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scmi: raw: Add RAW interface for testing and developemnt
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Authored by cristian.marussi_arm.com on Nov 4 2024, 8:52 AM.
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Summary

Add character-device based interface to inject and snoop SCMI bare messages
in little endian binary format: each injected message will be routed and
tracked by the normal SCMI core stack and any reply, regular or late, will
be provided on the same character-device used for injection.

This is meant to be used for testing and development purposes only,
definitely NOT in production: for these reasons when enabled, the normal
SCMI drivers operation is disrupted, unless SCMI_RAW_COEX option is also
enabled.

Testing tools, like the SCMI ACS compliance suite, can use this interface
to validate the SCMI platform Server implementation, or exercise the
freeBSD SCMI core stack layers.

Tested on: Arm Morello Board
Sponsored by: Arm Ltd
Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>

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sys/arm64/conf/GENERIC-KVMTOOL
27 ↗(On Diff #145974)

Apologies but this enabled-option on a non-existent file local to my setup should have not been of this series. I will update.

Removed options that enabled SCMI RAW by default (on the wrong file)

sys/conf/files.arm64
284

Should this file depend on scmi_raw?

Added scmi_raw dep and a few missing fields in scmi_softc, mistakenly added in
a following patch

What will happen if we read a partial message then close the file? Or if we duplicate the file descriptor?

sys/dev/firmware/arm/scmi_raw.c
140

Is this needed? (and below)

sys/dev/firmware/arm/scmi_raw.c
140

nope...a leftover from prev experiments....sorry..removing it now.

What will happen if we read a partial message then close the file? Or if we duplicate the file descriptor?

Good point...so...the pending message replies coming back from a previous raw requests has to be read out sooner or later ... only issuing a write on /raw/reset flushes the queues....
...from userspace you are supposed to issue a read with the classic read_loop that ends when you hit an EOF....which the kernel returns when one dequeued message has been dequeued fully.

if you fail to do this and just close the fd (or die) the devfs_clear_cdevpriv() will be called only on the last close....and anyway I am certainly missing to free the pending rb buffer .... and possibly to
instead track all the closes

In the case of dup, it could be even more tricky if the same cdev_priv is shared as a consequence (like with the sharing of the file_pos).....I'll to investigate this rework around this cases....

Thanks for the review.

Simplified raw_buffer free routines to be easily callable from cdev dtors.

Reviewed RAW cdev handling to properly handle sudden closes in the middle
of a read operation. A dedicated d_close_t will be called on each close
(D_TRACKCLOSE) to relinquish the scmi_raw_buffer (possibly) currently
associated with that open.
Last close invokation will handle the scenario where the RAW fd has been
dup()ed; in case of multiple reads on dup()ed/forked fds the user thread
should take care to behave properly...like with any other fds that happens
to share the same file pos metadata.