[PATCH] x86: Xen PV guests don't have the rtc_cmos platform device

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Wed Dec 09 2015 - 09:33:53 EST


Adding the rtc platform device in a Xen PV guests causes an IRQ
conflict because these guests do not have a legacy PIC.

In a single VCPU Xen PV guest we should have:

/proc/interrupts:
CPU0
0: 4934 xen-percpu-virq timer0
1: 0 xen-percpu-ipi spinlock0
2: 0 xen-percpu-ipi resched0
3: 0 xen-percpu-ipi callfunc0
4: 0 xen-percpu-virq debug0
5: 0 xen-percpu-ipi callfuncsingle0
6: 0 xen-percpu-ipi irqwork0
7: 321 xen-dyn-event xenbus
8: 90 xen-dyn-event hvc_console
...

But hvc_console cannot get its interrupt because it is already in use
by rtc0 and the console does not work.

genirq: Flags mismatch irq 8. 00000000 (hvc_console) vs. 00000000 (rtc0)

So don't add the rtc_cmos device in Xen PV guests. (In fact, don't add
it to any paravirt_enabled() guest since lguest is also unable to probe
this device)

Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
index cd96852..dd4d6d9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ static __init int add_rtc_cmos(void)
}
#endif

+ if (paravirt_enabled())
+ return -ENODEV;
+
platform_device_register(&rtc_device);
dev_info(&rtc_device.dev,
"registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found)\n");
--
1.8.1.4

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