Subject: [PATCH 1/5] irqchip: gicv3-its: allocate proper size for DT

From: [email-masked] (Yun Wu (Abel))
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:57:06 +0800

On 2015/1/31 3:10, Marc Zyngier wrote:

> On 30/01/15 07:46, Yun Wu wrote:
>> A hardware implementation may be designed to search the device
>> table (DT) using a direct mapping between device ID and memory
>> address, and in this scenario a single page, currently allocated
>> for DT in ITS driver, will be probably not enough.
>>
>> This patch will try best to get this addressed by enlarging DT
>> size with a limitation of MAX_ORDER pages.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yun Wu <[email-masked]>
> 
> A similar patch has been posted already (and is already in my queue):
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/commit/?h=irq/gic-fixes&id=4be3de2af2a58476f84d678f3e8a3596f23f80d5
> 

Oh, now I see it. How about allocating a order of MAX_ORDER pages and
throwing out a warning if the number of device id bits exceeds maximum
order kernel supports, instead of letting the ITS fail in probing.

Thanks,
	Abel