linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3-its: remove the shareability of ITS

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Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:58:20 +0100
From:   Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>
To:     Harry Song <jundongsong1@...il.com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3-its: remove the shareability of ITS

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 10:28:29AM +0800, Harry Song wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:19 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:52:23 +0000,
> > Harry Song <jundongsong1@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I know this is a very wrong patch, but my platform
> > > has an abnormal ITS problem caused by data consistency:
> > > My chip does not support Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI).
> >
> > That doesn't mean much. Nothing mandates to have a CCI, and plenty of
> > systems have other ways to maintain coherency.
> >
> > > By default, ITS driver is the inner memory attribute.
> > > gits_write_cbaser() is used to write the inner memory
> > > attribute. But hw doesn't return the hardware's non-shareable
> > > property,so I don't think reading GITS_CBASER and GICR_PROPBASER
> > > here will get the real property of the current hardware: inner
> > > or outer shareable is not supported, so I would like to know
> > > whether ITS driver cannot be used on chips without CCI, or
> > > what method can be used to use ITS driver on chips without CCI?
> >
> > It's not about CCI or not CCI. It is about which shareability domain
> > your ITS is in.
> >
> > And it doesn't only affect the ITS. It also affects the
> > redistributors, and anything that accesses memory.
> >
> 
> Yes, my current chip is Rockchip platform (rk3588), so is it because the chip
> is not designed as a proper shared domain for ITS, so the exception of
> ITS is caused?
> 
> > >
> > > The current patch is designed to make ITS think that the current
> > > chip has no inner or outer memory properties, and then use
> > > its by flushing dcache.
> > >
> > > This is the log for bug reports without patches:
> > >
> > > [    0.000000] GICv3: CPU0: found redistributor 0 region 0:0x0000000003460000
> > > [    0.000000] ITS [mem 0x03440000-0x0345ffff]
> > > [    0.000000] ITS@...000000003440000: allocated 8192 Devices @41850000 (indirect, esz 8, psz 64K, shr 0)
> > > [    0.000000] ITS@...000000003440000: allocated 32768 Interrupt Collections @41860000 (flat, esz 2, psz 64K, shr 0)
> > > [    0.000000] GICv3: using LPI property table @0x0000000041870000
> > > [    0.000000] GICv3: CPU0: using allocated LPI pending table @0x0000000041880000
> > > [    0.000000] ITS queue timeout (64 1)
> > > [    0.000000] ITS cmd its_build_mapc_cmd failed
> > > [    0.000000] ITS queue timeout (128 1)
> > > [    0.000000] ITS cmd its_build_invall_cmd failed
> >
> > Ah, this suspiciously looks like a Rockchip machine...
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Harry Song <jundongsong1@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > I am very sorry to bother you. This problem has been bothering me
> > > for several weeks.  I am looking forward to your reply.
> >
> > If you have such issue, this needs to be handled as per-platform
> > quirk. I'm not putting such generic hacks in the driver.
> >
> >         M.
> >
> > --
> > Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
> 
> Are there currently other chip platforms that have this problem, and then ITS
> is already compatible with the problem? Please tell me how to submit
> hacks patch for rk3588 platform?
> 
> If the hacks patch cannot be submitted, please tell me whether it
> requires the next generation
> chip to have any design requirements for ITS?
> 
> Design ITS and CPU to be the same inner memory property?

Previous rockchip generation has the same bug and it got discussed
here:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/871rbdt4tu.wl-maz@kernel.org/T/#m5dbc70ff308d81e98dd0d797e23d3fbf9c353245

You can use this DT as base with mainline to avoid ITS:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221205172350.75234-1-sebastian.reichel@collabora.com/

-- Sebastian

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