Since the rework of the vector management, warnings about spurious
interrupts have been reported. Robert provided some more information and
did an initial analysis. The following situation leads to these warnings:
CPU 0 CPU 1 IO_APIC
interrupt is raised
sent to CPU1
Unable to handle
immediately
(interrupts off,
deep idle delay)
mask()
...
free()
shutdown()
synchronize_irq()
clear_vector()
do_IRQ()
-> vector is clear
Before the rework the vector entries of legacy interrupts were statically
assigned and occupied precious vector space while most of them were
unused. Due to that the above situation was handled silently because the
vector was handled and the core handler of the assigned interrupt
descriptor noticed that it is shut down and returned.
While this has been usually observed with legacy interrupts, this situation
is not limited to them. Any other interrupt source, e.g. MSI, can cause the
same issue.
After adding proper synchronization for level triggered interrupts, this
can only happen for edge triggered interrupts where the IO-APIC obviously
cannot provide information about interrupts in flight.
While the spurious warning is actually harmless in this case it worries
users and driver developers.
Handle it gracefully by marking the vector entry as VECTOR_SHUTDOWN instead
of VECTOR_UNUSED when the vector is freed up.
If that above late handling happens the spurious detector will not complain
and switch the entry to VECTOR_UNUSED. Any subsequent spurious interrupt on
that line will trigger the spurious warning as before.
Fixes: 464d12309e ("x86/vector: Switch IOAPIC to global reservation mode")
Reported-by: Robert Hodaszi <Robert.Hodaszi@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>-
Tested-by: Robert Hodaszi <Robert.Hodaszi@digi.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628111440.459647741@linutronix.de
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