The GIC architecture specification defines a set of registers for redistributors and ITSes that control the sharebility and cacheability attributes of redistributors/ITSes initiator ports on the interconnect (GICR_[V]PROPBASER, GICR_[V]PENDBASER, GITS_BASER<n>). Architecturally the GIC provides a means to drive shareability and cacheability attributes signals and related IWB/OWB/ISH barriers but it is not mandatory for designs to wire up the corresponding interconnect signals that control the cacheability/shareability of transactions. Redistributors and ITSes interconnect ports can be connected to non-coherent interconnects that are not able to manage the shareability/cacheability attributes; this implicitly makes the redistributors and ITSes non-coherent observers. So far, the GIC driver on probe executes a write to "probe" for the redistributors and ITSes registers shareability bitfields by writing a value (ie InnerShareable - the shareability domain the CPUs are in) and check it back to detect whether the value sticks or not; this hinges on a GIC programming model behaviour that predates the current specifications, that just define shareability bits as writeable but do not guarantee that writing certain shareability values enable the expected behaviour for the redistributors/ITSes memory interconnect ports. To enable non-coherent GIC designs, introduce the "dma-noncoherent" device tree property to allow firmware to describe redistributors and ITSes as non-coherent observers on the memory interconnect and use the property to force the shareability attributes to be programmed into the redistributors and ITSes registers through the GIC quirks mechanism. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006125929.48591-3-lpieralisi@kernel.org