[PATCH RFC 10/12] remoteproc: imx_rproc: always use non-blocking mailboxes

Francesco Valla francesco at valla.it
Wed Sep 16 14:10:55 PDT 2026


Blocking mailboxes may lead to sleep during the kick operation, which
conflicts with some virtio devices (e.g.: virtio-can) that kicks their
virtqueues with spinlock(s) held.

Align to the behavior of all the other remoteproc drivers that use a
mailbox to perform the kick (i.e.: omap, st, stm32, ti_k3_*, xlnx_r5)
and move to a non-blocking mailbox here as well.

As a side effect of this modification, remove the close-reopen action on
the mailboxes during restart and shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Valla <francesco at valla.it>
---
 drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | 49 ++++++------------------------------------
 drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h |  1 -
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
index 745ce52cd822..100440328f92 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ struct imx_rproc_mem {
 /* Linux has permission to handle the Logical Machine of remote cores */
 #define IMX_RPROC_FLAGS_SM_LMM_CTRL	BIT(0)
 
-static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block);
+static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc);
 static void imx_rproc_free_mbox(void *data);
 
 /* Forward declarations for platform operations */
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ static int imx_rproc_start(struct rproc *rproc)
 	struct device *dev = priv->dev;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, true);
+	ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static void imx_rproc_kick(struct rproc *rproc, int vqid)
 
 static int imx_rproc_attach(struct rproc *rproc)
 {
-	return imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, true);
+	return imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc);
 }
 
 static int imx_rproc_scu_api_detach(struct rproc *rproc)
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static void imx_rproc_rx_callback(struct mbox_client *cl, void *msg)
 	queue_work(priv->workqueue, &priv->rproc_work);
 }
 
-static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block)
+static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc)
 {
 	struct imx_rproc *priv = rproc->priv;
 	struct device *dev = priv->dev;
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ static int imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(struct rproc *rproc, bool tx_block)
 
 	cl = &priv->cl;
 	cl->dev = dev;
-	cl->tx_block = tx_block;
+	cl->tx_block = false;
 	cl->tx_tout = 100;
 	cl->knows_txdone = false;
 	cl->rx_callback = imx_rproc_rx_callback;
@@ -1223,22 +1223,6 @@ static int imx_rproc_detect_mode(struct imx_rproc *priv)
 	return priv->ops->detect_mode(priv->rproc);
 }
 
-static int imx_rproc_sys_off_handler(struct sys_off_data *data)
-{
-	struct rproc *rproc = data->cb_data;
-	int ret;
-
-	imx_rproc_free_mbox(rproc);
-
-	ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, false);
-	if (ret) {
-		dev_err(&rproc->dev, "Failed to request non-blocking mbox\n");
-		return NOTIFY_BAD;
-	}
-
-	return NOTIFY_DONE;
-}
-
 static void imx_rproc_destroy_workqueue(void *data)
 {
 	struct workqueue_struct *workqueue = data;
@@ -1285,7 +1269,7 @@ static int imx_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	INIT_WORK(&priv->rproc_work, imx_rproc_vq_work);
 
-	ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc, true);
+	ret = imx_rproc_xtr_mbox_init(rproc);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
@@ -1315,26 +1299,6 @@ static int imx_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (rproc->state != RPROC_DETACHED)
 		rproc->auto_boot = of_property_read_bool(np, "fsl,auto-boot");
 
-	if (dcfg->flags & IMX_RPROC_NEED_SYSTEM_OFF) {
-		/*
-		 * setup mailbox to non-blocking mode in
-		 * [SYS_OFF_MODE_POWER_OFF_PREPARE, SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE]
-		 * phase before invoking [SYS_OFF_MODE_POWER_OFF, SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART]
-		 * atomic chain, see kernel/reboot.c.
-		 */
-		ret = devm_register_sys_off_handler(dev, SYS_OFF_MODE_POWER_OFF_PREPARE,
-						    SYS_OFF_PRIO_DEFAULT,
-						    imx_rproc_sys_off_handler, rproc);
-		if (ret)
-			return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "register power off handler failure\n");
-
-		ret = devm_register_sys_off_handler(dev, SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE,
-						    SYS_OFF_PRIO_DEFAULT,
-						    imx_rproc_sys_off_handler, rproc);
-		if (ret)
-			return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "register restart handler failure\n");
-	}
-
 	pm_runtime_enable(dev);
 	ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(dev);
 	if (ret)
@@ -1447,7 +1411,6 @@ static const struct imx_rproc_dcfg imx_rproc_cfg_imx8ulp = {
 static const struct imx_rproc_dcfg imx_rproc_cfg_imx7ulp = {
 	.att		= imx_rproc_att_imx7ulp,
 	.att_size	= ARRAY_SIZE(imx_rproc_att_imx7ulp),
-	.flags		= IMX_RPROC_NEED_SYSTEM_OFF,
 };
 
 static const struct imx_rproc_dcfg imx_rproc_cfg_imx7d = {
diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h
index 0d7d48352a10..9a1400d0d081 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.h
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ struct imx_rproc_att {
 };
 
 /* dcfg flags */
-#define IMX_RPROC_NEED_SYSTEM_OFF	BIT(0)
 #define IMX_RPROC_NEED_CLKS		BIT(1)
 
 struct imx_rproc_plat_ops {

-- 
2.55.0




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