[34-longterm 030/260] xen: handle events as edge-triggered

Paul Gortmaker
2011-01-02T07:21:51Z

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

commit dffe2e1e1a1ddb566a76266136c312801c66dcf7 upstream.

Xen events are logically edge triggered, as Xen only calls the event
upcall when an event is newly set, but not continuously as it remains set.
As a result, use handle_edge_irq rather than handle_level_irq.

This has the important side-effect of fixing a long-standing bug of
events getting lost if:
- an event's interrupt handler is running
- the event is migrated to a different vcpu
- the event is re-triggered

The most noticable symptom of these lost events is occasional lockups
of blkfront.

Many thanks to Tom Kopec and Daniel Stodden in tracking this down.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Tom Kopec <tek@acm.org>
Cc: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
drivers/xen/events.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
index 28f133a..cc72dad 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/events.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ int bind_evtchn_to_irq(unsigned int evtchn)
irq = find_unbound_irq();

set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(irq, &xen_dynamic_chip,
- handle_level_irq, "event");
+ handle_edge_irq, "event");

evtchn_to_irq[evtchn] = irq;
irq_info[irq] = mk_evtchn_info(evtchn);
--
1.7.3.3