[PATCH v3 3/4] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Restore VLPI's pending state to physical side

[Shenming Lu]

On 2021/3/12 17:05, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:32:07 +0000,
> Shenming Lu <lushenming at huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2021/3/11 17:14, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:13:36 +0000,
>>> Shenming Lu <lushenming at huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui at huawei.com>
>>>>
>>>> When setting the forwarding path of a VLPI (switch to the HW mode),
>>>> we could also transfer the pending state from irq->pending_latch to
>>>> VPT (especially in migration, the pending states of VLPIs are restored
>>>> into kvm’s vgic first). And we currently send "INT+VSYNC" to trigger
>>>> a VLPI to pending.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui at huawei.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Shenming Lu <lushenming at huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
>>>> index ac029ba3d337..a3542af6f04a 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
>>>> @@ -449,6 +449,20 @@ int kvm_vgic_v4_set_forwarding(struct kvm *kvm, int virq,
>>>>  	irq->host_irq	= virq;
>>>>  	atomic_inc(&map.vpe->vlpi_count);
>>>>  
>>>> +	/* Transfer pending state */
>>>> +	if (irq->pending_latch) {
>>>> +		ret = irq_set_irqchip_state(irq->host_irq,
>>>> +					    IRQCHIP_STATE_PENDING,
>>>> +					    irq->pending_latch);
>>>> +		WARN_RATELIMIT(ret, "IRQ %d", irq->host_irq);
>>>> +
>>>> +		/*
>>>> +		 * Let it be pruned from ap_list later and don't bother
>>>> +		 * the List Register.
>>>> +		 */
>>>> +		irq->pending_latch = false;
>>>
>>> NAK. If the interrupt is on the AP list, it must be pruned from it
>>> *immediately*. The only case where it can be !pending and still on the
>>> AP list is in interval between sync and prune. If we start messing
>>> with this, we can't reason about the state of this list anymore.
>>>
>>> Consider calling vgic_queue_irq_unlock() here.
>>
>> Thanks for giving a hint, but it seems that vgic_queue_irq_unlock() only
>> queues an IRQ after checking, did you mean vgic_prune_ap_list() instead?
> 
> No, I really mean vgic_queue_irq_unlock(). It can be used to remove
> the pending state from an interrupt, and drop it from the AP
> list. This is exactly what happens when clearing the pending state of
> a level interrupt, for example.

Hi, I have gone through vgic_queue_irq_unlock more than once, but still can't
find the place in it to drop an IRQ from the AP list... Did I miss something ?...
Or could you help to point it out? Thanks very much for this!

Shenming

> 
> 	M.
>