blob: a92a1a590dfeb2e88859067a317e23a8d33d1d46 [file] [log] [blame]
/*
* Copyright (c) 2016, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
*/
#ifndef _MAILBOX_H
#define _MAILBOX_H
/**
* A mailbox is a hardware mechanism for transferring small fixed-size messages
* and/or notifications between the CPU on which U-Boot runs and some other
* device such as an auxiliary CPU running firmware or a hardware module.
*
* Data transfer is optional; a mailbox may consist solely of a notification
* mechanism. When data transfer is implemented, it is via HW registers or
* FIFOs, rather than via RAM-based buffers. The mailbox API generally
* implements any communication protocol enforced solely by hardware, and
* leaves any higher-level protocols to other layers.
*
* A mailbox channel is a bi-directional mechanism that can send a message or
* notification to a single specific remote entity, and receive messages or
* notifications from that entity. The size, content, and format of such
* messages is defined by the mailbox implementation, or the remote entity with
* which it communicates; there is no general standard at this API level.
*
* A driver that implements UCLASS_MAILBOX is a mailbox provider. A provider
* will often implement multiple separate mailbox channels, since the hardware
* it manages often has this capability. mailbox-uclass.h describes the
* interface which mailbox providers must implement.
*
* Mailbox consumers/clients generate and send, or receive and process,
* messages. This header file describes the API used by clients.
*/
struct udevice;
/**
* struct mbox_chan - A handle to a single mailbox channel.
*
* Clients provide storage for channels. The content of the channel structure
* is managed solely by the mailbox API and mailbox drivers. A mailbox channel
* is initialized by "get"ing the mailbox. The channel struct is passed to all
* other mailbox APIs to identify which mailbox to operate upon.
*
* @dev: The device which implements the mailbox.
* @id: The mailbox channel ID within the provider.
*
* Currently, the mailbox API assumes that a single integer ID is enough to
* identify and configure any mailbox channel for any mailbox provider. If this
* assumption becomes invalid in the future, the struct could be expanded to
* either (a) add more fields to allow mailbox providers to store additional
* information, or (b) replace the id field with an opaque pointer, which the
* provider would dynamically allocated during its .of_xlate op, and process
* during is .request op. This may require the addition of an extra op to clean
* up the allocation.
*/
struct mbox_chan {
struct udevice *dev;
/*
* Written by of_xlate. We assume a single id is enough for now. In the
* future, we might add more fields here.
*/
unsigned long id;
};
/**
* mbox_get_by_index - Get/request a mailbox by integer index
*
* This looks up and requests a mailbox channel. The index is relative to the
* client device; each device is assumed to have n mailbox channels associated
* with it somehow, and this function finds and requests one of them. The
* mapping of client device channel indices to provider channels may be via
* device-tree properties, board-provided mapping tables, or some other
* mechanism.
*
* @dev: The client device.
* @index: The index of the mailbox channel to request, within the
* client's list of channels.
* @chan A pointer to a channel object to initialize.
* @return 0 if OK, or a negative error code.
*/
int mbox_get_by_index(struct udevice *dev, int index, struct mbox_chan *chan);
/**
* mbox_get_by_name - Get/request a mailbox by name
*
* This looks up and requests a mailbox channel. The name is relative to the
* client device; each device is assumed to have n mailbox channels associated
* with it somehow, and this function finds and requests one of them. The
* mapping of client device channel names to provider channels may be via
* device-tree properties, board-provided mapping tables, or some other
* mechanism.
*
* @dev: The client device.
* @name: The name of the mailbox channel to request, within the client's
* list of channels.
* @chan A pointer to a channel object to initialize.
* @return 0 if OK, or a negative error code.
*/
int mbox_get_by_name(struct udevice *dev, const char *name,
struct mbox_chan *chan);
/**
* mbox_free - Free a previously requested mailbox channel.
*
* @chan: A channel object that was previously successfully requested by
* calling mbox_get_by_*().
* @return 0 if OK, or a negative error code.
*/
int mbox_free(struct mbox_chan *chan);
/**
* mbox_send - Send a message over a mailbox channel
*
* This function will send a message to the remote entity. It may return before
* the remote entity has received and/or processed the message.
*
* @chan: A channel object that was previously successfully requested by
* calling mbox_get_by_*().
* @data: A pointer to the message to transfer. The format and size of
* the memory region pointed at by @data is determined by the
* mailbox provider. Providers that solely transfer notifications
* will ignore this parameter.
* @return 0 if OK, or a negative error code.
*/
int mbox_send(struct mbox_chan *chan, const void *data);
/**
* mbox_recv - Receive any available message from a mailbox channel
*
* This function will wait (up to the specified @timeout_us) for a message to
* be sent by the remote entity, and write the content of any such message
* into a caller-provided buffer.
*
* @chan: A channel object that was previously successfully requested by
* calling mbox_get_by_*().
* @data: A pointer to the buffer to receive the message. The format and
* size of the memory region pointed at by @data is determined by
* the mailbox provider. Providers that solely transfer
* notifications will ignore this parameter.
* @timeout_us: The maximum time to wait for a message to be available, in
* micro-seconds. A value of 0 does not wait at all.
* @return 0 if OK, -ENODATA if no message was available, or a negative error
* code.
*/
int mbox_recv(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *data, ulong timeout_us);
#endif