RE: [PATCH V8 2/2] mailbox: introduce ARM SMC based mailbox

[Peng Fan]

Hi Florian

> Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 2/2] mailbox: introduce ARM SMC based mailbox
> 
> Hi Peng,
> 
> On 9/23/2019 6:14 PM, Peng Fan wrote:
> > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > This mailbox driver implements a mailbox which signals transmitted
> > data via an ARM smc (secure monitor call) instruction. The mailbox
> > receiver is implemented in firmware and can synchronously return data
> > when it returns execution to the non-secure world again.
> > An asynchronous receive path is not implemented.
> > This allows the usage of a mailbox to trigger firmware actions on SoCs
> > which either don't have a separate management processor or on which
> > such a core is not available. A user of this mailbox could be the SCP
> > interface.
> >
> > Modified from Andre Przywara's v2 patch
> > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore
> > .kernel.org%2Fpatchwork%2Fpatch%2F812999%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7
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> >
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> > Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > +typedef unsigned long (smc_mbox_fn)(unsigned int, unsigned long,
> > +				    unsigned long, unsigned long,
> > +				    unsigned long, unsigned long,
> > +				    unsigned long);
> > +static smc_mbox_fn *invoke_smc_mbox_fn;
> 
> Sorry for spotting this so late, the only thing that concerns me here with this
> singleton is if we happen to have both an arm,smc-mbox and arm,hvc-mbox
> configured in the system, this would not work.

Yes. Thanks for spotting this.

 I do not believe this could be a
> functional use case, but we should probably guard against that or better yet,
> move that into the arm_smc_chan_data private structure?

Agree. Will Fix in v9.

Thanks,
Peng.

> --
> Florian