[RFC PATCH v2 05/19] KVM: arm/arm64: Check that system supports split eoi/deactivate

[Marc Zyngier]

On 17/07/17 15:27, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Some systems without proper firmware and/or hardware description data
> don't support the split EOI and deactivate operation.
> 
> On such systems, we cannot leave the physical interrupt active after the
> timer handler on the host has run, so we cannot support KVM with an
> in-kernel GIC with the timer changes we about to introduce.
> 
> This patch makes sure that trying to initialize the KVM GIC code will
> fail on such systems.
> 
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 12 +++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> index 090991f..b7e4fed 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> @@ -1391,7 +1391,8 @@ int gic_of_init_child(struct device *dev, struct gic_chip_data **gic, int irq)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void __init gic_of_setup_kvm_info(struct device_node *node)
> +static void __init gic_of_setup_kvm_info(struct device_node *node,
> +					 bool supports_deactivate)

Ouch, nasty. This shadows the static key which is also called
supports_deactivate...

>  {
>  	int ret;
>  	struct resource *vctrl_res = &gic_v2_kvm_info.vctrl;
> @@ -1411,6 +1412,9 @@ static void __init gic_of_setup_kvm_info(struct device_node *node)
>  	if (ret)
>  		return;
>  
> +	if (!supports_deactivate)
> +		return;
> +
>  	gic_set_kvm_info(&gic_v2_kvm_info);

Speaking of which, the static key should already be initialized, so this
could actually read:

	if (static_key_true(&supports_deactivate))
		gic_set_kvm_info(&gic_v2_kvm_info);

>  }
>  
> @@ -1419,6 +1423,7 @@ gic_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *parent)
>  {
>  	struct gic_chip_data *gic;
>  	int irq, ret;
> +	bool has_eoimode;
>  
>  	if (WARN_ON(!node))
>  		return -ENODEV;
> @@ -1436,7 +1441,8 @@ gic_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *parent)
>  	 * Disable split EOI/Deactivate if either HYP is not available
>  	 * or the CPU interface is too small.
>  	 */
> -	if (gic_cnt == 0 && !gic_check_eoimode(node, &gic->raw_cpu_base))
> +	has_eoimode = gic_check_eoimode(node, &gic->raw_cpu_base);
> +	if (gic_cnt == 0 && !has_eoimode)
>  		static_key_slow_dec(&supports_deactivate);
>  
>  	ret = __gic_init_bases(gic, -1, &node->fwnode);
> @@ -1447,7 +1453,7 @@ gic_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *parent)
>  
>  	if (!gic_cnt) {
>  		gic_init_physaddr(node);
> -		gic_of_setup_kvm_info(node);
> +		gic_of_setup_kvm_info(node, has_eoimode);
>  	}
>  
>  	if (parent) {
> 

and we shouldn't need any of this. What do you think?

	M.
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