop queuing further data and also dump some 
> debug statistics on the driver side that could potentially help in
> debug of why the remoteproc crashed.

Please post the patch together with the user of the API. Right now the
series has just a single patch in it, so it's impossible to judge
whether it makes sense or not.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh Viswanathan <quic_viswanat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gokul Sriram Palanisamy <quic_gokulsri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> changes since v1:
> 	- No changes. Rebased on top of linux-next.
> 	- We will now have a user for this notifier, ath12k.
> 
>  drivers/remoteproc/qcom_common.c      | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c  | 12 ++++++
>  include/linux/remoteproc.h            |  3 ++
>  include/linux/remoteproc/qcom_rproc.h | 17 ++++++++
>  4 files changed, 92 insertions(+)

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry




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