linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH V2 09/11] xen: Clear IRQD_IRQ

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Message-ID: <87zhevrupf.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:13:16 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@...zon.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 09/11] xen: Clear IRQD_IRQ_STARTED flag during shutdown PIRQs

Anchal,

Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@...zon.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:07:27PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@...zon.com> writes:
>> So either you can handle it purely on the XEN side without touching any
>> core state or you need to come up with some way of letting the core code
>> know that it should invoke shutdown instead of disable.
>> 
>> Something like the completely untested patch below.
>
> Understandable. Really appreciate the patch suggestion below and i will test it
> for sure and see if things can be fixed properly in irq core if thats the only
> option. In the meanwhile, I tried to fix it on xen side unless it gives you the 
> same feeling as above? MSI-x are just fine, just ioapic ones don't get any event
> channel asssigned hence enable_dynirq does nothing. Those needs to be restarted.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/events/events_base.c b/drivers/xen/events/events_base.c
> index 1bb0b522d004..2ed152f35816 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/events/events_base.c
>     +++ b/drivers/xen/events/events_base.c
> @@ -575,6 +575,11 @@ static void shutdown_pirq(struct irq_data *data)
>
> static void enable_pirq(struct irq_data *data)
> {
>     +/*ioapic interrupts don't get event channel assigned
>        + * after being explicitly shutdown during guest
>        + * hibernation. They need to be restarted*/
>         +       if(!evtchn_from_irq(data->irq))
>         +               startup_pirq(data);
>     enable_dynirq(data);
>  }

Interesting patch format :)

Doing the shutdown from syscore_ops and the startup conditionally in a
totaly unrelated function is not really intuitive.

So either you do it symmetrically in XEN via syscore_ops callbacks or
you let the irq core code help you out with the patch I provided

Thanks,

        tglx