[PATCH/RFC 0/4] ARM: shmobile: Correct masks for GIC PPI interrupts

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:57:15AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 	Hi all,
> 
> This patch series corrects the masks in the second interrupt cells for
> Private Peripheral Interrupts in dtsi files for the shmobile family of
> SoCs.
> 
> It's my understanding this mask should reflect the actual number of CPU
> cores the interrupt is wired too.
> Is that correct?
> 
>   - Hence it should be "GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(2)" on dual-core CPUs, like
>     r8a7791 and r8a7794 (the first two patches),
>   - Should it be "GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(8)" on big.LITTLE configurations
>     with four Cortex-A15 cores and four Cortex-A7 cores?
>     Or should the interrupts be delivered to the four Cortex-A15 cores
>     only by default?
>     The last two RFC-patches implement the former for r8a7790 and
>     r8a73a4.
> 
> Note that incorrect masks for GIC PPI interrupts are not limited to
> shmobile. Presumably the interrupt specifiers got copied around a lot,
> cfr. the proliferation of "GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(4)" (and the older
> hardcoded "0xf0x" variant) in various dtsi files, not always limited to
> quad-core CPUs.
> 
> This was tested on r8a7791/koelsch, which uses the arch timer interrupt.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> Geert Uytterhoeven (4):
>   ARM: shmobile: r8a7791: Correct mask for GIC PPI interrupts
>   ARM: shmobile: r8a7794: Correct mask for GIC PPI interrupts

Hi Geert,

the above two patches seem like they could be queued up.
Shall I do so?

>   [RFC] ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Correct mask for GIC PPI interrupts
>   [RFC] ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4: Correct mask for GIC PPI interrupts
> 
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a73a4.dtsi | 10 +++++-----
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7790.dtsi | 10 +++++-----
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7791.dtsi | 10 +++++-----
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7794.dtsi | 10 +++++-----
>  4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
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