[PATCH RFC 10/12] remoteproc: imx_rproc: always use non-blocking mailboxes
From: Francesco Valla
Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 17:51:19 EST
Blocking mailboxes may lead to sleep during the kick operation, which
conflicts with some virtio devices (e.g.: virtio-can) that kicks their
virtqueues with spinlock(s) held.
Align to the behavior of all the other remoteproc drivers that use a
mailbox to perform the kick (i.e.: omap, st, stm32, ti_k3_*, xlnx_r5)
and move to a non-blocking mailbox here as well.
As a side effect of this modification, remove the close-reopen action on
the mailboxes during restart and shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Valla <francesco@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | 49 ++++++------------------------------------
drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
index 745ce52cd822..100440328f92 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ struct imx_rproc_mem {
/* Linux has permission to handle the Logical Machine of remote cores */
#define IMX_RPROC_FLAGS_SM_LMM_CTRL BIT(0)
-static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block);
+static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc);
static void imx_rproc_free_mbox(void *data);
/* Forward declarations for platform operations */
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ static int imx_rproc_start(struct rproc *rproc)
struct device *dev = priv->dev;
int ret;
- ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, true);
+ ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static void imx_rproc_kick(struct rproc *rproc, int vqid)
static int imx_rproc_attach(struct rproc *rproc)
{
- return imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, true);
+ return imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc);
}
static int imx_rproc_scu_api_detach(struct rproc *rproc)
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static void imx_rproc_rx_callback(struct mbox_client *cl, void *msg)
queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->rproc_work);
}
-static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block)
+static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc)
{
struct imx_rproc *priv = rproc->priv;
struct device *dev = priv->dev;
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block)
cl = &priv->cl;
cl->dev = dev;
- cl->tx_block = tx_block;
+ cl->tx_block = false;
cl->tx_tout = 100;
cl->knows_txdone = false;
cl->rx_callback = imx_rproc_rx_callback;
@@ -1223,22 +1223,6 @@ static int imx_rproc_detect_mode(struct imx_rproc *priv)
return priv->ops->detect_mode(priv->rproc);
}
-static int imx_rproc_sys_off_handler(struct sys_off_data *data)
-{
- struct rproc *rproc = data->cb_data;
- int ret;
-
- imx_rproc_free_mbox(rproc);
-
- ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, false);
- if (ret) {
- dev_err(&rproc->dev, "Failed to request non-blocking mbox\n");
- return NOTIFY_BAD;
- }
-
- return NOTIFY_DONE;
-}
-
static void imx_rproc_destroy_workqueue(void *data)
{
struct workqueue_struct *workqueue = data;
@@ -1285,7 +1269,7 @@ static int imx_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
INIT_WORK(&priv->rproc_work, imx_rproc_vq_work);
- ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, true);
+ ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -1315,26 +1299,6 @@ static int imx_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (rproc->state != RPROC_DETACHED)
rproc->auto_boot = of_property_read_bool(np, "fsl,auto-boot");
- if (dcfg->flags & IMX_RPROC_NEED_SYSTEM_OFF) {
- /*
- * setup mailbox to non-blocking mode in
- * [SYS_OFF_MODE_POWER_OFF_PREPARE, SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE]
- * phase before invoking [SYS_OFF_MODE_POWER_OFF, SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART]
- * atomic chain, see kernel/reboot.c.
- */
- ret = devm_register_sys_off_handler(dev, SYS_OFF_MODE_POWER_OFF_PREPARE,
- SYS_OFF_PRIO_DEFAULT,
- imx_rproc_sys_off_handler, rproc);
- if (ret)
- return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "register power off handler failure\n");
-
- ret = devm_register_sys_off_handler(dev, SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE,
- SYS_OFF_PRIO_DEFAULT,
- imx_rproc_sys_off_handler, rproc);
- if (ret)
- return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "register restart handler failure\n");
- }
-
pm_runtime_enable(dev);
ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(dev);
if (ret)
@@ -1447,7 +1411,6 @@ static const struct imx_rproc_dcfg imx_rproc_cfg_imx8ulp = {
static const struct imx_rproc_dcfg imx_rproc_cfg_imx7ulp = {
.att = imx_rproc_att_imx7ulp,
.att_size = ARRAY_SIZE(imx_rproc_att_imx7ulp),
- .flags = IMX_RPROC_NEED_SYSTEM_OFF,
};
static const struct imx_rproc_dcfg imx_rproc_cfg_imx7d = {
diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h
index 0d7d48352a10..9a1400d0d081 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ struct imx_rproc_att {
};
/* dcfg flags */
-#define IMX_RPROC_NEED_SYSTEM_OFF BIT(0)
#define IMX_RPROC_NEED_CLKS BIT(1)
struct imx_rproc_plat_ops {
--
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