[PATCH v5 00/20] arm64: GICv3 support

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Jun 19 02:19:23 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 (WIP):
- LPI/ITS/MSI (pending, depending on PCI)
- KVM GICv3 guest support (pending patches from Andre)
- Any form of power management (pending patches from Sudeep)
- 32bit systems (pending patches from Jean-Philippe)

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 and another Cortex-A57 based platform.

I finally received a few comments from actual implementors and a
number of Tested-by tags, which makes me think we may be on track for
3.17.

Individuals without access to documentation and/or hardware can still
review the code (it shares a lot of concepts with GICv2) and test it
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:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/gicv3

* From v4 [4]
  - Some cleanup and better error handling
  - World-switch optimisation (thanks to Will)
  - GICH->ICH namespace fixup (thanks to Jean-Philippe)
  - Moved __vgic_v3_get_ich_vtr_el2 to patch 19
  - Rebased on top of 3.16-rc1

* From v3 [3]
  - Fixed a lot of issues found by Christoffer (too many to report
    here, see the email thread)
  - New .sync_lr_elrsr backend
  - New probing method
  - New irqchip_in_kernel implementation
  - Checked full bisectability of the series (hopefully got it right
    this time...)
  - rebased on top of 3.15-rc5

* 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
[3]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-April/248008.html
[4]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/256835.html

Marc Zyngier (20):
  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
  KVM: ARM: vgic: revisit implementation of irqchip_in_kernel
  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.{IMO,FMO} manipulation into the vgic switch
    code
  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_arm.h                 |   5 +-
 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                             | 127 +----
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S                  | 133 +++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S                  | 266 +++++++++
 drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                          |   5 +
 drivers/irqchip/Makefile                         |   3 +-
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c                 | 115 ++++
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.h                 |  29 +
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c                     | 690 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                        |  59 +-
 include/kvm/arm_vgic.h                           | 115 +++-
 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h               | 193 +++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c                           | 236 ++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c                           | 231 ++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                              | 345 +++++++-----
 29 files changed, 2425 insertions(+), 353 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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