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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 03/22] xen/arm: gic-v3: Fix the distributor region to 64kB



On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 13:56 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 05/06/15 13:14, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 14:29 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> >> On GICv3, the default size of the distributor region is 64kB. This
> >> region can be extended
> > 
> > But never shrunk, correct? Would a sanity check during parsing be
> > worthwhile?

> Yes. See 5.3 in PRD03-GENC-010745 24.0. I can add a reference to it.

Good, thanks.

> Well, we trust the device tree value in many place in Xen. If the DT
> provided by the platform is wrong, Xen won't be the only software in
> trouble.

We do warn about other similar things though, as a helpful hint to our
users. (dodgy timer interrupt stuff springs to mind)

Ian.


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