Re: [PATCH v3 08/16] irqchip/gic: Configure SGIs as standard interrupts

From: Jon Hunter
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 05:09:34 EST



On 17/09/2020 09:54, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> On 17.09.2020 10:49, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> On 17/09/2020 09:45, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On 2020-09-17 08:54, Jon Hunter wrote:
>>>> On 17/09/2020 08:50, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> On 2020-09-17 08:40, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 5:11 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you try the patch below and let me know?
>>>>>> I tried this patch and now Ux500 WORKS. So this patch is definitely
>>>>>> something you should apply.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -                       if (is_frankengic())
>>>>>>> -                               set_sgi_intid(irqstat);
>>>>>>> +                       this_cpu_write(sgi_intid, intid);
>>>>>> This needs changing to irqstat to compile as pointed out by Jon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With that:
>>>>>> Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Still need to understand why some of Jon's systems are left unbootable,
>>>>> despite having similar GIC implementations (Tegra194 and Tegra210 use
>>>>> the same GIC-400, and yet only one of the two boots correctly...).
>>>> So far, I have only tested this patch on Tegra20. Let me try the other
>>>> failing boards this morning and see if those still fail.
>>> Tegra20 (if I remember well) is a dual A9 with the same GIC implementation
>>> as Ux500, hence requiring the source CPU bits to be written back. So this
>>> patch should have cured it, but didn't...
>>>
>>> /me puzzled.
>> Me too. Maybe there just happens to be something else also going wrong
>> in next. I am doing a bit more testing to see if applying the fix
>> directly on top of this change fixes it to try and eliminate anything
>> else in -next.
>>
>> Linus, what -next are you testing on? I am using next-20200916.
>
> next-20200916 completely broken on ARM and ARM64. Please check
> next-20200915 + the mentioned fix or just check
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=irq/ipi-as-irq

Ah thanks! Any idea what is causing the other failure on next-20200916?

Yes we have noticed that now everything fails next-20200916 so not just
this issue.

Cheers
Jon

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