[PATCH 2/3] remoteproc: imx_rproc: Add support for System Manager API
Daniel Baluta
daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 05:55:55 PDT 2025
Hi Peng,
Thanks a lot for the patches. Comments inline:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan at oss.nxp.com> wrote:
>
> From: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
>
> i.MX95 features a Cortex-M33 core, six Cortex-A55 cores, and
> one Cortex-M7 core. The System Control Management Interface(SCMI)
> firmware runs on the M33 core. The i.MX95 SCMI firmware named System
> Manager(SM) includes vendor extension protocols, Logical Machine
> Management(LMM) protocol and CPU protocol and etc.
>
> There are three cases for M7:
> (1) M7 in a separate Logical Machine(LM) that Linux couldn't control it.
couldn't -> can't
> (2) M7 in a separate Logical Machine that Linux could control it using
> LMM protocol
could -> can
> (3) M7 runs in same Logical Machine as A55, so Linux could control it
> using CPU protocol
could -> can
>
> So extend the driver to using LMM and CPU protocol to manage the M7 core.
> - Add IMX_RPROC_SM to indicate the remotecores runs on a SoC that
> has System Manager.
remotecores -> remote core
> - Compare linux LM ID(got using scmi_imx_lmm_info) and M7 LM ID(got
> from DTB), if same, use CPU protocol to start/stop. Otherwise, use
> LMM protocol to start/stop.
> Whether using CPU or LMM protocol to start/stop, the M7 status
> detection could use CPU protocol to detect started or not. So
> in imx_rproc_detect_mode, use scmi_imx_cpu_started to check the
> status of M7.
> - For above case 1 and 2, Use SCMI_IMX_LMM_POWER_ON to detect whether
> the M7 LM is under control of A55 LM.
>
> Current setup relies on pre-Linux software(U-Boot) to do
> M7 TCM ECC initialization. In future, we could add the support in Linux
> to decouple U-Boot and Linux.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> ---
> drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
> index 74299af1d7f10a0db794de494c52304b2323b89f..0649faa98725db99366946c65edf5b7daff78316 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> #include <linux/clk.h>
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/firmware/imx/sci.h>
> +#include <linux/firmware/imx/sm.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/mailbox_client.h>
> @@ -21,6 +22,7 @@
> #include <linux/reboot.h>
> #include <linux/regmap.h>
> #include <linux/remoteproc.h>
> +#include <linux/scmi_imx_protocol.h>
> #include <linux/workqueue.h>
>
> #include "imx_rproc.h"
> @@ -91,6 +93,11 @@ struct imx_rproc_mem {
> #define ATT_CORE_MASK 0xffff
> #define ATT_CORE(I) BIT((I))
>
> +/* Logical Machine Operation */
> +#define IMX_RPROC_FLAGS_SM_LMM_OP BIT(0)
> +/* Linux has permission to handle the Logical Machine of remote cores */
> +#define IMX_RPROC_FLAGS_SM_LMM_AVAIL BIT(1)
> +
> static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block);
> static void imx_rproc_free_mbox(struct rproc *rproc);
>
> @@ -115,6 +122,22 @@ struct imx_rproc {
> u32 entry; /* cpu start address */
> u32 core_index;
> struct dev_pm_domain_list *pd_list;
> + /* For i.MX System Manager based systems */
> + u32 cpuid;
> + u32 lmid;
> + u32 flags;
> +};
> +
> +static const struct imx_rproc_att imx_rproc_att_imx95_m7[] = {
> + /* dev addr , sys addr , size , flags */
> + /* TCM CODE NON-SECURE */
> + { 0x00000000, 0x203C0000, 0x00040000, ATT_OWN | ATT_IOMEM },
> +
> + /* TCM SYS NON-SECURE*/
> + { 0x20000000, 0x20400000, 0x00040000, ATT_OWN | ATT_IOMEM },
> +
> + /* DDR */
> + { 0x80000000, 0x80000000, 0x50000000, 0 },
> };
^ this belongs to patch 3/3
Otherwise, patch looks good to me.
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