Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] bus: brcmstb_gisb: add support for GISBv7 arbiter

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 12:33:59 EST


On 03/29/2017 05:29 PM, Doug Berger wrote:
> This patch set contains changes to enable the GISB arbiter driver
> on the latest ARM64 architecture Set-Top Box chips from Broadcom.
>
> Since the ARM64 architecture does not support the hooking of low
> level fault handlers the driver has been adjusted to depend solely
> on GISB interrupts and notify events to provide diagnostic
> messaging. The GISB hardware still triggers bus faults for the
> processor so the default low-level aborts will occur and will be
> handled based on the architecture specific kernel implementation.
>
> While this tends to obsure the GISB error messaging it is still
> reasonable so the same approach is applied to the ARM architecture
> for consistency.
>
> The patches also correct some issues with the existing driver
> and add the new register map for the GISBv7 hardware first
> appearing in the BCM7278 device.

This all looks great to me, and since there are no more ARM64
dependencies I can take this via the Broadcom ARM/ARM64 SoC pull requests.

Mark, are you also happy with this v3?

Thanks Doug!

>
> Changes since v2 at [2]:
> - Removed code associated with enabling the hooking of ARM64
> memory faults as well as the code that hooks them for both
> ARM and ARM64 architectures within the GISB arbiter driver.
> - Created separate notifiers for die and panic events to
> prevent list corruption, and substituted the notifier return
> name for the previous magic number (Thanks Mark!)
>
> Changes since v1 at [1]:
> - Removed code associated with hooking SError handling in favor
> of a registered notifier (Thanks Mark!)
> - Removed an unnecessary explicit cast (Thanks Gregory!)
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/24/413
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/28/1125
>
> Doug Berger (6):
> bus: brcmstb_gisb: Use register offsets with writes too
> bus: brcmstb_gisb: correct support for 64-bit address output
> bus: brcmstb_gisb: add notifier handling
> bus: brcmstb_gisb: remove low-level ARM hooks
> bus: brcmstb_gisb: enable driver for ARM64 architecture
> bus: brcmstb_gisb: update to support new revision
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/bus/brcm,gisb-arb.txt | 3 +-
> drivers/bus/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/bus/brcmstb_gisb.c | 121 ++++++++++++---------
> 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>


--
Florian