Re: [PATCH v4 06/11] firmware: qcom: scm: remove unused arguments to the shm_brige

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On 5/5/2025 8:58 PM, Kuldeep Singh wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/29/2025 11:36 AM, Amirreza Zarrabi wrote:
>> shm_bridge create/delete functions always use the scm device.
>> There is no need to pass it as an argument.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Amirreza Zarrabi <amirreza.zarrabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> There are 2 type of APIs exposed by tzmem driver for pool creation.
> devm_qcom_tzmem_pool_new and qcom_tzmem_pool_new.
> 
> Device managed pool is created with devm_qcom_tzmem_pool_new but
> currently qcom_scm is using it's own dev to create/delete bridge which
> is problamatic here.
> 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.14.5/source/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c#L1653
> 
> If pool is device managed, same dev should be used in qcom_scm to
> create/delete bridge rather than using qcom_scm dev.
> The dev passed as an argument to function should be used instead of
> __scm->dev.
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.14.5/source/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c#L1634
> 
> To summarize, I believe correct solution should be to pass corresponding
> dev to bridge create/delete APIs instead of always assuming to be
> qcom_scm dev for devm_qcom_tzmem_pool_new scenarios.
> For qcom_tzmem_pool_new, qcom_scm/qcom_tzmem_dev can be used.
> 
> Bartosz/Amirreza, please share your thoughts as well.
> 

It is not true.
Why should shmbridge need to have access to random devices, while the resources
are obtained from the scm device, if any?

- Amir




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