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    RISCV: KVM: update external interrupt atomically for IMSIC swfile · 4ad9843e
    Yong-Xuan Wang authored
    The emulated IMSIC update the external interrupt pending depending on
    the value of eidelivery and topei. It might lose an interrupt when it
    is interrupted before setting the new value to the pending status.
    
    For example, when VCPU0 sends an IPI to VCPU1 via IMSIC:
    
    VCPU0                           VCPU1
    
                                    CSRSWAP topei = 0
                                    The VCPU1 has claimed all the external
                                    interrupt in its interrupt handler.
    
                                    topei of VCPU1's IMSIC = 0
    
    set pending in VCPU1's IMSIC
    
    topei of VCPU1' IMSIC = 1
    
    set the external interrupt
    pending of VCPU1
    
                                    clear the external interrupt pending
                                    of VCPU1
    
    When the VCPU1 switches back to VS mode, it exits the interrupt handler
    because the result of CSRSWAP topei is 0. If there are no other external
    interrupts injected into the VCPU1's IMSIC, VCPU1 will never know this
    pending interrupt unless it initiative read the topei.
    
    If the interruption occurs between updating interrupt pending in IMSIC
    and updating external interrupt pending of VCPU, it will not cause a
    problem. Suppose that the VCPU1 clears the IPI pending in IMSIC right
    after VCPU0 sets the pending, the external interrupt pending of VCPU1
    will not be set because the topei is 0. But when the VCPU1 goes back to
    VS mode, the pending IPI will be reported by the CSRSWAP topei, it will
    not lose this interrupt.
    
    So we only need to make the external interrupt updating procedure as a
    critical section to avoid the problem.
    
    Fixes: db8b7e97 ("RISC-V: KVM: Add in-kernel virtualization of AIA IMSIC")
    Tested-by: default avatarRoy Lin <roy.lin@sifive.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarWayling Chen <wayling.chen@sifive.com>
    Co-developed-by: default avatarVincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYong-Xuan Wang <yongxuan.wang@sifive.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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