Re: [PATCH v22 5/7] soc: mediatek: SVS: add debug commands

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 15/02/22 10:08, Roger Lu ha scritto:
> Hi AngeloGioacchino,
> 
> Excuse me for the late reply.

Hi Roger,
no worries about that.

> 
> On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 12:11 +0100, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> Il 27/01/22 04:39, Roger Lu ha scritto:
>>> The purpose of SVS is to help find the suitable voltages
>>> for DVFS. Therefore, if SVS bank voltages are concerned
>>> to be wrong, we can adjust SVS bank voltages by this patch.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Lu <roger.lu@mediatek.com>
>>
>>
>> Hello Roger,
>> I was thinking about what this patch is adding... and I have a few
>> considerations.
>>
>> It's nice to have a debugging mechanism to read the status and dump registers,
>> as
>> that's very helpful when doing heavy debugging of the IP... but adding the
>> possibility to write a voltage offset may be very dangerous: think about the
>> case
>> in which, either for misconfiguration, or for any other reason, the debugfs
>> entry
>> that allows writing voffset becomes user-writable, or a user writes an
>> impossibly
>> high voffset.
>> In case a very low (negative) voffset is entered, the platform would crash
>> (denial
>> of service); if a very high voffset is entered, hardware damage may occur.
>>
>> For this reason, there are two proposals:
>> 1. If you want to keep the debugfs voffset write, please constrain the
>> permissible
>>      voffset to an acceptable range that at least makes it unlikely to damage
>> the HW;
>>      Moreover, since voffset write is a feature that would be used in very
>> limited
>>      debugging cases, I think that this should be implemented over a build-time
>>      configuration barrier... something like CONFIG_MTK_SVS_DEBUG_ALLOW_WRITE,
>> or
>>      similar;
>> 2. Since it's very unlikely for someone to really play that much with a
>> voltage
>>      offset during runtime, and since this looks like something very machine
>> specific
>>      (perhaps addressing board-specific quirks?), I would suggest to add this
>> as a
>>      device-tree parameter instead, such as "mediatek,svs-voffset", as it is
>> indeed
>>      possible to specify both positive or negative values in DT.
>>
>> I would prefer proposal 2, as it looks generally cleaner and way less risky.
> 
> Thanks for raising the considerations and give these great suggestions for us to
> think about. Since these voffset read/write commands are used seldomly, we
> decide to remove them for better system security.
> 

Thank you for this ack, very much appreciated.
Eager to see v23!


>>
>> Regards,
>> Angelo
>