Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] arm_mpam: detect and enable MPAM-Fb PCC support
Andre Przywara <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:47:22 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-acpi,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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Hi Lee,
On 7/30/26 03:34, Lee Trager wrote:
> On 7/29/26 6:41 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
>
>> @@ -2231,7 +2316,7 @@ static void mpam_msc_drv_remove(struct
>> platform_device *pdev)
>> static struct mpam_msc *do_mpam_msc_drv_probe(struct platform_device
>> *pdev)
>> {
>> int err;
>> - u32 tmp;
>> + u32 pcc_subspace_id;
>> struct mpam_msc *msc;
>> struct resource *msc_res;
>> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>> @@ -2279,7 +2364,7 @@ static struct mpam_msc
>> *do_mpam_msc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> if (err)
>> return ERR_PTR(err);
>> - if (device_property_read_u32(&pdev->dev, "pcc-channel", &tmp))
>> + if (device_property_read_u32(dev, "pcc-channel", &pcc_subspace_id))
>> msc->iface = MPAM_IFACE_MMIO;
>> else
>> msc->iface = MPAM_IFACE_PCC;
>> @@ -2295,6 +2380,36 @@ static struct mpam_msc
>> *do_mpam_msc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> }
>> msc->mapped_hwpage_sz = msc_res->end - msc_res->start;
>> msc->mapped_hwpage = io;
>> + } else if (msc->iface == MPAM_IFACE_PCC) {
>> + int ret;
>> +
>> + msc->pcc_chan = mpam_pcc_chan_get(dev, pcc_subspace_id);
>> + if (IS_ERR(msc->pcc_chan)) {
>> + pr_err("Failed to request MSC PCC channel\n");
>> + return ERR_CAST(msc->pcc_chan);
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (msc->pcc_chan->pcc_chan->shmem_size <
>> MPAM_FB_MAX_MSG_SIZE) {
>
> I think the PCC shared-memory size undercounts the required region. From
> my understanding shmem_size is the length of the complete PCC shared-
> memory region advertised by the PCCT and mapped by the PCC driver.
> MPAM_FB_MAX_MSG_SIZE is the 4-byte protocol header stored in pcc_shmem-
> >command + the 16-byte write payload.
>
> However, mpam_fb_build_write_message() places the payload after the
> complete 16 byte struct acpi_pcct_ext_pcc_shared_memory. The largest
> request therefore occupies 32 bytes of shared memory region(16-byte PCC
> header+ 16-byte write payload). Thus a firmware region between 20 and 31
> bytes currently passes the check but overruns when constructing a write
> request. I think this should be
Ah, you are right, there are indeed multiple things at play here.
> if (msc->pcc_chan->pcc_chan->shmem_size <>
> sizeof(struct acpi_pcct_ext_pcc_shared_memory) +
> MPAM_FB_MAX_MSG_SIZE - MPAM_FB_PROT_HEADER_LEN)
I simplified that by just dropping MPAM_FB_PROT_HEADER_LEN from the
MPAM_FB_MAX_MSG_SIZE definition.
Thanks for having a thorough look!
Cheers,
Andre
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h b/drivers/resctrl/
>> mpam_internal.h
>> index a2193e7df57c..e926b7feb72a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
>> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
>> @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ 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 */
>> u32 nrdy_usec;
>> cpumask_t accessibility;
>> bool has_extd_esr;
>> @@ -532,6 +531,11 @@ int mpam_fb_send_write_request(struct mpam_msc
>> *msc, u16 reg, u32 value);
>> int mpam_fb_get_protocol_version(struct mpam_msc *msc);
>> #define MPAM_FB_PROT_HEADER_LEN sizeof(u32)
>> +/* The longest message is MPAM_MSC_WRITE, with 4 parameters. */
>> +#define MPAM_FB_MAX_MSG_SIZE (MPAM_FB_PROT_HEADER_LEN + 4 *
>> sizeof(u32))
>> +
>> +#define MPAM_FB_VERSION_MAJOR_MASK GENMASK(31, 16)
>> +#define MPAM_FB_VERSION_MINOR_MASK GENMASK(15, 0)
>> /*
>> * MPAM MSCs have the following register layout. See: