Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 06/39] ARM: evtchn: Handle level triggered IRQs correctly

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The event channel IRQ has level triggered semantics, however the current
> VGIC treats everything as edge triggered.
> To correctly process those IRQs, we have to lower the (virtual) IRQ line
> at some point in time, depending on whether ther interrupt condition
> still prevails.
> Check the per-VCPU evtchn_upcall_pending variable to make the interrupt
> line match its status, and call this function upon every hypervisor
> entry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  xen/arch/arm/domain.c       | 7 +++++++
>  xen/arch/arm/traps.c        | 1 +
>  xen/include/asm-arm/event.h | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c
> index ff97f2bc76..9688e62f78 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c
> @@ -953,6 +953,13 @@ void vcpu_mark_events_pending(struct vcpu *v)
>      vgic_inject_irq(v->domain, v, v->domain->arch.evtchn_irq, true);
>  }
>  
> +void vcpu_update_evtchn_irq(struct vcpu *v)
> +{
> +    bool pending = vcpu_info(v, evtchn_upcall_pending);
> +
> +    vgic_inject_irq(v->domain, v, v->domain->arch.evtchn_irq, pending);
> +}
> +
>  /* The ARM spec declares that even if local irqs are masked in
>   * the CPSR register, an irq should wake up a cpu from WFI anyway.
>   * For this reason we need to check for irqs that need delivery,
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
> index 2638446693..5c18e918b0 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
> @@ -2033,6 +2033,7 @@ static void enter_hypervisor_head(struct cpu_user_regs 
> *regs)
>           * trap and how it can be optimised.
>           */
>          vtimer_update_irqs(current);
> +        vcpu_update_evtchn_irq(current);
>  #endif
>  
>          vgic_sync_from_lrs(current);
> diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/event.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/event.h
> index c7a415ef57..2f51864043 100644
> --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/event.h
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/event.h
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>  
>  void vcpu_kick(struct vcpu *v);
>  void vcpu_mark_events_pending(struct vcpu *v);
> +void vcpu_update_evtchn_irq(struct vcpu *v);
>  void vcpu_block_unless_event_pending(struct vcpu *v);
>  
>  static inline int vcpu_event_delivery_is_enabled(struct vcpu *v)
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 

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