[PATCH v3 00/19] arm64: GICv3 support

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Apr 16 06:39:32 PDT 2014


GICv3 is the base for a new generation of interrupt controllers
designed to overcome some of the most glaring limitations of GICv2.

Some of the features are:
- Support for more than 8 CPUs (a lot more...)
- System registers for CPU interface access (instead of the memory
  mapped GICC, GICV, GICH)
- Message based interrupts

This patch series currently support:
- Affinity Routing
- System Registers
- Non-Secure Group-1 interrupts only
- KVM support (GICv3 host, GICv2 guest)

What is *not yet* supported in this series:
- LPI/ITS/MSI (patches are available in the below branch,
  though still in development)
- KVM GICv3 guest support (requires GICv3 distributor emulation, WIP)
- Any form of power management (patches from Sudeep in my tree)
- 32bit systems (WIP)

To be built, this code requires a fairly recent compiler/binutils
combo. Linaro 13.06 seems to do the trick. This has been tested on the
ARM FVP and Foundation models, with non-regressions run on a VExpress
TC-2.

So far, the level of reviewing has been embarassingly low (my sincere
thanks to Christoffer and Will for reviewing v1). While the
documentation is unfortunately not public yet, it is available to
those actively implementing GICv3 in their hardware, and I'm really
eager to see reviews and test reports.

Without that kind of engagement, it is unlikely that this code will
get merged any time soon. Individuals without access to documentation
and/or hardware can still review the code (it shares a lot of concepts
with GICv2) and test in on the freely available Foundation model (see
http://releases.linaro.org/latest/openembedded/aarch64/ for details on
how to use the Foundation model).

The code is also available at the following location (warning,
unstable branch!):
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/gicv3

* From v2 [2]
  - removed sharing of the xlate method with GICv2 (TI crossbar is now
    getting in the way...)
  - Switched to a tree domain to accomodate for the LPI space
  - Fixed more bisectability

* From the initial revision [1]
  - Some code sharing with GICv2
  - Barrier cleanup/clarification
  - Revised boot protocol update
  - Consistent use of the MPIDR access macros
  - Fixed a number of embarassing bugs
  - Fixed DT examples
  - Fixed bisectability of the series

[1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-February/229959.html
[2]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-March/241972.html

Marc Zyngier (19):
  ARM: GIC: move some bits of GICv2 to a library-type file
  arm64: initial support for GICv3
  arm64: GICv3 device tree binding documentation
  arm64: boot protocol documentation update for GICv3
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: move GICv2 registers to their own structure
  KVM: ARM: vgic: introduce vgic_ops and LR manipulation primitives
  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract access to the ELRSR bitmap
  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract EISR bitmap access
  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract MISR decoding
  KVM: ARM: vgic: move underflow handling to vgic_ops
  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract VMCR access
  KVM: ARM: vgic: introduce vgic_enable
  KVM: ARM: introduce vgic_params structure
  KVM: ARM: vgic: split GICv2 backend from the main vgic code
  arm64: KVM: remove __kvm_hyp_code_{start,end} from hyp.S
  arm64: KVM: split GICv2 world switch from hyp code
  arm64: KVM: move hcr_el2 setting into vgic-v2-switch.S
  KVM: ARM: vgic: add the GICv3 backend
  arm64: KVM: vgic: add GICv3 world switch

 Documentation/arm64/booting.txt                  |   6 +
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt |  79 +++
 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h                  |   5 +
 arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c                    |  14 +-
 arch/arm/kvm/Makefile                            |   1 +
 arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S                   |  26 +-
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                               |   1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h                 |  14 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h                |  28 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h                    |   4 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c                  |  25 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S                         |  18 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S                     |   1 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile                          |   4 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S                             | 133 +----
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S                  | 149 +++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S                  | 279 ++++++++++
 drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                          |   5 +
 drivers/irqchip/Makefile                         |   3 +-
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c                 | 107 ++++
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.h                 |  29 +
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c                     | 681 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                        |  59 +-
 include/kvm/arm_vgic.h                           | 103 +++-
 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h               | 188 +++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c                           | 228 ++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c                           | 220 ++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                              | 330 ++++++-----
 28 files changed, 2367 insertions(+), 373 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S
 create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S
 create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h
 create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c
 create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c

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