linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] arm64: Allow booting with GICv3 in GICv2 mode

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Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:56:55 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] arm64: Allow booting with GICv3 in GICv2 mode

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 05:37:49PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Recent evolutions of the ARM Trusted Firmware have outlined issues
> when the system is equipped with a GICv3 interrupt controller, but the
> firmware has decided to restrict it to GICv2 compatibility mode.
> 
> In this mode, system registers cannot be enabled, and the firmware is
> expected to pass a GICv2 description (DT or ACPI tables).
> 
> This series makes sure that system register access is checked at EL2
> setup time and when the feature detection is performed. Additionally,
> the GICv2 driver checks that system registers are disabled, and warns
> if they are enabled.
> 
> The booting requirements are also updated to make the above explicit.
> 
> Marc Zyngier (5):
>   arm64: el2_setup: Make sure ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE sticks before using GICv3
>     sysregs
>   irqchip/gic-v3: Make gic_enable_sre an inline function
>   arm64: cpufeatures: Check ICC_EL1_SRE.SRE before enabling
>     ARM64_HAS_SYSREG_GIC_CPUIF
>   irqchip/gic: Warn if GICv3 system registers are enabled
>   arm64: Update booting requirements for GICv3 in GICv2 mode
> 
>  Documentation/arm64/booting.txt    | 11 ++++++++++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c     | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S           |  2 ++
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c       | 32 +++++++++-----------------------
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c          | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

How do you plan to merge these patches? I'm fine for them to go via the
irqchip maintainers since they are all GIC related.

-- 
Catalin
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