[PATCH 4/7] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Always resample level interrupts
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon May 23 07:19:56 PDT 2016
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:37:00PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> When reading back from the list registers, we need to perform
> two actions for level interrupts:
> 1) clear the soft-pending bit if the interrupt is not pending
> anymore *in the list register*
> 2) resample the line level and propagate it to the pending state
>
> But these two actions linked, and we should *always* resample
> the line level, no matter what state is in the list register.
> Otherwise, we may end-up injecting spurious interrupts that
> have been already retired.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> index 336a461..63b8bae 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
> @@ -101,10 +101,13 @@ void vgic_v3_fold_lr_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> }
> }
>
> - /* Clear soft pending state when level irqs have been acked */
> - if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL &&
> - !(val & ICH_LR_PENDING_BIT)) {
> - irq->soft_pending = false;
> + /*
> + * Clear soft pending state when level irqs have been acked.
> + * Always resample the line level.
> + */
> + if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL) {
> + if (!(val & ICH_LR_PENDING_BIT))
> + irq->soft_pending = false;
> irq->pending = irq->line_level;
same question as previous patch
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