Top word writes just update the destination of the interrupt, but
since there's no change on the masking or the triggering mode no
guest interrupt injection can result of such write. Add an assert to
that effect.
Requested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
---
Changes since v2:
- New in this version.
---
xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c
index 804bc77279..e3ee747b7d 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vioapic.c
@@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ static void vioapic_write_redirent(
!ent.fields.remote_irr &&
hvm_irq->gsi_assert_count[gsi] )
{
+ /* A top word write should never trigger an interrupt injection. */
+ ASSERT(!top_word);
pent->fields.remote_irr = 1;
vioapic_deliver(vioapic, idx);
}
--
2.29.2
