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Commit 3faf24ea authored by Shanker Donthineni's avatar Shanker Donthineni Committed by Marc Zyngier
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irqchip/gicv3-its: Implement two-level(indirect) device table support



Since device IDs are extremely sparse, the single, a.k.a flat table is
not sufficient for the following two reasons.

1) According to ARM-GIC spec, ITS hw can access maximum of 256(pages)*
   64K(pageszie) bytes. In the best case, it supports upto DEVid=21
   sparse with minimum device table entry size 8bytes.

2) The maximum memory size that is possible without memblock depends on
   MAX_ORDER. 4MB on 4K page size kernel with default MAX_ORDER, so it
   supports DEVid range 19bits.

The two-level device table feature brings us two advantages, the first
is a very high possibility of supporting upto 32bit sparse, and the
second one is the best utilization of memory allocation.

The feature is enabled automatically during driver probe if the memory
requirement is more than 2*ITS-pages and the hardware is capable of
two-level table walk.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
parent 0e0b0f69
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