[PATCH v4 00/20] arm64: GICv3 support

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon Jun 2 05:59:56 PDT 2014


On Sat, May 31 2014 at  2:14:45 am BST, "Chalamarla, Tirumalesh" <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> It still has lot of GICv2 specific code in vgic.c, i think it will
> change with the KVM GICv3 guest support.

Which is exactly what is expected, as we don't support anything else so
far.

> Reviewed-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <tchalamarla at cavium.com>
> Tested-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla<tchalamarla at cavium.com>

Thanks for that. Can you specify the patches to which this applies?

Cheers,

	M.

> On 31-May-2014, at 4:36 am, Radha Mohan <mohun106 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marc,
>> The patch set is working for us on our platform. Below are some of the
>> things we tested with the GICv3 driver.
>> 
>> System: Cavium's proprietary simulator
>> Cores: 16
>> GIC version: GICv3
>> 
>> 1) SGI, PPI and SPI
>> 2) MSI and MSI-x with SPI and also LPI (took previous version of an
>> unposted LPI/ITS driver which now is missing from Marc's git tree)
>> 
>> The kind of devices that were tested are UARTs, AHCI controller,
>> SR-IOV capable devices.
>> 
>> So,
>> Acked-by: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla at cavium.com>
>> Tested-by: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakuntla at cavium.com>
>> 
>> regards,
>> Radha Mohan
>> Cavium Inc.
>> 
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>>> GICv3 is the base for a new generation of interrupt controllers
>>> designed to overcome some of the most glaring limitations of GICv2.
>>> 
>>> Some of the features are:
>>> - Support for more than 8 CPUs (a lot more...)
>>> - System registers for CPU interface access (instead of the memory
>>>  mapped GICC, GICV, GICH)
>>> - Message based interrupts
>>> 
>>> This patch series currently support:
>>> - Affinity Routing
>>> - System Registers
>>> - Non-Secure Group-1 interrupts only
>>> - KVM support (GICv3 host, GICv2 guest)
>>> 
>>> What is *not yet* supported in this series (WIP):
>>> - LPI/ITS/MSI
>>> - KVM GICv3 guest support
>>> - Any form of power management
>>> - 32bit systems
>>> 
>>> To be built, this code requires a fairly recent compiler/binutils
>>> combo. Linaro 13.06 seems to do the trick. This has been tested on the
>>> ARM FVP and Foundation models, with non-regressions run on a VExpress
>>> TC-2 and another Cortex-A57 based platform.
>>> 
>>> So far, the level of reviewing has been embarassingly low (my sincere
>>> thanks to Christoffer and Will for being the only ones to review
>>> it). While the documentation is unfortunately not public yet, it is
>>> available to those actively implementing GICv3 in their hardware, and
>>> I'm really eager to see reviews and test reports.
>>> 
>>> Without that kind of engagement, it is unlikely that this code will
>>> get merged any time soon.
>>> 
>>> Individuals without access to documentation and/or hardware can still
>>> review the code (it shares a lot of concepts with GICv2) and test in
>>> on the freely available Foundation model (see
>>> http://releases.linaro.org/latest/openembedded/aarch64/ for details on
>>> how to use the Foundation model).
>>> 
>>> The code is also available at the following location (warning,
>>> unstable branch!):
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/gicv3
>>> 
>>> * From v3 [3]
>>>  - Fixed a lot of issues found by Christoffer (too many to report
>>>    here, see the email thread)
>>>  - New .sync_lr_elrsr backend
>>>  - New probing method
>>>  - New irqchip_in_kernel implementation
>>>  - Checked full bisectability of the series (hopefully got it right
>>>    this time...)
>>>  - rebased on top of 3.15-rc5
>>> 
>>> * From v2 [2]
>>>  - removed sharing of the xlate method with GICv2 (TI crossbar is now
>>>    getting in the way...)
>>>  - Switched to a tree domain to accomodate for the LPI space
>>>  - Fixed more bisectability
>>> 
>>> * From the initial revision [1]
>>>  - Some code sharing with GICv2
>>>  - Barrier cleanup/clarification
>>>  - Revised boot protocol update
>>>  - Consistent use of the MPIDR access macros
>>>  - Fixed a number of embarassing bugs
>>>  - Fixed DT examples
>>>  - Fixed bisectability of the series
>>> 
>>> [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-February/229959.html
>>> [2]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-March/241972.html
>>> [3]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-April/248008.html
>>> 
>>> Marc Zyngier (20):
>>>  ARM: GIC: move some bits of GICv2 to a library-type file
>>>  arm64: initial support for GICv3
>>>  arm64: GICv3 device tree binding documentation
>>>  arm64: boot protocol documentation update for GICv3
>>>  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: move GICv2 registers to their own structure
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: introduce vgic_ops and LR manipulation primitives
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract access to the ELRSR bitmap
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract EISR bitmap access
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract MISR decoding
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: move underflow handling to vgic_ops
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: abstract VMCR access
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: introduce vgic_enable
>>>  KVM: ARM: introduce vgic_params structure
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: split GICv2 backend from the main vgic code
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: revisit implementation of irqchip_in_kernel
>>>  arm64: KVM: remove __kvm_hyp_code_{start,end} from hyp.S
>>>  arm64: KVM: split GICv2 world switch from hyp code
>>>  arm64: KVM: move HCR_EL2.{IMO,FMO} manipulation into the vgic switch
>>>    code
>>>  KVM: ARM: vgic: add the GICv3 backend
>>>  arm64: KVM: vgic: add GICv3 world switch
>>> 
>>> Documentation/arm64/booting.txt                  |   6 +
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt |  79 +++
>>> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h                  |   5 +
>>> arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c                    |  14 +-
>>> arch/arm/kvm/Makefile                            |   1 +
>>> arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S                   |  26 +-
>>> arch/arm64/Kconfig                               |   1 +
>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h                 |   5 +-
>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h                 |  14 +-
>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h                |  28 +
>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h                    |   4 +
>>> arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c                  |  25 +-
>>> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S                         |  18 +
>>> arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S                     |   1 +
>>> arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile                          |   4 +
>>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S                             | 127 +----
>>> arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S                  | 133 +++++
>>> arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S                  | 271 +++++++++
>>> drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                          |   5 +
>>> drivers/irqchip/Makefile                         |   3 +-
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c                 | 115 ++++
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.h                 |  29 +
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c                     | 684 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                        |  59 +-
>>> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h                           | 115 +++-
>>> include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h               | 190 +++++++
>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c                           | 236 ++++++++
>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c                           | 225 ++++++++
>>> virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                              | 345 ++++++------
>>> 29 files changed, 2415 insertions(+), 353 deletions(-)
>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic-v3.txt
>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v2-switch.S
>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic-v3-switch.S
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.h
>>> create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
>>> create mode 100644 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h
>>> create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c
>>> create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 1.8.3.4
>>> 
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