x86/vioapic: clear remote IRR when switching RTE to edge triggered mode Xen itself (as much as Linux) relies on this behavior, so it should also emulate it properly. Not doing so reportedly gets in the way of kexec inside a HVM guest. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Tested-by: Olaf Hering --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c @@ -154,8 +154,9 @@ static void vioapic_write_redirent( { vlapic_adjust_i8259_target(d); } - else if ( (ent.fields.trig_mode == VIOAPIC_LEVEL_TRIG) && - !ent.fields.mask && + else if ( ent.fields.trig_mode == VIOAPIC_EDGE_TRIG ) + pent->fields.remote_irr = 0; + else if ( !ent.fields.mask && !ent.fields.remote_irr && hvm_irq->gsi_assert_count[idx] ) {