[PATCH v9 00/13] firmware: qcom: qseecom: convert to using the TZ allocator

[Maximilian Luz]

On 4/3/24 9:47 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:44 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:57:52 +0100, Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian at gmail.com> said:
>>>> On 3/29/24 8:46 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 20:39, Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/29/24 8:26 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 at 20:22, Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3/29/24 8:07 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Both with and without SHM bridge?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With CONFIG_QCOM_TZMEM_MODE_GENERIC=y (and the upcoming fix) everything
>>>>>>>> works. With CONFIG_QCOM_TZMEM_MODE_SHMBRIDGE=y things unfortunately
>>>>>>>> still get stuck at boot (regardless of the fix). I think that's
>>>>>>>> happening even before anything efivar related should come up.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is on X13s? I will get one in 3 weeks. Can you get the bootlog
>>>>>>> somehow? Does the laptop have any serial console?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Surface Pro X (sc8180x), but it should be similar enough to the X13s in
>>>>>> that regard. At least from what people with access to the X13s told me,
>>>>>> the qseecom stuff seems to behave the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately I don't have a direct serial console. Best I have is
>>>>>> USB-serial, but it's not even getting there. I'll have to try and see if
>>>>>> I can get some more info on the screen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have access to a sc8180x-primus board, does it make sense to test
>>>>> with this one? If so, could you give me instructions on how to do it?
>>>>
>>>> I guess it's worth a shot.
>>>>
>>>>   From what I can tell, there shouldn't be any patches in my tree that
>>>> would conflict with it. So I guess it should just be building it with
>>>> CONFIG_QCOM_TZMEM_MODE_SHMBRIDGE=y and booting.
>>>>
>>>> I am currently testing it on top of a patched v6.8 tree though (but that
>>>> should just contain patches to get the Pro X running). You can find the
>>>> full tree at
>>>>
>>>>       https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/tree/spx/v6.8
>>>>
>>>> The last commit is the fix I mentioned, so you might want to revert
>>>> that, since the shmem issue triggers regardless of that and it prevents
>>>> your series from applying cleanly.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>
>>> sc8180x-primus' support upstream is quite flaky. The board boots 50% of time.
>>> However it's true that with SHM bridge it gets to:
>>>
>>> mount: mounting efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars failed: Operation not supported
>>>
>>> and stops 100% of the time. Without SHM bridge I cannot boot it either because
>>> I suppose I need the patch you sent yesterday. I haven't had the time to
>>> rebase it yet, it's quite intrusive to my series.
>>>
>>> I can confirm that with that patch the board still boots but still 50% of the
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Bart
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was under the impression that until v8, the series worked on sc8180x
>> but I'm seeing that even v7 has the same issue with SHM Bridge on
>> sc8180x-primus. Could you confirm? Because I'm not sure if I should
>> track the differences or the whole thing was broken for this platform
>> from the beginning.
>>
>> Bart
> 
> Interestingly, it doesn't seem like a problem with qseecom - even if I
> disable the driver, the board still freezes after the first SCM call
> using SHM bridge. I suspect - and am trying to clarify that with qcom
> - that this architecture doesn't support SHM bridge but doesn't report
> it either unlike other older platforms. Or maybe there's some quirk
> somewhere. Anyway, I'm on it.

Awesome, thanks!

Best regards,
Max