From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
To: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Xianwei Zhao <xianwei.zhao@amlogic.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix and complete the GIC description of Amlogic S7 and S7D
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3bf32179-dd0d-411c-af37-54d50eb7986e@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261022-upstream-s7-s7d-gicc-size-v1-0-8285053cf4ee@baylibre.com>
On 10/22/26 20:30, Carlo Caione wrote:
> The S7 and S7D device trees describe only the first 256 bytes of the
> GIC-400 CPU interface, which spans 8 KiB, and leave out its virtual
> interface control (GICH) and virtual CPU interface (GICV) regions.
>
> With the short CPU interface, the GIC driver disables the split priority
> drop and deactivation mode and warns at boot (patches 1 and 2). Without
> GICH and GICV, it cannot hand the GIC over to KVM (patches 3 and 4). It
> needs the split mode for that too, so KVM gets its in-kernel vGIC only
> with the whole series.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
> ---
> Carlo Caione (4):
> arm64: dts: amlogic: s7: fix the GIC CPU interface region size
> arm64: dts: amlogic: s7d: fix the GIC CPU interface region size
> arm64: dts: amlogic: s7: describe the GIC virtualization regions
> arm64: dts: amlogic: s7d: describe the GIC virtualization regions
>
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-s7.dtsi | 4 +++-
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-s7d.dtsi | 4 +++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 8610d31587e139380db9cb8708f4263833b482d0
> change-id: 20261022-upstream-s7-s7d-gicc-size-db94cb656d36
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Thanks,
Neil
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-23 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-22 18:30 Carlo Caione
2026-10-22 18:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: dts: amlogic: s7: fix the GIC CPU interface region size Carlo Caione
2026-10-22 18:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: dts: amlogic: s7d: " Carlo Caione
2026-10-22 18:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: dts: amlogic: s7: describe the GIC virtualization regions Carlo Caione
2026-10-22 18:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: dts: amlogic: s7d: " Carlo Caione
2026-10-23 7:23 ` Neil Armstrong [this message]
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