[PATCH v3 0/7] firmware: scmi/imx: Add i.MX95 LMM/CPU Protocol

Peng Fan peng.fan at oss.nxp.com
Tue Mar 18 01:28:04 PDT 2025


Hi Sudeep, Cristian

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 10:53:21AM +0800, Peng Fan (OSS) wrote:
>i.MX95 System Manager(SM) implements Logical Machine Management(LMM) and
>CPU protocol to manage Logical Machine(LM) and CPUs(eg, M7).

Any comments?
I am thinking to address comments and post v4 after 6.15 merge window close.

Thanks,
Peng

>
>To manage M7 in a separate LM or in same LM as Linux itself. LMM APIs
>and CPU APIs are needed.
>
>When M7 is in LM 'lm-m7', and this LM is managable by 'linux-lm',
>linux could use LMM_BOOT, LMM_SHUTDOWN and etc to manage 'lm-m7'.
>
>If in same LM, use CPU_START, CPU_STOP, CPU_RESET_VECTOR_SET and etc to
>manage M7.
>
>Both LMM/CPU APIs will be used by remoteproc driver. The remoteproc
>patchset will be posted out after this patchset gets reviewed or in
>good shape per Maitainer's view.
>
>Build pass with COMPILE_TEST
>Tested with remoteproc on i.MX95
>
>Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
>---
>Changes in v3:
>Patch 1: Correct LMM_ATTRIBUTE return values
>        Update the return status of LM_BOOT/RESET/SHUTDOWN/WAKE
>        clarify sync/async in the Introduction chapter of LMM
>        Update the Origin entry in LMM_RESET_REASON
>        Clarify CPU run/sleep mode
>        Add note for CPU protocol to indicate AP using PSCI, non-AP use OS.
>        Specify mandatory for each command in LMM/CPU per firmware owner.
>        For BBM/MISC which have optional command, I will update doc in separate patch later
>Patch 2: Add description in binding doc
>Patch 3: Unify scmi_imx_lmm_[boot,power_on], Use le32_get_bits
>Patch 4: Unify scmi_imx_cpu_[start,stop], Use le32_encode_bits
>	 Add pointer check in scmi_imx_cpu_started
>	 correct nr_cpus calculation
>Patch 5: Unify lmm shutdown,boot/power_on, update kconfig to avoid build bot issue
>         Add R-b
>Patch 6: Unity cpu start/stop, update Kconfig to avoid build bot issue.
>         Add R-b
>
>Ran smatch as below, no issue found.
>~/smatch/smatch_scripts/kchecker drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/vendors/imx/
>~/smatch/smatch_scripts/kchecker drivers/firmware/imx/
>
>- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212-imx-lmm-cpu-v2-0-3aee005968c1@nxp.com
>
>Changes in v2:
>- Add dt-bindings patch 2
>- Add a maintainer entry with patch 7
>- Update doc to address various questions and make it clear
>- Use strscpy to use scmi server returned string
>- Drop extra blank line
>- Shrink scmi_imx_cpu_attributes_get function args.
>- Typo fixes
>- Add LMM_RESET_VECTOR_SET
>- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250121-imx-lmm-cpu-v1-0-0eab7e073e4e@nxp.com
>
>---
>Peng Fan (7):
>      firmware: arm_scmi: imx: Add LMM and CPU documentation
>      dt-bindings: firmware: Add i.MX95 SCMI LMM and CPU protocol
>      firmware: arm_scmi: imx: Add i.MX95 LMM protocol
>      firmware: arm_scmi: imx: Add i.MX95 CPU Protocol
>      firmware: imx: Add i.MX95 SCMI LMM driver
>      firmware: imx: Add i.MX95 SCMI CPU driver
>      MAINTAINERS: add entry for i.MX SCMI extensions
>
> .../bindings/firmware/nxp,imx95-scmi.yaml          |  23 +
> MAINTAINERS                                        |   9 +
> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/vendors/imx/Kconfig      |  24 +
> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/vendors/imx/Makefile     |   2 +
> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/vendors/imx/imx-sm-cpu.c | 276 +++++++
> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/vendors/imx/imx-sm-lmm.c | 257 +++++++
> drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/vendors/imx/imx95.rst    | 801 +++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/firmware/imx/Kconfig                       |  22 +
> drivers/firmware/imx/Makefile                      |   2 +
> drivers/firmware/imx/sm-cpu.c                      |  85 +++
> drivers/firmware/imx/sm-lmm.c                      |  91 +++
> include/linux/firmware/imx/sm.h                    |  19 +
> include/linux/scmi_imx_protocol.h                  |  42 ++
> 13 files changed, 1653 insertions(+)
>---
>base-commit: fb2b3e3bd74b8a3f742eaade06f6565323cf4bdf
>change-id: 20250120-imx-lmm-cpu-418daaa257e2
>
>Best regards,
>-- 
>Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
>



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