On 2014/11/24 22:35, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> LPIs are the type of interrupts that are used by the ITS. Given
> the size of the namespace (anywhere between 16 and 32bit), interrupt
> IDs are allocated in chunks of 32.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 103
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index d24bebd..4154a16 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -586,3 +586,106 @@ static struct irq_chip its_irq_chip = {
> .irq_eoi = its_eoi_irq,
> .irq_set_affinity = its_set_affinity,
> };
> +
> +/*
> + * How we allocate LPIs:
> + *
> + * The GIC has id_bits bits for interrupt identifiers. From there, we
> + * must subtract 8192 which are reserved for SGIs/PPIs/SPIs. Then, as
> + * we allocate LPIs by chunks of 32, we can shift the whole thing by 5
> + * bits to the right.
Just curious, why 32? sizeof(long) is 4 on ARM64?
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