Re: [PATCH v5 18/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Add direct injection capability to SGI registers

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Eric,

On 2020-03-20 08:11, Auger Eric wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> On 3/4/20 9:33 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Most of the GICv3 emulation code that deals with SGIs now has to be
> > aware of the v4.1 capabilities in order to benefit from it.
> >
> > Add such support, keyed on the interrupt having the hw flag set and
> > being a SGI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 15 +++++-
> >  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c    | 88 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

[...]

> > @@ -113,7 +125,21 @@ void vgic_mmio_write_senable(struct kvm_vcpu 
> > *vcpu,
> >  		struct vgic_irq *irq = vgic_get_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu, intid + i);
> >
> >  		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&irq->irq_lock, flags);
> > -		if (vgic_irq_is_mapped_level(irq)) {
> > +		if (irq->hw && vgic_irq_is_sgi(irq->intid)) {
> > +			if (!irq->enabled) {
> > +				struct irq_data *data;
> > +
> > +				irq->enabled = true;
> > +				data = &irq_to_desc(irq->host_irq)->irq_data;
> > +				while (irqd_irq_disabled(data))
> > +					enable_irq(irq->host_irq);
> could you explain me why the while() is requested?

Ah, interesting question: disable_irq() (and its variants) can nest. 
This
means that if you have done two disable_irq(), you must do two 
enable_irq()
to get back to the interrupt being enabled.

The locking should ensure that this nesting doesn't happen, but I'm 
paranoid
(see the GICv4.0 doorbell handling). It also makes it easier to reason 
about
the initial state.

[...]

> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

         M.
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