[PATCH 3.18-rc4 v10 4/6] irqchip: gic: Introduce plumbing for IPI FIQ

[Jason Cooper]

Daniel,

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 01:39:01PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On 26/11/14 17:42, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:23:28PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> >> Currently it is not possible to exploit FIQ for systems with a GIC, even if
> >> the systems are otherwise capable of it. This patch makes it possible
> >> for IPIs to be delivered using FIQ.
> >>
> >> To do so it modifies the register state so that normal interrupts are
> >> placed in group 1 and specific IPIs are placed into group 0. It also
> >> configures the controller to raise group 0 interrupts using the FIQ
> >> signal. It provides a means for architecture code to define which IPIs
> >> shall use FIQ and to acknowledge any IPIs that are raised.
> >>
> >> All GIC hardware except GICv1-without-TrustZone support provides a means
> >> to group exceptions into group 0 and group 1 but the hardware
> >> functionality is unavailable to the kernel when a secure monitor is
> >> present because access to the grouping registers are prohibited outside
> >> "secure world". However when grouping is not available (or in the case
> >> of early GICv1 implementations is very hard to configure) the code to
> >> change groups does not deploy and all IPIs will be raised via IRQ.
> >>
> >> It has been tested and shown working on two systems capable of
> >> supporting grouping (Freescale i.MX6 and STiH416). It has also been
> >> tested for boot regressions on two systems that do not support grouping
> >> (vexpress-a9 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 600).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>
> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> >> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
> >> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> >> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> >> Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/kernel/traps.c         |   5 +-
> >>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c       | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >>  include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h |   8 +++
> >>  3 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > ...
> >> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> >> index 5d72823bc5e9..978e5e48d5c1 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> > ...
> >> +/*
> >> + * Test which group an interrupt belongs to.
> >> + *
> >> + * Returns 0 if the controller does not support grouping.
> >> + */
> >> +static int gic_get_group_irq(void __iomem *base, unsigned int hwirq)
> >> +{
> >> +	unsigned int grp_reg = hwirq / 32 * 4;
> >> +	u32 grp_val;
> >> +
> >> +	grp_val = readl_relaxed(base + GIC_DIST_IGROUP + grp_reg);
> >> +
> >> +	return (grp_val >> (hwirq % 32)) & 1;
> >> +}
> > ...
> >> @@ -669,7 +802,11 @@ static void gic_raise_softirq(const struct cpumask *mask, unsigned int irq)
> >>  	dmb(ishst);
> >>  
> >>  	/* this always happens on GIC0 */
> >> -	writel_relaxed(map << 16 | irq, gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]) + GIC_DIST_SOFTINT);
> >> +	softint = map << 16 | irq;
> >> +	if (gic_get_group_irq(gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]), irq))
> >> +		softint |= 0x8000;
> >> +	writel_relaxed(softint,
> >> +		       gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]) + GIC_DIST_SOFTINT);
> >>  
> >>  	bl_migration_unlock();
> >>  }
> > 
> > Is it worth the code complication to optimize this if the controller
> > doesn't support grouping?  Maybe set group_enabled at init so the above
> > would become:
> > 
> > 	softint = map << 16 | irq;
> > 	if (group_enabled &&
> > 	    gic_get_group_irq(gic_data_dist_base(&gic_data[0]), irq))
> > 		softint |= 0x8000;
> > 	writel_relaxed(...);
> 
> No objections.
> 
> However given this code always calls gic_get_group_irq() with irq < 16
> we might be able to do better even than this. The lower 16-bits of
> IGROUP[0] are constant after boot so if we keep a shadow copy around
> instead of just a boolean then we can avoid the register read on all
> code paths.

Hmm, I'd look at that as a performance enhancement.  I'm more concerned
about performance regressions for current users of the gic (non-group
enabled).

Let's go ahead and do the change (well, a working facsimile) I suggested
above, and we can do a follow on patch to increase performance for the
group enabled use case.

If there's no objections, I'd like to try to get this in for v3.19, but
it's really late.  So we'll see how it goes.

thx,

Jason.