linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] enable x2APIC without interrupt remapping under KVM

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Date:	Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:17:57 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	"kvm\@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, garyhade@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] enable x2APIC without interrupt remapping under KVM

Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 12:36 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Dropped irqs..  Driver hangs because it is waiting for an irq.  Hardware
>> hangs because it is waiting for the cpu to process the irq.
>> 
>> Potentially we get a level triggered irq that is never acked by
>> the cpu that won't arm until the cpu send an ack, and we can't
>> send an ack from another cpu.
>
> Eric,
>
> Among number of experiments you have tried in the past to fix this, have
> you tried the experiment of explicitly clearing the remoteIRR by
> changing the trigger mode to edge and then back to level.
>
> Is there a problem with this?

The problem I had wasn't remoteIRR getting stuck, but the symptoms
were largely the same.  I did try changing the trigger mode to edge
and back and that did not unstick the ioapic in all cases.

> We can send a spurious IPI (after the RTE migration) with the new vector
> to another cpu and handler which services the level interrupt will check
> if we saw the edge mode for a level interrupt and then the handler can
> explicitly restore the level trigger and reset the remote IRR by mask
> +edge and unmask+level.
>
> We might have to work with some rough edges but do you recollect any
> major issue with this approach..

This is coming up enough recently I expect it is time to cook up
a patch that does the ioapic migration in process context plus
some user space code that stress tests things.  Just so people
can repeat my experiments and see what I am trying to avoid.

Eric
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