On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 14:36:12 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Sören,
>
> On 20/07/16 14:16, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
>
> >>>>> Does anybody have similar problems and probably already solved it?
> >>>>> Any other suggestions for approaching the problem? Any preferred
> >>>>> solution?
> >>>>
> >>>> I think we have the same problem. Can you provide more detail on the
> >>>> hardware
> >>>> implementation of your wake irq controller? I presume you have some set
> >>>> of
> >>>> registers, an irq maybe, and some other stuff? And how does it fit into
> >>>> the
> >>>> overall architecture from a hardware perspective?
> >>>
> >>> We have essentially a whole second interrupt controller. All IRQs are
> >>> connected to the A53 GIC and this second interrupt controller that is
> >>> controlled by the companion core. The companion core is supposed to be
> >>> informed about what source the A53 needs to wake up on and will program
> >>> this second IRQ controller, etc.
> >>
> >> So your "special case" is exactly like everyone else's. Implement it as
> >> a hierarchical chip on top of the GIC, just like Tegra, OMAP, iMX6,
> >> Exynos and a few others. Unless you implement PSCI.
> >
> > I didn't really think that our case is unique. I was just looking for
> > some pointers into the right direction as the extension mechanism that I
> > remembered disappeared and I haven't been following the development
> > closely enough to just know what alternatives are available.
> > So, you say the approach of letting the secure monitor infer the wake
> > IRQ by reading the GIC config is preferred over handling it as
> > hierarchical chip within Linux?
>
> The in-kernel approach is a consequence of the firmware-less 32bit
> configuration. Hopefully, we won't see anything like that anymore.
> Fingers crossed.
>
> So the firmware approach is clearly the preferred one on arm64, as it
> simplifies absolutely everything (and your power management has to know
> about all of this anyway).
Thanks for your input. We'll do it this way then. Thanks, everybody.
Sören
