[PATCH/RFC 0/4] ARM: shmobile: Correct masks for GIC PPI interrupts

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Dec 8 16:29:06 PST 2014


On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:04:16AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:57:15AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> This patch series corrects the masks in the second interrupt cells for
> >> Private Peripheral Interrupts in dtsi files for the shmobile family of
> >> SoCs.
> >>
> >> It's my understanding this mask should reflect the actual number of CPU
> >> cores the interrupt is wired too.
> >> Is that correct?
> >>
> >>   - Hence it should be "GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(2)" on dual-core CPUs, like
> >>     r8a7791 and r8a7794 (the first two patches),
> >>   - Should it be "GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(8)" on big.LITTLE configurations
> >>     with four Cortex-A15 cores and four Cortex-A7 cores?
> >>     Or should the interrupts be delivered to the four Cortex-A15 cores
> >>     only by default?
> >>     The last two RFC-patches implement the former for r8a7790 and
> >>     r8a73a4.
> >>
> >> Note that incorrect masks for GIC PPI interrupts are not limited to
> >> shmobile. Presumably the interrupt specifiers got copied around a lot,
> >> cfr. the proliferation of "GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(4)" (and the older
> >> hardcoded "0xf0x" variant) in various dtsi files, not always limited to
> >> quad-core CPUs.
> >>
> >> This was tested on r8a7791/koelsch, which uses the arch timer interrupt.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your feedback!
> >>
> >> Geert Uytterhoeven (4):
> >>   ARM: shmobile: r8a7791: Correct mask for GIC PPI interrupts
> >>   ARM: shmobile: r8a7794: Correct mask for GIC PPI interrupts
> >
> > Hi Geert,
> >
> > the above two patches seem like they could be queued up.
> > Shall I do so?
> 
> I think it's safe. Thanks!

Thanks, I have done so.



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