Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: dts: qcom: Introduce a carveout for modem metadata

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Dec 13 2022 - 14:40:14 EST


On 13/12/2022 15:07, Sibi Sankar wrote:
> Introduce a new carveout for modem metadata. This will serve as a
> replacement for the memory region used by MSA to authenticate modem
> ELF headers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sibi Sankar <quic_sibis@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for your patch. There is something to discuss/improve.

>
> aliases {
> @@ -865,7 +870,7 @@ hp_i2c: &i2c9 {
> clock-names = "iface", "bus", "nav", "snoc_axi", "mnoc_axi", "xo";
>
> iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x461 0x0>, <&apps_smmu 0x444 0x3>;
> - memory-region = <&mba_mem &mpss_mem>;
> + memory-region = <&mba_mem>, <&mpss_mem>, <&mdata_mem>;
>
> /* This gets overridden for SKUs with LTE support. */
> firmware-name = "qcom/sc7180-trogdor/modem-nolte/mba.mbn",
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280-herobrine-lte-sku.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280-herobrine-lte-sku.dtsi
> index bf522a64b172..bda0495aa0b5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280-herobrine-lte-sku.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc7280-herobrine-lte-sku.dtsi
> @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
> reg = <0x0 0x9c700000 0x0 0x200000>;
> no-map;
> };
> +
> + mdata_mem: memory@9d100000 {
> + reg = <0x0 0x9d100000 0x0 0x4000>;
> + no-map;
> + };
> };
> };
>
> @@ -32,7 +37,7 @@
>
> iommus = <&apps_smmu 0x124 0x0>, <&apps_smmu 0x488 0x7>;
> interconnects = <&mc_virt MASTER_LLCC 0 &mc_virt SLAVE_EBI1 0>;
> - memory-region = <&mba_mem>, <&mpss_mem>;
> + memory-region = <&mba_mem>, <&mpss_mem>, <&mdata_mem>;

Only two memory regions are allowed by bindings... unless you fix it in
further patchset. If so, please re-order to have the bindings first. It
helps reviewers not to have such questions. :)


Best regards,
Krzysztof