Re: [PATCH v5 08/10] arm_mpam: add MPAM-Fb MSC firmware access support

Hi Ben,

thanks for having a look!

On 7/29/26 16:51, Ben Horgan wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> On 7/29/26 14:41, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> The Arm MPAM Firmware-backed (Fb) Profile document[1] describes an
>> alternative way of accessing the "Memory System Components" (MSC) in an
>> MPAM enabled system.
>>
>> Normally the MSCs are MMIO mapped, but in some implementations this
>> might not be possible (MSC located outside of the local socket, MSC
>> mapped secure-only) or desirable (direct MMIO access too slow or needs
>> to be mediated through a control processor). MPAM-fb standardises a
>> protocol to abstract MSC accesses, building on the SCMI protocol.
>>
>> Add functions that do an MSC read or write access by redirecting the
>> request through a firmware interface. For now this done via an ACPI
>> PCC shared memory and mailbox combination.
>>
>> Since the protocol used is only a small subset of the full SCMI spec,
>> and the SCMI protocol has no full ACPI support anyway, open-code the
>> (simple) SCMI message generation, for just the fields we need.
>>
>> [1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0144/latest
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
>> index 2b81b6b0bf4e..a2193e7df57c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
>> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
>> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
>>   #include <linux/io.h>
>>   #include <linux/jump_label.h>
>>   #include <linux/llist.h>
>> +#include <linux/mailbox_client.h>
>>   #include <linux/mutex.h>
>>   #include <linux/resctrl.h>
>>   #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>> @@ -57,6 +58,15 @@ struct mpam_garbage {
>>   	struct platform_device	*pdev;
>>   };
>>   
>> +struct mpam_pcc_chan {
>> +	struct list_head	pcc_chans;
>> +	struct mbox_client	pcc_cl;
>> +	struct pcc_mbox_chan	*pcc_chan;
>> +	struct mutex		pcc_chan_lock; /* only one message at a time */
>> +	struct kref		refcount;
>> +	int			subspace_id;
>> +};
>> +
>>   struct mpam_msc {
>>   	/* member of mpam_all_msc */
>>   	struct list_head	all_msc_list;
>> @@ -66,6 +76,8 @@ struct mpam_msc {
>>   
>>   	/* Not modified after mpam_is_enabled() becomes true */
>>   	enum mpam_msc_iface	iface;
>> +	struct mpam_pcc_chan	*pcc_chan;
>> +	int			mpam_fb_msc_id;	/* in its own name space */
> 
> This gets removed in patch 10 now. I guess you just edited the wrong patch.

Argh, you are right, I squashed the fix into 10/10, but indeed the 
member is already introduced here.
Good catch!

Cheers,
Andre