[PATCH 3/5] arm: mvebu: Added IPI support via doorbells

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:11:02 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:

> The correct explanation is that the offset +21070 is a CPU virtual offset.
> That means that depending of the CPU core which will access to this register,
> the controller will internally change the offset automagically to point the
> correct offset.
> 
> I should have added an explanation in the commit log. I will do it for V2.

Just to expand on Grégory's comment: there is per-CPU banking for the
interrupt controller registers. At 0x21070, you have "virtual"
registers that automatically map to the interrupt controller registers
of the current CPU. At 0x21870, you have the interrupt controllers
registers of CPU0, regardless of which CPU you are running on.

Before this patch set, there was no SMP support for Armada 370/XP, so
accessing the interrupt controller registers at 0x21870 was OK
(accessing them from 0x21070 would have been OK as well). With the
introduction of SMP support, accessing them from 0x21870 no longer
works, so we switch to the virtual registers at 0x21070.

In other words: no it is not a bug fix and it therefore doesn't need to
go into 3.7.

Best regards,

Thomas
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