[PATCH] riscv: dts: spacemit: k3: Drop guest properties from M-level IMSIC

Junhui Liu junhui.liu at pigmoral.tech
Tue Jul 28 09:40:15 PDT 2026


The mimsic node describes the machine-level IMSIC, whose MMIO region is
0x10000 (64 KiB) for all 8 harts. However, the node also specifies
riscv,guest-index-bits = <6>, and per the AIA specification the
per-hart stride is 2^(guest-index-bits + 12) bytes when guest interrupt
files exist, i.e. 2^(6 + 12) = 256 KiB per hart and 2 MiB for all 8
harts. The described region cannot hold even a single hart's files, so
the node contradicts itself. OpenSBI enforces exactly this constraint in
imsic_data_check() and rejects the node with -EINVAL, preventing the
M-level IMSIC from initializing:

  fdt_driver_init_by_offset: interrupt-controller at f1000000 (riscv,imsics) init failed: -3
  init_coldboot: irqchip init failed (error -3)

Moreover, guest interrupt files exist to act as the supervisor-level
interrupt files of virtual harts; there is no machine-level counterpart.
riscv,num-guest-ids is equally meaningless for the machine-level IMSIC.

Drop both "riscv,guest-index-bits" and "riscv,num-guest-ids" properties
from the mimsic node so the node matches the actual hardware layout.

Fixes: 56f37e391a62 ("riscv: dts: spacemit: add initial support for K3 SoC")
Signed-off-by: Junhui Liu <junhui.liu at pigmoral.tech>
---
 arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3.dtsi | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3.dtsi b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3.dtsi
index c3f2dce0969c..2d022e1364f1 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3.dtsi
+++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k3.dtsi
@@ -1287,9 +1287,7 @@ mimsic: interrupt-controller at f1000000 {
 					      <&cpu4_intc 11>, <&cpu5_intc 11>,
 					      <&cpu6_intc 11>, <&cpu7_intc 11>;
 			msi-controller;
-			riscv,guest-index-bits = <6>;
 			riscv,hart-index-bits = <4>;
-			riscv,num-guest-ids = <511>;
 			riscv,num-ids = <511>;
 			status = "reserved";
 		};

---
base-commit: 46380e4b1534c1626cecd7f4d0abb5e0cce09af6
change-id: 20260729-k3-mimsic-fix-610db8caa3cd

Best regards,
--  
Junhui Liu <junhui.liu at pigmoral.tech>




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