[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Disallow Active+Pending for level interrupts

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Mar 14 11:37:44 PDT 2018


It was recently reported that VFIO mediated devices, and anything
that VFIO exposes as level interrupts, do no strictly follow the
expected logic of such interrupts as it only lowers the input
line when the guest has EOId the interrupt at the GIC level, rather
than when it Acked the interrupt at the device level.

THe GIC's Active+Pending state is fundamentally incompatible with
this behaviour, as it prevents KVM from observing the EOI, and in
turn results in VFIO never dropping the line. This results in an
interrupt storm in the guest, which it really never expected.

As we cannot really change VFIO to follow the strict rules of level
signalling, let's forbid the A+P state altogether, as it is in the
end only an optimization. It ensures that we will transition via
an invalid state, which we can use to notify VFIO of the EOI.

Reported-by: Shunyong Yang <shunyong.yang at hxt-semitech.com>
Tested-by: Shunyong Yang <shunyong.yang at hxt-semitech.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
index 29556f71b691..9356d749da1d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
@@ -153,8 +153,35 @@ void vgic_v2_fold_lr_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 void vgic_v2_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq, int lr)
 {
 	u32 val = irq->intid;
+	bool allow_pending = true;
 
-	if (irq_is_pending(irq)) {
+	if (irq->active)
+		val |= GICH_LR_ACTIVE_BIT;
+
+	if (irq->hw) {
+		val |= GICH_LR_HW;
+		val |= irq->hwintid << GICH_LR_PHYSID_CPUID_SHIFT;
+		/*
+		 * Never set pending+active on a HW interrupt, as the
+		 * pending state is kept at the physical distributor
+		 * level.
+		 */
+		if (irq->active)
+			allow_pending = false;
+	} else {
+		if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL) {
+			val |= GICH_LR_EOI;
+
+			/*
+			 * Software resampling doesn't work very well
+			 * if we allow P+A, so let's not do that.
+			 */
+			if (irq->active)
+				allow_pending = false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (allow_pending && irq_is_pending(irq)) {
 		val |= GICH_LR_PENDING_BIT;
 
 		if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_EDGE)
@@ -171,24 +198,6 @@ void vgic_v2_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq, int lr)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (irq->active)
-		val |= GICH_LR_ACTIVE_BIT;
-
-	if (irq->hw) {
-		val |= GICH_LR_HW;
-		val |= irq->hwintid << GICH_LR_PHYSID_CPUID_SHIFT;
-		/*
-		 * Never set pending+active on a HW interrupt, as the
-		 * pending state is kept at the physical distributor
-		 * level.
-		 */
-		if (irq->active && irq_is_pending(irq))
-			val &= ~GICH_LR_PENDING_BIT;
-	} else {
-		if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL)
-			val |= GICH_LR_EOI;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Level-triggered mapped IRQs are special because we only observe
 	 * rising edges as input to the VGIC.  We therefore lower the line
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
index 0ff2006f3781..6b484575cafb 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
@@ -135,8 +135,35 @@ void vgic_v3_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq, int lr)
 {
 	u32 model = vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model;
 	u64 val = irq->intid;
+	bool allow_pending = true;
 
-	if (irq_is_pending(irq)) {
+	if (irq->active)
+		val |= ICH_LR_ACTIVE_BIT;
+
+	if (irq->hw) {
+		val |= ICH_LR_HW;
+		val |= ((u64)irq->hwintid) << ICH_LR_PHYS_ID_SHIFT;
+		/*
+		 * Never set pending+active on a HW interrupt, as the
+		 * pending state is kept at the physical distributor
+		 * level.
+		 */
+		if (irq->active)
+			allow_pending = false;
+	} else {
+		if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL) {
+			val |= ICH_LR_EOI;
+
+			/*
+			 * Software resampling doesn't work very well
+			 * if we allow P+A, so let's not do that.
+			 */
+			if (irq->active)
+				allow_pending = false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (allow_pending && irq_is_pending(irq)) {
 		val |= ICH_LR_PENDING_BIT;
 
 		if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_EDGE)
@@ -154,24 +181,6 @@ void vgic_v3_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq, int lr)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (irq->active)
-		val |= ICH_LR_ACTIVE_BIT;
-
-	if (irq->hw) {
-		val |= ICH_LR_HW;
-		val |= ((u64)irq->hwintid) << ICH_LR_PHYS_ID_SHIFT;
-		/*
-		 * Never set pending+active on a HW interrupt, as the
-		 * pending state is kept at the physical distributor
-		 * level.
-		 */
-		if (irq->active && irq_is_pending(irq))
-			val &= ~ICH_LR_PENDING_BIT;
-	} else {
-		if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_LEVEL)
-			val |= ICH_LR_EOI;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Level-triggered mapped IRQs are special because we only observe
 	 * rising edges as input to the VGIC.  We therefore lower the line
-- 
2.14.2




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