Re: [PATCH v12 0/8] Implement vendor resets for PSCI SYSTEM_RESET2

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Jul 23 2025 - 20:16:24 EST


On 7/21/25 11:28, Shivendra Pratap wrote:
The PSCI SYSTEM_RESET2 call allows vendor firmware to define
additional reset types which could be mapped to the reboot
argument.

User-space should be able to reboot a device into different
operational boot-states supported by underlying bootloader and
firmware. Generally, some HW registers need to be written, based
on which the bootloader and firmware decide the next boot state
of device, after the reset. For example, a requirement on
Qualcomm platforms may state that reboot with "bootloader"
command, should reboot the device into bootloader flashing mode
and reboot with “edl” command, should reboot the device into an
Emergency flashing mode. Setting up such reboots on Qualcomm
devices can be inconsistent across SoC platforms and may require
setting different HW registers, where some of these registers may
not be accessible to HLOS. These knobs evolve over product
generations and require more drivers. PSCI defines a
vendor-specific reset in SYSTEM_RESET2 spec, which enables the
firmware to take care of underlying setting for any such
supported vendor-specific reboot. Qualcomm firmwares are
beginning to support and expose PSCI SYSTEM_RESET2
vendor-specific reset types to simplify driver requirements from
Linux. With such support added in the firmware, we now need a
Linux interface which can make use of the firmware calls for PSCI
vendor-specific resets. This will align such reboot requirement
across platforms and vendors.

The current psci driver supports two types of resets –
SYSTEM_RESET2 Arch warm-reset and SYSTEM_RESET cold-reset. The
patchset introduces the PSCI SYSTEM_RESET2 vendor-specific reset
into the reset path of the psci driver and aligns it to work with
reboot system call - LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART2, when used along
with a supported string-based command in “*arg”.

The patchset uses reboot-mode based commands, to define the
supported vendor reset-types commands in psci device tree node
and registers these commands with the reboot-mode framework.

The PSCI vendor-specific reset takes two arguments, being,
reset_type and cookie as defined by the spec. To accommodate this
requirement, enhance the reboot-mode framework to support two
32-bit arguments by switching to 64-bit magic values.

Along this line, the patchset also extends the reboot-mode
framework to add a non-device-based registration function, which
will allow drivers to register using device tree node, while
keeping backward compatibility for existing users of reboot-mode.
This will enable psci driver to register for reboot-mode and
implement a write function, which will save the magic and then
use it in psci reset path to make a vendor-specific reset call
into the firmware. In addition, the patchset will expose a sysfs
entry interface within reboot-mode which can be used by userspace
to view the supported reboot-mode commands.

The list of vendor-specific reset commands remains open due to
divergent requirements across vendors, but this can be
streamlined and standardized through dedicated device tree
bindings.

Currently three drivers register with reboot-mode framework -
syscon-reboot-mode, nvmem-reboot-mode and qcom-pon. Consolidated
list of commands currently added across various vendor DTs:
mode-loader
mode-normal
mode-bootloader
mode-charge
mode-fastboot
mode-reboot-ab-update
mode-recovery
mode-rescue
mode-shutdown-thermal
mode-shutdown-thermal-battery

Detailed list of commands being used by syscon-reboot-mode:
arm64/boot/dts/exynos/exynosautov9.dtsi:
mode-bootloader = <EXYNOSAUTOV9_BOOT_BOOTLOADER>;
mode-fastboot = <EXYNOSAUTOV9_BOOT_FASTBOOT>;
mode-recovery = <EXYNOSAUTOV9_BOOT_RECOVERY>;

arm64/boot/dts/exynos/google/gs101.dtsi:
mode-bootloader = <0xfc>;
mode-charge = <0x0a>;
mode-fastboot = <0xfa>;
mode-reboot-ab-update = <0x52>;
mode-recovery = <0xff>;
mode-rescue = <0xf9>;
mode-shutdown-thermal = <0x51>;
mode-shutdown-thermal-battery = <0x51>;

arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi3660-hikey960.dts:
mode-normal = <0x77665501>;
mode-bootloader = <0x77665500>;
mode-recovery = <0x77665502>;

arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220-hikey.dts:
mode-normal = <0x77665501>;
mode-bootloader = <0x77665500>;
mode-recovery = <0x77665502>;

arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/px30.dtsi:
mode-bootloader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
mode-fastboot = <BOOT_FASTBOOT>;
mode-loader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
mode-normal = <BOOT_NORMAL>;
mode-recovery = <BOOT_RECOVERY>;

arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3308.dtsi:
mode-bootloader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
mode-loader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
mode-normal = <BOOT_NORMAL>;
mode-recovery = <BOOT_RECOVERY>;
mode-fastboot = <BOOT_FASTBOOT>;

arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-lckfb-tspi.dts:
mode-normal = <BOOT_NORMAL>;
mode-loader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
mode-recovery = <BOOT_RECOVERY>;
mode-bootloader = <BOOT_FASTBOOT>;

Detailed list of commands being used by nvmem-reboot-mode:
arm64/boot/dts/qcom/pmXXXX.dtsi:(multiple qcom DTs)
mode-recovery = <0x01>;
mode-bootloader = <0x02>;

Previous discussions around SYSTEM_RESET2:
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230724223057.1208122-2-quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/4a679542-b48d-7e11-f33a-63535a5c68cb@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shivendra Pratap <shivendra.pratap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On ARCH_BRCMSTB:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

For the sysfs bits, should not we be seeing "psci" instead of "reboot-mode" twice in this path:

# cat /sys/class/reboot-mode/reboot-mode/reboot_modes
powercycle

?
--
Florian