[PATCH v4 18/21] KVM: ARM64: Add PMU overflow interrupt routing

[marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)]

On 02/12/15 02:40, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2015/12/2 0:57, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 01/12/15 16:26, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015/12/1 23:41, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> The reason is that when guest clear the overflow register, it will trap
>>>>>> to kvm and call kvm_pmu_sync_hwstate() as you see above. At this moment,
>>>>>> the overflow register is still overflowed(that is some bit is still 1).
>>>>>> So We need to use some flag to mark we already inject this interrupt.
>>>>>> And if during guest handling the overflow, there is a new overflow
>>>>>> happening, the pmu->irq_pending will be set ture by
>>>>>> kvm_pmu_perf_overflow(), then it needs to inject this new interrupt, right?
>>>> I don't think so. This is a level interrupt, so the level should stay
>>>> high as long as the guest hasn't cleared all possible sources for that
>>>> interrupt.
>>>>
>>>> For your example, the guest writes to PMOVSCLR to clear the overflow
>>>> caused by a given counter. If the status is now 0, the interrupt line
>>>> drops. If the status is still non zero, the line stays high. And I
>>>> believe that writing a 1 to PMOVSSET would actually trigger an
>>>> interrupt, or keep it high if it has already high.
>>>>
>>> Right, writing 1 to PMOVSSET will trigger an interrupt.
>>>
>>>> In essence, do not try to maintain side state. I've been bitten.
>>>
>>> So on VM entry, it check if PMOVSSET is zero. If not, call 
>>> kvm_vgic_inject_irq to set the level high. If so, set the level low.
>>> On VM exit, it seems there is nothing to do.
>>
>> It is even simpler than that:
>>
>> - When you get an overflow, you inject an interrupt with the level set to 1.
>> - When the overflow register gets cleared, you inject the same interrupt
>> with the level set to 0.
>>
>> I don't think you need to do anything else, and the world switch should
>> be left untouched.
>>
> 
> On 2015/7/17 23:28, Christoffer Dall wrote:>> > +		
> kvm_vgic_inject_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->vcpu_id,
>>>> +					    pmu->irq_num, 1);
>> what context is this overflow handler function?  kvm_vgic_inject_irq
>> grabs a mutex, so it can sleep...
>>
>> from a quick glance at the perf core code, it looks like this is in
>> interrupt context, so that call to kvm_vgic_inject_irq looks bad.
>>
> 
> But as Christoffer said before, it's not good to call
> kvm_vgic_inject_irq directly in interrupt context. So if we just kick
> the vcpu here and call kvm_vgic_inject_irq on VM entry, is this fine?

Possibly. I'm slightly worried that inject_irq itself is going to kick
the vcpu again for no good reason. I guess we'll find out (and maybe
we'll add a kvm_vgic_inject_irq_no_kick_please() helper...).

Thanks,

	M.
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