[Skiboot] [PATCH 00/11] MBOX Protocol: Onwards to V3

[Cyril Bur]

Hello,

Firstly, let me apologise for the amount of rework in this series.
Ultimately the goal here was really the last three patches.
Unfortunately in the process of writing them I started thinking about
some of the problems in V2.

The easiest to address is a bug that came up in testing V3 which is
that if opening a window fails, skiboot will assume that the previously
opened window is still valid this is incorrect. Patch 2 address this
problem.

Then I got to thinking about errors and timeouts. It turns out that
currently if mbox-flash decides a message times out, it will not be
able to send anymore due to the lpc-mbox driver needing a response for
every message it sent out - patch 4 deals with this. However after
writing a significantly less invasive fix I realised that the entire
handling of timeouts/retries/resends/late responses was racey. So a
much simpler version of patch 4 became patches 3-6.

Then there was some extra V2 stuff that wasn't necessary but is nice
to have - patch 7.

Then on to actually implementing V3 - at the time of writing V2 Suraj
did suggest what has become patch 8. This actually makes the V3 patch
- patch 9 very easy.

The final patch is an extended, reworked and even more improved
version of the tests I sent with V2 (which weren't merged at the time)

One final note: this series passes all the tests I can throw at it
however I do not have reliable access to a MBOX V3 Daemon running on
real hardware. Suraj has been kind enough to use (very) similar
versions of this series in his testing and he informs me that there
are no problems, however this exact code has never run on real
hardware.


Thanks,

Cyril

Cyril Bur (11):
  libflash/mbox-flash: Add v2 error codes
  libflash/mbox-flash: Always close windows before opening a new window
  libflash/mbox-flash: Move sequence handling to driver level
  libflash/mbox-flash: Allow mbox-flash to tell the driver msg timeouts
  hw/lpc-mbox: Simplify message bookkeeping and timeouts
  libflash/mbox-flash: Simplify message sending
  libflash/mbox-flash: Use BMC suggested timeout value
  libflash/mbox-flash: Use static arrays of function pointers
  libflash/mbox-flash: Understand v3
  libflash/mbox-flash: Add the ability to lock flash
  libflash/test: Add tests for mbox-flash

 .gitignore                   |   1 +
 hw/lpc-mbox.c                |  53 +++--
 include/lpc-mbox.h           |   9 +-
 include/skiboot.h            |   2 +
 libflash/mbox-flash.c        | 404 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 libflash/mbox-flash.h        |   1 +
 libflash/test/Makefile.check |  17 +-
 libflash/test/mbox-server.c  | 499 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 libflash/test/mbox-server.h  |  10 +
 libflash/test/stubs.c        |  78 ++++++-
 libflash/test/stubs.h        |  27 +++
 libflash/test/test-mbox.c    | 341 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 1254 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 libflash/test/mbox-server.c
 create mode 100644 libflash/test/mbox-server.h
 create mode 100644 libflash/test/stubs.h
 create mode 100644 libflash/test/test-mbox.c

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