Re: [RFC PATCH v3 5/5] arm64: Use SYSTEM_OFF2 PSCI call to power off for hibernate

[Marc Zyngier]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:12:44 +0000,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 16:02 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:59:06 +0000,
> > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > +static void __init psci_init_system_off2(void)
> > > +{
> > > +       int ret;
> > > +
> > > +       ret = psci_features(PSCI_FN_NATIVE(1_3, SYSTEM_OFF2));
> > > +
> > > +       if (ret != PSCI_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED)
> > > +               psci_system_off2_supported = true;
> > 
> > It'd be worth considering the (slightly broken) case where SYSTEM_OFF2
> > is supported, but HIBERNATE_OFF is not set in the response, as the
> > spec doesn't say that this bit is mandatory (it seems legal to
> > implement SYSTEM_OFF2 without any hibernate type, making it similar to
> > SYSTEM_OFF).
> 
> Such is not my understanding. If SYSTEM_OFF2 is supported, then
> HIBERNATE_OFF *is* mandatory.
> 
> The next update to the spec is turning the PSCI_FEATURES response into
> a *bitmap* of the available features, and I believe it will mandate
> that bit zero is set.

The bitmap is already present in the current Alpha spec:

<quote>
5.16.2 Implementation responsibilities

[...]

Bits[31] Reserved, must be zero.

Bits[30:0] Hibernate types supported.
	- 0x0 - HIBERNATE_OFF

All other values are reserved for future use.
</quote>

and doesn't say (yet) that HIBERNATE_OFF is mandatory. Furthermore,

<quote>
5.11.2 Caller responsibilities

The calling OS uses the PSCI_FEATURES API, with the SYSTEM_OFF2
function ID, to discover whether the function is present:

- If the function is implemented, PSCI_FEATURES returns the hibernate
  types supported.

- If the function is not implemented, PSCI_FEATURES returns
  NOT_SUPPORTED.
</quote>

which doesn't say anything about which hibernate type must be
implemented. Which makes sense, as I expect it to, in the fine ARM
tradition, grow things such as "HIBERNATE_WITH_ROT13_ENCRYPTION" and
even "HIBERNATE_WITH_ERRATA_XYZ", because firmware is where people
dump their crap. And we will need some special handling for these
tasty variants.

> And if for whatever reason that SYSTEM_OFF2/HIBERNATE_OFF call
> *doesn't* work, Linux will end up doing a 'real' poweroff, first
> through EFI and then finally as a last resort with a PSCI SYSTEM_OFF.
> So it would be OK to have false positives in the detection.

I agree that nothing really breaks, but I also hold the view that
broken firmware implementations should be given the finger, specially
given that you have done this work *ahead* of the spec. I would really
like this to fail immediately on these and not even try to suspend.

With that in mind, if doesn't really matter whether HIBERNATE_OFF is
mandatory or not. We really should check for it and pretend it doesn't
exist if the correct flag isn't set.

	M.

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