Re: [PATCH 1/5] irqchip/gic-v5: Skip deactivate for forwarded PPI interrupts

[Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 04:07:50PM +0000, Sascha Bischoff wrote:
> If a PPI interrupt is forwarded to a guest, skip the deactivate and
> only EOI. Rely on the guest deactivating the both the virtual and

"deactivating both"

> physical interrupts (due to ICH_LRx_EL2.HW being set) later on as part
> of handling the injected interrupt. This mimics the behaviour seen on
> native GICv3.
> 
> This is part of adding support for the GICv3 compatibility mode on a
> GICv5 host.
> 
> Co-authored-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>

> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c
> index 4a0990f46358..28853d51a2ea 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5.c
> @@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ static void gicv5_hwirq_eoi(u32 hwirq_id, u8 hwirq_type)
>  
>  static void gicv5_ppi_irq_eoi(struct irq_data *d)
>  {
> +	/* Skip deactivate for forwarded PPI interrupts */
> +	if (irqd_is_forwarded_to_vcpu(d)) {
> +		gic_insn(0, CDEOI);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	gicv5_hwirq_eoi(d->hwirq, GICV5_HWIRQ_TYPE_PPI);
>  }
>  
> @@ -494,6 +500,16 @@ static bool gicv5_ppi_irq_is_level(irq_hw_number_t hwirq)
>  	return !!(read_ppi_sysreg_s(hwirq, PPI_HM) & bit);
>  }
>  
> +static int gicv5_ppi_irq_set_vcpu_affinity(struct irq_data *d, void *vcpu)
> +{
> +	if (vcpu)
> +		irqd_set_forwarded_to_vcpu(d);
> +	else
> +		irqd_clr_forwarded_to_vcpu(d);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static const struct irq_chip gicv5_ppi_irq_chip = {
>  	.name			= "GICv5-PPI",
>  	.irq_mask		= gicv5_ppi_irq_mask,
> @@ -501,6 +517,7 @@ static const struct irq_chip gicv5_ppi_irq_chip = {
>  	.irq_eoi		= gicv5_ppi_irq_eoi,
>  	.irq_get_irqchip_state	= gicv5_ppi_irq_get_irqchip_state,
>  	.irq_set_irqchip_state	= gicv5_ppi_irq_set_irqchip_state,
> +	.irq_set_vcpu_affinity	= gicv5_ppi_irq_set_vcpu_affinity,
>  	.flags			= IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE	  |
>  				  IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND,
>  };
> -- 
> 2.34.1