On 10/23/2024 10:52, Shyam Sundar S K wrote:
On 10/23/2024 21:10, Mario Limonciello wrote:
On 10/23/2024 10:32, Shyam Sundar S K wrote:
On 10/23/2024 20:04, Mario Limonciello wrote:
On 10/23/2024 09:29, Shyam Sundar S K wrote:
On 10/23/2024 19:41, Mario Limonciello wrote:
On 10/23/2024 01:32, Shyam Sundar S K wrote:
The PMF driver will allocate shared buffer memory using the
tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf(). This allocated memory is located in the
secure world and is used for communication with the PMF-TA.
The latest PMF-TA version introduces new structures with OEM debug
information and additional policy input conditions for
evaluating the
policy binary. Consequently, the shared memory size must be
increased to
ensure compatibility between the PMF driver and the updated PMF-TA.
Co-developed-by: Patil Rajesh Reddy <Patil.Reddy@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Patil Rajesh Reddy <Patil.Reddy@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shyam Sundar S K <Shyam-sundar.S-k@xxxxxxx>
How does this present to a user? From what you describe it seems to
me like this means a new TA will fail on older kernel in some way.
Newer TA will not fail on older systems. This change is just about
the
increase in TA reserved memory that is presented as "shared memory",
as TA needs the additional memory for its own debug data structures.
Thx for comments. But so if you use new TA with older kernel driver,
what will happen? Can TA do a buffer overrun because the presented
shared memory was too small?
New TA will fail on older kernel and hence this change will be
required for new TA to work.
OK, that's what I was worried about.
From user standpoint, always be on latest FW, irrespective of the
platform. At this point in time, I don't see a need for FW versioning
name (in the future, if there is a need for having a limited support
to older platforms, we can carve out a logic to do versioning stuff).
I wish we could enforce this, but In the Linux world there is an
expectation that these two trains don't need to arrive at station at
the same time.
Some ideas:
1) Should there be header version check on the TA and dynamically
allocate the structure size based on the version of the F/W?
This can be done, when the TA versioning upgrade happens, like from
1.3 to 1.4, apart from that there is no header stuff association.
2) Or is there a command to the TA that can query the expected
output
size?
No, this is just the initial shared memory that the driver allocates
to pass the inputs and the commands to TA.
3) Or should the new TA filename be versioned, and the driver has a
fallback policy?
Whatever the outcome is; I think it's best that if possible this
change goes back to stable to try to minimize regressions to
users as
distros update linux-firmware. For example Fedora updates this
monthly, but also tracks stable kernels.
Advisory to distros should be to pick the latest PMF TA (note that, I
have not still submitted to new TA FW).
Yeah we can advise distros to pick it up when upstreamed as long as
there isn't tight dependency on this patch being present.
That is the reason I am waiting for this change to land. Once that is
done, I will submit the new TA, you can send out a advisory to upgrade
the kernel or this change has to be back-ported to stable/oem kernels
for their enablement.
Makes sense?
I think we need Hans' and Ilpo's comments here to decide what to do.
Sure.
I will say that when we had this happen in amdgpu for a breaking
reason there was a new firmware binary filename created/upstreamed for
the breaking version (IIRC foo.bin -> foo_1.bin) and amdgpu had to
have fallback code so it could be compatible with either binary.
True. In case of amdgpu, the FW loading is part of the amdgpu driver.
But in case of PMF, the PMF TA gets picked from the AMD TEE driver
through the TEE commands.
So, there is no need for FW versioning logic in PMF driver.
That's a very good point, and this is a lot of complexity then.
* If user on older kernel took newer linux-firmware package they used
older binary.
* If user on newer kernel took older linux-firmware package they used
older binary.
* If user on newer kernel took newer linux-firmware package they used
newer binary.
If the decision is this goes in "as is" it definitely needs to go back
to stable kernels.
IMHO, let's not put too many fallback mechanisms. The philosophy
should be use latest driver and latest FW that avoids a lot of
confusion and yeah for that to happen this change has to go to stable.
Thanks,
Shyam
Of course Hans and Ilpo make the final call, but I think from our
discussions here it would be ideal that patch 1 and patch 5 from this
series go into 6.12 and have stable tags, the rest would be 6.13 material.
