Re: [PATCH v10 13/19] irqchip/gic-v3: Don't return errors from gic_acpi_match_gicc()

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On Wed, 29 May 2024 14:34:40 +0100
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> 
> gic_acpi_match_gicc() is only called via gic_acpi_count_gicr_regions().
> It should only count the number of enabled redistributors, but it
> also tries to sanity check the GICC entry, currently returning an
> error if the Enabled bit is set, but the gicr_base_address is zero.
> 
> Adding support for the online-capable bit to the sanity check will
> complicate it, for no benefit. The existing check implicitly depends on
> gic_acpi_count_gicr_regions() previous failing to find any GICR regions
> (as it is valid to have gicr_base_address of zero if the redistributors
> are described via a GICR entry).
> 
> Instead of complicating the check, remove it. Failures that happen at
> this point cause the irqchip not to register, meaning no irqs can be
> requested. The kernel grinds to a panic() pretty quickly.
> 
> Without the check, MADT tables that exhibit this problem are still
> caught by gic_populate_rdist(), which helpfully also prints what went
> wrong:
> | CPU4: mpidr 100 has no re-distributor!
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Miguel Luis <miguel.luis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sorry. I managed not to pick up Marc's RB form v8 and this patch is unchanged.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jzkktaui.wl-maz@xxxxxxxxxx/

Hopefully whoever picks this up is using tooling (b4 or similar) that will get it from
here.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

So just patch 14 waiting for Marc to take another glance.


> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 13 ++-----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index 6fb276504bcc..10af15f93d4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -2415,19 +2415,10 @@ static int __init gic_acpi_match_gicc(union acpi_subtable_headers *header,
>  	 * If GICC is enabled and has valid gicr base address, then it means
>  	 * GICR base is presented via GICC
>  	 */
> -	if (acpi_gicc_is_usable(gicc) && gicc->gicr_base_address) {
> +	if (acpi_gicc_is_usable(gicc) && gicc->gicr_base_address)
>  		acpi_data.enabled_rdists++;
> -		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 (!acpi_gicc_is_usable(gicc))
> -		return 0;
> -
> -	return -ENODEV;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int __init gic_acpi_count_gicr_regions(void)





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