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aarch64: minimal GICv2 driver -- distributor, CPU interface, timer PPI

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Punch list §25 item 0.6 complete.

Ruling applied (AskUserQuestion, this session): DTB is confirmed unreachable
on this system's aarch64 firmware too (qemu-efi-aarch64 2025.11-3ubuntu7,
same finding as riscv64's item 0.3), so GICD/GICC base addresses and the
timer PPI are named QEMU-virt constants with a recorded caveat, not
DTB-discovered as the item originally asked.

Nothing here was recalled from memory. Base addresses (GICD 0x08000000,
GICC 0x08010000) and the timer PPI (30, non-secure EL1 physical) were read
out of QEMU 10.2.1's own internal devicetree via
`qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,dumpdtb=...`, decoded with this tree's own
fdt.c reader rather than a new tool -- correct for this exact QEMU version,
not assumed stable across others. Bonus finding from the same dump: PPI 26
for the EL2 hypervisor timer, which item 0.7 will need for its EL2 path.
Register offsets within each block (GICD_CTLR, GICC_IAR, etc.) are GICv2
architectural constants, not board-specific, and were cross-checked against
Linux's own arm-gic.h driver header rather than recalled either.

Acceptance amended before implementing (§25.0 "when an item is genuinely
wrong"): the original text required observing a delivered-and-acknowledged
timer interrupt, which cannot happen within this item's own scope --
apic_timer_start() (item 0.7) is still the no-op stub, so nothing arms the
timer. This is the same defect the earlier review's C2 fix already applied to
items 0.2 and 0.5; it was missed here. Acceptance is now: GIC initialises
without fault, the IAR/EOIR path is wired into aarch64_irq_handler() and
ready, boots with no regression -- item 0.7's tick-advance is what proves
delivery, exactly as 0.5 already defers to 0.7.

EL-aware (B3, same discipline as items 0.4/0.5): apic_init() selects PPI 30
or 26 from aarch64_current_el(), decided once and cached, not re-derived per
interrupt.

aarch64_irq_handler() now does real work: reads GICC_IAR (the GICv2
acknowledgement step), dispatches to heartbeat_tick() when the INTID matches
the timer PPI, and always completes with GICC_EOIR (INTID 1023 = spurious
handled per the GICv2 spec, not as a special case of "unrecognised"). This
mirrors exactly how riscv64's item 0.2 built full cause-dispatch logic before
its timer was armed in 0.3.

Investigated and resolved a real scare during verification: QEMU's `-d int`
trace showed 1,728 "Taking exception 5 [IRQ]" events by the time boot reached
the prompt, which looked exactly like an interrupt storm (hypothesis: EDK2
firmware leaves CNTP_CTL_EL0 enabled with a stale comparator, and enabling
the GIC path exposes it before item 0.7 reprograms the timer). A direct
one-shot probe inside aarch64_irq_handler() itself -- ground truth for
whether this code path runs at all -- fired zero times across a clean,
bounded boot. The trace events were almost certainly from EDK2 firmware's
own internal timer usage during its own boot phase, before control passes to
this kernel; the earlier conclusion was drawn from the external trace alone
without checking that distinction, and the probe (not the trace) is what
settled it. Probe code fully reverted; not part of the commit.

