[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] x86: properly handle MSI-X unmask operation from guests

["Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>]

patch revision history
----------------------
v1: Initial patch to handle this issue involving changing the hypercall 
interface
v2:Totally handled inside hypervisor.
v3:Change some logics of handling msi-x pending unmask operations.

From 78ae225e6af88b0b850980fc55640d0776aeafbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Feng Wu <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:43:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] x86: properly handle MSI-X unmask operation from guests

For a pass-through device with MSI-x capability, when guest tries
to unmask the MSI-x interrupt for the passed through device, xen
doesn't clear the mask bit for MSI-x in hardware in the following
scenario, which will cause network disconnection:

1. Guest masks the MSI-x interrupt
2. Guest updates the address and data for it
3. Guest unmasks the MSI-x interrupt (This is the problematic step)

In the step #3 above, Xen doesn't handle it well. When guest tries
to unmask MSI-X interrupt, it traps to Xen, Xen just returns to Qemu
if it notices that address or data has been modified by guest before,
then Qemu will update Xen with the latest value of address/data by
hypercall. However, in this whole process, the MSI-X interrupt unmask
operation is missing, which means Xen doesn't clear the mask bit in
hardware for the MSI-X interrupt, so it remains disabled, that is why
it loses the network connection.

This patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/io.c        |    3 +++
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmsi.c      |   22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 xen/include/asm-x86/domain.h |    7 +++++++
 xen/include/xen/pci.h        |    1 +
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/io.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/io.c
index deb7b92..516f0a4 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/io.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/io.c
@@ -297,6 +297,9 @@ void hvm_io_assist(ioreq_t *p)
         break;
     }

+    if (msix_post_handler(curr))
+        gdprintk(XENLOG_ERR, ": msix_post_handler error\n");
+
     if ( p->state == STATE_IOREQ_NONE )
         vcpu_end_shutdown_deferral(curr);
}
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmsi.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmsi.c
index 4826b4a..cd97a3b 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmsi.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmsi.c
@@ -292,8 +292,11 @@ static int msixtbl_write(struct vcpu *v, unsigned long 
address,
     }

     /* exit to device model if address/data has been modified */
-    if ( test_and_clear_bit(nr_entry, &entry->table_flags) )
+    if ( test_and_clear_bit(nr_entry, &entry->table_flags) ) {
+        v->arch.pending_msix_unmask.valid = 1;
+        v->arch.pending_msix_unmask.ctrl_address = address;
         goto out;
+    }

     virt = msixtbl_addr_to_virt(entry, address);
     if ( !virt )
@@ -528,3 +531,20 @@ void msixtbl_pt_cleanup(struct domain *d)
     spin_unlock(&d->arch.hvm_domain.msixtbl_list_lock);
     local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
+
+int msix_post_handler(struct vcpu *v)
+{
+    int rc;
+
+    if (v->arch.pending_msix_unmask.valid == 0)
+        return 0;
+
+    v->arch.pending_msix_unmask.valid = 0;
+
+    rc = msixtbl_write(v, v->arch.pending_msix_unmask.ctrl_address, 4, 0);
+    if (rc != X86EMUL_OKAY)
+        return -1;
+    else
+        return 0;
+}
+
diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/domain.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/domain.h
index 9d39061..b3bdfa3 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/domain.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/domain.h
@@ -375,6 +375,11 @@ struct pv_vcpu
     spinlock_t shadow_ldt_lock;
 };

+struct pending_msix_unmask_info {
+    int valid;
+    unsigned long ctrl_address;
+};
+
 struct arch_vcpu
 {
     /*
@@ -439,6 +444,8 @@ struct arch_vcpu

     /* A secondary copy of the vcpu time info. */
     XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(vcpu_time_info_t) time_info_guest;
+
+    struct pending_msix_unmask_info pending_msix_unmask;
 } __cacheline_aligned;

 /* Shorthands to improve code legibility. */
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/pci.h b/xen/include/xen/pci.h
index cadb525..ce8f6ff 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/pci.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/pci.h
@@ -147,5 +147,6 @@ struct pirq;
 int msixtbl_pt_register(struct domain *, struct pirq *, uint64_t gtable);
 void msixtbl_pt_unregister(struct domain *, struct pirq *);
 void msixtbl_pt_cleanup(struct domain *d);
+int msix_post_handler(struct vcpu *v);

 #endif /* __XEN_PCI_H__ */
--
1.7.1

Thanks,
Feng

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