[PATCH 3/4 V3] irqchip: gic: Add supports for ARM GICv2m MSI(-X)

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Jul 17 06:17:58 PDT 2014


Hi Suravee,

Apologies for the late reply on this one. I was hoping that Marc would
be able to take another look at this, but he's away at present.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:05:03AM +0100, suravee.suthikulpanit at amd.com wrote:
> From: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit at amd.com>
> 
> ARM GICv2m specification extends GICv2 to support MSI(-X) with
> a new set of register frames. This patch introduces support for
> the non-secure GICv2m register frame.
> 
> The driver currently matchs "arm,gic-400-plus" in device tree binding,
> which implements GICv2m.
> 
> The "msi-controller" keyword in ARM GIC devicetree binding is used to indentify
> GIC driver that it should enable MSI(-X) support, The region of GICv2m MSI
> register frame is specified using the register frame index 4 in the device tree.
> MSI support is optional.
> 
> Each GIC maintains an "msi_chip" structure. To discover the msi_chip,
> PCI host driver can do the following:
> 
>     struct device_node *gic_node = of_irq_find_parent(pdev->dev.of_node);
>     pcie_bus->msi_chip = of_pci_find_msi_chip_by_node(gic_node);
> 
> Cc: Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit at amd.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt |  20 +-
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |   1 +
>  drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                       |   7 +
>  drivers/irqchip/Makefile                      |   1 +
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v2m.c                 | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v2m.h                 |  13 ++
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                     |  23 ++-
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.h                     |  31 +++-
>  8 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v2m.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v2m.h
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
> index 5573c08..d2eea0b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
> @@ -12,11 +12,14 @@ Main node required properties:
> 
>  - compatible : should be one of:
>         "arm,gic-400"
> +       "arm,gic-400-v2m"

I'm still not entirely comfortable about this, as I was under the
impression that the MSI frame was a block on the side of the GIC rather
than being a composite entity with the rest of the GIC.

Which means that it would be entirely possible to attach multiple copies
of that block, which this binding doesn't cover.

>         "arm,cortex-a15-gic"
>         "arm,cortex-a9-gic"
>         "arm,cortex-a7-gic"
>         "arm,arm11mp-gic"
> +
>  - interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
> +
>  - #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
>    interrupt source.  The type shall be a <u32> and the value shall be 3.
> 
> @@ -37,9 +40,16 @@ Main node required properties:
>         the 8 possible cpus attached to the GIC.  A bit set to '1' indicated
>         the interrupt is wired to that CPU.  Only valid for PPI interrupts.
> 
> -- reg : Specifies base physical address(s) and size of the GIC registers. The
> -  first region is the GIC distributor register base and size. The 2nd region is
> -  the GIC cpu interface register base and size.
> +- reg : Specifies base physical address(s) and size of the GIC register frames.
> +
> +  Region | Description
> +  Index  |
> +  -------------------------------------------------------------------
> +     0   | GIC distributor register base and size
> +     1   | GIC cpu interface register base and size
> +     2   | VGIC interface control register base and size (Optional)
> +     3   | VGIC CPU interface register base and size (Optional)
> +     4   | GICv2m MSI interface register base and size (Optional)

And describing it as a separate (but related) component would get around
the issue of orthogonality with the GICV and GICH registers.

Nit: can we use the architected prefixes here please? GICC, GICD, GICH,
and GICV respectively for indexes 0-3.

Cheers,
Mark.



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