[PATCH] rockchip: rk3588: Map SCMI shared memory area as non-cacheable

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 10:55:55 CET 2025


Hey Jonas,

> The SCMI shared memory area is no longer automatically marked as
> non-cacheable after the commit a5a0134570c8 ("firmware: scmi: Drop
> mmu_set_region_dcache_behaviour() misuse").
>
> This change in behavior cause Rockchip RK3588 boards to fail boot with:
>
>   SoC:   RK3588
>   DRAM:  8 GiB
>   scmi-over-smccc scmi: Channel unexpectedly busy
>   scmi_base_drv scmi-base.0: getting protocol version failed
>   scmi-over-smccc scmi: failed to probe base protocol
>   initcall_run_r(): initcall initr_dm() failed
>   ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
>
> Update the memory mapping on RK3588 to mark the SCMI shared memory area
> as non-cacheable to fix the SCMI shared memory based transport issue
> that prevented RK3588 boards from booting.

Will the other newer rockchips rk356x devices which use SCMI need this fix too?

> Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3588/rk3588.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3588/rk3588.c b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3588/rk3588.c
> index c01a40020896..55d2caab4fec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3588/rk3588.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3588/rk3588.c
> @@ -63,7 +63,20 @@ static struct mm_region rk3588_mem_map[] = {
>         {
>                 .virt = 0x0UL,
>                 .phys = 0x0UL,
> -               .size = 0xf0000000UL,
> +               .size = 0x10f000UL,
> +               .attrs = PTE_BLOCK_MEMTYPE(MT_NORMAL) |
> +                        PTE_BLOCK_INNER_SHARE
> +       }, {
> +               /* SCMI shared memory area must be mapped as non-cacheable. */
> +               .virt = 0x10f000UL,
> +               .phys = 0x10f000UL,
> +               .size = 0x1000UL,
> +               .attrs = PTE_BLOCK_MEMTYPE(MT_NORMAL_NC) |
> +                        PTE_BLOCK_INNER_SHARE
> +       }, {
> +               .virt = 0x110000UL,
> +               .phys = 0x110000UL,
> +               .size = 0xefef0000UL,
>                 .attrs = PTE_BLOCK_MEMTYPE(MT_NORMAL) |
>                          PTE_BLOCK_INNER_SHARE
>         }, {
> --
> 2.51.2
>


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