Re: [PATCH] irqchip: gic: ignore empty processor target registers

Stephen Boyd
2015-01-31T00:30:09Z

On 01/30/15 16:26, Stefan Agner wrote:
> On initialization time, the GIC driver reads the processor target
> register (ICDIPTR) to determine the CPU's mask. On uniprocessor
> systems with GIC controller (e.g. Cortex-A5 SoC's) this register
> is RAZ/WI and hence the mask ends up being zero. This leads to the
> somewhat confusing boot message:
> [ 0.000000] GIC CPU mask not found - kernel will fail to boot.
>
> To avoid the message, print the error only on SMP systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> ---
> I would like to get rid of this critical message in my bootlog, it
> sounds somewhat... intimidating...

Agreed. I sent a patch to do this a while ago but it never went anywhere
because of maintainership confusions.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=137723356232002&w=2

>
> Actually the driver could also conditionally avoid setting up
> GIC_DIST_TARGET, since it's RAZ/WI (write ignored) on uniprocessor
> systems. But I'm not sure if is_smp() is really reflecting all
> SoC's using GIC which need the Interrupt Processor Targets register
> configured.
>
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> index d617ee5..7d4f0f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static u8 gic_get_cpumask(struct gic_chip_data *gic)
> break;
> }
>
> - if (!mask)
> + if (!mask && is_smp())
> pr_crit("GIC CPU mask not found - kernel will fail to boot.\n");
>
> return mask;

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