[PATCH v3 for-4.5] xen/arm: clear UIE on hypervisor entry

[PATCH v3 for-4.5] xen/arm: clear UIE on hypervisor entry

[Stefano Stabellini]

UIE being set can cause maintenance interrupts to occur when Xen writes
to one or more LR registers. The effect is a busy loop around the
interrupt handler in Xen
(http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=141597517132682): everything gets stuck.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Andrii Tseglytskyi <andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Release-acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
 xen/arch/arm/gic.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/gic.c b/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
index 70d10d6..e7a1af5 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
@@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ void gic_clear_lrs(struct vcpu *v)
     if ( is_idle_vcpu(v) )
         return;
 
+    gic_hw_ops->update_hcr_status(GICH_HCR_UIE, 0);
+
     spin_lock_irqsave(&v->arch.vgic.lock, flags);
 
     while ((i = find_next_bit((const unsigned long *) &this_cpu(lr_mask),
@@ -527,8 +529,6 @@ void gic_inject(void)
 
     if ( !list_empty(&current->arch.vgic.lr_pending) && lr_all_full() )
         gic_hw_ops->update_hcr_status(GICH_HCR_UIE, 1);
-    else
-        gic_hw_ops->update_hcr_status(GICH_HCR_UIE, 0);
 }
 
 static void do_sgi(struct cpu_user_regs *regs, enum gic_sgi sgi)
@@ -598,6 +598,11 @@ static void maintenance_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct cpu_user_regs *r
      * Receiving the interrupt is going to cause gic_inject to be called
      * on return to guest that is going to clear the old LRs and inject
      * new interrupts.
+     *
+     * Do not add code here: maintenance interrupts caused by setting
+     * GICH_HCR_UIE, might read as spurious interrupts (1023) because
+     * GICH_HCR_UIE is cleared before reading GICC_IAR. As a consequence
+     * this handler is not called.
      */
 }
 
-- 
1.7.10.4

Re: [PATCH v3 for-4.5] xen/arm: clear UIE on hypervisor entry

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 14:31 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> UIE being set can cause maintenance interrupts to occur when Xen writes
> to one or more LR registers. The effect is a busy loop around the
> interrupt handler in Xen
> (http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=141597517132682): everything gets stuck.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> Reported-and-Tested-by: Andrii Tseglytskyi <andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com>
> Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
> Release-acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

applied, thanks.