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Commit ed7c04c1 authored by Cristian Marussi's avatar Cristian Marussi Committed by Sudeep Holla
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firmware: arm_scmi: Handle concurrent and out-of-order messages

Even though in case of asynchronous commands an SCMI platform is
constrained to emit the delayed response message only after the related
message response has been sent, the configured underlying transport could
still deliver such messages together or in inverted order, causing races
due to the concurrent or out-of-order access to the underlying xfer.

Introduce a mechanism to grant exclusive access to an xfer in order to
properly serialize concurrent accesses to the same xfer originating from
multiple correlated messages.

Add additional state information to xfer descriptors so as to be able to
identify out-of-order message deliveries and act accordingly:

 - when a delayed response is expected but delivered before the related
   response, the synchronous response is considered as successfully
   received and the delayed response processing is carried on as usual.

 - when/if the missing synchronous response is subsequently received, it
   is discarded as not congruent with the current state of the xfer, or
   simply, because the xfer has been already released and so, now, the
   monotonically increasing sequence number carried by the late response
   is stale.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803131024.40280-6-cristian.marussi@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
parent 9ca5a183
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