Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: fix SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED management

[Sudeep Holla]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:06:22PM +0200, Etienne Carriere wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 16:29, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:24:28AM +0200, Etienne Carriere wrote:
> > > Fix management of argument a0 output value of arm_smccc_1_1_invoke() that
> > > should consider only SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED as reporting an unsupported
> > > function ID as correctly stated in the inline comment.
> > >
> >
> > I agree on the comment part, but ...
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Etienne Carriere <etienne.carriere@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
> > > index 49bc4b0e8428..637ad439545f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c
> > > @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int smc_send_message(struct scmi_chan_info *cinfo,
> > >       mutex_unlock(&scmi_info->shmem_lock);
> > >
> > >       /* Only SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED is valid error code */
> > > -     if (res.a0)
> > > +     if (res.a0 == SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED)
> > >               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >
> > Now this will return 0 for all values other than SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED.
> > Is that what we need ? Or do you see non-zero res.a0 for a success case ?
> > If later, we need some fixing, otherwise it is safer to leave it as is
> > IMO.
> 
> Firmware following SMCCC v1.x for some OEM/SiP invocation may simply
> not modify invocation register argument a0 on invocation with a
> SCMI-SMC transport function ID.

Yikes, I need to check specification again for this. I will also
check with the firmware implementation team/

> Resulting in res.a0 == scmi_info->func_id here. Which is, by SMCCC
> v1.x not an error.
>

But that may get fatal the result in some other cases, not here for sure.
But I would rather flag that as error so that it is fixed. Anyways I will
check on this again/

> From SMCCC v1.x only SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED (-1 signed extended is a
> reserved ) is a generic return error whatever function ID value.
>

Not really, there are couple more I think now. But yes I need to check
on the generic return part.

> Or consider part of the SCMI-SMC transport API that output arg a0
> shall be 0 on success, SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED if function ID is not
> supported and any non-zero value for non-generic **error** codes.
>

I prefer that. Anyways I will check and if anything changes I will ping
back on this thread.

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Regards,
Sudeep