From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3: Remove the unused register definition
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:18:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d1319ffb0631f59bc5355b409331c42@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200630134126.880-1-yuzenghui@huawei.com>
On 2020-06-30 14:41, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> As per the GICv3 specification, GIC{D,R}_SEIR are not assigned and the
> locations (0x0068) are actually Reserved. GICR_MOV{LPI,ALL}R are two
> IMP
> DEF registers and might be defined by some specific micro-architecture,
> Linux doesn't use them.
>
> As they're not used anywhere in the kernel, just drop all of them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
To be clear, those were actually present in the spec back in the days
(in the 2013 time frame). It just shows how the architecture evolved...
I'll queue this for 5.9.
Thanks,
M.
> ---
>
> Compile tested on top of mainline.
>
> include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h
> b/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h
> index 6c36b6cc3edf..f6d092fdb93d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h
> +++ b/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h
> @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
> #define GICD_CLRSPI_NSR 0x0048
> #define GICD_SETSPI_SR 0x0050
> #define GICD_CLRSPI_SR 0x0058
> -#define GICD_SEIR 0x0068
> #define GICD_IGROUPR 0x0080
> #define GICD_ISENABLER 0x0100
> #define GICD_ICENABLER 0x0180
> @@ -119,14 +118,11 @@
> #define GICR_WAKER 0x0014
> #define GICR_SETLPIR 0x0040
> #define GICR_CLRLPIR 0x0048
> -#define GICR_SEIR GICD_SEIR
> #define GICR_PROPBASER 0x0070
> #define GICR_PENDBASER 0x0078
> #define GICR_INVLPIR 0x00A0
> #define GICR_INVALLR 0x00B0
> #define GICR_SYNCR 0x00C0
> -#define GICR_MOVLPIR 0x0100
> -#define GICR_MOVALLR 0x0110
> #define GICR_IDREGS GICD_IDREGS
> #define GICR_PIDR2 GICD_PIDR2
--
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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2020-06-30 13:41 [PATCH] irqchip/gic-v3: Remove the unused register definition Zenghui Yu
2020-06-30 16:18 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-06-30 17:26 ` Marc Zyngier
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