Re: [PATCH v9 10/12] arm_mpam: add MPAM-Fb MSC firmware access support
From: Lee Trager
Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 20:16:05 EST
On 8/7/26 3:54 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
+While testing this series when building arm64 allnoconfig with CONFIG_ARM4_MPAM=y I got a link failure:
+static int mpam_fb_send_request(struct mpam_msc *msc, 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 mpam_pcc_chan *pcc_chan;
+ struct pcc_mbox_chan *chan;
+ void __iomem *payload_ofs;
+ int mpam_fb_err = 0;
+ u32 status;
+ int ret;
+
+ pcc_chan = msc->pcc_chan;
+ 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_PROTOCOL_VERSION_CMD:
+ mpam_fb_build_version_message(token, chan->shmem);
+ break;
+ case MPAM_MSC_READ_CMD:
+ mpam_fb_build_read_message(msc_id, reg, token, chan->shmem);
+ break;
+ case MPAM_MSC_WRITE_CMD:
+ mpam_fb_build_write_message(msc_id, reg, *result,
+ token, chan->shmem);
+ break;
+ default:
+ dev_err(&msc->pdev->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;
+
drivers/resctrl/mpam_fb.o: undefined reference to `mbox_send_message`
Since the ACPI MPAM-Fb transport also reqiures PCC, wold it make sense for ARM64_MPAM_DRIVER to select both dependencies?
select MAILBOX
select PCC if ACPI
Lee