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+RISC-V Hart-Level Interrupt Controller (HLIC)
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+---------------------------------------------
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+RISC-V cores include Control Status Registers (CSRs) which are local to each
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+CPU core (HART in RISC-V terminology) and can be read or written by software.
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+Some of these CSRs are used to control local interrupts connected to the core.
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+Every interrupt is ultimately routed through a hart's HLIC before it
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+interrupts that hart.
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+The RISC-V supervisor ISA manual specifies three interrupt sources that are
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+attached to every HLIC: software interrupts, the timer interrupt, and external
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+interrupts. Software interrupts are used to send IPIs between cores. The
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+timer interrupt comes from an architecturally mandated real-time timer that is
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+controller via Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) calls and CSR reads. External
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+interrupts connect all other device interrupts to the HLIC, which are routed
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+via the platform-level interrupt controller (PLIC).
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+All RISC-V systems that conform to the supervisor ISA specification are
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+required to have a HLIC with these three interrupt sources present. Since the
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+interrupt map is defined by the ISA it's not listed in the HLIC's device tree
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+entry, though external interrupt controllers (like the PLIC, for example) will
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+need to define how their interrupts map to the relevant HLICs. This means
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+a PLIC interrupt property will typically list the HLICs for all present HARTs
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+in the system.
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+
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+Required properties:
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+- compatible : "riscv,cpu-intc"
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+- #interrupt-cells : should be <1>
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+- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
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+
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+Furthermore, this interrupt-controller MUST be embedded inside the cpu
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+definition of the hart whose CSRs control these local interrupts.
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+
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+An example device tree entry for a HLIC is show below.
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+
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+ cpu1: cpu@1 {
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+ compatible = "riscv";
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+ ...
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+ cpu1-intc: interrupt-controller {
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+ #interrupt-cells = <1>;
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+ compatible = "riscv,cpu-intc", "sifive,fu540-c000-cpu-intc";
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+ interrupt-controller;
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+ };
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+ };
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