Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] venus: firmware: add routine to reset ARM9

From: Stanimir Varbanov
Date: Fri Aug 24 2018 - 04:58:00 EST


Hi Alex,

On 08/24/2018 10:38 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:29 PM Vikash Garodia <vgarodia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Add routine to reset the ARM9 and brings it out of reset. Also
>> abstract the Venus CPU state handling with a new function. This
>> is in preparation to add PIL functionality in venus driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vikash Garodia <vgarodia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h | 2 ++
>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.h | 11 ++++++++
>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus.c | 13 +++-------
>> drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/hfi_venus_io.h | 7 +++++
>> 5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h
>> index 2f02365..dfd5c10 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.h
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct venus_caps {
>> * @dev: convenience struct device pointer
>> * @dev_dec: convenience struct device pointer for decoder device
>> * @dev_enc: convenience struct device pointer for encoder device
>> + * @no_tz: a flag that suggests presence of trustzone
>> * @lock: a lock for this strucure
>> * @instances: a list_head of all instances
>> * @insts_count: num of instances
>> @@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ struct venus_core {
>> struct device *dev;
>> struct device *dev_dec;
>> struct device *dev_enc;
>> + bool no_tz;
>> struct mutex lock;
>> struct list_head instances;
>> atomic_t insts_count;
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c
>> index c4a5778..a9d042e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/firmware.c
>> @@ -22,10 +22,43 @@
>> #include <linux/sizes.h>
>> #include <linux/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.h>
>>
>> +#include "core.h"
>> #include "firmware.h"
>> +#include "hfi_venus_io.h"
>>
>> #define VENUS_PAS_ID 9
>> #define VENUS_FW_MEM_SIZE (6 * SZ_1M)
>
> This is making a strong assumption about the size of the FW memory
> region, which in practice is not always true (I had to reduce it to
> 5MB). How about having this as a member of venus_core, which is

Why you reduced to 5MB? Is there an issue with 6MB or you don't want to
waste reserved memory?

> initialized in venus_load_fw() from the actual size of the memory
> region? You could do this as an extra patch that comes before this
> one.
>

The size is 6MB by historical reasons and they are no more valid, so I
think we could safely decrease to 5MB. I could prepare a patch for that.

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regards,
Stan