[PATCH v1 05/15] remoteproc: mediatek: Add SCP core 1 driver for dual-core scp

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Mon Jun 6 03:08:14 PDT 2022


Il 06/06/22 11:52, Tinghan Shen ha scritto:
> On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 11:15 +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
>> Il 01/06/22 13:21, Tinghan Shen ha scritto:
>>> MT8195 SCP is a dual-core processor. The mtk_scp.c driver only controls
>>> SCP core 0. This patch adds a basic driver to control the another core.
>>>
>>> Core 1 and core 0 of the SCP are housed in the same subsys.They see
>>> registers and memory in the same way.
>>>
>>> Core 1 of the SCP features its own set of core configuration registers,
>>> interrupt controller, timers, and DMAs. The rest of the peripherals
>>> in this subsystem are shared by core 0 and core 1.
>>>
>>> As for memory, core 1 has its own cache memory, and the SCP SRAM is shared
>>> by core 0 and core 1.
>>>
>>
>> Hello Tinghan,
>>
>> checking all the patches that are introducing support for the secondary SCP core,
>> it's clear that you're practically reusing *most of* mtk_scp in mtk_scp_dual.
>>
>> I don't think that adding a new configuration option for MTK_SCP_DUALCORE (nor a
>> new file just for that) is a good idea... the code is "short enough" so you should
>> really just add support for multi-core SCP in mtk_scp.c instead.
>>
>> After doing so, I have a hunch that we'll be able to reduce the size of this
>> implementation even more, as I see literally too much common code :-)
>>
> 
> Hi Angelo,
> 
> Thanks for your review.
> 
> This series has 2 new files, mtk_scp_dual.c and mtk_scp_subdev.c.
> Is your advice to merge both files into mtk_scp.c,
> or to merely merge mtk_scp_dual.c to mtk_scp.c?
> 
> Thanks,
> TingHan
> 
> 
> 

I suggest to merge both into mtk_scp.c and commonize/generalize functions inside
of there as much as possible... including the removal of #if IS_ENABLED(...)
macro usages, as you can simply check that during runtime by setting a bool
variable to true when it's dual-core.

Let's do this first step.
I'll give you a more exhaustive review on v2, when this main step is done.

Cheers,
Angelo



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