[PATCH v4] irqchip/gic-v3: Fix the driver probe() fail due to disabled GICC entry

Shanker Donthineni shankerd at codeaurora.org
Tue Dec 5 11:16:21 PST 2017


The ACPI specification says OS shouldn't attempt to use GICC configuration
parameters if the flag ACPI_MADT_ENABLED is cleared. The ARM64-SMP code
skips the disabled GICC entries but not causing any issue. However the
current GICv3 driver probe bails out causing kernel panic() instead of
skipping the disabled GICC interfaces. This issue happens on systems
where redistributor regions are not in the always-on power domain and
one of GICC interface marked with ACPI_MADT_ENABLED=0.

This patch does the two things to fix the panic.
  - Don't return an error in gic_acpi_match_gicc() for disabled GICC entry.
  - No need to keep GICR region information for disabled GICC entry.

Observed kernel crash on QDF2400 platform GICC entry is disabled.
Kernel crash traces:
  Kernel panic - not syncing: No interrupt controller found.
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.13.5 #26
  [<ffff000008087770>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x218
  [<ffff0000080879dc>] show_stack+0x14/0x20
  [<ffff00000883b078>] dump_stack+0x98/0xb8
  [<ffff0000080c5c14>] panic+0x118/0x26c
  [<ffff000008b62348>] init_IRQ+0x24/0x2c
  [<ffff000008b609fc>] start_kernel+0x230/0x394
  [<ffff000008b601e4>] __primary_switched+0x64/0x6c
  ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No interrupt controller found.

Disabled GICC subtable example:
                   Subtable Type : 0B [Generic Interrupt Controller]
                          Length : 50
                        Reserved : 0000
            CPU Interface Number : 0000003D
                   Processor UID : 0000003D
           Flags (decoded below) : 00000000
               Processor Enabled : 0
 Performance Interrupt Trig Mode : 0
 Virtual GIC Interrupt Trig Mode : 0
        Parking Protocol Version : 00000000
           Performance Interrupt : 00000017
                  Parked Address : 0000000000000000
                    Base Address : 0000000000000000
        Virtual GIC Base Address : 0000000000000000
     Hypervisor GIC Base Address : 0000000000000000
           Virtual GIC Interrupt : 00000019
      Redistributor Base Address : 0000FFFF88F40000
                       ARM MPIDR : 000000000000000D
                Efficiency Class : 00
                        Reserved : 000000
Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd at codeaurora.org>
---
changes since v3:
  Fix typo. 
changes since v2:
  Edited commit text.
changes since v1:
  Added a new "if condition" to skip disabled GICC entry and edited commit.

 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
index b56c3e2..a874777 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
@@ -1331,6 +1331,10 @@ static int __init gic_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *pare
 	u32 size = reg == GIC_PIDR2_ARCH_GICv4 ? SZ_64K * 4 : SZ_64K * 2;
 	void __iomem *redist_base;
 
+	/* GICC entry which has !ACPI_MADT_ENABLED is not unusable so skip */
+	if (!(gicc->flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED))
+		return 0;
+
 	redist_base = ioremap(gicc->gicr_base_address, size);
 	if (!redist_base)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1380,6 +1384,13 @@ static int __init gic_acpi_match_gicc(struct acpi_subtable_header *header,
 	if ((gicc->flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED) && gicc->gicr_base_address)
 		return 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * It's perfectly valid firmware can pass disabled GICC entry, driver
+	 * should not treat as errors, skip the entry instead of probe fail.
+	 */
+	if (!(gicc->flags & ACPI_MADT_ENABLED))
+		return 0;
+
 	return -ENODEV;
 }
 
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