linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/events: Fix interrupt lost during irq_disable and irq

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:50:08 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Liu Shuo <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@...rix.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>,
        "moderated list:XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE" 
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/events: Fix interrupt lost during irq_disable and
 irq_enable

On 29/07/17 18:59, Liu Shuo wrote:
> Here is a device has xen-pirq-MSI interrupt. Dom0 might lost interrupt
> during driver irq_disable/irq_enable. Here is the scenario,
>  1. irq_disable -> disable_dynirq -> mask_evtchn(irq channel)
>  2. dev interrupt raised by HW and Xen mark its evtchn as pending
>  3. irq_enable -> startup_pirq -> eoi_pirq ->
>     clear_evtchn(channel of irq) -> clear pending status
>  4. consume_one_event process the irq event without pending bit assert
>     which result in interrupt lost once
>  5. No HW interrupt raising anymore.
> 
> Now use enable_dynirq for enable_pirq of xen_pirq_chip to remove
> eoi_pirq when irq_enable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liu Shuo <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>

Pushed to xen/tip.git for-linus-4.13b


Thanks,

Juergen