Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] irqchip/gic-v3: Disable pseudo NMIs on Mediatek devices w/ firmware issues

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno]

Il 15/05/23 22:13, Douglas Anderson ha scritto:
> Some Chromebooks with Mediatek SoCs have a problem where the firmware
> doesn't properly save/restore certain GICR registers. Newer
> Chromebooks should fix this issue and we may be able to do firmware
> updates for old Chromebooks. At the moment, the only known issue with
> these Chromebooks is that we can't enable "pseudo NMIs" since the
> priority register can be lost. Enabling "pseudo NMIs" on Chromebooks
> with the problematic firmware causes crashes and freezes.
>
> Let's detect devices with this problem and then disable "pseudo NMIs"
> on them. We'll detect the problem by looking for the presence of the
> "mediatek,broken-save-restore-fw" property in the GIC device tree
> node. Any devices with fixed firmware will not have this property.
>
> Our detection plan works because we never bake a Chromebook's device
> tree into firmware. Instead, device trees are always bundled with the
> kernel. We'll update the device trees of all affected Chromebooks and
> then we'll never enable "pseudo NMI" on a kernel that is bundled with
> old device trees. When a firmware update is shipped that fixes this
> issue it will know to patch the device tree to remove the property.
>
> In order to make this work, the quick detection mechanism of the GICv3
> code is extended to be able to look for properties in addition to
> looking at "compatible".
>
> Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't like firmware removing properties from my devicetrees and I'd like this
issue to get addressed in another way (use a scratch register? and check it in
Linux drivers to determine if the issue is not present: if scratch contains BIT(x),
do not parse the quirk) but that's a different discussion which is a bit out of
context for this patch, so:

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>