Re: PCI MSI issue for maxcpus=1

From: John Garry
Date: Mon Mar 07 2022 - 08:48:24 EST


Hi Marc,


diff --git a/kernel/irq/msi.c b/kernel/irq/msi.c
index 2bdfce5edafd..97e9eb9aecc6 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/msi.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/msi.c
@@ -823,6 +823,19 @@ static int msi_init_virq(struct irq_domain *domain, int virq, unsigned int vflag
if (!(vflags & VIRQ_ACTIVATE))
return 0;
+ if (!(vflags & VIRQ_CAN_RESERVE)) {
+ /*
+ * If the interrupt is managed but no CPU is available
+ * to service it, shut it down until better times.
+ */
+ if (irqd_affinity_is_managed(irqd) &&
+ !cpumask_intersects(irq_data_get_affinity_mask(irqd),
+ cpu_online_mask)) {
+ irqd_set_managed_shutdown(irqd);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+
ret = irq_domain_activate_irq(irqd, vflags & VIRQ_CAN_RESERVE);
if (ret)
return ret;


Yeah, that seems to solve the issue. I will test it a bit more.

We need to check the isolcpus cmdline issue as well - wang xiongfeng, please assist here. I assume that this feature just never worked for arm64 since it was added.

With this in place, I get the following results (VM booted with 4
vcpus and maxcpus=1, the virtio device is using managed interrupts):

root@debian:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
10: 2298 GICv3 27 Level arch_timer
12: 84 GICv3 33 Level uart-pl011
49: 0 GICv3 41 Edge ACPI:Ged
50: 0 ITS-MSI 16384 Edge virtio0-config
51: 2088 ITS-MSI 16385 Edge virtio0-req.0
52: 0 ITS-MSI 16386 Edge virtio0-req.1
53: 0 ITS-MSI 16387 Edge virtio0-req.2
54: 0 ITS-MSI 16388 Edge virtio0-req.3
55: 11641 ITS-MSI 32768 Edge xhci_hcd
56: 0 ITS-MSI 32769 Edge xhci_hcd
IPI0: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 0 Function call interrupts
IPI2: 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI3: 0 CPU stop (for crash dump) interrupts
IPI4: 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI5: 0 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 CPU wake-up interrupts
Err: 0
root@debian:~# echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
root@debian:~# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU2
10: 2530 90 GICv3 27 Level arch_timer
12: 103 0 GICv3 33 Level uart-pl011
49: 0 0 GICv3 41 Edge ACPI:Ged
50: 0 0 ITS-MSI 16384 Edge virtio0-config
51: 2097 0 ITS-MSI 16385 Edge virtio0-req.0
52: 0 0 ITS-MSI 16386 Edge virtio0-req.1
53: 0 12 ITS-MSI 16387 Edge virtio0-req.2
54: 0 0 ITS-MSI 16388 Edge virtio0-req.3
55: 13487 0 ITS-MSI 32768 Edge xhci_hcd
56: 0 0 ITS-MSI 32769 Edge xhci_hcd
IPI0: 38 45 Rescheduling interrupts
IPI1: 3 3 Function call interrupts
IPI2: 0 0 CPU stop interrupts
IPI3: 0 0 CPU stop (for crash dump) interrupts
IPI4: 0 0 Timer broadcast interrupts
IPI5: 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
IPI6: 0 0 CPU wake-up interrupts
Err: 0


Out of interest, is the virtio managed interrupts support just in your sandbox? You did mention earlier in the thread that you were considering adding this feature.

Thanks,
John