Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/x86: actually allocate legacy interrupts on PV guests

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 09:39:50 EST


On 04/27/2016 05:35 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
On 27/04/16 06:02, Juergen Gross wrote:
On 21/04/16 11:30, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Juergen Gross wrote:
On 20/04/16 15:15, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
b4ff8389ed14 is incomplete: relies on nr_legacy_irqs() to get the number
of legacy interrupts when actually nr_legacy_irqs() returns 0 after
probe_8259A(). Use NR_IRQS_LEGACY instead.
Would you mind describing the resulting problem?
This is a good question. The symptom is:

ata_piix: probe of 0000:00:01.1 failed with error -22


With this commit message I'm absolutely not capable to decide whether
e.g. the other use of nr_legacy_irqs() in pci_xen_initial_domain() is
correct or not.
I looked at it but I couldn't really test that code because if I try to
change the number of ioapics in the system using the "noapic" command
line option (which actually changes the number if ioapics, not lapics),
I get an error from Linux saying that noapic is not supported when
running on Xen.

In my opinion having nr_legacy_irqs() calls in Xen code, which returns
0, is like playing with fire. I think it would be safer/saner to replace
them all with NR_IRQS_LEGACY, simply because reading the code one would
not expect that all those loops don't actually have any iterations.
I'm quite sure you should change both uses of nr_legacy_irqs() in
pci_xen_initial_domain().

Looking at xen_pcifront_enable_irq() I'm not really sure what is the
correct thing to do.

Adding Konrad as he might have a better insight.
I wonder if it would be helpful to have a xen-specific #define like
XEN_NR_LEGACY_PIRQS or something, and document carefully what this means
and why it is != nr_legacy_irqs().


int xen_nr_legacy_irqs()
{
if (xen_hvm_domain())
return nr_legacy_irqs();
if (xen_initial_domain())
return NR_IRQS_LEGACY;
return 0;
}

?

-boris