Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] mips: bmips: improve handling of RAC and CBR addr

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 05:26:41PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this simple series improve handling of RAC and CBR address and try to
> upstream these simple patch we have in OpenWrt for a while.
> 
> The first patch fix a straight kernel panic where some Bootloader might
> enable RAC but misconfigure the CBR address. The current logic only
> check if RAC is enabled but doesn't verify if the CBR address is usable.
> 
> The DMA sync function cause a kernel panic for invalid write. (as CBR is
> 0 or something like 0xa)
> 
> The second is preparation for making the CBR address configurable in DT.
> Since this address doesn't change, we can cache it and reference it with
> a local variable instead of calling the register to access the value.
> 
> The 4th patch make it configurable with 2 DT property, one to actually
> set the reg and the other to force set it.
> 
> The first property is used when CBR is set to 0. The second property is
> to force it if the Bootloader sets it to something wrong.
> 
> If the CBR value is not 0 and is not forced with the second property a
> WARN is printed and the DT value is ignored.
> 
> The 4th patch enable RAC on BMIPS4350.
> 
> These has been tested on BCM6358 (HG556a) and BCM6368 (VH4032N) and
> reported correct functionality.
> 
> Changes v8:
> - Drop fix patch (applied to mips-fixes)
> - Rework CBR cache patch to handle bcm47xx not compiling smp-bmips.c
> Changes v7:
> - Add ACK and Reviewed-by tag for dt patch from v5
> Changes v6:
> - Add missing patch that got lost in v5
> - Fix missing header for legacy bcm47xx
> - Fix compilation error with gcc 10.2.1
> Changes v5:
> - Add Ack tags
> - Improve DT descriptions as suggested by Conor
> Changes v4:
> - Fix compilation error with legacy brcm target
> - Improve property description in DT commit (give
>   CBR meaning and drop reference to linux functions)
> - Use only __read_mostly as we can't add variable to
>   multiple data sections
> - In patch 4 use local cbr variable instead of global
>   one.
> Changes v3:
> - Drop broken-cbr-reg property
> - Fix anyOf+const with enum
> Changes v2:
> - Prefix brcm vendor in the added property
> - Drop last patch (cpu switch from DMA sync)
> - Validate CBR addr from DT to be outside DRAM
> - Reduce indentation in DT CBR check
> - Reduce delta and use local variable for CBR where possible
> - Fix and improve typo and spelling mistake
> - Use 0xf instead of 0xa for BCM6358 RAC enable
> 
> Christian Marangi (3):
>   mips: bmips: rework and cache CBR addr handling
>   dt-bindings: mips: brcm: Document brcm,bmips-cbr-reg property
>   mips: bmips: setup: make CBR address configurable
> 
> Daniel González Cabanelas (1):
>   mips: bmips: enable RAC on BMIPS4350
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.yaml    | 24 +++++++++++++
>  arch/mips/bcm47xx/prom.c                      |  3 ++
>  arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c                     |  8 +++++
>  arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c                      |  3 ++
>  arch/mips/bcm63xx/setup.c                     |  8 +++++
>  arch/mips/bmips/dma.c                         |  2 +-
>  arch/mips/bmips/setup.c                       | 35 +++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/mips/include/asm/bmips.h                 |  1 +
>  arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c                  | 22 ++++++++++--
>  9 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

series applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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