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Message-ID: <788dd54d-04cf-4582-9ccd-adc33e96a043@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:16:56 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
        <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
        Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>,
        "moderated list:XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE" 
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen-pciback: Consider INTx disabled when MSI/MSI-X is
 enabled

On 18.11.22 16:49, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> Linux enables MSI-X before disabling INTx, but keeps MSI-X masked until
> the table is filled. Then it disables INTx just before clearing MASKALL
> bit. Currently this approach is rejected by xen-pciback.
> According to the PCIe spec, device cannot use INTx when MSI/MSI-X is
> enabled (in other words: enabling MSI/MSI-X implicitly disables INTx).
> 
> Change the logic to consider INTx disabled if MSI/MSI-X is enabled. This
> applies to three places:
>   - checking currently enabled interrupts type,
>   - transition to MSI/MSI-X - where INTx would be implicitly disabled,
>   - clearing INTx disable bit - which can be allowed even if MSI/MSI-X is
>     enabled, as device should consider INTx disabled anyway in that case
> 
> Fixes: 5e29500eba2a ("xen-pciback: Allow setting PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL too")
> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen


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