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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 05:44:49PM +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.
> 
> Konrad, this fixes an actual bug, at least on OMAP5. It should have no
> bad side effects on any other platforms as far as I can tell. It should
> go in 4.5.

Have you checked (aka ran the tests) on the other platforms?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> Tested-by: Andrii Tseglytskyi <andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com>
  ^^^^^^^
 'Reported-and-Tested-by'
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/gic.c b/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> index 70d10d6..df140b9 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)