Re: [PATCH] PCI: rcar-gen4: Inline GIC_TRANSLATER offset macro

On 7/10/26 10:30 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:10:03 +0100,
> Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Instead of pulling in the whole linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h , copy the
>> one GITS_TRANSLATER register offset macro directly into the driver.
>> This repairs the ability to build the driver on non-ARM non-GIC targets
>> the way it was possible until now, which retains good build test coverage.
>>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/[email protected]/
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> Cc: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Conor Dooley <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
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>> ---
>> Note: The alternative I could think of would be ifdeffery which
>>        is not nice and thwarts the build coverage, or limit the
>>        driver to ARM/ARM64 in Kconfig which also thwarts the build
>>        coverage. I could also split off the register macros in
>>        linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h into some separate header
>>        linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3-regs.h and include that which
>>        might be OKish and avoids duplication. Thoughts ?
> 
> No, I'm not hacking something that is purely architecture specific for
> the purpose of a bizarre integration quirk that should be handled by
> the boot firmware, and not Linux.

The PCIe controller is fully controlled by Linux. I don't think this can 
be handled by the boot firmware. The GIC ITS TRANSLATER address could be 
derived from the DT compatible string of the PCIe controller (I had that 
implemented before), but that is the less generic option.

> Add whatever you want to the PCI glue code, limit this to arm64 (which
> is the only architecture this can ever be used on, and the build
> coverage argument really doesn't hold), but please leave the GIC code
> alone.
So in the end, it is either this patch or limit the build to arm/arm64 . 
At least this patch still allows building this driver with more 
compilers on the various build bots, so I would opt for this patch here.

Thank you for your help !