[PATCH v7 06/20] mailbox: mtk-cmdq: Add GCE hardware virtualization configuration
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Thu Oct 9 04:27:12 PDT 2025
Il 27/08/25 13:37, Jason-JH Lin ha scritto:
> The GCE hardware virtualization configuration supports the isolation of
> GCE hardware resources across different OS environments. Each OS is
> treated as a virtual machine (VM) for GCE purposes.
> There are 6 VMs and 1 host VM. The host VM has main control over the
> GCE virtualization settings for all VMs.
>
> To properly access the GCE thread registers, it is necessary to
> configure access permissions for specific GCE threads assigned to
> different VMs.
> Currently, since only the host VM is being used, it is required to
> enable access permissions for all GCE threads for the host VM.
>
> There are 2 VM configurations:
> 1. VM_ID_MAP
> There are 4 registers to allocate 32 GCE threads across different VMs:
> VM_ID_MAP0 for threads 0-9, VM_ID_MAP1 for threads 10-19,
> VM_ID_MAP2 for threads 20-29, and VM_ID_MAP3 for threads 30-31.
> Each thread has a 3-bit configuration, where setting all bits to 1
> configures the thread for the host VM.
>
> 2. VM_CPR_GSIZE
> It is used to allocate the CPR SRAM size to each VM. Each VM has 4-bit
> configuration, where setting bit 0-3 to configures the size of host VM.
> This setting must be configured before the VM configuration to prevent
> resource leakage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason-JH Lin <jason-jh.lin at mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>
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