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* [PATCH v2 0/5] MIPS: GIC clocksource/irqchip improvements and fixes for multi-cluster systems
@ 2026-08-10 14:25 Benoît Monin
  2026-08-10 14:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] irqchip/mips-gic: Fix unbalanced cm_core_lock in for_each_online_cpu_gic() Benoît Monin
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From: Benoît Monin @ 2026-08-10 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Bogendoerfer, Daniel Lezcano, Thomas Gleixner,
	Dragan Mladjenovic, Chao-ying Fu, Aleksandar Rikalo, Paul Burton
  Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev, Tawfik Bayouk, Gregory CLEMENT,
	Théo Lebrun, Thomas Petazzoni, linux-mips, linux-kernel,
	Benoît Monin

This series addresses multi-cluster MIPS GIC handling: it fixes a few
cross-cluster and lock bugs, and allows the GIC timer to be used as a
fast local clocksource on multi-cluster systems by synchronizing the
per-cluster counters.

If you are wondering how a single patch in version one turned into a
five-patch series in version two, the answser is PROVE_LOCKING which
found some issues that this series addresses.

The first three patches are for the irq-mips-gic irqchip driver.

The first patch fixes the for_each_online_cpu_gic() macro which
was releasing an unheld per-CPU cm_core_lock on every invocation
on multi-cluster hardware. Move both the acquire and release into
__gic_with_next_online_cpu() so they stay balanced and the for_each
macro accesses all VP on a multi-cluster system.

The second patch fixes a recursive acquisition of gic_lock in
gic_set_affinity() when moving interrupt SMP affinity across clusters,
caused by a call to gic_set_type(). Split out a gic_set_type_locked()
helper to resolve the issue.

The third patch enables the interrupt when moving affinity across
clusters. The interrupt mask is per-cluster, so after a cross-cluster
affinity change the interrupt was left disabled in the destination
cluster. Handle the mask explicitly on both the old and the new side.

The last two patches are for the mips-gic-timer clocksource driver.

The fourth patch sets next GIC event on the correct VP. On multi-cluster
systems the VO window redirected by write_gic_vl_other() belongs to the
local GIC, so write_gic_vo_compare() hit the wrong GIC. Redirect the
core-other region to the target CPU with mips_cm_lock_other_cpu() instead.

The last patch is the main functional change, carried over from v1. It
synchronizes each secondary cluster's GIC counter to cluster 0's counter
as its CPUs come online, and once every cluster is in sync, promote the
clocksource back from the slow cross-cluster gic_hpt_read_multicluster()
path to the fast local gic_hpt_read(), also re-enabling the GIC
VDSO clock mode. On the dual-cluster Mobileye EyeQ6H SoC this makes
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) about four times faster on the secondary
cluster and replaces the jiffies-based sched_clock with the high-precision
GIC counter.

This series was tested on Mobileye SoCs with different cluster
configurations:
* The EyeQ5 with two clusters but only one is equipped with VP
  (VP topology {2,2,2,2},{} total 8).
* The EyeQ6Lplus which is strictly single cluster
  (VP topology {4,4} total 8).
* The EyeQ6H with two identical clusters
  (VP topology {4,4,4,4},{4,4,4,4} total 32).

Although I am posting this as a single series since the patches
are all related to the GIC, the changes to the irqchip driver and
to the clocksource driver are independent from each other and can be
merged in different trees. I can split the series in two if it helps
reviewing/merging.

Signed-off-by: Benoît Monin <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Four new patches described above fixing multi-cluster
  handling in the GIC irqchip and clocksource drivers.
- In the last patch, gic_clocksource_promote() is now deferred via a
  workqueue instead of a CPUHP ONLINE callback, to avoid a lockdep
  issue on clocksource_mutex.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724-sync-gic-counters-v1-1-aa24fd0f30bf@bootlin.com

To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
To: Dragan Mladjenovic <dragan.mladjenovic@syrmia.com>
To: Chao-ying Fu <cfu@wavecomp.com>
To: Aleksandar Rikalo <arikalo@gmail.com>
To: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

---
Benoît Monin (5):
      irqchip/mips-gic: Fix unbalanced cm_core_lock in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
      irqchip/mips-gic: Fix recursive acquisition of gic_lock in gic_set_affinity()
      irqchip/mips-gic: Enable interrupt when moving affinity across clusters
      clocksource: mips-gic-timer: Set next GIC event on the correct VP
      clocksource: mips-gic-timer: Use local counter on synced multi-cluster systems

 drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c       |  51 ++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
change-id: 20260717-sync-gic-counters-1cd6b40b968e

Best regards,
--  
Benoît Monin, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


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