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It was recently reported that VFIO mediated devices, and anything that VFIO exposes as level interrupts, do no strictly follow the expected logic of such interrupts as it only lowers the input line when the guest has EOId the interrupt at the GIC level, rather than when it Acked the interrupt at the device level. THe GIC's Active+Pending state is fundamentally incompatible with this behaviour, as it prevents KVM from observing the EOI, and in turn results in VFIO never dropping the line. This results in an interrupt storm in the guest, which it really never expected. As we cannot really change VFIO to follow the strict rules of level signalling, let's forbid the A+P state altogether, as it is in the end only an optimization. It ensures that we will transition via an invalid state, which we can use to notify VFIO of the EOI. Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Tested-by: Shunyong Yang <shunyong.yang@hxt-semitech.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.