Re: [PATCH v9 3/7] firmware: arm_rmm: Move RSI support out of arch/arm64

From: Catalin Marinas

Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 07:25:08 EST


On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 12:02:51PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) wrote:
> The RSI SMCCC function IDs describe a firmware ABI and are not arm64
> architecture specific definitions. Follow-up changes need to use them from
> non-arch code, including drivers/firmware/smccc and the Arm CCA guest
> driver.
>
> Move the complete Realm Service Interface (RSI) implementation from
> arch/arm64 to drivers/firmware/arm_rmm. The RSI SMCCC definitions and
> command helpers are also moved to include/linux so they can be shared by
> architecture code and firmware or driver code. This also keeps the
> firmware interface outside architecture code, as requested [1].
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/agsNO9cc7H-b0H8L@willie-the-truck
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

I haven't checked but Sashiko has some points that it may break the
build on other architectures with COMPILE_TEST.

https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260805063255.1638614-1-aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx

(for some reason I get error 502 above; hopefully it's temporary)

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Catalin