Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:42:04 -0500 | From | Jason Cooper <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.18-rc4 v10 4/6] irqchip: gic: Introduce plumbing for IPI FIQ |
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Daniel,
I've been a bit swamped this cycle and haven't kept as close an eye on this as I should have. :( fwiw, it's looking really good. I have one question below:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:23:28PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote: > Currently it is not possible to exploit FIQ for systems with a GIC, even if > the systems are otherwise capable of it. This patch makes it possible > for IPIs to be delivered using FIQ. > > To do so it modifies the register state so that normal interrupts are > placed in group 1 and specific IPIs are placed into group 0. It also > configures the controller to raise group 0 interrupts using the FIQ > signal. It provides a means for architecture code to define which IPIs > shall use FIQ and to acknowledge any IPIs that are raised. > > All GIC hardware except GICv1-without-TrustZone support provides a means > to group exceptions into group 0 and group 1 but the hardware > functionality is unavailable to the kernel when a secure monitor is > present because access to the grouping registers are prohibited outside > "secure world". However when grouping is not available (or in the case > of early GICv1 implementations is very hard to configure) the code to > change groups does not deploy and all IPIs will be raised via IRQ. > > It has been tested and shown working on two systems capable of > supporting grouping (Freescale i.MX6 and STiH416). It has also been > tested for boot regressions on two systems that do not support grouping > (vexpress-a9 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 600). > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> > Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org> > --- > arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 5 +- > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h | 8 +++ > 3 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) ... > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c > index 5d72823bc5e9..978e5e48d5c1 100644 > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c ... > +/* > + * Test which group an interrupt belongs to. > + * > + * Returns 0 if the controller does not support grouping. > + */ > +static int gic_get_group_irq(void __iomem *base, unsigned int hwirq) > +{ > + unsigned int grp_reg = hwirq / 32 * 4; > + u32 grp_val; > + > + grp_val = readl_relaxed(base + GIC_DIST_IGROUP + grp_reg); > + > + return (grp_val >> (hwirq % 32)) & 1; > +} ... > @@ -669,7 +802,11 @@ static void gic_raise_softirq(const struct cpumask *mask, unsigned int irq) > dmb(ishst); > > /* this always happens on GIC0 */ > - writel_relaxed(map << 16 | irq, gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]) + GIC_DIST_SOFTINT); > + softint = map << 16 | irq; > + if (gic_get_group_irq(gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]), irq)) > + softint |= 0x8000; > + writel_relaxed(softint, > + gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]) + GIC_DIST_SOFTINT); > > bl_migration_unlock(); > }
Is it worth the code complication to optimize this if the controller doesn't support grouping? Maybe set group_enabled at init so the above would become:
softint = map << 16 | irq; if (group_enabled && gic_get_group_irq(gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]), irq)) softint |= 0x8000; writel_relaxed(...);
thx,
Jason.
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