ppc/xive: Update the state of the External interrupt signal

When pulling or pushing an OS context from/to a CPU, we should
re-evaluate the state of the External interrupt signal. Otherwise, we
can end up catching the External interrupt exception in hypervisor
mode, which is unexpected.

The problem is best illustrated with the following scenario:

1. an External interrupt is raised while the guest is on the CPU.

2. before the guest can ack the External interrupt, an hypervisor
interrupt is raised, for example the Hypervisor Decrementer or
Hypervisor Virtualization interrupt. The hypervisor interrupt forces
the guest to exit while the External interrupt is still pending.

3. the hypervisor handles the hypervisor interrupt. At this point, the
External interrupt is still pending. So it's very likely to be
delivered while the hypervisor is running. That's unexpected and can
result in an infinite loop where the hypervisor catches the External
interrupt, looks for an interrupt in its hypervisor queue, doesn't
find any, exits the interrupt handler with the External interrupt
still raised, repeat...

The fix is simply to always lower the External interrupt signal when
pulling an OS context. It means it needs to be raised again when
re-pushing the OS context. Fortunately, it's already the case, as we
now always call xive_tctx_ipb_update(), which will raise the signal if
needed.

Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20220429071620.177142-3-fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/intc/xive.c b/hw/intc/xive.c
index c729f6a..ae221fe 100644
--- a/hw/intc/xive.c
+++ b/hw/intc/xive.c
@@ -114,6 +114,17 @@ static void xive_tctx_notify(XiveTCTX *tctx, uint8_t ring)
     }
 }
 
+void xive_tctx_reset_os_signal(XiveTCTX *tctx)
+{
+    /*
+     * Lower the External interrupt. Used when pulling an OS
+     * context. It is necessary to avoid catching it in the hypervisor
+     * context. It should be raised again when re-pushing the OS
+     * context.
+     */
+    qemu_irq_lower(xive_tctx_output(tctx, TM_QW1_OS));
+}
+
 static void xive_tctx_set_cppr(XiveTCTX *tctx, uint8_t ring, uint8_t cppr)
 {
     uint8_t *regs = &tctx->regs[ring];
@@ -388,6 +399,8 @@ static uint64_t xive_tm_pull_os_ctx(XivePresenter *xptr, XiveTCTX *tctx,
     /* Invalidate CAM line */
     qw1w2_new = xive_set_field32(TM_QW1W2_VO, qw1w2, 0);
     xive_tctx_set_os_cam(tctx, qw1w2_new);
+
+    xive_tctx_reset_os_signal(tctx);
     return qw1w2;
 }
 
@@ -420,6 +433,7 @@ static void xive_tctx_need_resend(XiveRouter *xrtr, XiveTCTX *tctx,
      * was saved when the context was pulled and that we need to take
      * into account by recalculating the PIPR (which is not
      * saved/restored).
+     * It will also raise the External interrupt signal if needed.
      */
     xive_tctx_ipb_update(tctx, TM_QW1_OS, ipb);
 }