Re: [PATCH] ARM64: ZynqMP: DT: Fix GIC's 'reg' property

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Dec 16 2015 - 04:07:49 EST


On 16/12/15 09:01, SÃren Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 04:01PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 15.12.2015 10:14, SÃren Brinkmann wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 05:01PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> Mark,
>>>>
>>>> On 14/12/15 16:46, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 08:31:40AM -0800, Soren Brinkmann wrote:
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/xilinx/zynqmp.dtsi | 6 +++---
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/xilinx/zynqmp.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/xilinx/zynqmp.dtsi
>>>>>> index 857eda5c7217..b5d1facadf16 100644
>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/xilinx/zynqmp.dtsi
>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/xilinx/zynqmp.dtsi
>>>>>> @@ -80,10 +80,10 @@
>>>>>> gic: interrupt-controller@f9010000 {
>>>>>> compatible = "arm,gic-400", "arm,cortex-a15-gic";
>>>>>> #interrupt-cells = <3>;
>>>>>> - reg = <0x0 0xf9010000 0x10000>,
>>>>>> - <0x0 0xf902f000 0x2000>,
>>>>>> + reg = <0x0 0xf9010000 0x1000>,
>>>>>> + <0x0 0xf9020000 0x20000>,
>>>>>> <0x0 0xf9040000 0x20000>,
>>>>>> - <0x0 0xf906f000 0x2000>;
>>>>>> + <0x0 0xf9060000 0x20000>;
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm confused. These sizes don't look right for GIC-400. Is this a custom
>>>>> GIC?
>>>>
>>>> Probably an implementation that obey the SBSA requirement of aliasing
>>>> the first 4kB of the CPU interface on a 64kB page, and the second one on
>>>> the following 64kB page. See the APM system for an example of such a
>>>> thing. I'm more concerned about the GICH region (3rd one), which has no
>>>> reason to be bigger than 4kB.
>>>
>>> Xilinx didn't publish the memory map yet (at least I didn't see it in the
>>> public docs), so, let me give some excerpts:
>>>
>>> GICD:
>>> GICD_CTLR 0xF9010000 32 rw 0x00000000 Distributor Control Register
>>> ...
>>> GICD_CIDR3 0xF9010FFC 32 ro 0x000000B1 Component ID3 Register
>>>
>>> GICC:
>>> GICC_CTLR 0xF9020000 32 rw 0x00000000 CPU Interface Control Register
>>> ...
>>> GICC_DIR 0xF9030000 32 wo x Deactivate Interrupt Register
>>>
>>> GICH:
>>> GICH_HCR 0xF9040000 32 rw 0x00000000 Hypervisor Control Register
>>> ...
>>> GICH_LR3_Alias7 0xF9050F0C 32 rw 0x00000000 List Register 3
>>>
>>> GICV:
>>> GICV_CTLR 0xF9060000 32 rw 0x00000000 Virtual Machine Control Register
>>> ...
>>> GICV_DIR 0xF9070000 32 wo x VM Deactivate Interrupt Register
>>>
>>>
>>> Regarding the GICH area, it looks like it starts at 0xF9040000 and the
>>> alias blocks to access the other processor interfaces start at
>>> 0xF9050000.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Did this ever work wit hteh old offsets and sizes?
>>>>
>>>> It probably dies when trying to use EOImode==1.
>>>
>>> Without knowing what parts we really exercise, yes, the system comes up
>>> fine so far, but I recently found Linux boot hanging on QEMU and it
>>> seemed to be related to time not progressing (fast enough).
>>> I found a different DT using the values proposed here and that fixed the
>>> hang for me.
>>
>> We have discussed this here before with Rob
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/24/371
>>
>> Not sure if there is any fix. It is probably just broken QEMU not DTS
>> description in mainline.
>
> Do I understand this correctly?: The GIC IP has more configurable
> addresses than the DT binding/driver allow. Thus far people have worked
> around this by specifying some funky address in DT relying on the IP
> aliasing some addresses?

No. The *platform* messes with the GIC addressing, resulting in funky
decoding that everybody else has to deal with.

M.
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