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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] irqchip/gicv3-its: ITS table size should not be smaller than PSZ
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Minghuan Lian wrote:

> The default page size of ITS table has been changed to 64KB,
> but for some platforms the real size of allocated memory which
> calculated by DEVBITS of register GITS_TYPER may be smaller than
> default size. In this case, the allocation size must be increased
> to the default size, otherwise, the wrong page number will cause
> kernel hang.

This changelog fails to explain WHY the kernel hangs if the allocated
table is smaller than the default

> Signed-off-by: Minghuan Lian <Minghuan.Lian@freescale.com>
> ---
> v2-v1:
> Increase allocation size instead of decreasing PSZ
>
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index 9687f8a..19ab86d 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -828,7 +828,8 @@ static int its_alloc_tables(struct its_node *its)
> u64 typer = readq_relaxed(its->base + GITS_TYPER);
> u32 ids = GITS_TYPER_DEVBITS(typer);
>
> - order = get_order((1UL << ids) * entry_size);
> + order = max(get_order((1UL << ids) * entry_size),
> + order);

Lacks a comment explaining WHY we do that max() here.

Thanks,

tglx


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