On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:20:09PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Konrad,
> I cannot see this patch anywhere in your trees. Did I miss it?
> Or maybe it just fell through the cracks?
Fell through the cracks.. Was there a new version of this? Can you
send me a subset of the patches you want me to pick up?
> Let me know if you want me to do anything more.
> Cheers,
> Stefano
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > xen/events: fix unmask_evtchn for PV on HVM guests
> >
> > When unmask_evtchn is called, if we already have an event pending, we
> > just set evtchn_pending_sel waiting for local_irq_enable to be called.
> > That is because PV guests set the irq_enable pvops to
> > xen_irq_enable_direct in xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement:
> > xen_irq_enable_direct is implemented in assembly in
> > arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S and call xen_force_evtchn_callback if
> > XEN_vcpu_info_pending is set.
> >
> > However HVM guests (and ARM guests) do not change or do not have the
> > irq_enable pvop, so evtchn_unmask cannot work properly for them.
> >
> > Considering that having the pending_irq bit set when unmask_evtchn is
> > called is not very common, and it is simpler to keep the
> > native_irq_enable implementation for HVM guests (and ARM guests), the
> > best thing to do is just use the EVTCHNOP_unmask hypercall (Xen
> > re-injects pending events in response).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/xen/events.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
> > 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
> > index 0a8a17c..d75cc39 100644
> > --- a/drivers/xen/events.c
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
> > @@ -373,11 +373,22 @@ static void unmask_evtchn(int port)
> > {
> > struct shared_info *s = HYPERVISOR_shared_info;
> > unsigned int cpu = get_cpu();
> > + int do_hypercall = 0, evtchn_pending = 0;
> >
> > BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
> >
> > - /* Slow path (hypercall) if this is a non-local port. */
> > - if (unlikely(cpu != cpu_from_evtchn(port))) {
> > + if (unlikely((cpu != cpu_from_evtchn(port))))
> > + do_hypercall = 1;
> > + else
> > + evtchn_pending = sync_test_bit(port, &s->evtchn_pending[0]);
> > +
> > + if (unlikely(evtchn_pending && xen_hvm_domain()))
> > + do_hypercall = 1;
> > +
> > + /* Slow path (hypercall) if this is a non-local port or if this is
> > + * an hvm domain and an event is pending (hvm domains don't have
> > + * their own implementation of irq_enable). */
> > + if (do_hypercall) {
> > struct evtchn_unmask unmask = { .port = port };
> > (void)HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op(EVTCHNOP_unmask, &unmask);
> > } else {
> > @@ -390,7 +401,7 @@ static void unmask_evtchn(int port)
> > * 'hw_resend_irq'. Just like a real IO-APIC we 'lose
> > * the interrupt edge' if the channel is masked.
> > */
> > - if (sync_test_bit(port, &s->evtchn_pending[0]) &&
> > + if (evtchn_pending &&
> > !sync_test_and_set_bit(port / BITS_PER_LONG,
> > &vcpu_info->evtchn_pending_sel))
> > vcpu_info->evtchn_upcall_pending = 1;
> > --
> > 1.7.2.5
> >
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