vfio/pci: Hide broken INTx support from user
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779830 INTx masking has two components, the first is that we need the ability to prevent the device from continuing to assert INTx. This is provided via the DisINTx bit in the command register and is the only thing we can really probe for when testing if INTx masking is supported. The second component is that the device needs to indicate if INTx is asserted via the interrupt status bit in the device status register. With these two features we can generically determine if one of the devices we own is asserting INTx, signal the user, and mask the interrupt while the user services the device. Generally if one or both of these components is broken we resort to APIC level interrupt masking, which requires an exclusive interrupt since we have no way to determine the source of the interrupt in a shared configuration. This often makes it difficult or impossible to configure the system for userspace use of the device, for an interrupt mode that the user may not need. One possible configuration of broken INTx masking is that the DisINTx support is fully functional, but the interrupt status bit never signals interrupt assertion. In this case we do have the ability to prevent the device from asserting INTx, but lack the ability to identify the interrupt source. For this case we can simply pretend that the device lacks INTx support entirely, keeping DisINTx set on the physical device, virtualizing this bit for the user, and virtualizing the interrupt pin register to indicate no INTx support. We already support virtualization of the DisINTx bit and already virtualize the interrupt pin for platforms without INTx support. By tying these components together, setting DisINTx on open and reset, and identifying devices broken in this particular way, we can provide support for them w/o the handicap of APIC level INTx masking. Intel i40e (XL710/X710) 10/20/40GbE NICs have been identified as being broken in this specific way. We leave the vfio-pci.nointxmask option as a mechanism to bypass this support, enabling INTx on the device with all the requirements of APIC level masking. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit 45074405) Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com> Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kleber Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
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