[PATCH v5 0/3] Retrieve information about DDR from SMEM
From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 06:19:18 EST
SMEM allows the OS to retrieve information about the DDR memory.
Among that information, is a semi-magic value called 'HBB', or Highest
Bank address Bit, which multimedia drivers (for hardware like Adreno
and MDSS) must retrieve in order to program the IP blocks correctly.
This series introduces an API to retrieve that value, uses it in the
aforementioned programming sequences and exposes available DDR
frequencies in debugfs (to e.g. pass to aoss_qmp debugfs). More
information can be exposed in the future, as needed.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v5:
- Parse DRAM data before publishing __smem
- Add trivial patch 1 converting 'unsigned' to 'unsigned int' to make
checkpatch happy
- Link to v4: https://patch.msgid.link/20260721-topic-smem_dramc-v4-0-748f992278a3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v4:
- Rebase on top of Dmitry's cleanups to ubwc_config
- Mark and consume the shared data as little-endian
- Fix compiler optimizing out what it thinks is impossible (odd
v3_14freq case)
- Rework qcom_ubwc_config_get_data() per discussion to not alter
hardcoded data
- Remove some unnecessary comments and assignments
- Return -ENODATA instead of -EINVAL for out-of-sensible-range HBB
- Cosmetic/line wrapping fixups
- Drop applied drm/msm patch
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260108-topic-smem_dramc-v3-0-6b64df58a017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v3:
- Support v6 and v7 DDRInfo (v7 is used on e.g. Hamoa)
- Handle rare cases of DDRInfo v5 with additional trailing data
- Rebase/adjust to SSoT UBWC
- Expose hbb value in debugfs
- cosmetic changes
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410-topic-smem_dramc-v2-0-dead15264714@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v2:
- Avoid checking for < 0 on unsigned types
- Overwrite Adreno UBWC data to keep the data shared with userspace
coherent with what's programmed into the hardware
- Call get_hbb() in msm_mdss_enable() instead of all UBWC setup
branches separately
- Pick up Bjorn's rb on patch 1
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409-topic-smem_dramc-v1-0-94d505cd5593@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Konrad Dybcio (3):
soc: qcom: smem: Use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned'
soc: qcom: smem: Expose DDR data from SMEM
soc: qcom: ubwc: Get HBB from SMEM
drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile | 3 +-
drivers/soc/qcom/smem.c | 80 +++++---
drivers/soc/qcom/smem.h | 12 ++
drivers/soc/qcom/smem_dramc.c | 430 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/soc/qcom/ubwc_config.c | 40 +++-
include/linux/soc/qcom/smem.h | 2 +
6 files changed, 533 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
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base-commit: c5e32e86ca02b003f86e095d379b38148999293d
change-id: 20250409-topic-smem_dramc-6467187ac865
Best regards,
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Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>