Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] dt-bindings: mailbox: Add property for CMDQ secure driver

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno]

Il 26/05/24 01:08, Jason-JH.Lin ha scritto:
> 1. Add mboxes property to define a GCE loopping thread as a secure IRQ
> handler.
> The CMDQ secure driver requests a mbox channel and sends a looping
> command to the GCE thread. The looping command will wait for a secure
> packet done event signal from secure world and then jump back to the
> first instuction. Each time it waits for an event, it notifies the
> CMDQ driver to perform the same action as the IRQ handler.
>
> 2. Add gce-events property from gce-props.yaml to define a
> secure packet done signal in secure world.
> There are 1024 events IDs for GCE to use to execute instructions in
> the specific event happened. These events could be signaled by HW or SW
> and their value would be different in different SoC because of HW event
> IDs distribution range from 0 to 1023.
> If we set a static event ID: 855 for mt8188, it might be conflict the
> event ID original set in mt8195.
> So we define an event ID that will be set when GCE runs to the end of
> secure cmdq packet in the secure world.
>
> This can reduce the latency of software communication between normal
> world and secure world. In addition, we can also remove the complex
> logic after the secure packet done in the secure world.

Hello Jason,

Is this looping thread SoC specific, board specific or firmware specific?

Thanks,
Angelo

> Signed-off-by: Jason-JH.Lin <jason-jh.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hsiao Chien Sung <shawn.sung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   .../devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mediatek,gce-mailbox.yaml | 8 +++++++-
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mediatek,gce-mailbox.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mediatek,gce-mailbox.yaml
> index cef9d7601398..6e5e848d61d9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mediatek,gce-mailbox.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/mediatek,gce-mailbox.yaml
> @@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ properties:
>       items:
>         - const: gce
>   
> +  mboxes:
> +    items:
> +      - description: GCE looping thread as a secure IRQ handler
> +
>   required:
>     - compatible
>     - "#mbox-cells"
> @@ -57,6 +61,8 @@ required:
>     - clocks
>   
>   allOf:
> +  - $ref: /schemas/mailbox/mediatek,gce-props.yaml#
> +
>     - if:
>         not:
>           properties:
> @@ -67,7 +73,7 @@ allOf:
>         required:
>           - clock-names
>   
> -additionalProperties: false
> +unevaluatedProperties: false
>   
>   examples:
>     - |