Re: [PATCH] arm64/irq: report bug if NR_IPI greater than max SGI during compile time

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Tue Dec 08 2020 - 04:52:19 EST


On 2020-12-08 09:43, Pingfan Liu wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 5:31 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2020-12-08 09:21, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> Although there is a runtime WARN_ON() when NR_IPR > max SGI, it had
> better
> do the check during built time, and associate these related code
> together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> To: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 ++
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 2 +-
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-common.h | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index 18e9727..9fc383c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
> #include <linux/kexec.h>
> #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
> +#include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-common.h>
>
> #include <asm/alternative.h>
> #include <asm/atomic.h>
> @@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ enum ipi_msg_type {
> IPI_WAKEUP,
> NR_IPI
> };
> +static_assert(NR_IPI <= MAX_SGI_NUM);

I am trying *very hard* to remove dependencies between the architecture
code and random drivers, so this kind of check really is
counter-productive.

Driver code should not have to know the number of IPIs, because there is
no requirement that all IPIs should map 1:1 to SGIs. Conflating the two

Just curious about this. Is there an IPI which is not implemented by
SGI? Or mapping several IPIs to a single SGI, and scatter out due to a
global variable value?

We currently have a single NS SGI left, and I'd like to move some of the
non-critical IPIs over to dispatching mechanism (the two "CPU stop" IPIs
definitely are candidate for merging). That's not implemented yet, but
I don't see a need to add checks that would otherwise violate this
IPI/SGI distinction.

Thanks,

M.
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