ARM GIC DT binding reg block mismatch? (Re: [PATCH v11 1/8] arm64: renesas: r8a7795: Add Renesas R8A7795 SoC support)

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Cc Marz Zyngier
Cc Dirk Behme
Cc devicetree
Cc linux-renesas-soc
Drop linux-sh

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> > +           gic: interrupt-controller@0xf1010000 {
>>> >> +                     compatible = "arm,gic-400";
>>> >> +                     #interrupt-cells = <3>;
>>> >> +                     #address-cells = <0>;
>>> >> +                     interrupt-controller;
>>> >> +                     reg = <0x0 0xf1010000 0 0x1000>,
>>> >> +                           <0x0 0xf1020000 0 0x2000>;
>>> >> +                     interrupts = <GIC_PPI 9
>>> >> +                                     (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(1) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH)>;
>>> >> +             };
>>> >
>>> > No GICH and GICV?
>>>
>>> These seem to be defined in the "arm,gic-v3" DT bindings only, while this is
>>> an "arm,gic-400" (GICD_IIDR 0x0200043b)?
>>
>> See the "GIC virtualization extensions (VGIC)" section in
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>
> DDI0471B_gic400_r0p1_trm.pdf says:
>
>     Address range GIC-400 functional block
>     A. 0x0000 - 0x0FFF Reserved
>     B. 0x1000 - 0x1FFF Distributor
>     C. 0x2000 - 0x3FFF CPU interfaces
>     D. 0x4000 - 0x4FFF Virtual interface control block, for the processor that
>                        is performing the access
>     E. 0x5000 - 0x5FFF Virtual interface control block, for the processor
>                        selected by address bits [11:9]
>     F. 0x6000 - 0x7FFF Virtual CPU interfaces
>
> The DT binding document says:
>   1. The  first region is the GIC distributor register base and size.
>   2. The 2nd region is the GIC cpu interface register base and size.
>   3. The first additional region is the GIC virtual interface control register
>      base and size.
>   4. The 2nd additional region is the GIC virtual cpu interface register base
>      and size.
>
> Matching with the example:
>
>         interrupt-controller@2c001000 {
>                 compatible = "arm,cortex-a15-gic";
>                 #interrupt-cells = <3>;
>                 interrupt-controller;
>                 reg = <0x2c001000 0x1000>,
>                       <0x2c002000 0x1000>,
>                       <0x2c004000 0x2000>,
>                       <0x2c006000 0x2000>;
>                 interrupts = <1 9 0xf04>;
>         };
>
> This means:
>   - reg entry 1. covers address range B,
>   - reg entry 2. covers address range C,
>   - reg entry 3. covers address ranges D _and_ E,
>   - reg entry 4. covers address range F.
>
> On R-Car Gen3, the base addresses are:
>
>     Distributor             : 0xF101_0000
>     CPU interfaces          : 0xF102_0000
>     Virtual interfaces      : 0xF104_0000
>     Virtual interfaces      : 0xF105_0000
>     Virtual CPU interfaces  : 0xF106_0000
>
> Note the additional multiplication factor of 16 in the offsets relative to
> the base address 0xf1000000 (e.g. 0x50000 instead of 0x5000).
>
> As address ranges D and E are merged in a single reg entry, how is the GIC
> driver supposed to know about this multiplication factor?
>
> Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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