Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3: Fix IPRIORITYR can't perform byte operations in GIC-600

From: Lorenzo Pieralisi
Date: Tue Mar 30 2021 - 07:06:50 EST


On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:33:13AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> [+Lorenzo, +Julien on an actual email address]
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:06:19 +0100,
> Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When pseudo-NMI enabled, register_nmi() set priority of specific IRQ
> > by byte ops, and this doesn't work in GIC-600.
> >
> > We have asked ARM Support [1]:
> > > Please refer to following description in
> > > "2.1.2 Distributor ACE-Lite slave interface" of GIC-600 TRM for
> > > the GIC600 ACE-lite slave interface supported sizes:
> > > "The GIC-600 only accepts single beat accesses of the sizes for
> > > each register that are shown in the Programmers model,
> > > see Chapter 4 Programmer's model on page 4-102.
> > > All other accesses are rejected and given either an
> > > OKAY or SLVERR response that is based on the GICT_ERR0CTLR.UE bit.".
> >
> > Thus the register needs to be written by double word operation and
> > the step will be: read 32bit, set byte and write it back.
> >
> > [1] https://services.arm.com/support/s/case/5003t00001L4Pba
>
> You do realise that this link:
>
> - is unusable for most people as it is behind a registration interface
> - discloses confidential information to other people
>
> I strongly suggest you stop posting such links.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> > index eb0ee356a629..cfc5a6ad30dc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> > @@ -440,10 +440,21 @@ static void gic_irq_set_prio(struct irq_data *d, u8 prio)
> > {
> > void __iomem *base = gic_dist_base(d);
> > u32 offset, index;
> > + u32 val, prio_offset_mask, prio_offset_shift;
> >
> > offset = convert_offset_index(d, GICD_IPRIORITYR, &index);
> >
> > - writeb_relaxed(prio, base + offset + index);
> > + /*
> > + * GIC-600 memory mapping register doesn't support byte opteration,
> > + * thus read 32-bits from register, set bytes and wtire back to it.
> > + */
> > + prio_offset_shift = (index & 0x3) * 8;
> > + prio_offset_mask = GENMASK(prio_offset_shift + 7, prio_offset_shift);
> > + index &= ~0x3;
> > + val = readl_relaxed(base + offset + index);
> > + val &= ~prio_offset_mask;
> > + val |= prio << prio_offset_shift;
> > + writel_relaxed(val, base + offset + index);
> > }
> >
> > static u32 gic_get_ppi_index(struct irq_data *d)
>
> From the architecture spec:
>
> <quote>
> 11.1.3 GIC memory-mapped register access
>
> In any system, access to the following registers must be supported:
>
> [...]
> * Byte accesses to:
> - GICD_IPRIORITYR<n>.
> - GICD_ITARGETSR<n>.
> - GICD_SPENDSGIR<n>.
> - GICD_CPENDSGIR<n>.
> - GICR_IPRIORITYR<n>.
> </quote>
>
> So if GIC600 doesn't follow this architectural requirement, this is a
> HW erratum, and I want an actual description of the HW issue together
> with an erratum number.
>
> Lorenzo, can you please investigate on your side?

Sure - I will look into it and report back.

Thanks,
Lorenzo