completion timeouts with pin-based interrupts in QEMU hw/nvme

[Keith Busch]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 12:32:29PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 08:55, Klaus Jensen <its at irrelevant.dk> wrote:
> >
> > +CC qemu pci maintainers
> >
> > Michael, Marcel,
> >
> > Do you have any comments on this thread? As you can see one solution is
> > to simply deassert prior to asserting, the other is to reintroduce a
> > pci_irq_pulse(). Both seem to solve the issue.
> 
> Both seem to be missing any analysis of "this is what is
> happening, this is where we differ from hardware, this
> is why this is the correct fix". We shouldn't put in
> random "this seems to happen to cause the guest to boot"
> fixes, please.

It looks like these are being treated as edge instead of level
interrupts so the work-around is to create more edges. I would
definitely prefer a real fix, whether that's in the kernel or CPU
emulation or somewhere else, but I'm not sure I'll have time to see it
to completion.

FWIW, x86 seems to handle legacy IRQs with NVMe as expected. It's
actually easy enough for the DEASSERT to take so long that kernel
reports the irq as "spurious" because it's spinning too often on the
level.