I have started looking at this set. Comments to follow in the coming days. Thanks, Mathieu On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Arnaud Pouliquen wrote: > 1) Update from V4 [1]: > > Minor updates based on Mathieu's comments. > Updates are listed in the commit message of each patch. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/3/14/1177 > > 2) Patchset description: > > This series is a part of the work initiated a long time ago in > the series "remoteproc: Decorelate virtio from core"[2] > > Objective of the work: > - Update the remoteproc VirtIO device creation (use platform device) > - Allow to declare remoteproc VirtIO device in DT > - declare resources associated to a remote proc VirtIO > - declare a list of VirtIO supported by the platform. > - Prepare the enhancement to more VirtIO devices (e.g I2C, audio, video, ...). > For instance be able to declare a I2C device in a virtio-i2C node. > - Keep the legacy working! > - Try to improve the picture about concerns reported by Christoph Hellwing [3][4] > > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/16/1817 > [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/23/607 > [4] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-remoteproc/patch/AOKowLclCbOCKxyiJ71WeNyuAAj2q8EUtxrXbyky5E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > In term of device tree this would result in such hierarchy (stm32mp1 example with 2 virtio RPMSG): > > m4_rproc: m4@10000000 { > compatible = "st,stm32mp1-m4"; > reg = <0x10000000 0x40000>, > <0x30000000 0x40000>, > <0x38000000 0x10000>; > memory-region = <&retram>, <&mcuram>,<&mcuram2>; > mboxes = <&ipcc 2>, <&ipcc 3>; > mbox-names = "shutdown", "detach"; > status = "okay"; > > #address-cells = <1>; > #size-cells = <0>; > > vdev@0 { > compatible = "rproc-virtio"; > reg = <0>; > virtio,id = <7>; /* RPMSG */ > memory-region = <&vdev0vring0>, <&vdev0vring1>, <&vdev0buffer>; > mboxes = <&ipcc 0>, <&ipcc 1>; > mbox-names = "vq0", "vq1"; > status = "okay"; > }; > > vdev@1 { > compatible = "rproc-virtio"; > reg = <1>; > virtio,id = <7>; /*RPMSG */ > memory-region = <&vdev1vring0>, <&vdev1vring1>, <&vdev1buffer>; > mboxes = <&ipcc 4>, <&ipcc 5>; > mbox-names = "vq0", "vq1"; > status = "okay"; > }; > }; > > I have divided the work in 4 steps to simplify the review, This series implements only > the step 1: > step 1: redefine the remoteproc VirtIO device as a platform device > - migrate rvdev management in remoteproc virtio.c, > - create a remotproc virtio config ( can be disabled for platform that not use VirtIO IPC. > step 2: add possibility to declare and probe a VirtIO sub node > - VirtIO bindings declaration, > - multi DT VirtIO devices support, > - introduction of a remote proc virtio bind device mechanism , > => https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commits/step2-virtio-in-DT > step 3: Add memory declaration in VirtIO subnode > => https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commits/step3-virtio-memories > step 4: Add mailbox declaration in VirtIO subnode > => https://github.com/arnopo/linux/commits/step4-virtio-mailboxes > > Arnaud Pouliquen (4): > remoteproc: core: Introduce virtio device add/remove functions > remoteproc: core: Introduce rproc_register_rvdev function > remoteproc: Move rproc_vdev management to remoteproc_virtio.c > remoteproc: virtio: Create platform device for the remoteproc_virtio > > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 154 +++--------------- > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h | 23 ++- > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++--- > include/linux/remoteproc.h | 6 +- > 4 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.25.1 >