xen/evtchn: Interrupt for port 34, but apparently not enabled; per-user 00000000a86a4c1b on 5.10

From: Julien Grall
Date: Mon Dec 14 2020 - 17:11:22 EST


Hi Juergen,

When testing Linux 5.10 dom0, I could reliably hit the following warning with using event 2L ABI:

[ 589.591737] Interrupt for port 34, but apparently not enabled; per-user 00000000a86a4c1b
[ 589.593259] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1111 at /home/ANT.AMAZON.COM/jgrall/works/oss/linux/drivers/xen/evtchn.c:170 evtchn_interrupt+0xeb/0x100
[ 589.595514] Modules linked in:
[ 589.596145] CPU: 0 PID: 1111 Comm: qemu-system-i38 Tainted: G W 5.10.0+ #180
[ 589.597708] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 589.599782] RIP: e030:evtchn_interrupt+0xeb/0x100
[ 589.600698] Code: 48 8d bb d8 01 00 00 ba 01 00 00 00 be 1d 00 00 00 e8 d9 10 ca ff eb b2 8b 75 20 48 89 da 48 c7 c7 a8 31 3d 82 e8 65 29 a0 ff <0f> 0b e9 42 ff ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f
[ 589.604087] RSP: e02b:ffffc90040003e70 EFLAGS: 00010086
[ 589.605102] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888102091800 RCX: 0000000000000027
[ 589.606445] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88817fe19150 RDI: ffff88817fe19158
[ 589.607790] RBP: ffff88810f5ab980 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000328980
[ 589.609134] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc90040003c70 R12: ffff888107fd3c00
[ 589.610484] R13: ffffc90040003ed4 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88810f5ffd80
[ 589.611828] FS: 00007f960c4b8ac0(0000) GS:ffff88817fe00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 589.613348] CS: 10000e030 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 589.614525] CR2: 00007f17ee72e000 CR3: 000000010f5b6000 CR4: 0000000000050660
[ 589.615874] Call Trace:
[ 589.616402] <IRQ>
[ 589.616855] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x4e/0x2c0
[ 589.617784] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x80
[ 589.618660] handle_irq_event+0x3a/0x60
[ 589.619428] handle_edge_irq+0x9b/0x1f0
[ 589.620209] generic_handle_irq+0x4f/0x60
[ 589.621008] evtchn_2l_handle_events+0x160/0x280
[ 589.621913] __xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x66/0xb0
[ 589.622767] __xen_pv_evtchn_do_upcall+0x11/0x20
[ 589.623665] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20
[ 589.624511] </IRQ>
[ 589.624978] xen_pv_evtchn_do_upcall+0x77/0xf0
[ 589.625848] exc_xen_hypervisor_callback+0x8/0x10

This can be reproduced when creating/destroying guest in a loop. Although, I have struggled to reproduce it on a vanilla Xen.

After several hours of debugging, I think I have found the root cause.

While we only expect the unmask to happen when the event channel is EOIed, there is an unmask happening as part of handle_edge_irq() because the interrupt was seen as pending by another vCPU (IRQS_PENDING is set).

It turns out that the event channel is set for multiple vCPU is in cpu_evtchn_mask. This is happening because the affinity is not cleared when freeing an event channel.

The implementation of evtchn_2l_handle_events() will look for all the active interrupts for the current vCPU and later on clear the pending bit (via the ack() callback). IOW, I believe, this is not an atomic operation.

Even if Xen will notify the event to a single vCPU, evtchn_pending_sel may still be set on the other vCPU (thanks to a different event channel). Therefore, there is a chance that two vCPUs will try to handle the same interrupt.

The IRQ handler handle_edge_irq() is able to deal with that and will mask/unmask the interrupt. This will mess us with the lateeoi logic (although, I managed to reproduce it once without XSA-332).

My initial idea to fix the problem was to switch the affinity from CPU X to CPU0 when the event channel is freed.

However, I am not sure this is enough because I haven't found anything yet preventing a race between evtchn_2l_handle_events9) and evtchn_2l_bind_vcpu().

So maybe we want to introduce a refcounting (if there is nothing provided by the IRQ framework) and only unmask when the counter drop to 0.

Any opinions?

Cheers,

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Julien Grall