[PATCH v2 1/5] irqchip/gic-v5: Skip deactivate for forwarded PPI interrupts

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com
Wed Jul 2 07:28:16 PDT 2025


On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:09:01 +0000
Sascha Bischoff <Sascha.Bischoff at arm.com> wrote:

> If a PPI interrupt is forwarded to a guest, skip the deactivate and
> only EOI. Rely on the guest deactivating both the virtual and physical
> interrupts (due to ICH_LRx_EL2.HW being set) later on as part of
> handling the injected interrupt. This mimics the behaviour seen on
> native GICv3.
> 
> This is part of adding support for the GICv3 compatibility mode on a
> GICv5 host.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi at kernel.org>
> 

Trivial but no gaps in tag blocks.  So no blank line here.
Some scripting will moan about this and I think that will hit you if
this goes into linux next.

> Co-authored-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff at arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c
> index 7a11521eeeca..6b42c4af5c79 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c
> @@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ static void gicv5_hwirq_eoi(u32 hwirq_id, u8 hwirq_type)
>  
>  static void gicv5_ppi_irq_eoi(struct irq_data *d)
>  {
> +	/* Skip deactivate for forwarded PPI interrupts */
> +	if (irqd_is_forwarded_to_vcpu(d)) {
> +		gic_insn(0, CDEOI);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	gicv5_hwirq_eoi(d->hwirq, GICV5_HWIRQ_TYPE_PPI);
>  }
>  
> @@ -494,6 +500,16 @@ static bool gicv5_ppi_irq_is_level(irq_hw_number_t hwirq)
>  	return !!(read_ppi_sysreg_s(hwirq, PPI_HM) & bit);
>  }
>  
> +static int gicv5_ppi_irq_set_vcpu_affinity(struct irq_data *d, void *vcpu)
> +{
> +	if (vcpu)
> +		irqd_set_forwarded_to_vcpu(d);
> +	else
> +		irqd_clr_forwarded_to_vcpu(d);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static const struct irq_chip gicv5_ppi_irq_chip = {
>  	.name			= "GICv5-PPI",
>  	.irq_mask		= gicv5_ppi_irq_mask,
> @@ -501,6 +517,7 @@ static const struct irq_chip gicv5_ppi_irq_chip = {
>  	.irq_eoi		= gicv5_ppi_irq_eoi,
>  	.irq_get_irqchip_state	= gicv5_ppi_irq_get_irqchip_state,
>  	.irq_set_irqchip_state	= gicv5_ppi_irq_set_irqchip_state,
> +	.irq_set_vcpu_affinity	= gicv5_ppi_irq_set_vcpu_affinity,
>  	.flags			= IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE	  |
>  				  IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND,
>  };




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