linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 08/16] irqchip/gic: Configure SGIs as standard interrupts

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Message-ID: <dcf812d9-2409-bcae-1925-e21740c2932e@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:46:59 +0100
From:   Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
CC:     Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>, <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        "Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "'Linux Samsung SOC'" <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-tegra <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/16] irqchip/gic: Configure SGIs as standard
 interrupts



On 16/09/2020 16:10, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> +Linus, who is facing a similar issue.
> 
> On 2020-09-16 15:16, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> On 14/09/2020 14:06, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>>
>>> On 01.09.2020 16:43, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> Change the way we deal with GIC SGIs by turning them into proper
>>>> IRQs, and calling into the arch code to register the interrupt range
>>>> instead of a callback.
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
>>> This patch landed in linux next-20200914 as commit ac063232d4b0
>>> ("irqchip/gic: Configure SGIs as standard interrupts"). Sadly it breaks
>>> booting of all Samsung Exynos 4210/4412 based boards (dual/quad ARM
>>> Cortex A9 based). Here are the last lines from the bootlog:
>>
>> I am observing the same thing on several Tegra boards (both arm and
>> arm64). Bisect is pointing to this commit. Reverting this alone does not
>> appear to be enough to fix the issue.
> 
> Right, I am just massively by the GICv3 spec, and failed to remember
> that ye olde GIC exposes the source CPU in AIR *and* wants it back, while
> newer GICs deal with that transparently.
> 
> Can you try the patch below and let me know?

Yes will do.

> @@ -365,14 +354,13 @@ static void __exception_irq_entry
> gic_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
>              smp_rmb();
> 
>              /*
> -             * Samsung's funky GIC encodes the source CPU in
> -             * GICC_IAR, leading to the deactivation to fail if
> -             * not written back as is to GICC_EOI.  Stash the
> -             * INTID away for gic_eoi_irq() to write back.
> -             * This only works because we don't nest SGIs...
> +             * The GIC encodes the source CPU in GICC_IAR,
> +             * leading to the deactivation to fail if not
> +             * written back as is to GICC_EOI.  Stash the INTID
> +             * away for gic_eoi_irq() to write back.  This only
> +             * works because we don't nest SGIs...
>               */
> -            if (is_frankengic())
> -                set_sgi_intid(irqstat);
> +            this_cpu_write(sgi_intid, intid);

I assume that it should be irqstat here and not intid?

Cheers
Jon

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