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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 cabb0e8bd4 aarch64: minimal GICv2 driver -- distributor, CPU interface, timer PPI

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>

2026-08-03 19:48:56 -04:00

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