Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Lorenzo Pieralisi <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 0/2] irqchip/gic-v3: Enable non-coherent GIC designs probing | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2023 11:41:37 +0200 |
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This series is v2 of a previous version[1].
v1 -> v2: - Updated DT bindings as per feedback - Updated patch[2] to use GIC quirks infrastructure
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230905104721.52199-1-lpieralisi@kernel.org
Original cover letter --- The GICv3 architecture specifications provide a means for the system programmer to set the shareability and cacheability attributes the GIC components (redistributors and ITSes) use to drive memory transactions.
Albeit the architecture give control over shareability/cacheability memory transactions attributes (and barriers), it is allowed to connect the GIC interconnect ports to non-coherent memory ports on the interconnect, basically tying off shareability/cacheability "wires" and de-facto making the redistributors and ITSes non-coherent memory observers.
This series aims at starting a discussion over a possible solution to this problem, by adding to the GIC device tree bindings the standard dma-noncoherent property. The GIC driver uses the property to force the redistributors and ITSes shareability attributes to non-shareable, which consequently forces the driver to use CMOs on GIC memory tables.
On ARM DT DMA is default non-coherent, so the GIC driver can't rely on the generic DT dma-coherent/non-coherent property management layer (of_dma_is_coherent()) which would default all GIC designs in the field as non-coherent; it has to rely on ad-hoc dma-noncoherent property handling.
When a consistent approach is agreed upon for DT an equivalent binding will be put forward for ACPI based systems.
Lorenzo Pieralisi (2): dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: arm,gic-v3: Add dma-noncoherent property irqchip/gic-v3: Enable non-coherent redistributors/ITSes probing
.../interrupt-controller/arm,gic-v3.yaml | 12 +++++++++++ drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.h | 4 ++++ drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 21 +++++++++++++++---- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 13 ++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
-- 2.34.1
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