Thread (175 messages) 175 messages, 28 authors, 2022-05-24

[PATCH 06/30] soc: bcm: brcmstb: Document panic notifier action and remove useless header

From: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Date: 2022-04-27 22:51:45
Also in: kexec, linux-alpha, linux-edac, linux-hyperv, linux-leds, linux-mips, linux-pm, linux-remoteproc, linux-s390, linux-tegra, linux-um, linuxppc-dev, lkml, rcu, sparclinux, xen-devel
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

The panic notifier of this driver is very simple code-wise, just a memory
write to a special position with some numeric code. But this is not clear
from the semantic point-of-view, and there is no public documentation
about that either.

After discussing this in the mailing-lists [0] and having Florian explained
it very well, this patch just document that in the code for the future
generations asking the same questions. Also, it removes a useless header.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/781cafb0-8d06-8b56-907a-5175c2da196a@gmail.com (local)

Fixes: 0b741b8234c8 ("soc: bcm: brcmstb: Add support for S2/S3/S5 suspend states (ARM)")
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Chen <redacted>
Cc: Lee Jones <redacted>
Cc: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
---
 drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/pm/pm-arm.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/pm/pm-arm.c b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/pm/pm-arm.c
index 3cbb165d6e30..870686ae042b 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/pm/pm-arm.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/pm/pm-arm.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/of_address.h>
 #include <linux/panic_notifier.h>
@@ -664,7 +663,20 @@ static void __iomem *brcmstb_ioremap_match(const struct of_device_id *matches,
 
 	return of_io_request_and_map(dn, index, dn->full_name);
 }
-
+/*
+ * The AON is a small domain in the SoC that can retain its state across
+ * various system wide sleep states and specific reset conditions; the
+ * AON DATA RAM is a small RAM of a few words (< 1KB) which can store
+ * persistent information across such events.
+ *
+ * The purpose of the below panic notifier is to help with notifying
+ * the bootloader that a panic occurred and so that it should try its
+ * best to preserve the DRAM contents holding that buffer for recovery
+ * by the kernel as opposed to wiping out DRAM clean again.
+ *
+ * Reference: comment from Florian Fainelli, at
+ * https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/781cafb0-8d06-8b56-907a-5175c2da196a@gmail.com
+ */
 static int brcmstb_pm_panic_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
 		unsigned long action, void *data)
 {
-- 
2.36.0
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