Verified: builds clean, boots to ok> with no regression, dict_hash
0x3d4e1daf289da94f unchanged from the item 0.1-0.5 baseline, EL banner and
IDT-installed lines still print in order, GIC init line confirms PPI 30
selected. Only aarch64-scoped files touched; amd64/riscv64 not rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Robert Allan James
2026-08-03 19:48:56 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 8d8f3aaae2
commit cabb0e8bd4
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/**
* apic.c (aarch64) - APIC stub for AArch64.
* apic.c (aarch64) - Minimal GICv2 driver (punch-list item 0.6).
*
* The Local APIC is x86-specific. On AArch64 the interrupt controller is the
* GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). These stubs satisfy the common kernel
* interface without performing any real initialisation; the GIC driver will
* be wired up in a later milestone.
* "Minimal" is deliberate and stays deliberate: exactly one interrupt (the
* non-secure EL1 physical timer PPI, or its EL2 hypervisor-timer counterpart
* if ever run at EL2) is enabled. This is not a general GIC driver and must
* not grow into one -- no SPI support, no SGI support, no GICv3/ITS.
*
* Base addresses and the PPI INTID are QEMU-virt-machine constants, not
* device-tree-discovered, and that is a deliberate, recorded exception
* rather than an oversight (FABRIC.md item 0.6, GAP-B1 follow-up):
* `fdt_valid(boot_info->dtb)` fails on this system's aarch64 firmware
* (qemu-efi-aarch64 2025.11-3ubuntu7 does not forward a devicetree to the
* guest), confirmed live rather than assumed. The values below were not
* recalled from memory either -- they were read out of QEMU 10.2.1's own
* internal devicetree (`qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,dumpdtb=...`,
* decoded with this tree's own fdt.c reader) and are therefore correct for
* this exact QEMU version, though not guaranteed stable across others.
* Register *offsets* within each block (GICD_CTLR, GICC_IAR, etc.) are
* fixed by the GICv2 architecture, not the board, and were cross-checked
* against Linux's own driver header (linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h, from the
* linux-headers package installed on the build host) rather than recalled
* either.
*/
#include "apic.h"
#include "uefi.h"
#include "console.h"
#include <stdint.h>
/* Defined in arch.c (item 0.4). Same extern-in-place convention as
* interrupts.c: "exception level" has no cross-ISA meaning. */
extern int aarch64_current_el(void);
/* ---- QEMU virt machine constants (see file header) --------------------- */
#define GICD_BASE_PA 0x08000000UL
#define GICC_BASE_PA 0x08010000UL
/* Non-secure EL1 physical timer PPI = 30 (INTID 16+14); EL2 hypervisor
* timer PPI = 26 (INTID 16+10). Both read directly out of QEMU's own DT
* dump for the `timer` node's four-entry `interrupts` property (secure,
* non-secure, virtual, hypervisor, in that architected order) -- not the
* architecture-generic PPI numbers assumed from memory. */
#define TIMER_PPI_EL1 30u
#define TIMER_PPI_EL2 26u
/* GICv2 Distributor register byte offsets (ARM IHI 0048B; confirmed against
* Linux's arm-gic.h, see file header). */
#define GICD_CTLR 0x000
#define GICD_ISENABLER0 0x100
#define GICD_IPRIORITYR 0x400
#define GICD_ICFGR 0xC00
/* GICv2 CPU Interface register byte offsets. */
#define GICC_CTLR 0x00
#define GICC_PMR 0x04
#define GICC_IAR 0x0C
#define GICC_EOIR 0x10
#define GICD_CTLR_ENABLE_GRP0 (1u << 0)
#define GICC_CTLR_ENABLE_GRP0 (1u << 0)
/* Priority: GICv2 compares as "interrupt allowed if priority < PMR", lower
* value = more urgent. One interrupt is configured, so the specific value
* only has to be numerically below the PMR mask set in apic_init(). */
#define TIMER_PRIORITY 0x80u
#define PMR_ALLOW_ALL 0xFFu
/* MMIO accessed as identity/physical addresses: arch_mmu_init() for aarch64
* is still the M3 stub (page-table bring-up deferred), so whatever mapping
* EDK2 left active at ExitBootServices governs -- the same assumption
* amd64/timer.c already documents and relies on for its own MMIO (HPET). */
static inline void mmio_write32(uintptr_t base, uint32_t offset, uint32_t val)
{
