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SubjectRe: [PATCH V1 3/4] soc: qcom: boot_stat: Add Driver Support for Boot Stats
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On 3/21/2023 11:07 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 21/03/2023 14:51, Souradeep Chowdhury wrote:
>> All of Qualcomm's proprietary Android boot-loaders capture boot time
>> stats, like the time when the bootloader started execution and at what
>> point the bootloader handed over control to the kernel etc. in the IMEM
>> region. This information is captured in a specific format by this driver
>> by mapping a structure to the IMEM memory region and then accessing the
>> members of the structure to print the information. This information is
>> useful in verifying if the existing boot KPIs have regre
>
>
>> +/**
>> + * struct boot_stats - timestamp information related to boot stats
>> + * @bootloader_start: Time for the starting point of the abl bootloader
>> + * @bootloader_end: Time when the kernel starts loading from abl bootloader
>> + */
>> +struct boot_stats {
>> + u32 bootloader_start;
>> + u32 bootloader_end;
>> +} __packed;
>> +
>> +static struct boot_stats __iomem *boot_stats;
>> +static void __iomem *mpm_counter_base;
>> +static u32 mpm_counter_freq;
>
> No file-scope variables. Does not scale, not easy for review and
> maintenance. Avoid such code.

Ack
>
>> +
>> +static int mpm_parse_dt(void)
>> +{
>> + struct device_node *np_imem, *np_mpm2;
>> +
>> + np_imem = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL,
>> + "qcom,imem-boot_stats");
>> + if (!np_imem) {
>> + pr_err("can't find qcom,imem node\n");
>
> So you are printing errors everywhere, on every soc and with compile
> test on every platform there is in the world... sorry, it does not work
> like that.

Ack
>
>> + return -ENODEV;
>> + }
>> + boot_stats = of_iomap(np_imem, 0);
>> + if (!boot_stats) {
>> + pr_err("boot_stats: Can't map imem\n");
>> + goto err1;
>> + }
>
>
>> +
>> +static void __exit boot_stats_exit(void)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +module_exit(boot_stats_exit)
>
>
> I don't think this is some special code which deserves init calls. Make
> it module_platform_driver().

Since this just reads some values from the Imem region and prints it to
the user and doesn't have a specific device associated with it, a
generic module code is written for it and not a module_platform_driver().

>
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>

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