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firmware: arm_scmi: Make virtio Version_1 compliance optional

Message ID 20211115102910.7639-1-cristian.marussi@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series firmware: arm_scmi: Make virtio Version_1 compliance optional | expand

Commit Message

Cristian Marussi Nov. 15, 2021, 10:29 a.m. UTC
Introduce a compilation option to disable strict enforcement of compliance
against VirtIO Version_1 backends, so as to allow to support also Legacy
VirtIO devices implementations.

Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Kconfig  | 14 ++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.c |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Sudeep Holla Nov. 25, 2021, 12:39 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:29:10 +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Introduce a compilation option to disable strict enforcement of compliance
> against VirtIO Version_1 backends, so as to allow to support also Legacy
> VirtIO devices implementations.
> 
> 

Applied to sudeep.holla/linux (for-next/scmi), thanks!

[1/1] firmware: arm_scmi: Make virtio Version_1 compliance optional
      https://git.kernel.org/sudeep.holla/c/530897ecdb

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Regards,
Sudeep
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Kconfig
index 3d7081e84853..1e6c4659b640 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Kconfig
@@ -77,6 +77,20 @@  config ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO
 	  If you want the ARM SCMI PROTOCOL stack to include support for a
 	  transport based on VirtIO, answer Y.
 
+config ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO_VERSION1_COMPLIANCE
+	bool "SCMI VirtIO transport Version 1 compliance"
+	depends on ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO
+	default y
+	help
+	  This enforces strict compliance with VirtIO Version 1 specification.
+
+	  If you want the ARM SCMI VirtIO transport layer to refuse to work
+	  with Legacy VirtIO backends and instead support only VirtIO Version 1
+	  devices (or above), answer Y.
+	  If you want instead to support also old Legacy VirtIO backends (like
+	  the ones implemented by kvmtool) and let the core Kernel VirtIO layer
+	  take care of the needed conversions, say N.
+
 endif #ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL
 
 config ARM_SCMI_POWER_DOMAIN
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.c
index c8cab5652daf..bcfc4474535b 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.c
@@ -459,12 +459,13 @@  static void scmi_vio_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 
 static int scmi_vio_validate(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_SCMI_TRANSPORT_VIRTIO_VERSION1_COMPLIANCE
 	if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) {
 		dev_err(&vdev->dev,
 			"device does not comply with spec version 1.x\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-
+#endif
 	return 0;
 }