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    irqchip: mips-gic: Print warning if inherited GIC base is used · 666740fd
    Matt Redfearn authored
    If the physical address of the GIC resource cannot be read from device
    tree, then the code falls back to reading it from the gcr_gic_base
    register. Hopefully this has been set to a sane value by the bootloader
    or some platform code, but is defined by the hardware manual to have
    "undefined" reset state. Using it as the address at which the GIC will
    be mapped into physical memory space can therefore be risky if it has
    not been initialised, since it may result in the GIC being mapped to an
    effectively random address anywhere in physical memory, where it might
    conflict with peripherals or RAM and lead to weird crashes.
    
    Since a "sane value" is very platform specific because it is particular
    to the platform's memory map, it is difficult to test for. At the very
    least, a warning message should be printed in the case that we trust the
    inherited value.
    Reported-by: default avatarAmit Kama <amit.kama@satixfy.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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