[PATCH v4 0/3] Add SSIF BMC driver

Quan Nguyen quan at os.amperecomputing.com
Wed Jul 14 10:20:13 AEST 2021


On 14/07/2021 07:17, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:29:27AM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote:
>> On 13/07/2021 22:44, Corey Minyard wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:54:22PM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote:
>>>> This series add support the SSIF BMC driver which is to perform in-band
>>>> IPMI communication with their host in management (BMC) side.
>>>
>>> Per the kernel build robot, looks like patch 3 introduces slave_enable()
>>> but patch 1 uses it.
>>>
>>> -corey
>>>
>> Thanks Corey,
>>
>> The order is not correct and kernel build robot found this hurts
>> bisectibility.
>> The patch 3 should be the first patch.
> 
> Ok, can you re-submit in the right order?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -corey
> 
Yes, I will re-submit new series with right order soon.

>>
>> - Quan
>>
>>>>
>>>> SSIF BMC driver in this series is tested with Aspeed AST2500.
>>>>
>>>> v4:
>>>>     + Fix recursive spinlock                                      [Graeme]
>>>>     + Send response with Completion code 0xFF when aborting         [Quan]
>>>>     + Fix warning with dt_binding_check                              [Rob]
>>>>     + Change aspeed-ssif-bmc.yaml to ssif-bmc.yaml                  [Quan]
>>>>     + Added bounding check on SMBus writes and the whole request     [Dan]
>>>>     + Moved buffer to end of struct ssif_bmc_ctx to avoid context
>>>>       corruption if somehow buffer is written past the end           [Dan]
>>>>     + Return -EINVAL if userspace buffer too small, dont
>>>>       silence truncate                                       [Corey, Joel]
>>>>     + Not necessary to check NONBLOCK in lock                      [Corey]
>>>>     + Enforce one user at a time                                    [Joel]
>>>>     + Reject write with invalid response length from userspace     [Corey]
>>>>     + Add state machines for better ssif bmc state handling         [Quan]
>>>>     + Drop ssif_bmc_aspeed.c and make ssif_bmc.c is generic
>>>>       SSIF BMC driver                                               [Quan]
>>>>     + Change compatible string "aspeed,ast2500-ssif-bmc" to
>>>>       "ampere,ssif-bmc"                                             [Quan]
>>>>     + Toggle Slave enable in i2c-aspeed to turn on/off slave mode   [Ryan]
>>>>     + Added slave_enable() to struct i2c_algorithm to control
>>>>       slave mode and to address the recursive spinlock      [Graeme, Ryan]
>>>>     + Abort current request with invalid SMBus write or
>>>>       invalid command                                               [Quan]
>>>>     + Abort all request if there is pending response                [Quan]
>>>>     + Changed validate_pec() to validate_request()                  [Quan]
>>>>     + Add unsupported_smbus_cmd() to handle unknown SMBus command   [Quan]
>>>>     + Print internal state string for ease investigating issue      [Quan]
>>>>     + Move to READY state on SLAVE_STOP event                       [Quan]
>>>>     + Change initilize_transfer() to process_smbus_cmd()            [Quan]
>>>>     + Introduce functions for each slave event                      [Quan]
>>>>
>>>> v3:
>>>>     + Switched binding doc to use DT schema format [Rob]
>>>>     + Splited into generic ssif_bmc and aspeed-specific [Corey, Joel]
>>>>     + Removed redundant license info [Joel]
>>>>     + Switched to use traditional if-else [Joel]
>>>>     + Removed unused ssif_bmc_ioctl() [Joel]
>>>>     + Made handle_request()/complete_response() to return void [Joel]
>>>>     + Refactored send_ssif_bmc_response()/receive_ssif_bmc_request()
>>>>     [Corey]
>>>>     + Remove mutex [Corey]
>>>>     + Use spin_lock/unlock_irqsave/restore in callback [Corey]
>>>>     + Removed the unnecessary memset [Corey]
>>>>     + Switch to use dev_err() [Corey]
>>>>     + Combine mask/unmask two interrupts together [Corey]
>>>>     + Fixed unhandled Tx done with NAK [Quan]
>>>>     + Late ack'ed Tx done w/wo Ack irq [Quan]
>>>>     + Use aspeed-specific exported aspeed_set_slave_busy() when slave busy
>>>>     to fix the deadlock [Graeme, Philipp, Quan]
>>>>     + Clean buffer for last multipart read [Quan]
>>>>     + Handle unknown incoming command [Quan]
>>>>
>>>> v2:
>>>>     + Fixed compiling error with COMPILE_TEST for arc
>>>>
>>>> Quan Nguyen (3):
>>>>     ipmi: ssif_bmc: Add SSIF BMC driver
>>>>     bindings: ipmi: Add binding for SSIF BMC driver
>>>>     i2c: aspeed: Add slave_enable() to toggle slave mode
>>>>
>>>>    .../devicetree/bindings/ipmi/ssif-bmc.yaml    |  38 +
>>>>    drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig                     |  11 +
>>>>    drivers/char/ipmi/Makefile                    |   1 +
>>>>    drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c                  | 781 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.h                  | 106 +++
>>>>    drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-aspeed.c               |  20 +
>>>>    include/linux/i2c.h                           |   2 +
>>>>    7 files changed, 959 insertions(+)
>>>>    create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/ssif-bmc.yaml
>>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.c
>>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/char/ipmi/ssif_bmc.h
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> 2.28.0
>>>>
>>



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