Commit dcf5bd88 authored by Bartosz Golaszewski's avatar Bartosz Golaszewski Committed by Bjorn Andersson

firmware: qcom: scm: clarify the comment in qcom_scm_pas_init_image()

The "memory protection" mechanism mentioned in the comment is the SHM
Bridge. This is also the reason why we do not convert this call to using
the TZ memory allocator.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
Tested-by: Deepti Jaggi <quic_djaggi@quicinc.com> #sa8775p-ride
Reviewed-by: default avatarElliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240527-shm-bridge-v10-13-ce7afaa58d3a@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarBjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
parent a33b2579
...@@ -582,6 +582,13 @@ int qcom_scm_pas_init_image(u32 peripheral, const void *metadata, size_t size, ...@@ -582,6 +582,13 @@ int qcom_scm_pas_init_image(u32 peripheral, const void *metadata, size_t size,
* During the scm call memory protection will be enabled for the meta * During the scm call memory protection will be enabled for the meta
* data blob, so make sure it's physically contiguous, 4K aligned and * data blob, so make sure it's physically contiguous, 4K aligned and
* non-cachable to avoid XPU violations. * non-cachable to avoid XPU violations.
*
* For PIL calls the hypervisor creates SHM Bridges for the blob
* buffers on behalf of Linux so we must not do it ourselves hence
* not using the TZMem allocator here.
*
* If we pass a buffer that is already part of an SHM Bridge to this
* call, it will fail.
*/ */
mdata_buf = dma_alloc_coherent(__scm->dev, size, &mdata_phys, mdata_buf = dma_alloc_coherent(__scm->dev, size, &mdata_phys,
GFP_KERNEL); GFP_KERNEL);
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