Re: [PATCH 3/3] irqchip/gic-v3: Allow LPIs to be disabled from the command line

[Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>]

Hi Marc,

On 03/13/2018 12:21 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> For most GICv3 implementations, enabling LPIs is a one way switch.
> Once they're on, there is no turning back, which completely kills
> kexec (pending tables will always be live, and we can't tell the
> secondary kernel where they are).
> 
> This is really annoying if you plan to use Linux as a bootloader,
> as it pretty much guarantees that the secondary kernel won't be
> able to use MSIs, and may even see some memory corruption. Bad.
> 
> A workaround for this unfortunate situation is to allow the kernel
> not to enable LPIs, even if the feature is present in the HW. This
> would allow Linux-as-a-bootloader to leave LPIs alone, and let the
> secondary kernel to do whatever it wants with them.
> 
> Let's introduce a boolean "irqchip.gicv3_nolpi" command line option
> that serves that purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  8 ++++++++
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c                    | 10 +++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 1d1d53f85ddd..60130231db3b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -1743,6 +1743,14 @@
>  			of a GICv2 controller even if the memory range
>  			exposed by the device tree is too small.
>  
> +	irqchip.gicv3_nolpi=
> +			[ARM, ARM64]
> +			Force the kernel to ignore the availability of
> +			LPIs (and by consequence ITSs). Intended for system
> +			that use the kernel as a bootloader, and thus want
> +			to let secondary kernels in charge of setting up
> +			LPIs.
> +
>  	irqfixup	[HW]
>  			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
>  			for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index 0ea02504115d..3e9eeb6cb294 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -613,9 +613,17 @@ static void gic_cpu_sys_reg_init(void)
>  		pr_crit_once("RSS is required but GICD doesn't support it\n");
>  }
>  
> +static bool gicv3_nolpi;
> +
> +static int __init gicv3_nolpi_cfg(char *buf)
> +{
> +	return strtobool(buf, &gicv3_nolpi);
> +}
> +early_param("irqchip.gicv3_nolpi", gicv3_nolpi_cfg);
> +
>  static int gic_dist_supports_lpis(void)
>  {
> -	return !!(readl_relaxed(gic_data.dist_base + GICD_TYPER) & GICD_TYPER_LPIS);
> +	return !!(readl_relaxed(gic_data.dist_base + GICD_TYPER) & GICD_TYPER_LPIS) && !gicv3_nolpi;

Thanks for this patch series especially for KDUMP case. It would be nice if we disable GIC-ITS and
GICR-LPI functionality completely to avoid in flight LPIs which were triggered by first kernel.

  
>  }
>  
>  static void gic_cpu_init(void)
> 

-- 
Shanker Donthineni
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