[PATCH v2 0/6] RISC-V AIA: APLIC and IMSIC irqchip framework integration
Pawandeep Oza
pawandeep.oza at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Jun 17 11:40:32 PDT 2026
From: Oza Pawandeep <pawandeep.oza at oss.qualcomm.com>
This series integrates the RISC-V Advanced Interrupt Architecture (AIA)
APLIC and IMSIC M-mode drivers into the OpenSBI sbi_irqchip framework,
replacing the previous standalone experimental driver with a complete
callback-based implementation.
The series adds full support for:
- APLIC Direct Mode (IDC) interrupt delivery with per-hart IDC
register management, priority-based routing, and source delegation
to S-mode child domains.
- APLIC MSI Mode fallback where IDC structures are absent, routing
wired interrupts through IMSIC by programming APLIC TARGET registers
with hart index, guest index, and dynamically allocated EIIDs.
- IMSIC instance-based irqchip registration with per-hart interrupt
file management, EIE CSR state tracking, warm-boot state restoration,
and MSI composition for upstream APLIC affinity reprogramming.
- A decoupled architecture between APLIC and IMSIC drivers mediated
by the sbi_irqchip framework. APLIC registers write_msi and
msi_callback hooks; IMSIC registers the irqchip MSI sink. Neither
driver directly references the other's data structures.
- IRQ enable state tracking in the irqchip framework via a new
irq_state field and IRQ_ENABLED flag, exposed through
sbi_irqchip_is_irq_enabled() for warm-boot EIE CSR restoration.
- A fix for two allocation bugs in sbi_irqchip_register_msi() that
prevented contiguous EIID allocation when reserved handlers were
already registered.
Driver initialization follows hardware dependency ordering:
IMSIC cold init → APLIC cold init
The IMSIC irqchip must be registered before APLIC so that APLIC MSI
mode can resolve the parent chip by unique_id via
sbi_irqchip_find_device() during hwirq_setup.
APLIC Direct Mode and MSI Mode are mutually exclusive and selected
at cold init time based on the presence of IDC structures (num_idc)
and the IMSIC geometry (has_msicfg_mmode) parsed from the Device Tree.
Testing was performed on a QEMU RISC-V platform with 128 harts, two
APLIC domains (M-mode at 0x10010000, S-mode at 0x10018000), and two
IMSIC instances (Hart 0-1 at 0x19e0000, Hart 2-3 at 0x19f0000) with
31 wired interrupt sources. End-to-end M-mode interrupt delivery via
APLIC MSI mode was verified using a software interrupt test client
exercising the GENMSI path.
Changes since v1:
APLIC MSI Decoding:
Refactored the hart_index derivation logic in derive_hart_index()
to use Page Frame Number (PPN) based shifts and masks.
Pawandeep Oza (6):
lib: utils/irqchip/aplic: implement direct mode irqchip callbacks
lib: utils/irqchip/aplic: add MSI mode support with IMSIC parent
linking
lib: utils/irqchip/imsic: embed sbi_irqchip_device in imsic data
lib: utils/irqchip/imsic:migrate to irqchip framework
lib: utils/irqchip/imsic: track IRQ enable state and restore EIE on
warm init
lib: sbi_irqchip: fix MSI EIID gap and tail allocation logic in
register_msi
include/sbi/sbi_irqchip.h | 4 +
include/sbi_utils/irqchip/aplic.h | 2 +
include/sbi_utils/irqchip/imsic.h | 2 +
lib/sbi/sbi_irqchip.c | 29 +-
lib/utils/fdt/fdt_helper.c | 1 +
lib/utils/irqchip/aplic.c | 603 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
lib/utils/irqchip/imsic.c | 316 +++++++++++++---
7 files changed, 842 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
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2.43.0
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