On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 01:47:31 +0100, Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
From: James Morse james.morse@arm.com
[ Upstream commit fa2dabe57220e6af78ed7a2f7016bf250a618204 ]
gic_acpi_match_gicc() is only called via gic_acpi_count_gicr_regions(). It should only count the number of enabled redistributors, but it also tries to sanity check the GICC entry, currently returning an error if the Enabled bit is set, but the gicr_base_address is zero.
Adding support for the online-capable bit to the sanity check will complicate it, for no benefit. The existing check implicitly depends on gic_acpi_count_gicr_regions() previous failing to find any GICR regions (as it is valid to have gicr_base_address of zero if the redistributors are described via a GICR entry).
Instead of complicating the check, remove it. Failures that happen at this point cause the irqchip not to register, meaning no irqs can be requested. The kernel grinds to a panic() pretty quickly.
Without the check, MADT tables that exhibit this problem are still caught by gic_populate_rdist(), which helpfully also prints what went wrong: | CPU4: mpidr 100 has no re-distributor!
Signed-off-by: James Morse james.morse@arm.com Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan gshan@redhat.com Tested-by: Miguel Luis miguel.luis@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529133446.28446-14-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.co... Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
Please drop this. It has no purpose being backported to stable.
Thanks,
M.