Re: [PATCH V2] irqchip:gic: change access of gicc_ctrl register to read modify write.

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 13:54:37 EST


On Thu, Feb 27 2014 at 6:34:55 pm GMT, Feng Kan <fkan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This change is made to preserve the GIC v2 releated bits in the
> GIC_CPU_CTRL register (also known as the GICC_CTLR register in spec).
> The original code only set the enable/disable group bit in this register.
> This code will preserve the bypass bits configured by the bootload except
> the enable/disable bit. The main reason for this change is to allow the
> bypass bits specified in the v2 spec to remain untouched by the current
> GIC code. In the X-Gene platform, the bypass functionality is not used
> and bypass must be disabled at all time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> V2 Changes:
> - only mask off v2 bypass bits
>
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> index 341c601..757581b 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ static void gic_cpu_init(struct gic_chip_data *gic)
> void __iomem *dist_base = gic_data_dist_base(gic);
> void __iomem *base = gic_data_cpu_base(gic);
> unsigned int cpu_mask, cpu = smp_processor_id();
> + unsigned int ctrl_mask;
> int i;
>
> /*
> @@ -449,13 +450,24 @@ static void gic_cpu_init(struct gic_chip_data *gic)
> writel_relaxed(0xa0a0a0a0, dist_base + GIC_DIST_PRI + i * 4 / 4);
>
> writel_relaxed(0xf0, base + GIC_CPU_PRIMASK);
> - writel_relaxed(1, base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);
> +
> + ctrl_mask = readl(base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);
> + ctrl_mask |= 0x1;
> + writel_relaxed(ctrl_mask, base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);

I think I'm quickly loosing the will to live, or at least to review this
patch any further.

M.
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