[PATCH] irqchip/gicv3-its: Disable the ITS before initializing it.

David Daney ddaney.cavm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 15:41:58 PDT 2016


From: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com>

When starting a kexec/kdump kernel, the GIC ITS will already have been
enabled.  According to the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller
Architecture Specification (GIC architecture Version 3.0 and version
4.0), writing to GITS_BASER<n> or GITS_CBASER is "UNPREDICTABLE" when
the ITS is enabled.  On Cavium Thunder systems, this prevents the ITS
from being initializing in the kexec/kdump kernel, resulting in
failure to register/enable interrupts for all devices.

The fix is to disable the ITS if it is not already in the disabled
state.  This allows the ITS to be properly initialized and then
re-enabled in the kexec/kdump kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com>
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
index 7ceaba8..36b9c28 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
@@ -1545,7 +1545,12 @@ static int its_force_quiescent(void __iomem *base)
 	u32 val;
 
 	val = readl_relaxed(base + GITS_CTLR);
-	if (val & GITS_CTLR_QUIESCENT)
+	/*
+	 * GIC architecture specification requires the ITS to be both
+	 * disabled and quiescent for writes to GITS_BASER<n> or
+	 * GITS_CBASER to not have UNPREDICTABLE results.
+	 */
+	if ((val & GITS_CTLR_QUIESCENT) && !(val & GITS_CTLR_ENABLE))
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Disable the generation of all interrupts to this ITS */
-- 
1.8.3.1




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