Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] soc: qcom: aoss: Move length requirements from caller

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:10:24 +0200

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 09:10:10PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> The existing implementation of qmp_send() requires the caller to provide
> a buffer which is of word-aligned. The underlying reason for this is
> that message ram only supports word accesses, but pushing this
> requirement onto the clients results in the same boiler plate code
> sprinkled in every call site.
> 
> By using a temporary buffer in qmp_send() we can hide the underlying
> hardware limitations from the clients and allow them to pass their
> NUL-terminates C string directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ipa/ipa_power.c        |  2 +-
>  drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5.c     |  2 +-
>  drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c       | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
>  include/linux/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.h |  4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_power.c b/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_power.c
> index 921eecf3eff6..26181eeed975 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_power.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_power.c
> @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ void ipa_power_retention(struct ipa *ipa, bool enable)
>  
>  	(void)snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, enable ? '1' : '0');
>  
> -	ret = qmp_send(power->qmp, buf, sizeof(buf));
> +	ret = qmp_send(power->qmp, buf);
>  	if (ret)
>  		dev_err(power->dev, "error %d sending QMP %sable request\n",
>  			ret, enable ? "en" : "dis");
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5.c b/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5.c
> index 192c7aa0e39e..8b41a73fa4d1 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5.c
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static int q6v5_load_state_toggle(struct qcom_q6v5 *q6v5, bool enable)
>  
>  	WARN_ON(ret >= Q6V5_LOAD_STATE_MSG_LEN);
>  
> -	ret = qmp_send(q6v5->qmp, buf, sizeof(buf));
> +	ret = qmp_send(q6v5->qmp, buf);
>  	if (ret)
>  		dev_err(q6v5->dev, "failed to toggle load state\n");
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c
> index e376c32cc16e..5e74332515cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_aoss.c
> @@ -206,36 +206,35 @@ static bool qmp_message_empty(struct qmp *qmp)
>   * qmp_send() - send a message to the AOSS
>   * @qmp: qmp context
>   * @data: message to be sent
> - * @len: length of the message
>   *
>   * Transmit @data to AOSS and wait for the AOSS to acknowledge the message.
> - * @len must be a multiple of 4 and not longer than the mailbox size. Access is
> - * synchronized by this implementation.
> + * data must not be longer than the mailbox size. Access is synchronized by
> + * this implementation.
>   *
>   * Return: 0 on success, negative errno on failure
>   */
> -int qmp_send(struct qmp *qmp, const void *data, size_t len)
> +int qmp_send(struct qmp *qmp, const void *data)
>  {
>  	long time_left;
> +	char buf[QMP_MSG_LEN];
>  	int ret;

Hi Bjorn,

please consider preserving reverse xmas tree - longest line to shortest -
for local variable declarations in this Networking code.

	char buf[QMP_MSG_LEN];
	long time_left;
	int ret;

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