Re: [PATCH v6 08/10] arm_mpam: add MPAM-Fb MSC firmware access support
From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 15:05:37 EST
On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:25:37 +0200
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Arm MPAM Firmware-backed (Fb) Profile document[1] describes an
> alternative way of accessing the "Memory System Components" (MSC) in an
> MPAM enabled system.
>
> Normally the MSCs are MMIO mapped, but in some implementations this
> might not be possible (MSC located outside of the local socket, MSC
> mapped secure-only) or desirable (direct MMIO access too slow or needs
> to be mediated through a control processor). MPAM-fb standardises a
> protocol to abstract MSC accesses, building on the SCMI protocol.
>
> Add functions that do an MSC read or write access by redirecting the
> request through a firmware interface. For now this done via an ACPI
> PCC shared memory and mailbox combination.
>
> Since the protocol used is only a small subset of the full SCMI spec,
> and the SCMI protocol has no full ACPI support anyway, open-code the
> (simple) SCMI message generation, for just the fields we need.
>
> [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0144/latest
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
On trivial style consistency comment. Otherwise looks fine to me.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_fb.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_fb.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e2ce28a602aa
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_fb.c
...
> +static int mpam_fb_send_request(struct mpam_pcc_chan *pcc_chan, u32 msc_id,
> + u16 reg, u32 *result, int mpam_fb_command)
> +{
> + unsigned int token = atomic_inc_return(&mpam_fb_token);
> + struct acpi_pcct_ext_pcc_shared_memory __iomem *pcc_shmem;
> + struct pcc_mbox_chan *chan;
> + void __iomem *payload_ofs;
> + int mpam_fb_err = 0;
> + u32 status;
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (!pcc_chan)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> + chan = pcc_chan->pcc_chan;
> +
> + /* prune token to fit into the 10 bits inside the command register */
> + token = FIELD_GET(MPAM_MSC_TOKEN_MASK,
> + FIELD_PREP(MPAM_MSC_TOKEN_MASK, token));
> +
> + mutex_lock(&pcc_chan->pcc_chan_lock);
> +
> + switch (mpam_fb_command) {
> + case MPAM_MSC_WRITE_CMD:
> + mpam_fb_build_write_message(msc_id, reg, *result,
> + token, chan->shmem);
> + break;
> + case MPAM_MSC_READ_CMD:
> + mpam_fb_build_read_message(msc_id, reg, token, chan->shmem);
> + break;
> + case MPAM_PROTOCOL_VERSION_CMD:
> + mpam_fb_build_version_message(token, chan->shmem);
> + break;
> + default:
> + dev_err(pcc_chan->pcc_cl.dev, "unsupported MPAM-Fb command %d\n",
> + mpam_fb_command);
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out_err;
> + }
> +
> + ret = mbox_send_message(chan->mchan, NULL);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + goto out_err;
> +
> + pcc_shmem = chan->shmem;
> + payload_ofs = chan->shmem + sizeof(*pcc_shmem);
> + status = readl(&pcc_shmem->command);
> + if (FIELD_GET(MPAM_MSC_TOKEN_MASK, status) != token) {
> + ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
> +
Slightly odd style. I'd drop blank lines in places like this.
They aren't consistent as things stand.
> + goto out_err;
> + }
> +
> + mpam_fb_err = readl(payload_ofs + 0x0);
> + if (mpam_fb_err < 0) {
> + ret = mpam_fb_translate_error_code(mpam_fb_err);
> +
> + goto out_err;
> + }
> +
> + if (mpam_fb_command != MPAM_MSC_WRITE_CMD)
> + *result = readl(payload_ofs + 0x4);
> +
> + mutex_unlock(&pcc_chan->pcc_chan_lock);
> +
> + return 0;
> +
> +out_err:
> + mutex_unlock(&pcc_chan->pcc_chan_lock);
> +
> + mpam_fb_disable_mpam(ret, mpam_fb_err);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}