[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.12] xen/arm: irq: End cleanly spurious interrupt

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

no_irq_type handlers are used when an IRQ does not have action attached.
This is useful to detect misconfiguration between the interrupt
controller and the software.

Currently, all the handlers will do nothing on spurious interrupt. This
means if such interrupt is received, the priority of the interrupt will
not be dropped and the processor will lose the ability to receive any
interrupt lower or equal to the priority.

Spurious interrupt can happen while releasing interrupt assigned to
guest (happen during domain destruction). The interaction is roughly

CPU0                                CPU1
release_guest_irq(A)
spin_lock(&desc->lock)
gic_remove_irq_from_guest
                                    receive IRQ A
                                    spin_lock(&desc->lock)
    desc->handler->shutdown()
      set_bit(IRQ_DISABLED)
    desc->handler = &no_irq_type
spin_unlock(&desc->lock)
                                    desc->handler->end();
                                    spin_unlock(&desc->lock)

Because the no_irq_type.end callback is implemented as a NOP, CPU1 will
not drop the priority of the interrupt. So the CPU will not be able to
receive any interrupt route to any guest afterwards.

The problem can be prevented by dropping the priority and deactivating
the interrupt via gic_hw_ops->gic_host_irq->end().

Note that, for now, interrupt used by Xen are safe because it is not
using no_irq_type on release.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/arm/irq.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
index 4a02cc1eba..c51cf333ce 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
@@ -44,7 +44,14 @@ static void ack_none(struct irq_desc *irq)
     printk("unexpected IRQ trap at irq %02x\n", irq->irq);
 }
 
-static void end_none(struct irq_desc *irq) { }
+static void end_none(struct irq_desc *irq)
+{
+    /*
+     * Still allow a CPU to end an interrupt if we receive a spurious
+     * interrupt. This will prevent the CPU to lose interrupt forever.
+     */
+    gic_hw_ops->gic_host_irq_type->end(irq);
+}
 
 hw_irq_controller no_irq_type = {
     .typename = "none",
-- 
2.11.0


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