[PATCH V2] irqchip:gic: change access of gicc_ctrl register to read modify write.

Feng Kan fkan at apm.com
Thu Feb 27 16:00:07 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27 2014 at  6:34:55 pm GMT, Feng Kan <fkan at apm.com> wrote:
>> This change is made to preserve the GIC v2 releated bits in the
>> GIC_CPU_CTRL register (also known as the GICC_CTLR register in spec).
>> The original code only set the enable/disable group bit in this register.
>> This code will preserve the bypass bits configured by the bootload except
>> the enable/disable bit. The main reason for this change is to allow the
>> bypass bits specified in the v2 spec to remain untouched by the current
>> GIC code. In the X-Gene platform, the bypass functionality is not used
>> and bypass must be disabled at all time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Kale <vkale at apm.com>
>> Acked-by: Anup Patel <apatel at apm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan at apm.com>
>> ---
>> V2 Changes:
>>       - only mask off v2 bypass bits
>>
>>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++++---
>>  1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
>> index 341c601..757581b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
>> @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ static void gic_cpu_init(struct gic_chip_data *gic)
>>       void __iomem *dist_base = gic_data_dist_base(gic);
>>       void __iomem *base = gic_data_cpu_base(gic);
>>       unsigned int cpu_mask, cpu = smp_processor_id();
>> +     unsigned int ctrl_mask;
>>       int i;
>>
>>       /*
>> @@ -449,13 +450,24 @@ static void gic_cpu_init(struct gic_chip_data *gic)
>>               writel_relaxed(0xa0a0a0a0, dist_base + GIC_DIST_PRI + i * 4 / 4);
>>
>>       writel_relaxed(0xf0, base + GIC_CPU_PRIMASK);
>> -     writel_relaxed(1, base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);
>> +
>> +     ctrl_mask = readl(base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);
>> +     ctrl_mask |= 0x1;
>> +     writel_relaxed(ctrl_mask, base + GIC_CPU_CTRL);
>
> I think I'm quickly loosing the will to live, or at least to review this
> patch any further.
Hang in there Marc, though I had nothing to do with the flood in England. Maybe
I can instill a bit more will for you to live.

>
>         M.
> --
> AAAFNRAA



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