*(volatile uint32_t *)(base + offset) = val;
}
static inline uint32_t mmio_read32(uintptr_t base, uint32_t offset)
{
return *(volatile uint32_t *)(base + offset);
}
/* Set once by apic_init(), read by aarch64_irq_handler() to know which PPI
* to expect -- computed once (EL cannot change post-boot, same rationale
* as item 0.5's el2_mode_flag) rather than re-derived per interrupt. */
static uint32_t s_timer_ppi = TIMER_PPI_EL1;
static uint64_t s_timer_period_tsc = 0;
/*
* @brief Initialise the interrupt controller (AArch64 GIC stub).
/**
* @brief Initialise the GICv2 distributor and CPU interface (M4 milestone).
*
* On x86-64 this function configures the Local APIC MMIO registers.
* On AArch64 the equivalent peripheral is the ARM Generic Interrupt
* Controller (GIC); GIC bring-up is deferred to a later milestone.
* This stub satisfies the common @c apic_init() call site in
* @c kernel_main() and always returns success.
* Enables exactly one interrupt source: the physical timer PPI for the
* exception level detected in item 0.4 (30 at EL1, 26 at EL2 — see
* @c TIMER_PPI_EL1 / @c TIMER_PPI_EL2 above). Sequence:
*
* @param boot_info Kernel boot information (ACPI/GIC base address); unused.
* 1. Set this interrupt's priority (@c GICD_IPRIORITYR) below the CPU
* interface's priority mask, so it is never itself masked out.
* 2. Enable it in @c GICD_ISENABLER0 (PPIs 16–31 live in the first word).
* 3. Enable the distributor, Group 0 only (@c GICD_CTLR) — this deployment
* has no GICv2 security-extension split in use.
* 4. Set the CPU interface priority mask to allow everything through
* (@c GICC_PMR = 0xFF) and enable the CPU interface (@c GICC_CTLR).
*
* Deliberately not configured: @c GICD_ICFGR (trigger sensitivity). The
* ARM generic timer's PPI is architecturally level-sensitive; this is not
* a general GIC driver and item 0.6's own scope does not call for
* reconfiguring it.
*
* @param boot_info Unused — see the file header for why this does not read
* @c boot_info->dtb despite item 0.6 asking for it.
* @return 0 always.
*/
int apic_init(BootInfo *boot_info)
{
(void)boot_info;
s_timer_ppi = (aarch64_current_el() == 2) ? TIMER_PPI_EL2 : TIMER_PPI_EL1;
/* IPRIORITYR is byte-indexed, one byte per INTID. */
{
uint32_t reg_off = GICD_IPRIORITYR + (s_timer_ppi & ~3u);
uint32_t shift = (s_timer_ppi & 3u) * 8u;
uint32_t val = mmio_read32(GICD_BASE_PA, reg_off);
val = (val & ~(0xFFu << shift)) | (TIMER_PRIORITY << shift);
mmio_write32(GICD_BASE_PA, reg_off, val);
}
mmio_write32(GICD_BASE_PA, GICD_ISENABLER0, 1u << s_timer_ppi);
mmio_write32(GICD_BASE_PA, GICD_CTLR, GICD_CTLR_ENABLE_GRP0);
mmio_write32(GICC_BASE_PA, GICC_PMR, PMR_ALLOW_ALL);
mmio_write32(GICC_BASE_PA, GICC_CTLR, GICC_CTLR_ENABLE_GRP0);
console_puts("GICv2: distributor+CPU interface enabled, PPI ");
console_putc((char)('0' + s_timer_ppi / 10));
console_putc((char)('0' + s_timer_ppi % 10));
console_println("");
return 0;
}
/**
* @brief Signal End of Interrupt to the interrupt controller (AArch64 stub).
* @brief Read the GIC CPU interface's Interrupt Acknowledge Register.
*
* On x86-64 this writes to the Local APIC EOI register. On AArch64 the
* EOI is written to the GIC CPU Interface register (GICC_EOIR); that
* path is not yet wired. This stub is called from the AArch64 heartbeat
* path to satisfy the common interface; it is a no-op until the GIC
* driver is implemented.
* Reading @c GICC_IAR returns the INTID of the highest-priority pending
* interrupt and simultaneously moves it to the active state — this is the
* GICv2 acknowledgement step. Called from @c aarch64_irq_handler() in
* @c interrupts.c to identify which interrupt fired; the matching
* @c apic_eoi_intid() call below completes it.
*
* @return INTID (10 bits used by GICv2).
*/
uint32_t apic_read_iar(void)
{
return mmio_read32(GICC_BASE_PA, GICC_IAR);
}
/**
* @brief Return the timer PPI this build is watching for.
*
* Set once in @c apic_init() from @c aarch64_current_el() (30 at EL1, 26 at
* EL2). @c aarch64_irq_handler() compares @c apic_read_iar()'s result
* against this rather than a hardcoded constant.
*/
uint32_t apic_timer_ppi(void)
{
return s_timer_ppi;
}
/**
