Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] platforms/x86: Add AMD system management interface

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Hi Naveen Krishna,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 9:24 AM Nathan Fontenot <nafonten@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/14/22 11:21, Song Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 7:32 AM Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna
> > <nchatrad@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Song,
> >>
> >> On 2/11/2022 3:10 AM, Song Liu wrote:
> > [...]
> >>
> >> HSMP mailbox messages are evolving and each platform defines a supported
> >> list of messages.
> >>
> >> On a given platform these messages are described in the PPR.
> >>
> >> Eg: Milan PPR has "7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)", is made public
> >>
> >> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amd.com%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2FTechDocs%2F55898_B1_pub_0.50.zip&amp;data=04%7C01%7CNathan.Fontenot%40amd.com%7C6026990f93ed41d04d0608d9efde79a1%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637804561503265585%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=o5BR%2FgHpjnNVa9zVu75I3RyzO8WNB4L7FMEvLNbzZVY%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >>
> >>
> >> Bringing detailed description of these messages from PPR into the kernel
> >> would be a
> >>
> >> duplicating effort. Which will also bring in challenges such as
> >> maintaining the details
> >>
> >> for every supported platform and submitting kernel patches for every
> >> platform.
> >>
> >>
> >> We would like to avoid bringing more details of these messages to the
> >> kernel documentation.
> >>
> >> Such a structure can be described as part of esmi_oob_library to ease
> >> user space tool development.
> >
> > I agree there is  extra effort to adding extra logic and documentations to
> > the kernel. How about we ship current version with a few minor changes:
> > 1). msg_desc_table is in the header, so please prefix it with hsmp_
> > 2) as Nathan suggested, add more comments to msg_desc_table. Maybe
> > something like:
> > /*
> >  * HSMP_GET_FCLK_MCLK,
> >  * output arg0 = fclk (MHz); arg1 = mclk (MHz)
> >  */
>
> Agreed, this is the type of update I was thinking of.
>
> -Nathan
>
> > {0, 2, GET},
> >
> > Besides these, I have a question. Per the hardware design, args and
> > reponse in hsmp_message share the same registers. Shall we make
> > them in/out argments in hsmp_message and save 256 bytes per
> > hsmp_message?

Do these make sense to you? We are hoping to back port these changes
to unblock our tests. But we need them to be applied to pdx86 first.

Thanks,
Song




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