[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: dts: zx: Fix gic GICR property

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Dec 2 09:02:28 PST 2016


Just noticed this.

On 13/10/16 13:31, Jun Nie wrote:
> GICR for multiple CPU can be described with start address and stride,
> or with multiple address. Current multiple address and stride are
> both used. Fix it.
> 
> vmalloc patch 727a7f5a9 triggered this bug:
> [    0.097146] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff000008060008
> [    0.097150] pgd = ffff000008602000
> [    0.097160] [ffff000008060008] *pgd=000000007fffe003, *pud=000000007fffd003, *pmd=000000007fffc003, *pte=0000000000000000
> [    0.097165] Internal error: Oops: 96000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [    0.097170] Modules linked in:
> [    0.097177] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.8.0+ #1474
> [    0.097179] Hardware name: ZTE zx296718 evaluation board (DT)
> [    0.097183] task: ffff80003e8c8b80 task.stack: ffff80003e8d0000
> [    0.097197] PC is at gic_populate_rdist+0x74/0x15c
> [    0.097202] LR is at gic_starting_cpu+0xc/0x20
> [    0.097206] pc : [<ffff0000082b1b18>] lr : [<ffff0000082b26e0>] pstate: 600001c5
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jun Nie <jun.nie at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/zte/zx296718.dtsi | 11 +++--------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/zte/zx296718.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/zte/zx296718.dtsi
> index a223066..6b239a3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/zte/zx296718.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/zte/zx296718.dtsi
> @@ -239,16 +239,11 @@
>  		compatible = "arm,gic-v3";
>  		#interrupt-cells = <3>;
>  		#address-cells = <0>;
> -		#redistributor-regions = <6>;
> -		redistributor-stride = <0x0 0x40000>;
> +		#redistributor-regions = <1>;
> +		redistributor-stride = <0x20000>;

Why is that stride specified? Is the GIC implementation so busted that
the GICR_TYPER do not report a GICv3 redistributor, which implies a
128kB stride?

Thanks,

	M.
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