Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] xen/pvhvm: Make MSI IRQs work after kexec

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Jul 15 2014 - 11:21:23 EST


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:40:40PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> When kexec was peformed MSI IRQs for passthrough-ed devices were already
> mapped and we see non-zero pirq extracted from MSI msg. xen_irq_from_pirq()
> fails as we have no IRQ mapping information for that. Requesting for new
> mapping with __write_msi_msg() does not result in MSI IRQ being remapped so
> we don't recieve these IRQs.

receive

How come '__write_msi_msg' does not result in new MSI IRQs?

Is it fair to state that your code ends up reading the MSI IRQ (PIRQ)
from the device and updating the internal PIRQ<->IRQ code to match
with the reality?

>
> RFC: I wasn't able to understand why commit af42b8d1 which introduced
> xen_irq_from_pirq() check in xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs() is checking that instead
> of checking pirq > 0 as if the mapping was already done (and we have pirq>0 here)
> we don't need to request for a new pirq. We're loosing existing PIRQ and I'm also
> not sure when __write_msi_msg() with new PIRQ will result in new mapping.

We don't request a new pirq. We end up returning before we call xen_allocate_pirq_msi.
At least that is how the commit you mentioned worked.

In regards to why using 'xen_irq_from_pirq' instead of just checking the PIRQ - is
that we might be called twice by a buggy driver. As such we want to check
our PIRQ<->IRQ to figure this out.

>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/pci/xen.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/xen.c b/arch/x86/pci/xen.c
> index 905956f..685e8f1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/pci/xen.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/pci/xen.c
> @@ -231,8 +231,7 @@ static int xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev, int nvec, int type)
> __read_msi_msg(msidesc, &msg);
> pirq = MSI_ADDR_EXT_DEST_ID(msg.address_hi) |
> ((msg.address_lo >> MSI_ADDR_DEST_ID_SHIFT) & 0xff);
> - if (msg.data != XEN_PIRQ_MSI_DATA ||
> - xen_irq_from_pirq(pirq) < 0) {
> + if (msg.data != XEN_PIRQ_MSI_DATA || pirq <= 0) {
> pirq = xen_allocate_pirq_msi(dev, msidesc);
> if (pirq < 0) {
> irq = -ENODEV;
> --
> 1.9.3
>
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