Re: IRQ affinity not working on Xen pci-platform device

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

David!

On Fri, Mar 03 2023 at 15:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I added the 'xen_no_vector_callback' kernel parameter a while back
> (commit b36b0fe96af) to ensure we could test that more for Linux
> guests.
>
> Most of my testing at the time was done with just two CPUs, and I
> happened to just test it with four. It fails, because the IRQ isn't
> actually affine to CPU0.
>
> I tried making it work anyway (in line with the comment in platform-
> pci.c which says that it shouldn't matter if it *runs* on CPU0 as long
> as it processes events *for* CPU0). That didn't seem to work.
>
> If I put the irq_set_affinity() call *before* the request_irq() that
> does actually work. But it's setting affinity on an IRQ it doesn't even
> own yet.

The core allows it for raisins. See below... :)

> Test hacks below; this is testable with today's QEMU master (yay!) and:
>
>   qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -serial mon:stdio -smp 4 \
>      -accel kvm,xen-version=0x4000a,kernel-irqchip=split \
>      -kernel ~/git/linux/arch/x86/boot//bzImage \
>      -append "console=ttyS0,115200 xen_no_vector_callback"
>
> ...
>
> [    0.577173] ACPI: \_SB_.LNKC: Enabled at IRQ 11
> [    0.578149] The affinity mask was 0-3
> [    0.579081] The affinity mask is 0-3 and the handler is on 2
> [    0.580288] The affinity mask is 0 and the handler is on 2

What happens is that once the interrupt is requested, the affinity
setting is deferred to the first interrupt. See the marvelous dance in
arch/x86/kernel/apic/msi.c::msi_set_affinity().

If you do the setting before request_irq() then the startup will assign
it to the target mask right away.

Btw, you are using irq_get_affinity_mask(), which gives you the desired
target mask. irq_get_effective_affinity_mask() gives you the real one.

Can you verify that the thing moves over after the first interrupt or is
that too late already?

Thanks,

        tglx