linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/39] irqdomain: Make normal and nomap irqdomains exclusive

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Date:   Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:33:42 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Greg Kurz <groug@...d.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/39] irqdomain: Make normal and nomap irqdomains exclusive

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:05:17 +0000,
Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Mark,

s/k/c/

> 
> On 5/20/21 18:37, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Direct mappings are completely exclusive of normal mappings, meaning
> > that we can refactor the code slightly so that we can get rid of
> > the revmap_direct_max_irq field and use the revmap_size field
> > instead, reducing the size of the irqdomain structure.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> 
> 
> This patch is breaking the POWER9/POWER10 XIVE driver (these are not
> old PPC systems :) on machines sharing the same LSI HW IRQ. For instance,
> a linux KVM guest with a virtio-rng and a virtio-balloon device. In that
> case, Linux creates two distinct IRQ mappings which can lead to some
> unexpected behavior.

Either the irq domain translates, or it doesn't. If the driver creates
a nomap domain, and yet expects some sort of translation to happen,
then the driver is fundamentally broken. And even without that: how do
you end-up with a single HW interrupt having two mappings?

> A fix to go forward would be to change the XIVE IRQ domain to use a
> 'Tree' domain for reverse mapping and not the 'No Map' domain mapping.
> I will keep you updated for XIVE.

I bet there is a bit more to it. From what you are saying above,
something rather ungodly is happening in the XIVE code.

	M.

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