[PATCH 4/9] mci: add RPMB support

[Ahmad Fatoum]

On 3/19/25 16:34, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
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> On 3/19/25 16:29, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:33:05PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 04:18:32PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>>>> Hello Sascha,
>>>>
>>>> On 3/12/25 13:16, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +int mci_rpmb_route_frames(struct mci *mci, void *req, unsigned long reqlen,
>>>>> +			  void *rsp, unsigned long rsplen)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +	/*
>>>>> +	 * Whoever crafted the data supplied to this function knows how to
>>>>> +	 * format the PRMB frames and which response is expected. If
>>>>> +	 * there's some unexpected mismatch it's more helpful to report an
>>>>> +	 * error immediately than trying to guess what was the intention
>>>>> +	 * and possibly just delay an eventual error which will be harder
>>>>> +	 * to track down.
>>>>> +	 */
>>>>> +	void *rpmb_data = NULL;
>>>>> +	int ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	mci_blk_part_switch(mci->rpmb_part);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	if (!IS_ALIGNED((uintptr_t)req, ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN)) {
>>>>
>>>> Even if alignment happens to be correct, there is no guarantee that
>>>> there is no other data sharing a cache line.
>>>
>>> reqlen is expected to be a single block of 512 bytes, so indeed when req
>>> is aligned then the end is cacheline aligned as well. We could check
>>> reqlen as well, but I actually never ran into this case, so we can just
>>> return an error for now as you suggested.
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>> I was wrong here. the request is placed directly behind a 6 byte struct,
>> so it's guaranteed to be unaligned. We always have to copy it.
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>> The response might be unaligned as well, but must be aligned to pass it
>> to the mmc layer. In my tests the response was always aligned, but
>> better safe than sorry, so I'll add an alignment check here as well,
>> this time including a check for the length.

Sorry about the empty mail. Can we have a generic helper for this?

Maybe dma_map_buf_is_aligned or something like that, preferably with a
device argument from the outset.

Cheers,
Ahmad

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