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Message-ID: <ZCqPEjxDmI0/kruD@lpieralisi>
Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2023 10:32:18 +0200
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>
To:     Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gic700 shareability question

On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 01:36:31AM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> > Subject: Re: gic700 shareability question
> > 
> > + Lorenzo
> > 
> > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:48:19 +0100,
> > Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Marc,
> > >
> > > We have an SoC that use GIC-700, but not support shareability,
> > 
> > Define this. The IP does support shareability, but your integration doesn't?
> > 
> > > Currently I just hack the code as below. Do you think it is feasible
> > > to add firmware bindings such that these can be used to define the
> > > correct shareability/cacheability instead of relying on the
> > > programmability of the CBASER register?
> > >
> > > Saying with "broken-shareability", we just clear all the shareability
> > > settings.
> > 
> > This is the same thing as the Rockchip crap, so you are in good company.
> > 
> > I've repeatedly stated that this needs to be handled:
> > 
> > - either by describing the full system topology and describe what is
> >   in the same inner-shareable domain as the CPUs, which needs to
> >   encompass both DT and ACPI (starting with DT seems reasonable),
> > 
> 
> We will give a look on this. But honestly not have a good idea on how.

It is a longer term fix for the issue, we are looking into this.

> > - or as a SoC specific erratum, but not as a general "sh*t happened"
> >   property.
> 
> I will ask the hardware team to create an errata.
> > 
> > AFAIK, Lorenzo is looking into this.
> 
> Lorenzo, are you working on this? 

Yes it is being worked on, that does not prevent though an errata
workaround to be applied, firmware bindings definitions can take
a while to sort out.

Lorenzo

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