Re: [tip: irq/urgent] PCI/MSI: Mask MSI-X vectors only on success

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 08:43:10PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 03:48:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27 2022 at 19:35, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 27 2022 at 09:59, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > XEN guests do not use the common PCI mask/unmask machinery which would
> > > unmask the interrupt on request_irq().
> > >
> > > So I assume that the following happens:
> > >
> > > Guest                     Hypervisor
> > >
> > > msix_capabilities_init()
> > >         ....
> > >         alloc_irq()
> > >            xen_magic()  -> alloc_msix_interrupt()
> > >                            request_irq()
> > >
> > >         msix_mask_all() -> trap
> > >                              do_magic()
> > > request_irq()
> > >    unmask()
> > >      xen_magic()
> > >        unmask_evtchn()  -> do_more_magic()
> > >
> > > So I assume further that msix_mask_all() actually is able to mask the
> > > interrupts in the hardware (ctrl word of the vector table) despite the
> > > hypervisor having allocated and requested the interrupt already.
> > >
> > > Nothing in XEN_HVM handles PCI/MSI[-X] mask/unmask in the guest, so I
> > > really have to ask why XEN_HVM does not disable PCI/MSI[-X] masking like
> > > XEN_PV does. I can only assume the answer is voodoo...
> > >
> > > Maybe the XEN people have some more enlightened answers to that.
> > 
> > So I was talking to Juergen about this and he agrees, that for the case
> > where a XEN HVM guest uses the PIRQ/Eventchannel mechanism PCI/MSI[-X]
> > masking should be disabled like it is done for XEN PV.
> > 
> > Why the hypervisor grants the mask write is still mysterious, but I
> > leave that to the folks who can master the XEN voodoo.
> > 
> > I'll send out a patch in minute.
> 
> Thank you. We are having Noah Meyerhans now testing the patch and he
> will report back if it works (Cc'ed here now).

To confirm: Noah tested the patch on various different Xen (and other
VM configurations) and works well.

Regards,
Salvatore