[PATCH v2 0/2] remoteproc: imx_rproc: support non-blocking tx for i.MX7ULP

Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 01:48:12 PDT 2024


On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan at oss.nxp.com> wrote:
>
> The i.MX7ULP Cortex-A7 is under control of Cortex-M4. The i.MX7ULP Linux
> poweroff and restart rely on rpmsg driver to send a message to Cortex-M4
> firmware. Then Cortex-A7 could poweroff or restart by Cortex-M4 to
> configure the i.MX7ULP power controller properly.
>
> However the reboot and restart kernel common code use atomic notifier,
> so with blocking tx mailbox will trigger kernel dump, because of
> blocking mailbox will use wait_for_completion_timeout. In such case,
> linux no need to wait for completion.
>
> patch 1 is to support non-blocking tx mailbox channel
> patch 2 is to switch to non-blocking tx for system poweroff or restart.
>
> Based on patchset:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240719-imx_rproc-v2-0-10d0268c7eb1@nxp.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>

Series looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at nxp.com>



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