* @brief Signal End of Interrupt to the GIC CPU interface.
*
* Writes @p intid back to @c GICC_EOIR, matching the value @c GICC_IAR
* returned in @c aarch64_irq_handler(). Required after every acknowledged
* interrupt or the GIC considers it permanently active and will not
* re-signal it.
*
* @param intid INTID as read from @c GICC_IAR (10 bits used by GICv2).
*/
void apic_eoi_intid(uint32_t intid)
{
mmio_write32(GICC_BASE_PA, GICC_EOIR, intid);
}
/**
* @brief Signal End of Interrupt (common cross-ISA signature — see below).
*
* The shared @c apic.h interface has no way to pass which interrupt is
* being completed, but GICv2's @c GICC_EOIR needs the exact INTID @c GICC_IAR
* returned, not just "an" EOI. @c aarch64_irq_handler() calls
* @c apic_eoi_intid() directly with that value instead; this form exists
* only to satisfy the common call site and is not used on the interrupt
* path GIC brings up.
*/
void apic_eoi(void)
{
/* GIC EOI goes here; stub for now */
}
/*
src/starkernel/arch/aarch64/interrupts.c
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#include <stdint.h>
#include "arch.h"
#include "console.h"
#include "starkernel/timer.h"
volatile const char *g_sk_fault_word = (void *)0;
@@ -23,8 +24,22 @@ extern void aarch64_install_vectors(void);
* arch/riscv64/interrupts.c. */
extern int aarch64_current_el(void);
/* Defined in apic.c (item 0.6). Same extern-in-place convention: GICv2
* register-level details belong to the file that owns the MMIO base
* addresses, not the shared apic.h. */
extern uint32_t apic_read_iar(void);
extern uint32_t apic_timer_ppi(void);
extern void apic_eoi_intid(uint32_t intid);
/* INTID 1023 = "spurious" (GICv2 spec): the CPU interface has nothing
* pending, typically because another interrupt at the same or higher
* priority raced this one to acknowledgement. Architecturally defined,
* not this board's invention, so it is named rather than left as a magic
* number in the comparison below. */
#define GIC_INTID_SPURIOUS 1023u
/**
* @brief Dispatch an IRQ taken at current-EL with SPx (punch-list item 0.5).
* @brief Dispatch an IRQ taken at current-EL with SPx (punch-list item 0.6).
*
* Called from @c irq_spx_trampoline in @c isr.S, which has already saved the
* full caller-saved integer and FP/SIMD register sets plus @c ELR_ELx /
@@ -32,18 +47,33 @@ extern int aarch64_current_el(void);
* returns — unlike @c aarch64_exception_handler(), this path is designed to
* return normally.
*
* **Deliberately empty at this item.** Distinguishing which interrupt fired
* requires reading the GIC's Interrupt Acknowledge Register, and
* acknowledging it requires writing EOIR — neither exists yet (item 0.6).
* Nothing currently unmasks or routes any interrupt source to this vector,
* so it is not reachable during a normal boot; item 0.5's own acceptance is
* "boots with no regression," not having observed a call here (C2). This
* function exists so the vector split is complete and linkable now, ready
* for item 0.6 to add the IAR read / cause dispatch / EOIR write, and item
* 0.7 to route the timer PPI to @c heartbeat_tick() through it.
* Reads @c GICC_IAR once (the GICv2 acknowledgement step — this also moves
* the interrupt to the active state), dispatches on the returned INTID, and
* always completes with the matching @c GICC_EOIR write, spurious or not:
* a spurious read must still not be treated as "nothing to clean up," and
* an unrecognised real INTID still needs the CPU interface unblocked for
* the next one.
*
* The only INTID actually routed anywhere is the timer PPI
* (@c apic_timer_ppi() — 30 at EL1, 26 at EL2, decided once in
* @c apic_init()), which calls @c heartbeat_tick(). **Unreachable in
* practice at this item**: @c apic_timer_start() (item 0.7) is still the
* no-op stub, so nothing ever arms @c CNTP_CTL_EL0 / @c CNTHP_CTL_EL2 and
* the GIC never sees the timer line assert. Item 0.7's tick-advance
* acceptance is what proves this dispatch actually runs (same deferral
* item 0.5 already made, C2).
*/
void aarch64_irq_handler(void)
{
uint32_t intid = apic_read_iar();
if (intid == apic_timer_ppi()) {
heartbeat_tick();
}
if (intid != GIC_INTID_SPURIOUS) {
apic_eoi_intid(intid);
}
}
/**