linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 4/9] acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 21:41:44 +0800
From:   Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
To:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
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        Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
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        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 4/9] acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver

Hi Marc,

On 26 October 2016 at 20:11, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com> wrote:
> On 26/10/16 12:10, Fu Wei wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On 21 October 2016 at 00:37, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As a heads-up, on v4.9-rc1 I see conflicts at least against
>>> arch/arm64/Kconfig. Luckily git am -3 seems to be able to fix that up
>>> automatically, but this will need to be rebased before the next posting
>>> and/or merging.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:17:12AM +0800, fu.wei@...aro.org wrote:
>>>> +static int __init map_gt_gsi(u32 interrupt, u32 flags)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     int trigger, polarity;
>>>> +
>>>> +     if (!interrupt)
>>>> +             return 0;
>>>
>>> Urgh.
>>>
>>> Only the secure interrupt (which we do not need) is optional in this
>>> manner, and (hilariously), zero appears to also be a valid GSIV, per
>>> figure 5-24 in the ACPI 6.1 spec.
>>>
>>> So, I think that:
>>>
>>> (a) we should not bother parsing the secure interrupt
>>
>> If I understand correctly, from this point of view, kernel don't
>> handle the secure interrupt.
>> But the current arm_arch_timer driver still enable/disable/request
>> PHYS_SECURE_PPI
>> with PHYS_NONSECURE_PPI.
>> That means we still need to parse the secure interrupt.
>> Please correct me, if I misunderstand something? :-)
>
> That's because we can use the per-cpu timer when 32bit Linux is running
> on the secure side (and we cannot distinguish between secure and
> non-secure at runtime). ACPI is 64bit only, and Linux on 64bit isn't
> supported on the secure side, so only registering the non-secure timer
> is perfectly acceptable.

Great thanks for your explanation :-)
So we just don't need to fill arch_timer_ppi[PHYS_SECURE_PPI] , just skip it.

>
> Thanks,
>
>         M.
> --
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...



-- 
Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat