[PATCH] lib: sbi: Clear all IPI devices when processing an IPI

Troy Mitchell troy.mitchell at linux.dev
Tue Sep 8 06:00:36 PDT 2026


Hart start sends wake-up IPIs through all registered IPI devices, but
sbi_ipi_process() only clears the preferred device. A notification from
another device can arrive after warm initialization has cleared it.

With both IMSIC and ACLINT MSWI, IMSIC is preferred and has no ipi_clear
callback: its interrupts are acknowledged through MTOPEI. A late ACLINT
notification therefore leaves MSIP asserted, trapping the hart in the
machine-mode interrupt handler and potentially timing out Linux CPU
bring-up.

Clear all registered IPI devices before consuming the software IPI event
bits so that late wake-up notifications are acknowledged too.

Fixes: 94f0f8465622 ("lib: sbi: Extends sbi_ipi_raw_send() to use all available IPI devices")
Signed-off-by: Troy Mitchell <troy.mitchell at linux.dev>
---
 lib/sbi/sbi_ipi.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/sbi/sbi_ipi.c b/lib/sbi/sbi_ipi.c
index b04a5877..683d559d 100644
--- a/lib/sbi/sbi_ipi.c
+++ b/lib/sbi/sbi_ipi.c
@@ -263,7 +263,12 @@ void sbi_ipi_process(void)
 			sbi_scratch_offset_ptr(scratch, ipi_data_off);
 
 	sbi_pmu_ctr_incr_fw(SBI_PMU_FW_IPI_RECVD);
-	sbi_ipi_raw_clear(false);
+	/*
+	 * A wake-up IPI is sent through all devices. A notification from a
+	 * non-preferred device can arrive after warm-boot initialization
+	 * cleared it, so acknowledge all devices when processing the IPI.
+	 */
+	sbi_ipi_raw_clear(true);
 
 	ipi_type = atomic_raw_xchg_ulong(&ipi_data->ipi_type, 0);
 	ipi_event = 0;

---
base-commit: 3593a5facc4c6938b90429a6973ba9ee21fc5899
change-id: 20260908-ipi-clear-all-54c3def85689

Best regards,
--  
Troy Mitchell <troy.mitchell at linux.dev>




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