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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
To: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>,
	"kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: its_alloc_tables() - with all BASER marked none
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:10:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561FDE10.3090309@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561FDD83.1030902@samsung.com>

On 15/10/15 18:08, Mario Smarduch wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/15/2015 12:50 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 15/10/15 02:30, Mario Smarduch wrote:
>>> If its_init()/its_probe()/its_alloc_tables() finds all GITS_BASER type none, it
>>> continues with ITS initialization.
>>>
>>> Is there a reason to continue?
>>
>> Of course. There is nothing that *mandates* the ITS to request memory
>> from the operating system. The HW could perfectly come with its own
>> memory and not need anything at all.
>>
>>> Started to look through this code recently - little confused here.
>>
>> Only the beginning! ;-)
> 
> Well at this time the beginning of console freeze close to  "ITS: using cache
> flushing for cmd queue". Poked around CBASER and noticed Inner cache bits are
> updated but not sticky so it got me wondering.
> 
> Appears like I need to look elsewhere, like maybe my environment.

Out of curiosity, is that on a FastModel? Or on some actual HW?

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15  1:30 its_alloc_tables() - with all BASER marked none Mario Smarduch
2015-10-15  7:50 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-10-15 17:08   ` Mario Smarduch
2015-10-15 17:10     ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2015-10-15 17:12       ` Mario Smarduch

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