Re: [PATCH v2] nvmem: mtk-efuse: Only register socinfo device if needed cells are there

From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
Date: Fri Jul 19 2024 - 05:29:13 EST


Il 19/07/24 00:07, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado ha scritto:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 11:31:11AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
Il 08/07/24 21:43, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado ha scritto:
Not every efuse region has cells storing SoC information. Only register
an socinfo device if the required cells are present.

This prevents the pointless process of creating an socinfo device,
probing it with the socinfo driver only to ultimately error out like so

mtk-socinfo mtk-socinfo.0.auto: error -ENOENT: Failed to get socinfo data
mtk-socinfo mtk-socinfo.0.auto: probe with driver mtk-socinfo failed with error -2

This issue is observed on the mt8183-kukui-jacuzzi-juniper-sku16
platform, which has two efuse regions, but only one of them contains the
SoC data.


I think that we should rather remove or disable the first eFuse region, as
even though that is enabled:

- This is the only SoC having two regions
- I'm not even sure that the region at 0x8000000 is really efuse
- Not even referenced in datasheets....
- It's unused, as in, it's not exposing any information and no declared cells

Don't misunderstand me, this is not an invalid change, but I rather prefer
to resolve this by disabling that (effectively unused!) node, avoiding to
add more lines to this driver that would be useless after fixing that small
single thing.

I'm not confident that we can say that that efuse is not exposing any
information. Indeed there are no cells so it's not used by any other driver, but
the efuse contents are still exposed to userspace if CONFIG_NVMEM_SYSFS is
enabled.

I dumped it on one of the mt8183-kukui-jacuzzi-juniper-sku16 units:

$ ls -l /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 18 21:43 mmtd0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc/11010000.spi/spi_master/spi1/spi1.0/mtd/mtd0/mtd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 18 21:43 nvmem0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc/8000000.efuse/nvmem0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 18 21:43 nvmem1 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc/11f10000.efuse/nvmem1
$ hexdump -C /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/nvmem0/nvmem
00000000 88 07 00 00 00 8a 00 00 00 ca 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000010

I power cycled the unit and ran this again and it still showed the same
contents. I also ran the same on a different unit of the same model and it
showed the same contents. Of course this doesn't prove anything, but given that
the contents seem to be constant across reboots and even different units, it
does look like it could be an efuse to me. :)

As to whether the contents are useful at all, or if there are
userspace applications making use of it I have no clue. But if in doubt,
shouldn't we keep it around?

(Added William-tw Lin from MediaTek to the loop)

I'll say yes only if MediaTek (please!) says that this region has useful
information, and only if MediaTek actually tells us what those fuses are.

The reason is that sometimes when SoCs have multiple efuse regions, one contains
uncalibrated data for factory calibration (etc etc), one contains data that derives
from the uncalibrated regions and that is supposed to be used by the OS.

If we got the uncalibrated data that is *not* for OS usage in the MT8183 DT, then
we can as well just remove it.

Besides, I have no concern about any userspace application using that.

Cheers!


Thanks,
Nícolas