[Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 15/18] vmx: Properly handle notification event when vCPU is running

[Feng Wu <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>]

When a vCPU is running in Root mode and a notification event
has been injected to it. we need to set VCPU_KICK_SOFTIRQ for
the current cpu, so the pending interrupt in PIRR will be
synced to vIRR before VM-Exit in time.

CC: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v6:
- Ack the interrupt in the beginning of pi_notification_interrupt()

v4:
- Coding style.

v3:
- Make pi_notification_interrupt() static

 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 9cde9a4..5167fae 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2035,6 +2035,52 @@ static void pi_wakeup_interrupt(struct cpu_user_regs 
*regs)
     this_cpu(irq_count)++;
 }
 
+/* Handle VT-d posted-interrupt when VCPU is running. */
+static void pi_notification_interrupt(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
+{
+    ack_APIC_irq();
+
+    /*
+     * We get here when a vCPU is running in root-mode (such as via hypercall,
+     * or any other reasons which can result in VM-Exit), and before vCPU is
+     * back to non-root, external interrupts from an assigned device happen
+     * and a notification event is delivered to this logical CPU.
+     *
+     * we need to set VCPU_KICK_SOFTIRQ for the current cpu, just like
+     * __vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt(). So the pending interrupt in PIRR will
+     * be synced to vIRR before VM-Exit in time.
+     *
+     * Please refer to the following code fragments from
+     * xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/entry.S:
+     *
+     *     .Lvmx_do_vmentry
+     *
+     *      ......
+     *      point 1
+     *
+     *      cmp  %ecx,(%rdx,%rax,1)
+     *      jnz  .Lvmx_process_softirqs
+     *
+     *      ......
+     *
+     *      je   .Lvmx_launch
+     *
+     *      ......
+     *
+     *     .Lvmx_process_softirqs:
+     *      sti
+     *      call do_softirq
+     *      jmp  .Lvmx_do_vmentry
+     *
+     * If VT-d engine issues a notification event at point 1 above, it cannot
+     * be delivered to the guest during this VM-entry without raising the
+     * softirq in this notification handler.
+     */
+    raise_softirq(VCPU_KICK_SOFTIRQ);
+
+    this_cpu(irq_count)++;
+}
+
 const struct hvm_function_table * __init start_vmx(void)
 {
     set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_VMXE);
@@ -2073,7 +2119,7 @@ const struct hvm_function_table * __init start_vmx(void)
 
     if ( cpu_has_vmx_posted_intr_processing )
     {
-        alloc_direct_apic_vector(&posted_intr_vector, event_check_interrupt);
+        alloc_direct_apic_vector(&posted_intr_vector, 
pi_notification_interrupt);
 
         if ( iommu_intpost )
             alloc_direct_apic_vector(&pi_wakeup_vector, pi_wakeup_interrupt);
-- 
2.1.0


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