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    xen/events: fix unmask_evtchn for PV on HVM guests · b5e57923
    Stefano Stabellini authored
    When unmask_evtchn is called, if we already have an event pending, we
    just set evtchn_pending_sel waiting for local_irq_enable to be called.
    That is because PV guests set the irq_enable pvops to
    xen_irq_enable_direct in xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement:
    xen_irq_enable_direct is implemented in assembly in
    arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S and call xen_force_evtchn_callback if
    XEN_vcpu_info_pending is set.
    
    However HVM guests (and ARM guests) do not change or do not have the
    irq_enable pvop, so evtchn_unmask cannot work properly for them.
    
    Considering that having the pending_irq bit set when unmask_evtchn is
    called is not very common, and it is simpler to keep the
    native_irq_enable implementation for HVM guests (and ARM guests), the
    best thing to do is just use the EVTCHNOP_unmask hypercall (Xen
    re-injects pending events in response).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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