[PATCH V3 1/3] ARM: tegra114: Reprogram GIC CPU interface to bypass IRQ on CPU PM entry
Joseph Lo
josephl at nvidia.com
Wed Jun 26 07:19:27 EDT 2013
On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 07:02 +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 06/25/2013 03:23 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
> > There is a difference between GICv1 and v2 when CPU in power management
> > mode (aka CPU power down on Tegra). For GICv1, IRQ/FIQ interrupt lines
> > going to CPU are same lines which are also used for wake-interrupt.
> > Therefore, we cannot disable the GIC CPU interface if we need to use same
> > interrupts for CPU wake purpose. This creates a race condition for CPU
> > power off entry. Also, in GICv1, disabling GICv1 CPU interface puts GICv1
> > into bypass mode such that incoming legacy IRQ/FIQ are sent to CPU, which
> > means disabling GIC CPU interface doesn't really disable IRQ/FIQ to CPU.
> >
> > GICv2 provides a wake IRQ/FIQ (for wake-event purpose), which are not
> > disabled by GIC CPU interface. This is done by adding a bypass override
> > capability when the interrupts are disabled at the CPU interface. To
> > support this, there are four bits about IRQ/FIQ BypassDisable in CPU
> > interface Control Register. When the IRQ/FIQ not being driver by the
> > CPU interface, each interrupt output signal can be deasserted rather
> > than being driven by the legacy interrupt input.
> >
> ...
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/irq.c
>
> > +static int tegra_gic_notifier(struct notifier_block *self,
> > + unsigned long cmd, void *v)
> > +{
> > + switch (cmd) {
> > + case CPU_PM_ENTER:
> > + writel_relaxed(0x1E0, tegra_gic_cpu_base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);
>
> I assume that 0x1e0 is the "four bits" for IRQ/FIQ bypass disable that
> are mentioned in the commit description. are there #defines that can be
> used instead of literal 0x1e0 here?
The common "arm-gic.h" didn't have the new define for GICv2 yet. So I
didn't define something like GIC_CPU_{FIQ,IRQ}BypDisGrp{0,1} for Tegra.
Thanks,
Joseph
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