Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dt: psci: Add arm,psci-sys-reset2-vendor-param property

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm•com>
To: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora•org>
Cc: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora•org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm•com>,
	David Collins <collinsd@codeaurora•org>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro•org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm•com>,
	Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora•org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] dt: psci: Add arm,psci-sys-reset2-vendor-param property
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:01:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200320120105.GA36658@C02TD0UTHF1T.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1583435129-31356-2-git-send-email-eberman@codeaurora.org>

Hi Elliot,

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 11:05:27AM -0800, Elliot Berman wrote:
> Some implementors of PSCI may wish to use a different reset type than
> SYSTEM_WARM_RESET. For instance, Qualcomm SoCs support an alternate
> reset_type which may be used in more warm reboot scenarios than
> SYSTEM_WARM_RESET permits (e.g. to reboot into recovery mode).

To be honest, I'm still confused by this series, and I think that these
patches indicate a larger problem that we cannot solve generally (e.g.
on other platofrms and/or with ACPI).

I think the underlying issue is whether the semantics for:

a) Linux's RESET_WARM and RESET_SOFT
b) PSCI's SYSTEM_RESET2 SYSTEM_WARM_RESET

... actually align in practice, which this series suggests is not the
case.

If those don't align, then I think that commit:

  4302e381a870aafb ("firmware/psci: add support for SYSTEM_RESET2")

... is not actually reliable, and not something we can support by
default, and we should rethink the code introduce in that commit.

If (a) and (b) are supposed to align, and the behaviour on your platform
is an erratum, then I think we should treat it as such rather than
adding a property that is open to abuse.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mark.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm•com>
> Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora•org>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml
> index 8ef8542..1a9d2dd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/psci.yaml
> @@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ properties:
>        [1] Kernel documentation - ARM idle states bindings
>          Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
>  
> +  arm,psci-sys-reset2-vendor-param:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description: |
> +        Vendor-specific reset type parameter to use for SYSTEM_RESET2 during
> +        a warm or soft reboot. If no value is provided, then architectural
> +        reset type SYSTEM_WARM_RESET is used.
> +
>    "#power-domain-cells":
>      description:
>        The number of cells in a PM domain specifier as per binding in [3].
> -- 
> The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
> a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

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