[PATCH 3/4] remoteproc: add helper for optional ELF resource tables

Arnaud POULIQUEN arnaud.pouliquen at foss.st.com
Tue May 12 02:22:38 PDT 2026



On 5/12/26 09:55, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On 5/12/26 00:18, Ben Levinsky wrote:
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>>
>> Add a small helper around rproc_elf_load_rsc_table() for remoteproc
>> drivers that treat a missing ELF resource table as optional. The helper
>> returns success on -EINVAL and propagates other failures unchanged.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Levinsky <ben.levinsky at amd.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h
>> index 3724a47a9748..dff87e468837 100644
>> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h
>> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h
>> @@ -146,6 +146,18 @@ static inline int rproc_mem_entry_iounmap(struct rproc *rproc,
>>          return 0;
>>   }
>>
>> +static inline int rproc_elf_load_rsc_table_optional(struct rproc *rproc,
>> +                                                   const struct firmware *fw)
>> +{
>> +       int ret;
>> +
>> +       ret = rproc_elf_load_rsc_table(rproc, fw);
>> +       if (ret == -EINVAL)
>> +               dev_dbg(&rproc->dev, "no resource table found\n");
> 
> You are changing loglevel here. Initial drivers use dev_info or dev_warn. At least I'm used
> with seeing this messages in the logs.
> 
> So, what do you think on adding at least dev_info to this instead of dev_dbg?

+1 for dev_info (dev_warn is used in  stm32_rproc_parse_fw(), but ok to 
move to dev_info)

Regards,
Arnaud

> 
>> +
>> +       return ret == -EINVAL ? 0 : ret;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static inline int rproc_prepare_device(struct rproc *rproc)
>>   {
>>          if (rproc->ops->prepare)
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>>
> 
> 




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